*sigh*
Wow. Pretty arrogant was I.
After I completely reassembled the Volvo at school, and I drove her about 1000 miles, she blew a leak.
At the head gasket.
Riiiiiight behind the water pump.
Just one little space. No oil/water mix, no spitter sputter, just quit.
That was when I was on the side of the road, about a mile from home, 9 months pregnant.
I had no choice but to push it off the side of the road.
Can I get a WHA?? from the people that have ever pushed a Volvo sedan? Uphill. In grass. Yeah. Sent me into preterm labor early the next morning. Baby boy is fine, after 2 weeks in NICU to get him used to breathing this outside air. That was last May.
So she sat, and sat, and sat. She sat for an entire year and a half. And this month, she's coming apart again. I start tear down this week, so be on the lookout for something to follow. I'm taking her all the way down, block and all. I have a sneaky suspicion the chip was in the block all along, but I couldn't see it. We'll see if my guess is correct, or if I just didn't get it quite right the first time.
