I must admit

*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.