Scout of the Week Returns

You just don't see quality interiors like this anymore. All who miss the seventies, please raise their hands now. Sadly, the carpeting is a little faded and the picture's coloring is a bit off. Judging from the unfaded portions of carpeting in my Scout, this started close to UT Orange.

Vehicle madness has returned! With a steady paycheck has also come the miriad of automotive projects I have been putting off... as well as the humorous, but usually unmissed escapedes.

First off was not having the time to actually replace my muffler which had rusted through. So, I tried the ol' patching kit. Thirty miles down the road, my quarter size patched hole split about four inches down the length of the muffler and began to peel back. doh! Guess the whole thing was pretty well shot. I spent the next 10 days not sounding like a ticked off bumblebee, but souding like a VERY ticked off bumblebee.

Tonight's latest installment was splicing some wires together properly now that I have purchased an actual crimping tool instead of using a pair of handy needle nose. While reconnecting the battery cables, the positive end actually broke in two. This was a cable I replaced this year! Obviously, with the broken connection I was not driving to the automotive store, and natuarly my uncle had left fifteen minutes previously to play tennis. The good news is that Autozone is just over a mile away. The bad news is that Autozone is just over a mile away... with evening approaching. Never fear, I pushed dinner back another hour, made the 2.5 mile run, found the part, and installed it all before the sun set. Just watch it not start tomorrow morning...