So Monday brought Luna training and Intake Manifold changing. Took me the better part of 3 hours with the engine installed to change out the Intake Manifold. I also cleaned the Carburetor so well you would have sworn it was brand new. So I got everything back together, and I told Luna to go up on the porch, so she was not scared of the bus. Guess what she was terrified! No sooner the bus fired up she jumped off the porch and over a 4 foot tall fence, then ran down the street. Luckily she was so happy to see me when I called her she ran straight back to me. So I took her back to the bus and set her down on the ground. She immediately ran for the porch and over the fence again. And the bus was not even running! So one more attempt, I got into the bus with her, and we started it together. Luna tweaked and peed all over the bus. We have a problem. You can not have a bus without a dog, and you can not have a dog who is scared of the bus! Blast. So I put Luna in the house, she is only 8 weeks old. Back to the bus, I tuned the carburetor to specs in the Bentley Vw manual. I start the bus, Rpm goes to roof, and it stalls out. Same exact thing it was doing prior to carburetor cleaning and new intake manifold. Not a good sign. And when it starts I am noticing a spray of oil on the cardboard and wood I placed under the engine. It is a spray similar to that of cooking spray. Fine mist if you will. So it is quitting time for bus work at this point, I head in the house to cook dinner before Lynn gets home from work. After dinner I get a phone call from a job I applied for about a month before moving. I have an interview at noon the following day. So early to bed with the new puppy, early to wake up. Back outside working on the bus, Checking vacuum and gaskets, and spark plugs and wires, and going to get a gallon of gas at a time. This being the largest gas can I have on hand at the moment. I checked quite literally everything I could at that time. No change in running. Quick change and head to job interview. Wait no I did not change, I went to a job interview for a chef position in a fine dining restaurant with greasy fingernails, and ripped jeans. Clearly dirty! I explained that I just moved, and am working on Ruby. The chef was excited about the work I was doing on my bus, and my attitude in general. He hired me on the spot, and even let me start a week later so I could get some initial puppy training time in, and some bus work. So that is exactly what I did. Researched blogs about Vw motor work, and running problems and this and that and every other possible thing I could think of. Still same results. So I was stuck. I leaked so much oil that I really just wanted to pull the engine out and rebuild it, and I could not find out why it was running so crappy. I was beginning to think I had to pull the engine. So we started our search for a new jack and jack stands. More importantly a house with a bigger garage. As this one was way too small. Between unpacking and settling in, and the new puppy I really did not get anything done by ways of finding a new jack. Then I started work. My first day was 14hrs, and my second 15hrs and another 14hr day. This went on for 14 days straight. During which we found a house with a big garage! WOOOOHOOO. 1 problem...The day we looked at the house was the day of the huge storm that took out power for about a week if you were a customer of The Illuminating Company here in Ohio. And it did this.........................
Then I had a day off, I played with the puppy and did not even open the garage door. Back to work for 8 more 13hr days. This put us into the middle of November. I was excited for Thanksgiving, not for the normal reasons, but for the fact that I would have all day at home with Lynn, Luna, Peku, Niko( my cat) and Ruby. So I worked all morning trying to get her tuned properly hoping that the motor could stay in. I still had not been paid from the new job yet. Some kind of typographical error in payroll personel or something. Im not sure. Frustrating tho. NO DICE! So now we are GARAGE LESS! haha, no really the garage at the new house was demolished and we had to wait for insurance and all that paperwork for a brand spanking new one. So on December first we moved to Berea. I got paid finally from this typographical error... It was a HUGE check which was cool. Only because it was for about 300 hours. HOWEVER it was not the right hourly rate. It was about 3 dollars and hour short. So we parked Ruby in the yard on the pad of the old garage, and waited.
No working on her in the cold for me. I am a bit of a sissy when it comes to laying on the ground in the cold outside. So December passed. I finally got paid the right rate for the wrong amount of hours this time. UGH. We had to move Ruby, so the new garage could come. She sat here for January, and about a week out of February. Then into the garage. The structure is there in the this picture, just no roof. About this time I decided to quit my job, the commute and the typographical errors. So now I have no job, and no garage to do work in. Still haven't bought a jack. One day passed and I secured another job. I had hopes of a roof coming soon on the garage. Lynn and I went to Harbor Freight and found an awesome jack! On the way home we stopped at a flea market in Oberlin. I got 2 sets of jack stands for 20 bucks. I forget the ton size at the moment, I will check on that and post later. But total score. They are sufficient for my bus. Fingers crossed for a new roof!
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