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17-Mar-2005 another mass update. |
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Written by Daniel A. Bergamini
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Thursday, 17 March 2005 |
The inverter is mounted and ready to finish being wired. I've spent a month or so of weekends trying to get the Suburban running again. Now we can start working on the house (and stop worrying about Suburban for a little while hopefully).
An exciting new advance happened a few weeks ago on the house. My dad, Andy Bergamini and my boss, Brian Young came up for an overnight and we plugged away at mounting the inverter and accessories. We were hoping to put all that stuff in the basement and keep as much heat down there as possible. The down side is with the water heater down there (read open flame) and the hydrochloric acid vapor (read flammable and caustic) don't really mix well. That being said I was "convinced" to not mount the equipment in the basement and it now lives contently in the garage and looks really nice there as well.
The combination of our insulating the basement/1st floor above the basement area made a big difference as well as I believe we found a good system for draining the pipes has resulted in no water outages or frozen pipe issues. This makes a really big difference in the weekend usability of the place and it's really quite a relief.
The Suburban started leaking around the front of the engine a while ago, and I couldn't tell if it was the front main seal or the oil pan gasket without getting it apart. Ultimately you need to remove a few support bars and the splash plate under the oil pan/transmission pan to get at that. I broke 3 of 6 bolts trying to get the splash pan down. The entire front of the engine (belt, main pulley, harmonic balancer) needs to come out to check on the front main seal. The main seal was fine and I ended up replacing the oil pan gasket. I managed to break one of the oil cooler lines in the process and the pair cost me $160. In the process of removing the lines, I busted an elbow on the oil cooler which added another $195. The moral of the story is just pay the guy at the garage to do it next time. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 March 2005 )
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