…and so I’ll be going up there twice a day for the next week.
They’ve been doing that twice a year for a couple of years now, and never before that. I like to think I’m making life easier for them.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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So twice every day you will have to choose between idling the Jeep or waiting for it to cool down?
Not really a choice, unless I’m doing a lot of watering.
Joel, is still an issue because of the leak or is the impeller turning backwards?
I think it’s an issue with the fuel system, causing vapor lock. I do have at least one coolant leak at the front of the block, at the thermostat housing, and it’s eating my lunch because I’ve fixed it twice and if anything only made it worse. And until I finally cork that up I can’t determine for sure if there’s a water pump leak as well. But the engine isn’t overheating so I don’t believe that’s causing the vapor lock problem. It’ll restart fine if it’s only off a minute or two or if it’s off for an hour or more, but a good hot soak makes it damned near impossible to get running until it cools off. I vented the fuel rail one time and it just shoots intermittent vapor.
I think it might be a fuel injector leaking down, but there are all sorts of stories online about what causes it. Some people have said they had to replace the fuel pump – a neighbor even claimed to have replaced the fuel tank, which makes no sense to me at all.
Replace the fuel tank..
It does make sense if you think of all the stuff that you have to disconnect and reconnect to replace the tank. I have heard of a number of cases where the vent line to the fuel tank was kinked or blocked, and the fuel pump was actually pulling a vacuum on the tank. While running at low loads, it was OK, but was unable to pump enough fuel against the pressure at startup. Once the pressure had bled off (no tank is truly airtight), the car would start normally. in a couple of extreme cases, the pump managed to collapse the (plastic) fuel tank.
Maybe try removing the fuel filler cap when it is being stubborn and refusing to start, just to see if the tank vents are working correctly.