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Jacob Haller ([personal profile] jwgh) wrote2005-01-24 05:51 pm
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Yaaaay!

AAA just arrived and gave me a jump-start and the car, to my surprise, started right up. Take that, snow!

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2005-01-24 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like Mr. Battery may be on his last legs.

I've been thinking maybe mine needs to be replaced, after all the abuse it's been through lately.

Also the extreme cold

[identity profile] vardissakheli.livejournal.com 2005-01-25 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
could have frozen your fuel line. I had that problem on Saturday down at the monastery where we rehearse. The combination of river valley winds and the iced-over swampy patch right next to the parking lot made for an exceptionally bitter chill, and it took me about 10 minutes of try-it-and-wait and slamming the hood shut to shake it up enough to let the gas through. A little bottle of isopropanol in the gas tank once in a while can work wonders. I was thinking at first that it was surprising that the ethanol that's required in the gas in the wintertime didn't do the trick, but then I realized that probably just means there's more water already emulsified in it before it even comes out of the pump.