plastic joiners shouldnt be plastic where hot car engines are concerned...

we had a mixed bag weekend.
Saturday was nice and sunny, so i took the chance to finish painting the strip on my car. finally it is done! 3 of the 5 areas are now complete. hurray. all i have to do now is fix the strip on the other side (im thinking of stripping back what ive already done and doing the whole thing like i did on the first side) and chuck some colour and clear on the panel behind the drivers front wheel. once thats done all the fiddly bits are complete and all we have to do is spray putty the new front bumper that is sitting in the shed to make it smooth like the back one, paint it and put it on the car. The one thats on the car has a broken bracket and is only managing to stay on with a little help from some green garden ties lmao
Speaking of cars, mick put his old springs back in the rear of his car as we were wondering what it would look like with his new rims. when he had the rear lowered, we thought the back was too low. the front looked better with the new rims, being larger than the simmons that were on the car the new rims filled his wheel arch nicely. so after a few hints he chucked th old ones back in and sent us a photo. what do you think now?

Mikael went to granny and pops for the weekend, both mum and cliff were working saturday so it was a toss up who he would go to work with saturday. pops won out. looks like they had a fantastic day, cliff sent some photos saturday night. i think cliff should be a part time photographer lol every one of them were set out so beautifully. heres some of them...*

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Sunday was freak out day. i was listening to music with my car stereo out under the carport for a while and i thought 'shit, i better start the car soon, ill probably flatten the battery' so i started it (just in time, was nearly flat) to leave it running for five minutes to put some charge back and went inside to start my washing.
50 minutes later when the washing machine stopped, i went to get the clothes out th machine to hang them out and thought 'whats that noise?.... shit the cars still running!'
i ran outside to find steam absolutely pissing out from under the bonnet (excuse my language) so i turned the car off, popped the bonnet and called scotti (not too intelligbly)
anyway, water is everywhere in the engine bay, really really hot water may i add, pooling around my leads and plugs and shit, i start freaking out and scotti goes into robot mode, checking this n that.

we decide that considering
1. it was still running smoothly when i came out, regardless of the steam
2. there actually was still steam and water, which was a good thing meaning it hadnt cooked dry
and
3. youre not meant to put anything cold on hot metal (good way to crack your head - bonus points for that)

we would leave it to cool down before touching it at all and since we were due to go to my mums to have a bbq and pick up mikael that afternoon, we would look at it when we got back.
dinner at mums was nice, bbq'd pork ribs and potato bake. ended up staying til late, as usual, and had sticky date pudding for dessert.
looking at the car when we got back we could see that the problem t'was the joiner on a heater hose had broken, causing the hose from the radiator to come off the block completely, which is a good way to empty your radiator in a hurry.
Today we went and got the joiner for $11 and replaced it. it alway seems to be the ridiculous little cheap parts that will do the big damage lol
we filled the radiator and started her, she ran smooth and even, which was a really good thing, we noticed theres now a small leak in the radiator, meaning were up for a new radiator, which is not too big a deal considering i almost was facing a fried engine from getting distracted by washing. not. good.Right now it is really freaking cold and miserable, overcast and threatening to rain again like it has been on and off all day.

where the bloody hell did those sunny days we were starting to get go??

oh well im off to pick the boy up from school. ciao!