Work, work, work.

After getting lots of Dan’s stuff fixed, I moved onto a tougher job, fixing the ’93 Ford Escort. It failed DEQ last May, and Dan hasn’t done anything to it since, except move it around once in a while.

We started by Dan going down to the car wash and washing the oil off the engine. Then we took off the head, since one cylinder had low compression. Having removed the head, we found two pistons busted, kind of surprising since Dan had driven it downtown and back, weird. Anyway, off to the junk yard. They had a good engine for $300, so we picked it up and have been working on replacing the bad engine ever since about Jan. 12th or so. These pictures are of our efforts.

Note that some of the pictures were taken with my new VuPoint 640×480 webcam/digital camera. These little guys are called keychain cameras and are super small, not much bigger then 3 times a AAA battery. Best of all they only cost $16 so I bought two. I’m going to be using them on the road as web cams and security.

This is a shot from the nearest store using my new little camera, looking north towards Dan’s house there on the hill.

The car is there on the left, the engine hoist there in the middle.

There is the new engine before we got it installed.

Here’s a fuzzy shot of the old engine after we pulled it out.

Here’s where the engine lives.

Here’s a shot using the good camera.

Another view of the old piece-o-crap.

A shot of the old head and stuff.