Well I already know what the replies are gonna be for this post but here we go. On the drive between my apartment and my moms house to save my car from being towed, I could tell it’s firing late. I can hear fireballs popping out the exhaust manifold (the pipe isn’t hooked up to the manifold, so it’s very loud). But you literally can’t notice this fact unless you’re actually driving it and trying to get up to actual driving speeds, as opposed to cruising up and down the parking lot like I do. But there was another problem…
My dumbass didn’t realize the parking brake was on. My mom and brother followed me to their house the whole way and he told me “huh. Maybe that’s why there was smoke coming out the back.” Like breh. The exhaust ain’t hooked up so that would be helpful for you to have said that one of the three times we stopped on the way home, but okay. In my Defence, my truck is a Ford with a pedal for the parking brake. And on the pedals obviously down (in) is on, and up (out) is off. I’m used to that idea. Auch is not the case on the ole dart. Put is on and in is off. Noted. :rofl: That’s probably part of the reason hated me for making it climb hills at two miles an hour in the bottom of first gear cause that’s literally all it would do in those scenarios. Which happened a lot of course. Just my luck. Stuck going uphill at like 2mph with cars piling up behind me. Nothing to see here, officer. Don’t ask me for an insurance card.
anyway. The car is now safely at my moms house to be stored for a couple days until I can get a hold of the apartment manager and tell her I fixed the oil leak so she hopefully wont have it towed anymore. My brother let me borrow his Mini Cooper so buying gas wont make me cry anymore ($350/mo average in my truck now). Now I have to buy more gas for the dart to get it home, cause it only had a quarter tank of mediocre at best gas in in when I started that hour long adventure for what’s normally a 15 or so minute trip to moms house.
anyway. I know. You told me so. I get it. I’ll get around to fixing it when I can get it back, but my moms going camping this weekend so I need to wait til she’s back so I can have a ride to pick up my car.
