Enemies

Far SE Ohio is something that you should never show weakness to.  Your enemies come for you when your weak.

Fuel Lines Ripped Out

I ripped out the stock fuel lines out of my 2008 Chevy HHR LS.  They were virtually one piece and looks like they were one of the first things attached to the car before the engine was installed at the assembly plant.  The replacement comes in segments that screw in and I want to get to that tomorrow.

Still Waiting...

I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to get my 90° double 3/8's fuel fitting for my 2008 Chevy HHR.  It didn't arrive at one auto parts store and I called another, but they were out of it, too.

Cloud Services and Fuel Line

My dropbox is at 92% of capacity.  It's free right now and I plan to keep it that way.  I transfered it's contents to my my hard disk drive.  Then to my external.  It's a bit confusing, but I have a hub that's usually plugged into my USB 3.1 port.  But I needed to plug the smartphone directly into that because I thought that I needed the high speeds.

My progress on the car is hung up until possibly the day after tomorrow.  I have to use a nylon fuel line repair kit to lop off the existing stock fitting on one of my fuel hoses because the steel line that goes to it rusted and it's fused in there.  That's the fitting that I might be waiting on?

Sawed Off Gas Line

I sawed off the other steel fuel line on my 2008 Chevy HHR.  It's connected to a rubber hose that leads into the gas tank.  But even then, I tried to dislodge the line from the hose and it wouldn't come loose.  My guess is that between rust and heat, that it somehow became fused.

Everywhere on line says don't do saw them off, but I determined that a hand hacksaw would be safe because I did it in a way that didn't produce much heat and any shards as a result of the cutting process was probably going to occur on a part that I was going to dismount and throw away. 

This is rubber hose with a fitting.  That fitting was bonded to the plastic fitting with something like heat gun?  I can feel the ripples below it.  I wonder if I could chop off the stock fitting and introduce some kind of s coupler to another hose with a new fitting?

I'll be back at the auto parts store tomorrow.  Hopefully they'll tell me that this is possible, or give me an alternative?  Otherwise replacing the rubber hose in question means dropping the gas tank (by my self maybe).

SDXC Card Upgrade

My 64 gigabyte SDXC card in my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 NV-900V stopped reading.  I upgraded the card to a 128 gigabyte unit.  The tablet has doors that you use a "poke" tool through a hole to access it.  I thought it was a poke and lift tool, but I kept bending it.  Today, I got some safety pins and discovered that there was a spring loaded eject in there.  I kept the poker tool on my key chain because I once thought that nothing else was going to open it.

Lightning Tasks

The last time that I had my car on jack stands and ramps, I had it up overnight.  It's not unheard of here Far SE Ohio, but still it made me nervous.  I haven't been sleeping right this past week and I was supposed to replace the fuel lines in my 2008 Chevy HHR LS, but I didn't wake up on time.  My people here need me to get those lines replaced.

For right now, I can't count on getting a day to see my family, or go to the Buckeye Trail Association's Headquarters unless I have a "lightning day."  We don't have any shelter in the Marietta Unit of The Wayne (National Forest).  So, it's bad to tempt lightning there.  I often create a list of "lightning tasks."  They can range from at the desk GPS mapping to putting up fliers and more.