Finale

Last week I was thinking, “I should just get rid of Sassy.”  I figured I’d get out and take some parts then call a scrapping company.  In a serendipitous moment, the doorbell rang a half hour later and it was a scrapping company who wanted my Civic. I said I wanted to clean some things out first but that I’d call them. I pulled some electrical parts and cleaned out some final personal items.

They paid me $100 (I may have been able to get more, but who cares — the car had no rear suspension.) This morning they came by with a flatbed and dragged it away.

A Different Kind of Non-Start

Yes, of course, like a billion blogs, this one has a bunch of old stuff.  I have two notes that I’ll post in succession.

First is that I just went out to move Sassy so I could get better access to her passenger side.  Alas, the engine turns over but won’t stay running.  I assumed oil fouling at first because there has been a slow drain into the cylinders, but several minutes of weak operation led to no operation at all.  More or less … I guess she’ll still start, but continue to fail over and over.

I did manage to get the parking brakes to un-seize with the aid of another car — at least for long enough that I could move her back and forth in the driveway to get away from that passenger side a little bit.