When a Deal isn't a Deal: The saga continues...
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0.000 HBDWhen a Deal isn't a Deal: The saga continues...
# <center>***Hi OH!***</center> ## <center>***Fellow Steemians in Steemit Nation!***</center> Remember my post 3 months back about the Lemon, er, I mean Suburban, I bought thinking I was getting a good deal? # <center>[When a Deal isn't a Deal](https://steemit.com/steemit/@bluerthangreen/when-a-deal-isn-t-really-a-deal)</center> Well, @mobile-joat fixed the transmission and gave it a tune up and everything ran great. My family and I drove it up to Wisconsin for our Thanksgiving get together and drove it back to Arkansas with no problems at all. ### Well, ***almost*** no problems at all. I noticed I was leaking engine coolant on the way back. Not because I saw it dripping or smelt it burning on the hot engine, but because I try to make it a habit to check my vehicles fluids while gassing up, especially on long trips. I noticed that the coolant reservoir was low after the first fill up on the way back. I topped it off and checked it again on the second fill up of the trip. ***Low again.*** But nothing was leaking out onto the ground so I figured there was some kind of internal leak. The gas mileage wasn't adversely affected and the engine wasn't emitting any unusual smoke out of the exhaust, so I figured it wasn't a big deal. I would just have to have @mobile-joat take a looksie at it once we got back. Well, after a few days back, @allforthegood needed to run into town to get some supplies and she took the Suburban. She called me shortly after she left and said she noticed the temperature of the engine starting to rise so she pulled over to the side of the road. I drove my truck over to her with some extra coolant and checked the reservoir. ### ***Sho' nuff,*** it was bone dry. I cautiously opened the radiator cap and couldn't see any coolant in the radiator either. ***Not Good.*** This gave me pause for concern, but I figured the vehicle could make it to town and back after I topped everything off again. After all, it did just make it back after a 1500 mile trip, what could another 20 some odd miles do to it? So I sent @allforthegood off on her merry way and went back home to continue getting work done on the homestead. Not more than 10 minutes later I got another call from her saying that the Burb' started running rough going up a major hill on hwy 7 and then unexpectedly shut down on her. Thankfully, she was able to steer it to the only possible shoulder available on this 1 mile stretch of steep and narrow road and waited for me to come and help. I arrived 15 minutes later and attempted to start it. It didn't want to start, not in the least. Finally, after the 12th attempt, with the battery growing weaker with every cycle of the ignition the engine fired up and I was able to drive it to the top of the hill. The Burb' ran just long enough to make it to a safe side road before it died off on me too. > Now, I don't want to be sensational here, but the sequence of events had to have been Providentially orchestrated. Mildly miraculous, if you ask me. I know God was watching over us, because there wasn't any place on that hill to pull over to get a trailer in front of a broken down vehicle. The only place to pull over was already occupied by the vehicle. Which happened to shut off right before that lone spot to pull over was reached. Stalling anywhere else would have blocked traffic on a narrow 2 lane road. If it didn't start, getting it towed would have been extremely hazardous. But it did. It shut off at just the right spot, and it started and ran just long enough to get out of that spot and onto safer ground. It was totally a "God Moment." IMO. I jumped back into my truck (since my wife had followed behind me) and we went back home to grab the car-hauler trailer. I came back with the help of a neighbor (@papa-pepper) and got the Burb' onto the trailer, strapped down, and hauled back home.  @mobile-joat was a busy man and couldn't get to my project for a few months. But, when he did, he found the culprit after tearing the whole top of the engine apart! Needless to say, but the engine coolant wasn't burning in the cylinders or leaking onto the ground. ## No, it was leaking into the engine oil! Causing a huge, MUCKY, GUNKY, mess! It leaked because one tiny section of the manifold gasket had ruptured.  .jpg) ## Just take a look at these pictures!  .jpg)   .jpg)   .jpg) ## @mobile-joat cleaned it up and put it all back together, getting the Burb' up and running once again. Thanks Bro! This post is already getting pretty long, so I will save the rest of the pictures for another day, possibly. Hopefully, this Lemon can be squeezed a bit and make some sweet lemonade for our family before anything else goes wrong with it. I'm actually quite shocked at how bad of shape the internal parts of this vehicle were. Just goes to show...  .jpg) Thanks for Reading!  As Always, .jpg)
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