Howdy

[Mugwump]

Another Monday.....sheesh, #1 sons car went on the fritz....it's a piece of junk anyway, but it's paid for so he's trying to salvage it....but cars aren't as easy ,nor as cheap, to work on yourself now days. Hopefully it's just the starter.

[LizStreithorst]

Good luck.  I took mine in for a break job today.  It was 2 new batteries last month.  Mine is a 99 Ford diesel van.  Last June it the serpentine belt and water pump.  It had to go to a diesel specailst for oil leaking from a bad O ring in a hard to reach place.   

I've told the van in the strong voice I can sometimes have that little stuff is OK but the engine and transmission must outlast me.  The diesel man told me that mine has the good engine... that they put started putting a lesser quality engine in them shortly after I bought mine.  Hope he's right.  I totally fall to pieces when something I don't understand goes wrong with the van.