Modest Moddy DSM Diary

Might as well do a tear down and replace these two offenders.

Robbed this to fix an emergency oil leak in the 2G in March

Dip stick borrowed to feed the 2g back in February

Borrowed plugs and wires to feed the 2g in February.

It is 3pm on a Wednesday after and I’m exhausted and flustered with my coworkers.  Its 90+ outside and I just want to go home.  I slam the door and fire Moddy up and slam it into gear. Its time ...

A recent comment in the “Eat. Sleep. DSM.” Facebook group has led me to find some interesting things about alternators. During the swapping of the bad alternator, Autozone did not have an exact replacement for mine, but respected the warranty. ...

Didn’t I just say that I didn’t want to make this repair again this year?  To boot, it is even worse. I had said that I felt like it was out of time just days after the repair but I ...

So this week I was forced to do some repairs.   Moddy had been running like poop for a couple weeks, really the same symptoms as before.  Having your car out of time is like it has the flu.  No power, ...

[Note: Image above isn’t mine.  I found it here.] The last repair was a real mess.   I’ll be happy if I never have to waste that amount of time and labor on something so  … stupid. I realized after the ...

According to a kid that did my safety inspection, he could had failed me on the condition of the wheel bearing.  It isn’t part of their check list but certainly warrants some concern.  The idea ATM is to grab the ...