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   / Good morning!!!! #195,131  
81F and partly cloudy @ 12:30, heading up to around 84F for the day's high. DP 68F, HU 65%, "feels like" temp = 87F.

Woman says it's hot out.

Good chance of thunderstorms developing this afternoon (90%) ... we can use it ... (y)

Scattered more cracked corn and peanuts for the ground feeders yesterday.

Then went over and checked live trap in barn and dropped off a couple of sanders.

Had a customer so loaded up live trap and took it to the back for swimming lesson.

After that I was going to mow and just happened to look the hydraulic fluid reservoir on the Cub ... appeared to be empty ... 🤬

So I ran down to the mower shop in Massilion and picked up a quart of Amsoil 20w50 full synthetic with zinc ($$$) which is what they apparently use for fluid changes on those HydroGear transmissions.

Really didn't take much to top it off and bring it up to the "Cold" mark. Guessing they may not run it much to work the air out of the lines when they did the fluid and filter change.

Will keep an eye on it though to make sure we don't have a leak.

After that little irritation was handled, I took the coon up to the field and deposited him for the buzzards, dropped off the live at the shop for repairs, and ran down to the trashcan at the road and got rid of 6 empty mulch bags.

Then started mowing the front and got that all done.

Cleaned up the last of the gyro meat and the spinach/cheese pie from the Greek place for dinner.

Since pallet forks were on the Kubota I took it around to the west side and fished out the 16' long (?) PT boards which the Woman wants to use to shore up the flower bed.

Dumped those over by the frog pond to knocked the leaves off them. Still need to check them for nails that may need pulled.

After that I went back to screening more compost. Quit around dark.

Probably a couple more days of pecking away on that and I'll have it all screened.

Need to dole out another week's worth of meds.

Probably work on getting more compost screened before the rain gets here.

Otherwise see what else comes up.

Woman headed out for Goodwill with the neighbor lady, says buzzards are at work up in the field.

Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday ... (y)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #195,133  
Good Afternoon,
We are idling away the afternoon, kind of a wasted Saturday!

Our youngest son and family just got a new Black Lab puppy ! Cute little guy ! I’m sure we will be watching her when they are away ! 😉

Couple pics of Sophie ! ❤️

Hey Mike good to hear you on again !
 

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   / Good morning!!!! #195,134  
Daughter is supposed to be coming down today to swap her Jeep for the GS pickup. Not sure if they will make it.
Seemed to maintain temp yesterday, went slowly up to operating temp at idle, maintained temp while driving a few miles. Then, back at idle, no issue. As soon as it was turned off ---- overflow tank boiling and overflowed!
I am thinking blown head gasket.... your collective thoughts?
BEFORE you start it up check the oil, if it is milky then for sure a head gasket
After you warm it up and the thermostat opens take the rad cap off and see if there is any bubbling in the rad. If none of the above then it is most likely a stuck thermostat. They have been known to only open a little bit when they go bad.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #195,135  
Don, make sure you keep that heat down there please. Don't need any more that what we have.

Scott, absolutely adorable!
And .... the puppy pics keep coming! Yea!

One project done: bench all stained and repaired.IMG_1408.jpeg

On to the next.......
 
   / Good morning!!!! #195,137  
BEFORE you start it up check the oil, if it is milky then for sure a head gasket
After you warm it up and the thermostat opens take the rad cap off and see if there is any bubbling in the rad. If none of the above then it is most likely a stuck thermostat. They have been known to only open a little bit when they go bad.
That's what is somewhat confusing.... the oil is definitely not milky -- first thing I had the GS check.
No way to take off the radiator cap when up to temp. When it was cold the second time, it took about a half gallon to top off.

Another friend of hers stopped by and swapped out the t-stat last night. I don't think he took it up to temp afterwards though..... we will soon see.....

I put myself on standby.... tow strap already in the truck....
 
   / Good morning!!!! #195,139  
Another odd thing with the Jeep....
My GS was facetiming me yesterday after the test drive, he was showing me the overflow bottle boiling over. Then he and I both heard a loud 'HISS' from the driver's side of the engine (where exhaust manifold is). Only lasted a few seconds, he checked all around the area, no fluid or obvious leaking.... never heard anything like it before. I thought it was very odd....
 
   / Good morning!!!! #195,140  
Another odd thing with the Jeep....
My GS was facetiming me yesterday after the test drive, he was showing me the overflow bottle boiling over. Then he and I both heard a loud 'HISS' from the driver's side of the engine (where exhaust manifold is). Only lasted a few seconds, he checked all around the area, no fluid or obvious leaking.... never heard anything like it before. I thought it was very odd....
Radiator Cap not venting?
 

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