Passed. Next mark on my way to normal life :-). As graph shows it wasn’t that easy, but we did it! Quick legend - solid pink line marks a goal I have pleaded to make. Pink dotted line mark threshold - you always want to make yourself feel better when you know you are in the bracket :-)
Recently even blood pressure started to go down slowly. Quite promising.
Done yesterday. It took less than 4h (total - even with changing information center’s connections). Probably because it was direct swap. When I was looking for replacement I clearly stated that I need a NP242J from Grand Cherokee with 42RE transmission. Thanks to that everything worked like a charm.
First impressions very positive - the car is more quiet, mileage went up about 3mpg in 2WD and last but the most important - due to locked visco it was impossible to do almost any maneuvers on the concrete parking lot - now it works. I hope it will save me huge amount of bucks on front differential replacement.
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Did you ever had problems with buying any piece of clothing out of the shelf> I mean not the problem with color, fabric or shape, just the availability of clothes (mainly in size) you could just choose from, pay and go.
Till not so long ago I was forced to look for “the one”. I men the one in 2XL size the manufacturer throw in at the and of the chart. Sometimes I could only dream about this nice shirt or those great pants - everything was just to small.
Yesterday we went to Kohl’s. And as usual I was expecting great things. This time I was quite surprised. Not that they change anything. I was surprised because my current X-chart size is XL (without this hated 2) and my current pats size is 40 which means that my choice was almost huge! Almost because it can’t be perfect - it turns out that Levi’s size chart ends on 38. At least for most waned 505 type.
But I’m patient, I’ll wait another month, even two and then whole store will be mine :-)
Oh, it was worth it.
Last fall while replacing our water heater the technician made a quick look and said that our furnace is going to need some attention in the near future because of cracked igniter. It was still working then but he said it may need replacement any time. Of course I didn’t think about it much then but, as Mr. Murphy says, things always go wrong when you least expect them. So our furnace decided to start dying when we needed to reheat our house after last week ice storm power blackout. This time I didn’t wait long and ordered needed parts from Arnold Service. As quick as small business can be - they were sent immediately and arrived in two days.
Below you can see “before” state - flame sensor on the left and igniter on the right.
It’s not that hard to see that igniter is not looking ok, although it’s much harder to recognize that flame sensor is not good either - it’s loose and not always correctly sensing flame which results in unnecessary furnace cycling.
The hole operation was quick and easy. First I replaced the flame sensor - disconnect one cable and unbolt one screw (both visible on above photo). When I took it out I could see that the ceramic holder is cracked and the sensor’s rod is free to move about 60 degrees resulting in incorrect readings.
A little harder task was waiting for me in with the igniter - first I had to disconnect the odd plastic connector, then two bolts.
After that I had to transfer metal bracket to the new one and carefully place it there without cracking the new one hitting other parts of furnace. It took me… well 30 seconds?
Below new and old one together and the new one installed in the furnace.
Some additional cleaning and our furnace works like new.
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