Today was a day to remember!! To start it off I was woken up at 8:00 by a crying frantic mad woman, Victoria, who on her way to work had car trouble while driving Westbound on I-20 in traffic.  The belt controling her power steering, engine, water pump and alternator suddenly snapped causing her to loose most steering capability and caused the car to start smoking.  So I get up and quickly get dressed.  I go outside, get in the truck and back out of the driveway. I put it in drive and hit the gas and... IT DIES!  Yes, that's right folks... it dies!  So I start it up again and then it idles and dies... again!

I pop the hood up and take a look to only find that my radiator fluid containor is EMPTY!  So I get on the horn (phone) and call my dad to ask if he has and Anti-freeze for the radiator.  He told me to go out to our shop and look in the double-doored storage unit.  I grag the only bottle of Anti-freeze in the unit and haul it back to the truck.  I pop the cap and start to pour it in only to find that what is coming out was ENGINE OIL!!  YA!  I just put MOTOR OIL into my RADIATOR!!  I stop pouring as soon as I see that it's BLACK and not GREEN or PINK!  I am now completely hacked off and run inside to get the keys to mom 's Tahoe.  After telling mom what happened and getting her keys I'm finally off and out of the driveway!

When I reach Victoria she is cold and still crying!  I take her to work and on the way find out that she knows nothing about her car, God love her.  So I use what knowledge I know of and go to O'Reilly's Auto Parts store in search of 2 belts... one 2.4 Liter-4 cylinder-Serpentine Belt, and one 3.4 Liter-6 cylinder-Serpentine Belt.  After getting both of those, I'm headed back to the car to fix it.

I reach the car and begin working on getting the old belt off.  It had wrapped itself 6 times around the Belt Tensioner pully.  That explains all the smoke when it happened.  After it taking about an hour to get the belt off I start to put the new belt on.  I couldn't do it!  There was a part linking to the side of the car that went to the engine that was blocking me from getting it on.  After about 30 minutes of trying I gave in and regretably gave up.  I called Victoria and told her the bad news about the belt.  While talking on the phone I decided to get back in the Tahoe and crank it up cause I was hot.  But it wouldn't start.  We're talking DEAD!!  Didn't even turn over.  No lights, no signals, no radio, no power anything... DEAD!  So since I'm already on the phone I tell Victoria what's going on and that she's now going to have to send someone to me to rescue me this time.  We hang up and all the sudden my phone dies.  So now I have no way on contacting anyone if anything else happens!

Victoria's boss, Mark McGuire, pulls up beside me and we get the Tahoe started and I'm now I'm off to the house.  After getting home everything is fine, nothing else has happened.  That's where I'm at right now.

Victoria ended up towing her car to a Car Shop for $50 and they are going to fix it for $225.  That is alot for such little work.  I already bought the belt and all they have to do is put it on.  They take one part off to do it!  It shouldn't cost that much to do that little amount of work.  But anyways...

It's now my trucks' turn to get fixed.  So I'm going to go do that and I'll update with another blog later on tonight.  Through all this caos... I've stayed in a great mood.  Just because something bad happens doesn't mean that it has to ruin your day.  Laugh through the tears and praise God for the sweat off your brow.

Later guys and gals,
God Bless