cooling fan is in

i got a call from my wife at the office yesterday telling me she had finished the first of her errands but shut the car off cause it was "in the red" immediately putting me in the red. The last thing i needed was a cracked block when there was a new cooling fan sitting under my desk. She headed to chinatown and fan in hand i hopped on the train to meet her.

So last night on the corner of canal street & orchard, parked in front of a hydrant, while the police pulled some crazy person (or dead body - i dunno my head was under the hood) out of a tenement across the street i worked on sugerblack.

my son was sleeping inside the car, wife on the iphone. first disconnect the - on the battery. Then the air intake, intercooler air, control module box air, relays, fan shroud, pull back the hoses and wires & fan shroud up an out. All in the dark, w/out a streetlight and only with a pair of flashlights. 1.5 hrs. new fan on - worked like a charm. Did have a hose break, but replaced the clamp and made it work. Quite proud of myself, and happy that sugerblack is back. need to get the timing belt done & the waterpump and that will pretty much finish off a fully replaced coolant system.

We'll see what the weekend brings and if i can get some work done, air filter, clips, etc. nothing big. need to start looking into that blue hose that everybody has on their volvos since the hose that broke will crumble the next time i touch it. Only regret was that i wasn't able to clean everything while i had it apart. but, figured with the baby & wife in the car they wouldn't have appreciated me buffing the fan shroud with a toothbrush.

was a good burrito when i got home, felt pretty damn like a man.