Daily Archives: July 19, 2016
Well, I Liked It Anyway . . .
Even if Jan wasn’t quite as impressed.
After lunch I went out to the truck to take a look at the dead AC blower I discovered yesterday. First up was to check all the fuses that might affect the system, so anything to do with the AC, heater, blower, etc.
But unfortunately, it wasn’t one of these easy fixes. So next up was to take a look at the blower itself under the passenger-side dash. After some struggle, I finally got the connector apart so I could check the readings.
First I used the Ohms function on my meter to check the continuity of the blower motor. I was really hoping that the blower itself was OK since I had just replace it last September. Check it out here – Fixed
And I got a reading of about 2 ohms which meant the motor was probably good. So next I scrunched around where I could now measure the voltage coming into the other side of connector.
And I had 12 volts. Huh?
So I plugged the two ends back together and now the blower worked. Huh?
So maybe a dirty contact?
But as I tucked the wiring back in the place, the blower quit again. Huh?
So I wiggled the connector some more, but no luck. Still dead.
So next I wiggled the only other wires in the area, the ones hanging down from the blower resistor pack.
And when I did the blower started working again. Aha!
I was able to wiggle it around until it stayed working. But if I moved it enough it would quit again.
Now that I know what the problem is, I’ll come out tomorrow? and use my socket set to pull it out and take a look at it. But it should work for today.
About 4pm Jan and I headed into Sealy for a dinner and Wal-Mart run. We had decided to try Jin’s Asian Café, which had 4 Stars on Yelp with 22 Reviews. Turned out to be in a strip mall but very nice inside.
First up we ordered a couple of Shrimp Spring Rolls, which turned out to be very good. In fact so good, they didn’t last long enough for a photo.
Next us was a bowl of Hot & Sour Soup which I thought was decent, not King Food in Webster good, but pretty good. We’ve certainly had much worse.
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Then we ordered the Chicken in Garlic Sauce
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and the Combination Fried Rice.
As the Yelp reviews mentioned, the portions were large, and after eating our fill, we still had more than half to bring home.
As I said, I thought it was pretty good, although not very spicy. We had asked for Extra Spicy, and also to add Jalapeno’s, but got neither. Maybe lost in translation?
On the other hand, Jan thought it was just ‘OK’, but not OK enough to go back.
So there.
After our trip to Wal-Mart we got home about 6pm and got everything put away. Then it was up on the roof to prep for my AC coil cleaning tomorrow.
I took all the screws out so it will be quick to get started tomorrow morning.
First thing I’ll have to do is to mask off and cover the air return hold and then spray it down with cleaner, using a brush to get as much gunk out as possible. Then I’ll use the hose spray nozzle that I also pulled up to flush it all out.
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Hopefully that will finish the job.
Thought for the Day:
Jan and I disagree on this.
It’s taken me 49 years to get her from ‘Ruined’ to somewhere between ‘Wait’ and ‘What are you doing?’
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