Pollyanna!

That's who I think I am becoming. It seems that I catch myself putting the absolute very best spin on whatever has gone wrong with the equipment project.

I am beginning to "'cipher" how the project is going by the way K.O. refers to it. It is is "my" project it is going badly. If he refers to it as "our" project, things are going good.

Monday afternoon he called me and was referring to "my" project, so I knew something was wrong. It seems K.O. had completed the operational modifications and turned his attention to an over heating problem with the engine. We had changed the fan back to factory equipment and K.O. installed a new thermostat. He had been driving it from the shop to the county road and it did well until he would begin the climb up the hill and it would instantly over heat. He decided to flush the cooling system and engine block as well. During this time he noticed the water pump seemed to be surging. We had been battling with the decision on whether or not to replace the pump. K.O. decided to fill the system with water and see if there was any improvement. Afterwards, he drove back and forth from the shop to the county road again and again. Finally as he was approaching the county road, he looped out and turned onto it, traveling past his house and down to the pasture beyond. He thought it was doing some better in the temperature department and decided to turn back. When he began turning the bulky piece of equipment around he got into the edge of a coastal hay field where it was a little softer and required the engine to work a little harder. He told me just as he was completing the maneuver all H-E-double hockey sticks broke loose. He immediately killed the engine and when he looked into the engine compartment found that the shaft had snapped on the water pump, all of the engine belts had been broken and wadded up, and the fan had gouged the radiator perforating three of the cooling tubes.

That was when I got the call about "my" project.

Closer inspection revealed that the small circular flange which is pressed on to the water pump shaft (and this flange is where the belt pulley and fan clutch assembly bolt on) had been turning on the shaft instead of turning the shaft. Ie. While the fan and belts were turning and giving the appearance that all was in order, the shaft which turns the water pump was in fact NOT turning except at very slow engine RPM's. So the water was not circulating while the engine was working. Of course what made it more difficult to diagnose to diagnose was that the problem didn't reveal itself except at working RPM's.

We were forced to replace the water pump.

K.O. called me and wanted to report on "our" project. Heh, heh. I knew he had good news. He had worked the equipment hard for an hour and it never got over a hundred-seventy degrees.

YES!

This little train wreck when it broke led us to find the problem and fix it!

I can't wait for Saturday to be over.

Then Tuesday.

And on and on and on.

I'm sure before it is all over at the seasonal jobsite I will be in "can't wait" mode there as well. (The girls in the office have told Krl to pack our Easter clothes.

Well, let's git 'er done!

Have a day!

Pray for me, I seem to be really struggling!

FATHER, lift me!