How about that another week with the Lumina's ass up in the air. Oh yeah sure enough for the fourth time in two months I had to take out the fuel tank and mess around with the fuel pump. And thanks to that nothing much else happened during the week. Watched the Super GT rounds...nope. Did anything fun...nope. Did anything other than get dirty and fix things...nope. Well OK I did enjoy the crazy Thunder and Lightning storm that we had in the middle of week. It was intense and awesome at the same time. Helped to cool down the weather as well.
Well you would definitely think that this week was the suck and to be honest it wasn't the greatest but at least I did get a bunch of other things done as well since lets face it the last thing I wanted to do is work on the car so I ended up doing other things to busy myself instead of working on the car. Changed blinds with my roommate so that I can have a pretty dark room without hanging up something really lame (ie my old black comforter) and still be able to open the blind when I want to. Kinda nice now. Washed and folded up a really nasty tarp with some HUGE wolf spiders hiding in it. Cleaned the kitchen and some other stuff that I just can't think about at the moment.
Of course that leaves me with the damn Lumina. The fuel pump was really clogged up and just running like shit just after driving five miles so that's what caused the removing of the tank for the third time. After seeing that it was severely clogged I decided to go crazy and clean out the fuel tank which was rather interesting to see how much gunk I got out of it when cleaning it. When I went to get that replaced I was talking to them about the fuel pump wiring harness and decided to get that as well.
And that's what caused the tank to come out the fourth time. Turns out that the wiring harness wires were all in backwards so when I tested the pump it didn't work. Hopefully while testing it I didn't break the damn thing. So a nice long journey (had to go way out to the ass end of Nampa to get it) and several phone calls later I picked up another wiring harness that had just came with all the parts just not connected so that you can connect the wires yourself. I didn't like the size of the main two power wires so did a little re-wiring on that. Now the tank is back in and I tested the pump and we have gas to the fuel rail. I was so annoyed about the bolts I decided to pick up a ratcheting box end wrench and it made the tank so much easier to take out and put back that it was great. I so should have gotten it several tank removals ago. When I finished that I decided that since I was still energetic to try and work on the lawnmower as well and saw that the air filter and spark plug needed to be replaced. Nothing to do there but clean it up. Now I'm just sitting here relaxing and watching Fox's Sunday night cartoon block.
Hopefully I'm done working on the car for some time (well except for the rear brakes I need to do that soon as well) and it'll allow me to get to some other things that I've been needing to do as well. In any case even though I did take a picture of the car I'm sure that would just bore you to tears so instead enjoy another lovely race queen instead.
