Whew. What a day.

Tonight, my brother and I started working on the Subaru — replacing the water pump and the timing belt.

We got the old timing belt off, but not without the belt slipping a bit. This is bad because now we know the engine is for sure out of time. Tom’s friend Gary (whose garage we were using) is going to find out what we need to do to get the engine back to “dead center” so we can put the new timing belt on.

In the meantime, I took the old water pump off, scrubbed the gasket area clean, and put the new water pump on.

There was one little thing in one of the V-Belt tensioners that broke. It’s like a plastic washer with a threaded nut attached to it. The threaded part just cracked right down the middle. Gary says it’s probably going to have to come from a Subaru dealership. Hopefully, it won’t cost an arm and a leg.

Hopefully, tomorrow Gary will know what we need to get the engine back in time, I’ll be able to get a replacement part for that plastic doo-hickey, and we’ll put it back together.

What a car. I can’t wait for it to be back in running condition. I miss driving the Subaru.

Not cool

Our air conditioning at the house has been acting up. We’re not sure what’s up with that. We had the Carrier central air system installed this Spring, so it’s still a new system. The coil is freezing up and then the air won’t blow.

When we left for Church on Sunday, the thermostat said 76 degrees. When we got home, it said 79 and the air conditioner was on the whole time we were gone.

This morning, I called the company that installed the Carrier unit and they had a technician come out and look at it. He didn’t have any gauges he needed to check the coolant pressure, so he said he’d be back tomorrow morning with the necessary equipment.

Hopefully, we’ll be back in comfortable climate conditions by tomorrow afternoon.