LarrBeard
11-23-2021, 04:11 PM
As was said in a TV series a couple of years ago: “Winter’s Comin’”.
Late the week before last, we had a 60-degree day, no wind and overcast – a perfect day to give the truck a bath before I put it away for the winter. At the last car show we went to, we got caught in the rain. It was one of those “one minute it’s just cloudy, the next minute it’s like someone turned on a shower head” rain storms. The rain wasn’t so bad, it’s just clean water – but rain makes muddy puddles and mud puddles make a mess. Yuuck!
I gave the underside a good scrubbing and then the topside. Since it was overcast, the water didn’t dry too fast and I was able to towel it down without a lot of water spots and it was ready for winter. Late last week I had a sunny dry day, so I took it out for the last run of the year around the country roads. Since the trip to Toledo, the truck has really wanted to run. I don’t know what the difference has been, but I did change the transmission lube before the Toledo trip and something has made a real difference in get-up-and-go. (Same weight lube, just different stuff).
We made about a 20-mile loop around the corn and bean fields. Of course we got waved and honked at – it’s just how life is in an Old Jeep. On the way home I stopped at Auto Zone and bought a big jug of Stabil for the winter storage. I wanted Sea Foam, but it was out of stock, so Stabil it was. I put a slug of it in the gas tank and drove back home to let it mix and get up into the carburetor.
Then, it was bedtime. I had bought a truck cover last summer, but hadn’t used it yet. I got the full-size cover and a 1948 Jeep truck isn’t a full-size pickup by any means. But, the good news is that there is plenty of room under it, I can open the driver’s door and get in to start the truck without having to pull the cover off. (Of course I’ll pull it off the exhaust pipe when I do that). When everything was done – it looks like it spun a cocoon and went into hibernation.
So – “Say Good Night, Gracie”.
Late the week before last, we had a 60-degree day, no wind and overcast – a perfect day to give the truck a bath before I put it away for the winter. At the last car show we went to, we got caught in the rain. It was one of those “one minute it’s just cloudy, the next minute it’s like someone turned on a shower head” rain storms. The rain wasn’t so bad, it’s just clean water – but rain makes muddy puddles and mud puddles make a mess. Yuuck!
I gave the underside a good scrubbing and then the topside. Since it was overcast, the water didn’t dry too fast and I was able to towel it down without a lot of water spots and it was ready for winter. Late last week I had a sunny dry day, so I took it out for the last run of the year around the country roads. Since the trip to Toledo, the truck has really wanted to run. I don’t know what the difference has been, but I did change the transmission lube before the Toledo trip and something has made a real difference in get-up-and-go. (Same weight lube, just different stuff).
We made about a 20-mile loop around the corn and bean fields. Of course we got waved and honked at – it’s just how life is in an Old Jeep. On the way home I stopped at Auto Zone and bought a big jug of Stabil for the winter storage. I wanted Sea Foam, but it was out of stock, so Stabil it was. I put a slug of it in the gas tank and drove back home to let it mix and get up into the carburetor.
Then, it was bedtime. I had bought a truck cover last summer, but hadn’t used it yet. I got the full-size cover and a 1948 Jeep truck isn’t a full-size pickup by any means. But, the good news is that there is plenty of room under it, I can open the driver’s door and get in to start the truck without having to pull the cover off. (Of course I’ll pull it off the exhaust pipe when I do that). When everything was done – it looks like it spun a cocoon and went into hibernation.
So – “Say Good Night, Gracie”.