I fixed the oil leak!!! YAAAAA!!!! But in the process I killed the engine.
Rickety Van’s final day has come and unfortunately it came six days to early. With the final day that we could possibly leave I have been frantically trying to get the Bus going and on it’s last leg of me pushing it, it has died. I went to Orlando, came back, got the new parts in, tuned it a little bit then took it for a few test drives. At the end of the last test drive it started to make some pretty bad knocking noises that were coming from the engine casing itself. After hearing this I pretty much new it was dead. There’s a link to a YouTube video at the end here for anybody to listen to the awesomeness of the Rickety Van on it’s last living leg. I have also done a small walk through and did quick sweeps of the pure ghettoness of the Rickety Bus. Please remember to look at the brake pedal, starting/ignition setup, rear tail lights, and anything else you might see in there. :p Today concludes my torture of working on the Bus for a while. I think i’ve put in well over 60 hours over the past week working on the bus alone. Maybe 80, I don’t really know. I know today was about 9-10 hours of work on 2 hours of sleep. Later I might try to make another video of all the videos I have of the build but I think people will might stop looking for updates since we have called it quits.
One good thing that did happen… I fixed the darn oil leak from yesterday and now it’s not leaking AT ALL. 1 point for me, negative a million for killing the engine. Notes for next rally.
1. Start sooner planning/working on car
2. Start sooner planning/working on car
3. Start sooner planning/working on car
Trying to fit a engine rebuild into one week and hope that it’s going to run right isn’t the best thing to do. Maybe next year we will be ready to go. Hopefully I will start working on the vehicle sooner so that I have more time to look into properly repairing things. I thought I was a pretty good mechanic, and yet I have so much more to learn.
Team Rickety Van is planning to go on a small journey for ourselves in North Carolina it looks like. We will be going rafting, camping, and many various other things that we can do along the way. We would love to tag along on the rally with all the other cars but we just don’t have a beater to drive and we’d feel real out of place doing the rally in a real car, not to mention the fact that our team wouldn’t qualify for the rally with a daily driver car.
