eastowners

So… Taco Bell. Yes, once again, we spent a Sunday night eating refrieds and cheese wrapped in varying degrees of tortilla. This is mostly due the fact that we have no food in the house and got back from spending a weekend at the parental units’. The good news (in case you’re wondering), is that I finally, after approximately two years, have my VW back! It runs and made the trek back to GR without a hitch.

I believe it possible that there always was something wrong with the transmission on that car… it seems to have a lot more power now. The shift pattern is also different, which I’m not sure is normal. I got pretty good gas mileage on the way up, so I don’t think it’s a problem… it just seems a little weird to be at 3000 RPM on city streets and not have it shift… seems to not shift into third until I get up to about 35mph… fourth isn’t seen until I get to about 50-60mph. I like the added power of the delayed shift, and the revs aren’t high (about 3500-4000 when it shifts), so I’m not too worried about it. It’s just shifting later than it used to.

Anyway… next course of action is to get the rust and wrinkles out of it. That’ll be another trip during warmer weather. At some point, I’ll take some pictures of the “before” so that “after” I have something to compare to. Almost two years of sitting still has had it’s tole on that little multi-colored Golf.

Everything else is pretty well here in the GR… there are some videos taken with the new camera of Clare playing the harmonica. Check ‘em out if you get a chance.

Off to the salt mines…