Gone Quiet.

I haven’t done much with the Scout lately, only because it’s been ridiculously busy in the last couple of weeks, and the temperature gauge has been giving me a scare. I drove home from work about two weeks ago and for the time it took to sit at a red light, the gauge climbed towards the red uncomfortably quickly. When I got out I popped the hood and felt the radiator cap, which was surprisingly cool, and the engine didn’t seem any hotter than normal, but with my water pump troubles earlier in the year I’m afraid to chance cooking the engine. So I’m saving shekels to buy a new pump and have it replaced along with the seal (I don’t have the time to do it myself) as well as fabricate a fan shroud adaptor so that whoever does the work can install that while they’ve got the pump off. Lowe’s sells sheet metal that I can cut down and adapt pretty easily, so I think I’ll try to tackle that this coming weekend.