EA damaged, bad night :(

[Kawasakirider]

Had a bad night last night.... got a call from a friend... She said she wanted me to drive to pick her up, then drive to her cousins house and drop her back into town for a get together and that she'd pay me. I'm thinking sweet even if it's only $20 I need the money bad.

My gf wanted to come so we jump in the car and take off. I live half an hour out of town and her cousin does, also, so I'm driving to town, back to her cousins, back to town and then home. Round 200 k's.

We pick my friend up and then go to get her cousin and we get near her town and the temp starts going up and we are in the middle of NOWHERE. So I think .... I pull over and pull into this old farmhouse off to the side of the road. It has a big ditch going into the driveway that I should have seen but out of frustration didnt and it cracked my front bar really badly.

So I fill it up with water and manage to nurse it to my friends cousins house and we take off back into town. I keep nursing it and the temp is about half way, then we get near town and it starts surging and and the temp skyrockets so I pull into the 24/7 servo over the hill.

Water starts ****ing from the passanger side of the engine and I'm like, sweet, either a welsh plug or a heater hose....

We are all stranded there for hours and we eventually get the girls to where they are going because my grandfather came and picked us up. It was way to dark at that stage to see what was going on so I came back the next morning (today)....

One of the heater hoses had blown (in the worst position mind you lol, had to take the air filter assembly off the CFI to get to the hose clamp at one end) so I go into town and get a replacement and I replace that. Then I pull the front bar off and put it into my grandfathers car. I fill it up with water but in my haste I didn't know you had to pull off the hose at the thermostat and let it bleed out like that, I thought it was like my ute where I just kept it running and filling it up until there were no bubbles and it got an airlock pocket in it. So I go to drive home and it's running perfectly, nearly get there and my LPG starts acting up because the converter wasn't getting any hot water and it froze. Switch to fuel and limp the last km back to the local mechanic near my house. He reckons my head gasket could be done...

To top it all off, I have had a crack at repairing my front bar and it looks like a dog's ***. I couldn't get the blade putty to work too well and there's dents and in it everywhere. Sprayed it white with a can and I am very dissapointed in it. I'll have to fix it later on when I have some time/patience.... (I did fix the cracks with fiber glass btw)

So NOW my car is screwed and I have no cash. All because I tried to help someone for just a bit of extra fuel money to get to school.


The girls were very appologetic and nice about it, though. I felt pretty bad for them being stranded there for ages.

Ahh the joys of motoring _ _