Learning more and more mechanical skills, aka stuff was broke. Yesterday, I taught my groundman how to put a starter in his car, which his wife and kids were using, and we happen to catch the starter going out.
Today, I went to troubleshoot his family's SUV (normally wife and kids' mobile) which went down recently. His water pump seems shot, hopefully without other consequential damage. It sounded like it ran ok, aside from the water pump making noise, and the belt's sheave/ pulley wheel moving on the shaft, and then there's the 'stream hole', not a 'weep hole', not one bit. Water just streamed right out it.
He said the temperature stayed normal, not high or low when he was driving it. Unfortunately, now is our coldest time of year, clear skies, and its full of water, not coolant. Thankfully, we are having clouds come in, holding the heat in.
I watched my brother put a water pump in my car a long time ago. Looks pretty straight-forward and accessible. Any advice? I might try to help him out to fix it. 2002 GMC Yukon Denali. I'll YouTube it.
I'm thankful to be on the end of being able to help someone who is deserving help. A lot of challenges in his life, and he's trying super hard to take care of his family, and trying to be the best employee he can.
He is excited to learn stuff that nobody taught him over the last 5 years of doing tree and landscape work. He likes tree work, but not getting younger, currently 32. Wants to be a history teacher. Almost has an A.A., which is a something. Summer tree work, his own little biz, matches well with school teaching, if he can make it back to school. 6 kids.
His last boss was a spur-it-all, going out of bizness, 2 double-hip replacements, old tree man. Before that, he worked for a notoriously dangerous and scare-tactic, regional company. They threw him in without much training and he was hurt on the job twice.
He told me he's never got to run a 661-sized saw before, or a brand new saw, much less get to do the first cutting with a new 661 with a 42" bar, then swap out and get to cut some with the alaskan mill, and show his wife and kids when they came to pick him up. He had a smile on his face. I really want to see their family succeed. They're in a tough place at the moment, trouble getting by day by day.
