Taking the Tempurature

Somewhere in the ditch coming home from the Harvest Moon Regatta, we started having some “engine” troubles. The engine temperature was fluctuating. Turns out the engine itself was fine, but the gauge wast working. This started a fairly typical rabbit hole of a repair. We decided to replace at least the temperature gauge and sender so that we could be […]

Diesel Debugging

Debugging is a difficult process. As a software engineer I do it regularly so I’d like to think I’m pretty good at it. After our engine failure last week I thought that I could apply those skills to figuring out our engine troubles. After all diesel is pretty simple, all it really needs is air and fuel, right? It wasn’t […]