It's been long overdue for an update but unfortunately there isn't much progress to report. If anything we've suffered setbacks.

We last left off with Swampy needing a proper bleed of the brakes and then winter happened one day.





I see no good reason to hang out in the snow anymore than absolutely necessary so other than charging the battery regularly (because I was too lazy to chase down whatever is draining it in the summer) and letting the engine run here and there I didn't pay much attention. (Also I've been hiding a dark secret I've been dealing with but more on that later)

One of the times I started the engine I noticed some frozen water on the passenger side floor mat. This was about half way through winter and a couple days earlier the wife and I went for a quick drive around the block. I figured it was leftover snow from her boots right?

Just for funsies I picked up the floor mat and guess what?!






I now have a portable skating rink!!


Well that much snow definitely did not come from her boots so I looked up at the A pillar and what do I see??








YOU AGAIN HOSE?!?!?! I juuuuuuust sorted all this out no?


My immediate though was the wife must have somehow grabbed the A pillar getting in or out and dislodged the tube, but since it's winter and I'd like to keep sleeping inside I figured it's in my best interest to shut my face and keep my suspicions to myself.


So what to do with a hockey rink in your footwell in freezing weather? NOTHING!!! We wait!

A couple days later it was warmer and I thought maybe things would heat up in the interior enough to maybe soak up some water? As I'm trying to make my way around the car I decide that might as well brush the snow off no? That's when I noticed the ice built up around the cowl and popped the hood.

There was a horrible crunching sound followed by what I thought was breaking glass or something like that.















I know it's a little hard to gauge thickness...but what you're looking at is about .5"-1" of SOLID ice that filled any and all gaps, holes, nooks and crannies.














After trying to chip out some of the ice I realized that wasn't really doing much and I'll probably end up smashing my windshield, so I thought leaving the hood open and letting all the sunlight get in there would help melt things.


There was melting all right...but since the hood was up the perfect shape of the hood imprint I had was modified and at the end of the day the hood wouldn't close.


Seeing as I've done nothing but make things worse I decided it wasn't time to start playing cars outside just yet.