I'm going in deep.

The last picture, a day before she gave out.
The last picture, a day before she gave out.

Attempts to revive the EJ25D in the Fishbowl have been unsuccessful. With a little bit of help from the family, it did live for a hot minute... then it gave out. Ah well.

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Next stop: the fabled Craigslist engine. This time, it’s been sitting four years in a dry, sheltered location. It’s cheap enough that even if it’s a wash, I can just stuff both motors in the car and send it off to the scrappers to recoup my losses.

As a barely even qualified “mechanic”, my brain’s got one thing for me:

If it wasn’t obvious from the title, don’t listen to this in public unless you’ve got headphones/earbuds