I posted on the TDI forum to find out if I could use a 90a alternator instead
of the 120 in it now. I hate to put a $350 new alternator in a $500 car. One of
the guys there suggested used, found one not far from here for $40. Can't
believe I didn't think to go used...
This car is to last out the winter, I plan to replace it in the spring.
-Curt
From: Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fixing floors
THAT HUGE SUCKING SOUND you hear is the jetta....
Car-part.com for Curt, or crush it
> Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> January 26, 2017 at 8:02 AM
> So if your car has an issue is it a pile of junk?
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> Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> January 26, 2017 at 7:52 AM
> Correction: It was intended to be a higher end house. Now its a house
> with a rotten floor, or put another way: a dump... ;)
> -Curt
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> Well the problem is that bank is out of business. That is on the buyer
> anyway as buyers have a certain amount of time after contract executed
> to do inspections and request repairs or bail on contract. Linoleum is
> a no go. This is a higher end house is a high end neighborhood. This
> pergo flooring thing would be the only remotely viable solution other
> than tile.
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> Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> January 25, 2017 at 6:45 PM
> Well the problem is that bank is out of business. That is on the buyer
> anyway as buyers have a certain amount of time after contract executed
> to do inspections and request repairs or bail on contract. Linoleum is
> a no go. This is a higher end house is a high end neighborhood. This
> pergo flooring thing would be the only remotely viable solution other
> than tile.
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> Max Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> January 25, 2017 at 6:37 PM
> I put a tile floor in our kitchen, HARD hard work on your knees all
> day (and yes there should have been cement backer-board under all that
> tile) so be warned. I think linoleum would be a better choice, slap
> that down and let the new owners put down tile or whatever.
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> Talk to a lawyer about suing the bank that sold you that dump.
> Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> January 25, 2017 at 6:05 PM
> So this involves the rent house from hell that has been empty for over
> 3 months now trying to get it rented or sold. This house was built in
> 2002 but the builder was foreclosed on. House sat without any windows
> or doors for probably a year or 2 until the bank came in and finished
> it, and it was then sold to us as new contruction, although we were
> unaware of all this at the time of purchase. About 5 years ago the
> dog was walking out the front door and his leg literally broke thru a
> ceramic tile at the front door. I then discovered lots of wood rot in
> this area by the front door and also termites. We had the termites
> taken care of and there are none now but a lot of the wood rot was not
> termites but rather wood rot from it being wet from when no doors or
> windows were on the house. There was part of the plywood rotted, and
> the header plate or whatever you call it was rotted out as well
> directly under the front door. This plate runs parallel to the floor
> joists. I had a buddy of mine come in and cut out a section of the
> flooring after pulling up the ceramic tile in the entry, cut out that
> section of the header board and installed a new piece, then replaced
> the plywood and we put new tile in the entry area. There is currently
> some wood rot of various degrees all along the front of the house in
> this header plate mainly under where the windows are but this was the
> worse area at the time. So after the renters moved out I discovered
> the corner of the floor in the kitchen dining area is sagging starting
> in corner next to where the window is, and extends along the wall
> running a 90 degree angle from the front of the house. So I get under
> and discover a significant amount of wood rot in that corner.
> Basically the header plate is completely rotted out. The difference
> this time is the floor joist mount to this plate so they are basically
> not supported and the floor is sagging. As a temp fix I jacked up the
> floor and added supports just back from the stem wall to take the
> pressure off of the failing header plate. We have had a few showings
> of the house for both renters or potential buyers and nobody has said
> anything about the floor but we did have a couple look at it yesterday
> and mentioned the floor as it still has a little bit of sag in that
> corner, but mainly is noticable because a small piece of tile in the
> corner is broke off and dropped down a bit because that small area has
> no support as the plywood under the tile is rotted as well. We have
> disclosed to realtors who are showing the house to their clients of
> this issue and they can put in any offer for it to be repaired and we
> would repair it at closing, which is common. I am now thinking I need
> to just go ahead and repair it. We got a quote a while back but quite
> frankly with this house sitting empty funds are not available to pay a
> contractor. Otherwise I probably would.
>
>
> So this can't be rocket science and I don't think its anymore
> complicated than many of the repairs I have done on vehicles, it is
> just I work on cars and have not gotten into major wood work before.
> So I am thinking what I need to do is pull the tile up, cut out a
> section of the flooring and can work from inside the house instead of
> crawling back and forth under the house. I would need to sawsall off
> the ends of the floor joists, then start removing that header plate,
> cut to fit a new section and jam it into place, then sister in new
> floor joist sections to connect back to the header plate. One of the
> big problems though is the ceramic tile. While it appears it would be
> a common color that could be matched, we found we could not when we
> did the entry hall. This tile is in this kitchen eating area, the
> kitchen, and the adjoining formal dining room. So we would either
> have to do something with a different color of tile that appears to
> sort of separate off this area from the kitchen and formal dining, or
> ALL the tile will have to be replaced, and it is a LOT of tile. I had
> also thought about replacing the tile in this area with that laminate
> hardwood floor stuff and making the kitchen dining area this, but I am
> not sure if that would look stupid or not. We also have this same
> tile in the bathrooms and the laundry room and have several tiles in
> other areas of the house that are cracked. I am not really sure it
> was a good idea to install ceramic tile over crawl space, they just
> installed it directly onto the subfloor. I am thinking you are
> supposed to use some sort of backer board between the tile and plywood
> subfloor but not sure.
>
>
> Anyway, long post, anybody BTDT? Anybody want to come down and help
> me with this project in exchange for parts, cars, whatever? I am
> sending some photos I took from under the house in a minute.
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