Pontiac treks
It's fucking cold man. Drove home from the city this morning and the check engine light came on again - same old trouble code, EGR circuit malfunction. When I got this car, the smog pump was locked up so I took the belt off and haven't been using it. And I do believe that particular pump provides air for the EGR system. So I decided to change it out today with another, nonlocked unit I picked up a few weeks ago. And it's fucking cold.

So of course, shit goes wrong. It's fucking cold, there's no fucking room in the garage for this boat and my knees go gangrene from bending over too much and I can't reach any of my tools or lights without falling over something sharp or electric and hot. My hands feel like they're swimming in dry ice and the bolt I'm taking out is a bitch - my hand keeps slipping off the ratchet and clanging into the clutch fan. The bolt gets stuck in the pump so I have to cut the head off - my hands are fucking glaciers and sparks fly up and hit me in the eye.

Bolt destroyed so I need another; one trip to hardware store, get one that's too short. Back again, get the right one. Need a belt, go to Autozone but they don't know what kind I need, smog pump is not listed, so I measure myself and go back to get it and it's wrong, and it's fucking cold, man. Fifteen degrees? What the fuck is that? Bullshit.

End up just driving the car up there and switching out belts in the lot until I get the right length. Then I broke the clip that holds on the hose the pump shoots its shit through, so I had to fuck with that too.

All and all, a successful part replacement, I think it could have been much worse. We'll see if this affects the EGR code. It only comes on after long highway driving, never around town.