Quite the change in the future of the Krisco Kid, huh? Well, since it must have been just as much of a shock for you as it was for us, we’ll give you a few more details about the story (and while the truck is sitting in the auto salvage yard, what more do we have to do than sit and be internet junkies?).
First of all, we had the greatest grease find ever in Portland! Right now the back of the broken Kid contains more than 30 gallons of the cleanest oil we’ve ever seen. It only took us 1 filter to make it road worthy in under 2 hours. Trust us, that’s good. No matter how gorgeous the grease, we defnitely have to work for our fuel. And that makes an out-of-commission Kid that much more depressing.
So we headed south for Corvallis, Oregon. Just before we arrived, the Kid started losing some power (it had been taking extra effort to start for the past week). We pulled into Jiffy Lube to get our scheduled oil change and let the Kid rest. The truck never started again. Yet it was amusing to watch five Jiffy Lube workers shove the truck around and around the parking lot to try and get it to push start. We only left there from the good grace of AAA towing.
But what a perfect place to break down. We are being hosted by Aaron’s wonderful friends Mehgan and Bob Blair. We were towed directly to Bug Werks VW shop. They hooked us up with a local who started a biodiesl co-op a few years ago AND rebuilds and sells VW rabbit for a living (we’ve found our calling, moms!). His website is great – www.grease-works.org
We have been faced with a pretty tough decision. Basically, either we cancel the trip right out (although that would basically require dumping a vehicle we have great emotional attachment to AND shelling out the bucks for plane tickets and shipping gear home), OR we put the money into fixing the Kid right and continuing the trip (on a significantly reduced budget of course). ince we did most of the mechanical deconstruction ourselves, the price to make things right is not as steep as it could be.
You know, it’s almost too sad to end the adventure this way. We’re probably going to suck it up and give the Krisco Kid some professional auto mechanic love. It’s carried us this far and we haven’t even gotten to see California yet. When the Kid wakes up, it’ll be pretty hungry…and we’ve got gallons and gallons of greasy slop to feed it!
Cross your fingers for a few days,
The Bison Delivery Boys