{"id":636,"date":"2016-11-10T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/1636\/do-you-have-plastic-shopping-bags-in-front-of-the-radiator"},"modified":"2016-11-10T23:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:05:23","slug":"do-you-have-plastic-shopping-bags-in-front-of-the-radiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/1636\/do-you-have-plastic-shopping-bags-in-front-of-the-radiator","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Plastic Shopping Bags In Front Of The Radiator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1]<\/p>\n<p>I went out to the mailbox one morning to mail a letter.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the local sanitation truck losing several plastic Wal-Mart shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour later this guy pulls up to the shop.<\/p>\n<p>His car was running hot&#8230;steam was coming from underneath<br \/>\n<br \/>the hood.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature was 110o in the shade and the humidity was<br \/>\n<br \/>so heavy you had to have a machete just to walk around<br \/>\n<br \/>outside&#8230;well, maybe not that thick, but it was heavy.<\/p>\n<p>We raised the hood on his Thunder Chicken. &#8220;Even Ford&#8217;s<br \/>\n<br \/>get hot in this kind of weather,&#8221; I stated.<\/p>\n<p>The engine had cooled down, some, so I removed the cap from the radiator&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>it was just barely low of coolant.<\/p>\n<p>I told him to crank the engine and I put some water in it,<br \/>\n<br \/>then we&#8217;d look for a leak.<\/p>\n<p>As I was spraying water on top of the radiator to cool it,<br \/>\n<br \/>I noticed a blue plastic bag, in front of the a\/c condenser.<\/p>\n<p>I showed it to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s probably the reason she heated up,&#8221; I told him as I pointed to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was following a garbage truck earlier,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but<br \/>\n<br \/>I passed him cause some trash was falling out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you helped him,&#8221; I said as I removed not one, but<br \/>\n<br \/>three of the plastic shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How&#8217;s that?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been picking up what he was losing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He thanked me and said, &#8220;If she starts heating up again,<br \/>\n<br \/>I&#8217;ll be back,&#8221; with a grin as he drove off.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that cured it, cause he never came back.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I went out to the mailbox one morning to mail a letter. I noticed the local sanitation truck losing several plastic Wal-Mart shopping bags. About an hour later this guy pulls up to the shop. His car was running hot&#8230;steam was coming from underneath the hood. The temperature was 110o in the shade and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1349,1571,1574,1572,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}