<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:14:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/car-repair/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are hollow when experience says otherwise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The past few weeks were a mighty struggle. What started out as easy patience exercise turned into an outright threat to our next winter opportunity - we found a promising housesit in central Italy! 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Mental health ambassador and life post. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well. The war pony grenaded the rear end. It's the onset of winter and I'm not sure if it's going to be able to be fixed. 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At the end of my previous post about my pickup truck, I talked about the need to get the exhaust manifolds off the engine so that I could either replace the exhaust pipe]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/car-repair/@amberyooper/fixing-up-an-older-pickup-truck-part-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/car-repair/@amberyooper/fixing-up-an-older-pickup-truck-part-8</guid><category><![CDATA[car-repair]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[amberyooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:32:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/B69zEhWZA8UBvwpPuizsrYUTc5ojP7QkMFn5g3XLtenLte7cSSDxu9xqMUA2mGRafAZqyoHpuKdmWdm2ESbJDVimEoYCDJbrTSQxJwcA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing up an older pickup truck, part 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, and welcome to my page! My last post on this project was 13 days ago. Since then we've had some rather cold weather, and then several days ago, it warmed back up to a bit above freezing during the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/car-repair/@amberyooper/fixing-up-an-older-pickup-truck-part-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/car-repair/@amberyooper/fixing-up-an-older-pickup-truck-part-7</guid><category><![CDATA[car-repair]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[amberyooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:04:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/B69zEhWZA8UBvwpPuizsrYUTc5ojP7QkMFn5g3XLtenLte7cSSDxu9xqMUA2mGRafAZqyoHpuKdknnQJZCqbfMpbo2MugW1YGcZRq2q4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing up an older pickup truck, part 6]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, and welcome to my page! The last post I wrote about this project was about 10 days ago. I should have written this post several days ago, but I just wasn't in the mood to do it until now. 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