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Being from TN, and as someone who talks (tawks) with a thick southern drawl, I'm not going to say anything about how someone pronounces a word. Down here we like to add the "w" sound to words and draw them out as long as possible. When Dave (Daves89) came down from Wisconsin to visit with me we almost needed a translator to communicate with each other. 🙂

My Cape Cod style house was built in 1947 as part of the "WWII returning GI's" era. No thought was given back then to waterproof the outside of the 10' foundation or of building in french drains. I only have a 75' frontage, so excavation for a french drain or exterior waterproofing would be cost prohibitive....we're looking at $60k to $70k for a 32'X24' house and a whole lot of mess. Also, in MA we call them cellars (pronounced "cellahs").

Like a rut cellah? Illinoisans say ruf as in roof. So Maybe rut instead of root.

Thank you ronnie!! I'll let u know

I think maybe a few prototypes were made by an outside vendor for Buick but I don't think they ever went into production.

Yes, Had a friend look while i pumped the front brakes with nothing coming out but she said she could hear a gurgling so I've also ordered the hoses. I'm going to leave the old calipers on, just connect the hoses and see if they still work. Quite possibly the old hoses are the problem. So much fun......seriously! 🙂

Hey Ship, I have turned myself into pretty much a guru when it comes to sump pumps. Most people don't have them set right [too low]. If you have an upright, lift the ball and rod and see how how the water fills in your sump. I am willing to bet you are right now set too close to what the water table height is in your neighborhood. I have mine set so that the water in the sump is within 3" of draining onto the floor. That is where yours should be set so it hardly runs. Then I wrap a piece of tape on the rod above the switch so that when the pump does run it only runs for a little bit and then shuts off. No sense in letting it run all the way to the bottom of the pump. The submersible is even easier but you will have to cut your drain pipe. Put a construction brick under the submersible to raise the pump up and then reconnect the pipe. I "test" my upright pump every spring to make sure it runs, otherwise I forget about it all year. Another advantage of setting the pump so high is that radon gas is less likely to come in. Let your neighbors beat up their pumps pumping water...