What I learned by changing a drive belt
My family took the Jeep for a 10-hour trip to a water park. We hauled a 1975 camper behind the Jeep, and all went reasonably well. Until the car would not start. It made the kind of clicking sound that an empty battery does, as I learned from having changed the battery already one time after the first battery, already installed in the Jeep, went dead. So, I called the road service and they came to Frankenstein the shit out of the XJ's battery. Having the car now working, I loaded the family + our dog (Hugo, a Toller) in the car, and drove back home. Two hours without the headlights = lots of lights blinking at us on our drive back home. However, we made it. The morning after, I ignited the car, and it seemed to work. Never mind that the battery light had come on during the return trip, and the battery voltage was lower than usual. I drove a short journey around a block or two, came back, and let the car sit on our driveway for a couple of hours. Then I did what I have done an inord...