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Blew off the cob webs with a quick run in the canyons with the better half. First weekend with a high pressure over so cal in the 90’s. Beautiful day.
I am lacking words to describe how much I love this car but it is simply an "achievement of good taste". The total package is perfect.... Just my opinion....
Last time I cleaned the outside of my radiators (two years ago) I noticed that the top of had coolant weep, but was dried or calcified. Yesterday, I assisted my mechanic in replacing all 3 radiators with CSF and all OEM hoses and clips. Now I have peace of mind for the hot weather months.
This weekend I painted my calipers (still a WIP), flushed the front diff. fluid w/ some fresh Delvac 75W90 (had probably never been done -- old fluid looked pretty gross), and replaced the motor mounts w/ some OEM replacements.
Radiator cleaning is next up on my list, hoping I don't find any surprises.
I also want to readjust my shifter cables now that I've replaced the engine + trans mounts.
Just sent my hydraulic pump and wing lifters to Kevin for rebuilds on my way into the office; I'm looking forward to clearing the one OEM design weakness from this platform.
Also drove it to the gym this AM, one of the only ways to get me out of bed at 5:15 on a Monday.
I am lacking words to describe how much I love this car but it is simply an "achievement of good taste". The total package is perfect.... Just my opinion....
Blew off the cob webs with a quick run in the canyons with the better half. First weekend with a high pressure over so cal in the 90’s. Beautiful day.
Are those yellow bulbs or film over the fogs?
edit: just checked your post history, nevermind . Going to have to give this a shot, I've done yellow fogs on all my previous cars and never considered it here. Love the look!
Just sent my hydraulic pump and wing lifters to Kevin for rebuilds on my way into the office; I'm looking forward to clearing the one OEM design weakness from this platform.
Also drove it to the gym this AM, one of the only ways to get me out of bed at 5:15 on a Monday.
-Joe
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Last time I cleaned the outside of my radiators (two years ago) I noticed that the top of had coolant weep, but was dried or calcified. Yesterday, I assisted my mechanic in replacing all 3 radiators with CSF and all OEM hoses and clips. Now I have peace of mind for the hot weather months.
Am I the only one who is seeing Green coolant draining from that rad? sure doesn't look like G12...
I changed the serpentine belt.
There was no record of it being changed (28k mi 14 yrs).
We had a nice sunny day today so I put my new, very stiff, belt out in the sun to soften up a little and went back in the garage to pull the old one. I looked at the routing around the pulleys and thought how easy, ribbed to ribbed, smooth to smooth over this around that, I got this.
Out with the old and in with my nice warm, flexible new belt. Let’s see, around here over that one? No not there that is smooth to ribbed. Ok this way looks good, ribbed to ribbed, smooth to... no that only works if the belt is a Möbius strip. Hmm, ok ok I got it over this around that now it’s working, if I leave the power steering pulley out of the loop.
AARRG!
1/2 hour later I admitted defeat and went in to the manual, made a copy of the belt layout page and stuck it in front of me in the engine bay. And...look how easy ribbed to ribbed over this ...etc.
Five minutes later I was hunting around for the loose airbox grommets that I knocked off, again! AARRGG!
It really is easy if your memory is longer than a minute or you make a picture of the belt before you remove it.
Found a pic that made it easier it shows routing like this:
1 water pump, 2 tensioner, 3 crank, 4 power steering, 5 idler below PS, 6 ac pulley, 7 alternator, crank the tensioner to full loose, 8 slide it over the idler below alternator. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...rEAmx4-Jj6TKM:
Five minutes later I was hunting around for the loose airbox grommets that I knocked off, again! AARRGG!
I ordered a couple of extra airbox grommets (99970222140) last time I put in a parts order as I got tired of hunting them down. The new ones seem to stay in place a bit better as well...
It really is easy if your memory is longer than a minute or you make a picture of the belt before you remove it.
I take pictures of EVERYTHING I take apart these days... Including the serp belt when I did it!
05-06-2018 | 09:08 AM
