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bluebeardCar car carry car.
Drained the radiator and filled it with cleaner and water. In "three to six hours" of driving time it'll be time to drain it again, fill it with water, run it some more, drain it again, fill it with coolant. With just the cleaner and water in there it's running much, much better; the old crap was almost kind of... muddy.
In the process of doing the radiator however, at one point I left the radiator cap loose and went driving. Lost the cap, and thusly everything in the radiator. YAY! Caps only cost $7 though, so big deal. It may have even helped to get some of that crap in there agitated out. (that's wishful thinking. never, ever leave your radiator cap off.)
Discovered that one of two auxilliary fans does not come on. Yay again. It just happens to be the fan right next to the hose leading to the radiator reserve well, so I suppose that explains why that area gets so hot.
Power steering fluid was funkay, so that's been drained and re-filled as well. It now works as it should.
So, remaining car to-do list:
Complete radiator cleaning process.
Determine fan issue and repair it.
Fill refrigerant. The service valve is really deep, so I'll need an adapter.
Rotate and balance tires, since the guy dad got to work on it left a lugnut off one wheel and now they're wonky. (I replaced the nut.)
Shampoo carpets. 'cause they're gross. Least priority, but possibly cheapest. Figures.
Replace power window/mirror control panel. The slot the mirror joystick goes in snapped. Probably only a few bucks at a junkyard. Also a low priority.
Unless any new issues present themselves, that should just about do it. Provided the fan isn't a big deal, it should all just be pop-pop-pop.
Oh, and fuck Buick for decided to make everything disturbingly non-user-serviceable. The battery is under the wiper fluid well which is under a steel support bar, for example. What were you thinking, exactly, Buick engineer person? That in 20 years the dealer will still want to work on these things? Yeah, right.
It took me an hour to type this because of clients. Grr. Nashville.. nashville...
Drained the radiator and filled it with cleaner and water. In "three to six hours" of driving time it'll be time to drain it again, fill it with water, run it some more, drain it again, fill it with coolant. With just the cleaner and water in there it's running much, much better; the old crap was almost kind of... muddy.
In the process of doing the radiator however, at one point I left the radiator cap loose and went driving. Lost the cap, and thusly everything in the radiator. YAY! Caps only cost $7 though, so big deal. It may have even helped to get some of that crap in there agitated out. (that's wishful thinking. never, ever leave your radiator cap off.)
Discovered that one of two auxilliary fans does not come on. Yay again. It just happens to be the fan right next to the hose leading to the radiator reserve well, so I suppose that explains why that area gets so hot.
Power steering fluid was funkay, so that's been drained and re-filled as well. It now works as it should.
So, remaining car to-do list:
Complete radiator cleaning process.
Determine fan issue and repair it.
Fill refrigerant. The service valve is really deep, so I'll need an adapter.
Rotate and balance tires, since the guy dad got to work on it left a lugnut off one wheel and now they're wonky. (I replaced the nut.)
Shampoo carpets. 'cause they're gross. Least priority, but possibly cheapest. Figures.
Replace power window/mirror control panel. The slot the mirror joystick goes in snapped. Probably only a few bucks at a junkyard. Also a low priority.
Unless any new issues present themselves, that should just about do it. Provided the fan isn't a big deal, it should all just be pop-pop-pop.
Oh, and fuck Buick for decided to make everything disturbingly non-user-serviceable. The battery is under the wiper fluid well which is under a steel support bar, for example. What were you thinking, exactly, Buick engineer person? That in 20 years the dealer will still want to work on these things? Yeah, right.
It took me an hour to type this because of clients. Grr. Nashville.. nashville...
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Date: 2006-09-11 06:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-11 06:37 pm (UTC)tards. all of them.
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Date: 2006-09-13 05:04 am (UTC)