Okay, so I just read my last post, which reminded me, that today I revved my car almost up to 7000RPM, well into the red. The tach goes up to 8, maybe I should aim for that next.
A few weeks ago I did some work on my car. I put a new radiator in it. I got it exchanged under the “lifetime warranty” of the internet company I bought the thing from 4 years ago. They were absolutely impossible to deal with, I don’t recommend them at all, they’ll just try to screw you over every which way. I replaced the radiator because the fins on the bottom 4 inches or so had fallen out, just rotted off. It wasn’t leaking yet, but I didn’t really trust the thing at the rate it was falling apart. The coolant came out kind of brown again…something in my engine seems to wreck coolant pretty quickly.
I put a next axle seal in the transmission. The thing was torn, although it’s hard to tell what exactly is leaking on the transmission, because I think the speed sensor is leaking again. When I went to refill the trans, the fill bolt was completely stuck, and nothing I tried was going to free it, so I’m just going to leave that in there. I filled the transmission through the speed sensor hole, so I just approximated how much fluid to add.
I change the oil, and rotated and balanced the tires. I’m going to need brakes soon, they are pretty worn down. Hopefully I’ll get around to changing them because the backing plates hit the rotors, but if I don’t, well, they’re cheap aftermarket rotors anyhow, so I don’t really care, I’ll just throw another set on.
I think something in the air pulse injection system has come apart, because I feel like I can hear a rattle in there, and I can hear the exhaust pulses through it, louder than usual. Again, not something I feel like spending time to fix.
And I’ve breached 199,000 miles, so it’s just the final push to the big 200K. I’ll probably get there next week.