Car-ma Comes to the Persistent

Well, NAPA actually found the correct hose! It’s not quite exact, but looks close enough at the important parts. Started the process of changing the hose. To do that, needed to remove radiator so I drained it. Dude, if you wondered what brand of shoyu was using in the brakes, you’ll wonder what brand latte was running in the radiator! Ok, there’s a tinge of green at the begining, but by the time it was almost all drained….

So I looked for a while and debated what to do about the A/C. Now A/C is one of modern mankind’s greatest inventions. All the bits were there, but I checked earlier and the magic ingredient had all leaked out to go make friends with the ozone layer. I finally decided that since the AE86 was supposed to be the less used, SCCAer, and thinking what were the chances that I was going to fix the A/C, that I’m going to take it out. Proceeded to unhook all the bits, I didn’t go crazy and yank it out willy nilly, so if I were ever so inclined (yeah, right) I could possibly put it back in. The other thing with this is with all the A/C stuff out, it was much easier to work on the power steering hoses.

So tonight, its left uncompleted because I’ll have to go to parts store tomorrow for shorter belt for the p/s, and find a replacement o-ring for p/s fitting and the radiator draincock.

I didn’t get a chance to play with the Porter Cable 7336 power DA sander/buffer I bought. Was on sale at Slim’s, good price, cheaper than Internet!