daeron Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Okay, so I just started delivering pizzas in the GL-10 again, and its time to get the girl in better shape than she's been. I am cleaning the car, and doing alot of routine maintenance and preventetive stuff, and I have a few points to relate, and invite comments on.. along with asking a few questions at the same time. First up is a reinstall of my 90 amp maxima alternator, didn't think I was going to need it but now I want it.. I am adding a few auxiliary power circuits. Anyone know what kind of wattage a single filament tail light style bulb draws? I need to get an idea what kind of amperage the silly car topper is going to draw because I am dovetailing the wire for that into a switch in my car. Hopefully in all this wiring madness, I will also pull the stereo out and get the front speakers wired up again. IIRC, the gray pair of wires were the ones for the front channel.. I abandoned the stock speaker wires for the rears, and have left the front unhooked. If/when I get around to this, I will take detailed photographs of "how" I installed the stereo, because a couple people have asked me about it and its something of an accomplishment. I bought some cheapo radiator flush solution, and tomorrow while I swap the alternators I am going to swap the heater core hoses, and run with them backwards for a couple of days. Come Sunday I plan on blasting the block with a hose, draining, then running the solution through and draining again, restoring heater hose orientation. The core has been gummed up for a while, and I am not just putting up with it for another winter like I did last year. Winter isn't TOO brutal here, but when driving is my job you better believe I want a quick defroster. Any thoughts? I have nastiness in my almost new radiator, because I still haven't flushed the crud out completely from my bad headgasket episode. The water was muddy from bubbling; I have flushed a couple times but only with fresh water. This time its for real. Once I run the chemical flush through, I am going to rinse freely, then probably run for a little while with clean water before draining and replacing with pure anti-freeze. I want to get a good shock treatment of pure anti-freeze to help dissipate any issues caused by using pure water for the last year. I am also thinking about taking the air handler box apart and cleaning the heater core, and AC evaporator coils.. but thats something of a project. I know I get major results cleaning the crud from the coils of my window-mount AC in my bedroom every year, so I am wondering how dirty these could be. I DO smoke in the car, as did my brother before me, so they can't be too pretty. I've also noticed a bit of squeakiness that seems to accompany the steering wheel action.. I may be wrong, and I'm going to do an underbody chassis/suspension inspection soon anyhow, but where in the steering column might there be a carrier point that could use a little lube?? any ideas on this? Obviously I am going to investigate thoroughly myself, and I know to check the little U-joints in the shaft, but I thought I would throw it out there to see if theres anything subtle I might want to attend to. Finally, My power steering pump has leaked very badly for some time, and its gotten worse lately. I haven't even LOOKED at this yet, so for all I know it could be a loose clamp or fitting, but it leaks down from the back of the pump and all over the engine; most of the oil leak "gunk" that has built up in six months is based on ATF from the power steering pump. What might I be looking at, and how difficult might it be to rebuild this pump or reseal it in some fashion? The steering pump is not covered in the FSM fragment that I have, so I am kind of in the dark on this. Any chance that a fresh JY car might have a good steering pump, if it looks OK? IF you read it all, thanks. Any answers, advice, or comments are welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 its not THAT epic!! I broke it into nice easy to digest paragraphs, i highlighted the real questions in bold when I could.. no thoughts or answers? :-p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 you ever get hit on delivering pizza? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizinza Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 omg... That was a lot of words mate.. You love your essays eh? taillights should be 10watts each, 20 divided by 12volts = 1.6amps plus or minus .4 I reckon from loss in wires and differene in volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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