Well in essense I was trying to parallel park into a gap a tad small for my car to be parallel parked into, between a washing line and the front of mums car with its dead battery and a steering lock engaged (fucking toyota, need engine running to disengage it unlike every other car I've used with an integral steering lock where you just put the key to the on position) preventing us from pushing it to a better location.
Re-painted my steelies! Did the rear ones today, gonna do the front ones tomorrow. Looks a lot better with some fresh new matte black instead of the rusted old matte black steelies.
Finally grew a pair and cleaned the throttle body today. Bought some cleaner at the store. Took the throttle body off and cleaned the first inch or so of the elbow that it connects to. It was pretty filthy where it curves down to meet the intake manifold, but I don't really care about that. Cleaned the TB the best that I could and then threw it all back together. Idles smoother and 50-100 rpm higher. Took it for a drive and did the obligatory WOT run. Floored it pulling out of my neighborhood and was greeted with a downshift into 1st and the sweet, sweet sound of the roaring 4.6. Kept it to the floor until about 55 or so. So much for gas mileage. It still surges in gear when the AC is on, though. :| Next is new spark plugs, torqued to spec, mainly because I'm terrified of the self ejecting spark plug feature on ford modular V8s. My conductive adhesive came in the mail so I restuck my antenna thingy to the back window. Reception is much more clear.
I wired up my aux fm modulator thingy so I can hook my phone up and play shit now. I just kinda threw it together, really, to see if I could do it. Both the radio and the modulator box thing are hanging out of the radio hole by their wires and there's somewhat of a rats nest on the center console where the connections are. I need to zip tie everything up and route the wires behind the dash. I also tightened up the bolts on the trans fluid pan to see if that stops the slow leak. Am I really the only one on this forum who obsessively works on his car almost every day?
You're not alone. I just don't write everything I do on it Yesterday I changed a rubber mounting on the exhaust since one of them had snapped off.
No. You're just the only one on this forum who has a car that requires maintenance every day Ford. Fix or repair daily. Nah. None of our fords have given us any issues at all.
Like i said before I had also had a surge when my ac was on, but i charged my ac, and the problem completely went away after a week or so
My AC pressures are a little low so I tried to charge it to see if that was the problem. I failed miserably. I need to better learn how to do it and try again.
What did I do? FLLEEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXX [webm=]http://puu.sh/iWlud/0f14f94a37.mp4 my car is floating plz send assistance[/webm]
I'm happy to drop a tranny or even the whole engine for a clutch job or cut out, weld and paint a new sill panel, but if my AC system needs work, I'll hand it over to a professional without a second thought. Refrigerant isn't all that nasty these days (pretty sure R134a is almost inert), but it's not really something to tinker with. Jesus christ Sam also, use youtube fgt; beam media is the slowest thing in the universe.
To this day I am yet to manage to buffer more than a few seconds of video on beam media before it times out.
Even happens on dads 60mb down fiber connection that has no issues with 1080p 60fps youtube. Yeah, its totally the internet.
WebMs are always weird for me. Either they play flawlessly first time, or they'll never play and give me an error. It's not my internet, the tech just isn't great yet, especially when embedding.
I went to Cars and Coffee today, a gorgeous M635CSi parked up beside my car along with a 2002 tii. I met a few great enthusiasts and saw some amazing cars.
