Quickly approaching my annual tolerance threshold for working on cars.....usually I can make it into July before I get really fed up.
Spent the first half of Saturday working on the Sonoma; replaced the bad A/C compressor, the accumulator, orifice tube and all the O-rings that I could access without disassembling the whole truck. Other than not being able to find my snap ring tool when I needed it the job went pretty smoothly. No more bearing noise
, our A/C chemical supplier at work is coming in on the 24th, I've asked him to bring his vacuum equipment, so I'll wait until then to pull a vacuum, leak check and refill the system....Really hope it works for awhile now.
Then I washed both Firebirds and jockied everything around so I could get the SLK out for the evening...great night for a top-down drive.
Sunday I washed the SLK (first time since putting it away in the fall) and gave it a wax. Then spent the next few hours touching up 10 years of stone chips and scrapes on the Escalade. Panel by panel, took a legit 2.5 hours. Then I threw a new air filter in it, vacuumed a load of mouse turds from the air box (nice...) and called it a day.
I still have a long list of little thing to do on the Slade it get it up to my standards, the Sonoma still needs a couple things, the Healey is still in pieces. Camaro and MGB haven't been touched since last summer, both need some love.
I really need to start selling stuff...when you're spending all your weekends just maintaining
(and not even keeping up with that) something should change....
