One of the good things about having a new kitten?
An ample supply of cat litter.
Which is useful for when you’re changing the oil, and you drop that oil filter on the driveway.
Because, you see, there is a corollary to the old rule that “a dropped socket will roll to the area under the car most distant from your ability to reach it,” namely, that a dropped oil filter will, without fail, fall so that the open end will land facing down, thus ensuring the several ounces of oil you were so very careful to try not to get on the driveway will quickly leak out and leave a nice big black stain.
Oh well. It was nice to work on the car for a bit. As you can see from the dearth of posts here, there hasn’t been much time to do anything except NOT work on the car. Last month was the worst--every single weekend was spent cleaning out our garage. When we moved in eight years ago, we never actually moved in, we just sorta moved. Boxes upon boxes of stuff got left in the garage--most of it my car-working-on-stuff. We haven’t been able to park in there the entire time we’ve lived here it was so packed. SO, that had to get cleaned up. Also, there was the issue of the mice--seems all that junk was quite the comfortable environment for micies, so there was some added incentive to get it clean.
Anyway, busy.
As for Järn, he continues to plug along without complaint. Right now he’s averaging a bit over 21 mpg for a daily route of about 32 miles of mostly interstate driving. I probably could boost that up a bit if I could do without the AC, and if I would slow down a bit. Using premium has helped, too. It runs a lot better without all that knocking. Several posts further down I gave my reasons for doing this--right now, premium is 20 cents more than regular. For a 12 gallon fill up, that’s only $2.40, which is about the same as, or less, than any of the octane boosters on the shelf.
And today was, as you guessed, oil change day. 223,921 miles, which is a bit more than 4,000 since the last one. Probably should have used 10W40 what with it being summertime, and the fact that with 224,000 miles, there are probably a few wide spots in the various gaskets that would do with being plugged up with some heavier lube. Oh, well.
I had also intended to fix the headlight today (one of the mounting bolts has broken free from the housing, causing the housing to flop around a bit), but there was also the need to clip the shrubbery and cut the grass. Speaking of which, it’s also nice having a son who I can coerce into helping cut the grass! Leaves a bit more time to do other things, such as this!
Thanks again for dropping by, and hopefully there’ll be a bit more to post about in the coming months.
Which is useful for when you’re changing the oil, and you drop that oil filter on the driveway.
Because, you see, there is a corollary to the old rule that “a dropped socket will roll to the area under the car most distant from your ability to reach it,” namely, that a dropped oil filter will, without fail, fall so that the open end will land facing down, thus ensuring the several ounces of oil you were so very careful to try not to get on the driveway will quickly leak out and leave a nice big black stain.
Oh well. It was nice to work on the car for a bit. As you can see from the dearth of posts here, there hasn’t been much time to do anything except NOT work on the car. Last month was the worst--every single weekend was spent cleaning out our garage. When we moved in eight years ago, we never actually moved in, we just sorta moved. Boxes upon boxes of stuff got left in the garage--most of it my car-working-on-stuff. We haven’t been able to park in there the entire time we’ve lived here it was so packed. SO, that had to get cleaned up. Also, there was the issue of the mice--seems all that junk was quite the comfortable environment for micies, so there was some added incentive to get it clean.
Anyway, busy.
As for Järn, he continues to plug along without complaint. Right now he’s averaging a bit over 21 mpg for a daily route of about 32 miles of mostly interstate driving. I probably could boost that up a bit if I could do without the AC, and if I would slow down a bit. Using premium has helped, too. It runs a lot better without all that knocking. Several posts further down I gave my reasons for doing this--right now, premium is 20 cents more than regular. For a 12 gallon fill up, that’s only $2.40, which is about the same as, or less, than any of the octane boosters on the shelf.
And today was, as you guessed, oil change day. 223,921 miles, which is a bit more than 4,000 since the last one. Probably should have used 10W40 what with it being summertime, and the fact that with 224,000 miles, there are probably a few wide spots in the various gaskets that would do with being plugged up with some heavier lube. Oh, well.
I had also intended to fix the headlight today (one of the mounting bolts has broken free from the housing, causing the housing to flop around a bit), but there was also the need to clip the shrubbery and cut the grass. Speaking of which, it’s also nice having a son who I can coerce into helping cut the grass! Leaves a bit more time to do other things, such as this!
Thanks again for dropping by, and hopefully there’ll be a bit more to post about in the coming months.
posted by Terry at 6/03/2006 04:07:00 PM
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