06-05-2024, 11:29 AM
Town Fair seems to do okay balancing tires, but all the other places, forget about it. They aren't perfect though. I decided to have a look the other day to see how much weight they used, and I was only slightly annoyed by what I saw, but not too bad. The strip of about 1 1/2 ounces was angled outward away from the rim lip at about a 20-degree angle. I mean, it won't affect the balance, but it just looks stupid.
This non-flush placement of wheel weights is somewhat humorously reminiscent of all those trips to fast-food burger joints where the burger or fish patty is most often dramatically off center and hanging off the bun.
A couple months back when I fried an ignition coil due to a failing plug and replaced all plugs plus that ignition coil. I noticed that the cylinder four ignition coil was quite a bit tarnished from the heat and figured I would replace the following month, but now I've switched modes to: seems to be working fine, so if it ain't broke don't fix it.
The rubber housings on some of the coils have seen better days, and the fried coil even had a better housing than one of the good ones, so I swapped them out. One or two coils even had strips of rubber that had separated from the housing so I trimmed those up.
Everything's good so far though and I think the side gapping of the plugs was a good tweak. I have gotten used to perpetual error codes on the used cars I've been buying, but everything's clear on this one right now.
Transmission fluid service is due any day now, but I prefer driving them more than working on them. Some of the work is easy, and there is some that requires a bit more dedication and purchasing new tools - that's where the procrastination is.
This non-flush placement of wheel weights is somewhat humorously reminiscent of all those trips to fast-food burger joints where the burger or fish patty is most often dramatically off center and hanging off the bun.
A couple months back when I fried an ignition coil due to a failing plug and replaced all plugs plus that ignition coil. I noticed that the cylinder four ignition coil was quite a bit tarnished from the heat and figured I would replace the following month, but now I've switched modes to: seems to be working fine, so if it ain't broke don't fix it.
The rubber housings on some of the coils have seen better days, and the fried coil even had a better housing than one of the good ones, so I swapped them out. One or two coils even had strips of rubber that had separated from the housing so I trimmed those up.
Everything's good so far though and I think the side gapping of the plugs was a good tweak. I have gotten used to perpetual error codes on the used cars I've been buying, but everything's clear on this one right now.
Transmission fluid service is due any day now, but I prefer driving them more than working on them. Some of the work is easy, and there is some that requires a bit more dedication and purchasing new tools - that's where the procrastination is.
