MagneticMan
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Was fullfulling yet had a few set backs. Pull up a chair and hear my story
I have two vehicles, the GT and a Toyota Tacoma. Both were filthy from the recent spate of snow, freezing rain, slush, mud, road nasties.
Been too cold to do anything about it until this weekend, got up to mid 60's and bright and sunny!
But now I'm faced with a dilemma. Do I wash and wax and the truck and do the Mustang next weekend? Or do I wash and wax the mustang and do the truck next weekend? Or do I just wash both and do the waxing later, which will require a new car washing.
Main goal was to get rid of the grime and road salt, etc. So I decided to just wash the two vehicles and do the waxing another weekend.
In preparation I decided to do some simple maintenance on my pressure washer, a Northstare 2800 PSI 2.5 gpm unit with a Honda 160G engine and a Comet pump. I changed the oil a while back for the engine and needed to change the oil in the pump.
Changing the oil in the pump required removing the pump, turning it upside down and letting the oil flow out. This was straight foward, drained the oil, reattached the pump and had to fill it with 3.4 oz of Mobile 1 15W30.
How to measure 3.4 oz? Not going to use the kitchen measuring cups - they're for food not motor oil. So when I drained the old oil into an old soup can I used a straw as a dipstick then poured fresh oil into another clean soup can and using another dipstick, filled it with oil until the oil on level on the two dipsticks matched.
Then like an idiot I put a long skinny funnel on top of the fill hole on the pump and poured the 3.4 oz of fresh oil into it. Except it didn't go into it!
Not sure why but the oil didn't want to go down into the pump, when I lifted the funnel about 3 oz of oil went every where on the pressure washer and pump.
By trial and error I found if I poured oil from the can so it was a little stream and took it real slow, the oil would go into the pump.
So I did the Tacoma, even rinsed the engine bay, parked it in the street as my driveway is sort of small and focused on the Mustang.
At this time of one neighbors popped over and wanted to see the new car.
This lead to the inevitable "Let's go for a drive!". So we hopped in, took the top down, and went for a drive
He liked it
Before I washed Breeze I decided to vacuum the driver's side foot area, this meant dragging out the shop vac, putting on my special car vacuum nozzle, and sucking up the dirt
Here's the nozzle, looks sort of like the ones you see at car washes
So far so good....
I have two vehicles, the GT and a Toyota Tacoma. Both were filthy from the recent spate of snow, freezing rain, slush, mud, road nasties.
Been too cold to do anything about it until this weekend, got up to mid 60's and bright and sunny!
But now I'm faced with a dilemma. Do I wash and wax and the truck and do the Mustang next weekend? Or do I wash and wax the mustang and do the truck next weekend? Or do I just wash both and do the waxing later, which will require a new car washing.
Main goal was to get rid of the grime and road salt, etc. So I decided to just wash the two vehicles and do the waxing another weekend.
In preparation I decided to do some simple maintenance on my pressure washer, a Northstare 2800 PSI 2.5 gpm unit with a Honda 160G engine and a Comet pump. I changed the oil a while back for the engine and needed to change the oil in the pump.
Changing the oil in the pump required removing the pump, turning it upside down and letting the oil flow out. This was straight foward, drained the oil, reattached the pump and had to fill it with 3.4 oz of Mobile 1 15W30.
How to measure 3.4 oz? Not going to use the kitchen measuring cups - they're for food not motor oil. So when I drained the old oil into an old soup can I used a straw as a dipstick then poured fresh oil into another clean soup can and using another dipstick, filled it with oil until the oil on level on the two dipsticks matched.
Then like an idiot I put a long skinny funnel on top of the fill hole on the pump and poured the 3.4 oz of fresh oil into it. Except it didn't go into it!
Not sure why but the oil didn't want to go down into the pump, when I lifted the funnel about 3 oz of oil went every where on the pressure washer and pump.
By trial and error I found if I poured oil from the can so it was a little stream and took it real slow, the oil would go into the pump.
So I did the Tacoma, even rinsed the engine bay, parked it in the street as my driveway is sort of small and focused on the Mustang.
At this time of one neighbors popped over and wanted to see the new car.
This lead to the inevitable "Let's go for a drive!". So we hopped in, took the top down, and went for a drive
He liked it
Before I washed Breeze I decided to vacuum the driver's side foot area, this meant dragging out the shop vac, putting on my special car vacuum nozzle, and sucking up the dirt
Here's the nozzle, looks sort of like the ones you see at car washes
So far so good....
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