ThatKomputerKat 

I hate trying to work on my car. I have a new radiator. I set the heater to Max heat, pulled the cap off the reservoir and unscrewed the drain plug at the bottom of the radiator The old radiator is drained.

I haven’t gone further but The instructions in the chilton’s book say to torque the connections to factory spec. What spec? Lol I have to figure out how to get the thing out and not undo some shit I don’t need to.

Should I flush the system? I saw something about removing a thermostat from the engine and putting a hose in. Now I all see says to “put it in the radiator” what?

Forum pages where all the media assets are just question marks in blue boxes. YouTube videos that are too full of shadows or YouTuber butts between the camera and the work. I just wanna go back to bed.

My car was made in Sweden, can I get that in IKEA or Lego style instructions? Lol. Bah!

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Jul 30, 2023 at 8:10pmWeb
Show threadThatKomputerKat Jul 30, 2023

I have to do it. It’s too expensive to pay the shop. The radiator arrived in October. I just opened the box today inJuly. Fortunately it’s in good not-banged-up-by-shipping so I didn’t also fuck myself out of ~$100 to IPD… maybe🤞🏻.

I’ve been driving my parent’s cars but I can’t keep doing that.

It’s also 98°F out. This sucks.

Show threadThatKomputerKat Jul 31, 2023

So, let’s see here:

Drained radiator

Watched some YouTube videos. One of the more useful one was not in English and didn’t have English subtitles.

To flush things I need to get the thermostat out of the outflow in the engine. I had to go to the store to get a replacement gasket so I’ll be able to reinstall it after this.

Then when I got home I tried to plug a battery charger into an outlet next to the car but the outlet was broken, somehow part of the plastic was stuffed into the ground socket.!? Wtf… find the breaker, pull out the box of new electrical outlets and replace it. But first I had to turn off two other breakers also going to the same room and go back and forward between the garage and the panel in the basement.

Too far for stupid battery charger. Only available extension cord wasn’t long enough. Decided to try the one in the ceiling instead. On touching it, the garage door plug just fell out. Loose cheap piece of shit outlet.

Show threadThatKomputerKat Jul 31, 2023

Turned breaker back off and replaced ceiling outlet.

Charger is plugged into the ceiling and recharging the car battery.

Now the day is gone, my back hurts, and I feel like I’ve hardly accomplished shit. Bah!