Spent most of the beautiful weekend in the garage/driveway....time well spent I guess
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Saturday I swapped the wheels on the 96 Bird...That involved repairing some failed factory undercoating and cleaning/waxing the old winter rims.
Saturday night we attended a function downtown and decided to take the 85 T/A. Car run great, but as we pulled into the driveway at about 1am Sunday morning Mrs.Firm started yelling about seeing some smoke. I parked and got out, opened the hood to a huge cloud of steam
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I grabbed a flashlight and found a split heater hose that dumped coolant all over, including on the exhaust manifold (hence the smoke show). Dumped coolant all over my driveway too.
I had noticed the heater hoses looking a little sketchy a couple weeks ago, and I even bought some hose to replace them, but never got around to it. Soooo Sunday morning I got up early and replaced the buggers. Then I did the wheel swap on that car too, including clean the winters and wrestling them up into the storage loft.