IT'S MONDAY SOMEWHERE!!!
Long holiday weekends lend themselves to great forward progress or a lamentable lack thereof.
This weekend was somewhere in the middling ground of those two possibilities.
Kelly's A3 had a headlight fail on our way to the wedding back in the beginning of August. Between the transmission saga and then catching up on the things around the house that slipped because I was gone, I had completely forgotten about it. Alas we have a family vacation this weekend and she asked me to get it sorted before we leave.
Fun fact: you have to remove the whole front bumper skin and then the headlight ass'y to get to the primary bulb. Bunch of BS if you ask me.
I got the whole thing apart, swapped the bulb from PS to DS and the outage followed. So it's just a bulb. *anxiety lifts immediately*
Very few places stock D3S bulbs, and even fewer do so for a reasonable cost.
A quick scan through Amazon has a pair of them on the way for the cost of a single from the FLAPS. No pics as I was not excited about how much work had to be done to get to an HID bulb. :/ Maybe when I put it back together. Maybe.
I changed out the Kaaz gear oil in the trans at ~1000 miles. (680 of which were freeway) I put in Redline 75w-90 at the recommendation of Peter and Joe. I do not love it. I've reached out to the local shop to see if they can get me some Motul "Gear Competition" 75w-140 at the suggestion of Erik L from Sports Purpose Garage. If that stuff isn't readily available or wildly expensive, I'll likely just shove some Swepco 201 in there and hope it doesn't FUBAR the [plate] diff.
My diff and synchros appear to be at odds regarding the type of fluid they want. Any oil experience with plate diffs in 915s would be greatly appreciated.
I also finally got around to installing the LED oil pressure idiot light. I got it from the classifieds here on Pelican and it's a slick little setup.
I reckon this will be hard to miss in the event of a loss of oil pressure.
I also drove us to breakfast, so I had to stop in the middle of the road and snap a quick picture of my car. It's really remarkable how forgiving the flat grey primer (combined with iPhone photography) is with a fantastically dirty car.
