[Eldorado]

gotta love the little things..
today I took the day off work and came out in the afternoon to do some much needed jobs on the car..

why is it that the big jobs, like wheel bearings, timing belt change, etc... we plan whole weekends for, but the small things we keep saying we'll do later? Well today was my 'later' for a couple things... if you dont care what my little things were, skip to the end!

- the ground cable on the batt. was loose and floppy on the post.. didn't make great contact... and the pos. lead was all rusted, separating from the wire... green powder everywhere... the accessory leads attached to it had bare wires flying all over.. i've got pics if you really wanna see.. it was ugly.. anyway, I changed my battery-to-ground lead for a brand new 4awg shiny beauty and rebuilt the pos. connectors.. all of them..

- spraypainted my battery tray.. it was already repaired and had the rubber coating on it... but i just never got around to spraying it 'till today...

- primed and sprayed the rear wiper arm after clearing it of all the surface rust and junk that had come from the last time I wanted to spray it but didn't... I had sanded it all down at that point and just left it.. of course it rusted like mad.... fixed all that up, but got a little overspray on the hatch glass.. eep! no matter, caught it quick enough with a wet sponge and a prayer to the porsche gods.

- finally removed my K&N cone filter and changed it for the stock air box... car didn't like it at first... rev'd pretty low with *horrible* mpg (as told by the gauge, even though it was just at idle...) but it sorted itself out...


so my question to you all is this... when was your last "silly little thing" repair day, and what did you accomplish?


next on my list... coolant flush, fix leak in power steering pump and flush/fill fluid, replace front rad fans, replace lower rad hose...