clean

Ahhh… A vacuumed car is nice, even when you don’t have any carpet. Not much else has happened for a while. There was a ton of sand (yes sand- contrary to what my wife believes, even though I we are in Alabama there is sand in my car) in the front floor board and little bits of “stuff” all over the place – it was really beginning to bother me. I cleaned out the car after the brake job incident and since having the passenger side seat at least partially bolted into the car it looked (and felt) a lot better to drive. Later I topped off the air in the tires. Exciting stuff huh?

Oh yeah, I talked to another mechanic friend of mine, we worked together all day last Sunday and had nothing good to do but talk, so I learned ALL about my AC system. Turns out I have an expansion valve, not an orifice tube. And according to him, it’s the most common thing to go out on imports and it’s not very expensive – of course it is special order and will take 3 days to get in. And I of course since it’s a closed system anything related to it needs to be replaced at once (or it will have to be re-vacuumed and recharged), so I’m going to get a new set of valve cores and caps and a new receiver dryer. Altogether I should be able to have my AC system completely recharged and working for less than a hundred. That’s when I can really say Ahhh…