So today started out like any normal day. Woke up at 430 got ready walked out to my car crossed my fingers and started her up. Let her warm up for a little than I take off to work. Nothing unusual happening until I pull through the main gate on base. I come up to a stop light and see a cloud of white, I imediately think oh shit, when this happened on my wifes passat it was a new radiator, new...

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Well I have gotten into the habit of blogging every time I do something to my car or my car does something to me, and the latest thing completed was installing some new plugs and semi new wires. Everything was simple enough pulled out the old plugs and it looks like cylinder 3 and 4 are running a wee bit on the lean side not sure why, but I am kind of thinking less fuel gets to those 2 cylinders....

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So I have basically put my dsm on one day a week drive duty recently just because she has 217k miles on her and my wife doesn't work :-). So the other day I got home and I noticed some spots underneath, I thought to myself its just oil, but it looked like more than i saw originally when I parked it last Friday. So i got down to check it out just to make sure, and yup it was oil, but then i saw something...

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So last Saturday I was all pumped to change the valve cover gasket and change out my fuel filter thinking that neither one should take that long or be that much work, But as we all know its a dsm anything is possible. So Anyway I got up bright and early and headed to the hobby shop on base, got my stall pulled in and got to work. Jacked up the rear of the car disconnected the fuel pump and started...

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So the last few days I have been dealing with a coolant leak that just wont go. First I thought it was a bolt that wouldn't tighten down, so I tapped it out to one size bigger gasketed it up and put it on. Still leaked but was leaking from the bottom of the thermostat housing. So I tried to do it the lazy way and just slather gasket stuff all around the outside of the thermostat housing. This time...

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