FOURTH time I've written this post. MY Muse has apparently vacated the premises, leaving me too busy doing other things to keep both my readers in the loop!
Anyway....got the house pressure washed and painted, and they did a very nice job. No runs, spills, drips, and they were a great bunch to work with.
New Paint.
And we have a new resident here, courtesy of my son feeding bills to the guy at the Larimer County Fair "Win A Goldfish!" booth until grandson #1 "won" a fish.
Meet "Pickles" the fish....
First time I ever tried taking an aquarium photo. Pickles can really scoot if she wants to. So now our Little Ones have a new thing to watch and learn about. Since they've been mastering the Electrical Board so well, we're going to start on Magnetism next, and then on to Electromagnetism, which should be a hoot. Tesla Coil or Jacob's Ladder, anyone? I've got this little power supply that came from a YUGE plasma-ball kind of thing, and.....
And the reason the inside of the Supra looks like this:
Is because all this stuff went to media blasting and powder coating today:
By the time I added up the cost of the paint (and the TIME) required to paint these, I decided to just have the whole lot, and a few other pieces, powder coated. This is EVERYTHING under the dash, and the glass retainers for the rear quarter glass, along with the pedal assemblies. All the bushings in the pedals were worn out, and the ones in the clutch pedal assembly came out in chunks. Makes getting a proper clutch adjustment very difficult if there's all kinds of slop in the mechanism. I stamped ID numbers in them as I pulled them out of the car, and clouds of fine rust particles rose up every single time I hit the marking stamp with the hammer.
I spent yesterday scrubbing out all nine molded air ducts for the HVAC system, and the water looked like mud after each one was scrubbed. I'm waiting for the correct size foam tape to finish these up. This is a 'before cleaning' shot.
I did that because all three sections of the HVAC unit (Blower motor and fan, the evaporator core box, and the heater core box) were contaminated with oily, sticky dust. The heater core box was cleaned first, as it was just very dusty, with some junk inside. When I got to the evaporator core box, I was stunned.
This is the side facing the heater box:
Not too bad, right?
Wait'll you see the backside of it.....
The core was about 3/4 blocked with dirt, leaves, trash, and oil. Where'd the oil come from? It's compressor oil that's mixed in the refrigerant to lubricate the A/C compressor. And since this area was soaked with it, I'd say I finally found the Freon leak in the system.
And then I found this in the upper cowl area, where the air enters the HVAC system through the blower motor.
Rodent nest? Not sure, as there was ZERO odor, and it easily came out.
So I've been pretty busy, and yes, this turned into a whole lot more work than just replacing the heater core.
I didn't know my 2002 Taurus had a dash filter until I was watching a YouTube video. When I changed it, the "filter" was the original! The improved heat and a/c performance was remarkable.
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