Well, after playing musical chairs with the Subaru tires earlier this evening I thought my mechanical chores were over. Not so.
Drove the 80 down the street to pick up a desk from a buddy, and when we got back to the garage there was a fresh puddle of coolant on the floor. Bummer. Crawled under and found the block heater is leaking a bit. Coincidence that I used it yesterday for the first time this year? I recall being a bit conservative in tightening it 8 years ago when I installed it (brass screw), so I was able to just snug it up a bit and the leak stopped.
Then, I noticed its power cord has rotted and is beginning to show bare wire (near the exhaust manifold). Since I have a spare block heater and cord on the workbench for unknown reasons, I swapped out the cord as well. Everything's fine now except CDan's gonna have to put on his thinking cap and see if he can sell me just a replacement cord as I promised the block heater to Scott here on the list.
CDan: The cord is between 6 and 7 feet long, but 6 feet will do fine. What do you think? If you need a block heater P/N, I have the old box.
Doug
Drove the 80 down the street to pick up a desk from a buddy, and when we got back to the garage there was a fresh puddle of coolant on the floor. Bummer. Crawled under and found the block heater is leaking a bit. Coincidence that I used it yesterday for the first time this year? I recall being a bit conservative in tightening it 8 years ago when I installed it (brass screw), so I was able to just snug it up a bit and the leak stopped.
Then, I noticed its power cord has rotted and is beginning to show bare wire (near the exhaust manifold). Since I have a spare block heater and cord on the workbench for unknown reasons, I swapped out the cord as well. Everything's fine now except CDan's gonna have to put on his thinking cap and see if he can sell me just a replacement cord as I promised the block heater to Scott here on the list.
CDan: The cord is between 6 and 7 feet long, but 6 feet will do fine. What do you think? If you need a block heater P/N, I have the old box.
Doug