Backstabbers

Did the usual yearly oil change, and as it happened the every other year oil filter change. No problems but there was a surprize. The oil filter it's self rattled once I removed it, which never happened before. The other more important thing was that the oil pressure at  idle, which had gone up some 15 psi to 20 psi, went back down to 5 psi at idle. Now if we recall the timing of the raising of the idle pressure, it was at the exact same time we had the fuel loop cleared of contaminants and the raising was thought to be the cooling of the oil its self. It wasn't that at all, it was some cheese heads hell bent on trying to ruin a good thing. Now I know cheese heads, and they are not all that bright. Even thought they have have a lot of money and time on their hands, they prefer to create demons in the night for rather strange reasons, which is one reason why we switched to a higher quality brand of car, with security and peace of  mind included. They seemed to know about the oil pressure future problem, but I don't know what they were thinking after attempting that after the gauges were installed, if there was a real 100 psi problem, i would have spotted that, and right away corrected it promptly. Well knuckle heads will be knuckle heads, and this just proves once again, no one can be trusted when it comes to designing and servicing the car.

Changing An Oxygen Sensor On The Start Of The 7th Season Of This Blog

As I was chasing the fuel issue I decided to change the oxygen sensors also, if for nothing else but to keep the computer happy. This is another job to be done in decent weather (which I did) although it only took seconds.
You need to get a $9 & change tool to do this job, it's a 22 mm open ended socket so you can get by the wire. I'll show the top first here

It's was about $50 a piece or combined, I can't recall exactly. I thought I would struggle with removing the older one but it came out like butter, almost to easy and the top was a sinch. The bottom I had to remove a plastic just to get to it, and then it popped off easy, I had to jack the car and peel back the plastic just to see him.

You are looking at where the bottom of the manifold and the beginning of the exhaust pipe meet, he goes right in there. You have to feed this one all the way from the electrical socket to the location, and the clips don't really match up with the old ones, I just wired them on the brackets to keep them in place.
 The car is just bad fast all the time and a few years ago I beefed up the strenght of my tranny lubrication so the tranny just pegs and pulls as much as you want.

 But by now i'm in the middle of doing some A-frame bushings and waiting on the weather and timer somewhat because I need to borrow a stand up press from my  neighbor who's not home a lot in order save some headaches and time. That will be the next job, and as you will see, this car was designed with ball joints that were NOT meant to be replaced, but have now weakened slightly and after I  replace all the bushings, I will decide if this is worth the effort or not. Right now when highway is not flat, the car will want to drift because the rubber bushings have lost some of their strenght to keep the car going straight.