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Old 11-03-2021, 04:20 AM   #45 (permalink)
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I don't remember having ever felt any weird smell on any car with a leaky heater core, yet in a nearly 20-years old truck it's worth to take a look.
Probably my imagination run wild after seeing rust in the coolant bottle. Also there's an air freshener in the vent, and I upholstery cleaned the interior, and Armoraled the interior surfaces, so lots of various smells in there.

I picked up some knockoff Dexcool today, but I read this is an inferior formulation that can cause gaskets to prematurely fail, so I'm wondering if I should flush and fill with the green stuff instead?

Replaced interior lights with LEDs, so it's a bit brighter and won't kill the battery if left on. I had bought a bag of 100 wedge style LEDs for dirt cheap a while back, so I just replace all interior lights on vehicles when they pass through my garage. I've got LED headlights on order, so we'll see how they do. Since the headlights run run all the time (daytime running lights), they burn out frequently. LEDs should eliminate that annoyance.

Don't want to put too much into it, as I probably only have until April to drive her. The half tank of gas is probably 5 years old, so I want to get through that and put fresh stuff in.

Took my daughter for a country drive today which was enjoyable. We listen to the radio and I tell her the band/artist, and name of the song. She kept thinking we could just play anything we wanted, and I had to keep saying that's not how radios work. Eddie Money wasn't playing.
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