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amptramp

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  • Birthday July 31

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    Mississauga
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    2009 Legacy Wagon
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    restoring antique radios
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    electrical engineer

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  1. I just passed the 299,792.458 kilometre point on the odometer. What's the significance of that? It is one light-second in distance. Makes you wonder about the size of astronomical units like light years. 300,000 is coming up soon.
  2. I saw the guy fire up the torch and I got the bearing assembly and the bolts back with the old one, so I would probably not have been able to do it. Is the housing the same for the left side as the right? If so, when the left one goes, I could get someone to press out the bearing, put in a Timken and do the other side with the same housing.
  3. Just booked an appointment to get a wheel bearing replaced on Tuesday. It will be about CAD $650 plus 13% tax. I am almost at 300,000 km and a new bearing is cheaper than a new car. I am looking forward to getting to 299,792.468 km as that will be one light second. It might even make it to 300,000 km.
  4. The rear O2 sensor just checks the efficiency of the catalytic converter and is used to provide the dreaded P0420 indication. The front O2 sensor actually alters the mixture.
  5. New tires today! I replaced the aging and destroyed General Altimax RT43 tires with General Altimax 365AW, so that is an all-season tire replaced by an all-weather tire which is supposedly better. Now it seems to sit a little taller and grip so much better that it seems like the power steering is having trouble turning them. It will be interesting to see how these fare over the winter.
  6. Just for @SoobyDoobyDoo These are the pictures taken from the bridge separating the north and south sides of Kennisis Lake. As you can see, off in the distance, there are a lot of roller coaster hills, but they don't show up here as well as they do in person. The first picture is looking northeast from the bridge. The second picture is looking southeast from the bridge. You can see extremely tiny cottages with huge hills the roads are on.
  7. What did I do to the car? I have a 2009 NA Legacy wagon and I usually drive my son-in-law to work but he took the day off yesterday. So I went on a day trip that included Kennesis Lake area which is quite the roller coaster trip. When you get to the top of a hill, you have to lean forward to see the other side of the hill. I may have unported the oil pickup on one occasion because there seemed to be some drag on the engine but after stopping for a few minutes, the drag went away (probably along with some bearing material). I averaged 7.22 litres / 100 km = 39.12 mpg (Imperial) = 32.58 mpg (US). I was definitely glad I had topped up the oil on Monday. The display indicated 7.2 litres/100 km, so it was accurate. I used 42.858 litres and went 593.6 km. Since the tank is 64 litres, I could have easily gone a few hundred more km. Today I went on an garage sale expedition which is worse than stop and go driving. It is shut down / restart driving. I still get 10.2 litres/100 km. I don't know of any other car that has the cargo space and fuel economy of the Legacy wagon and still gets decent performance.
  8. A friend of mine who is a consultant in the automotive business once told me that there is a secret lifetime warranty on brake backing plates that applies to all cars of all ages. If the brake backing plate on your Model T rusts out, you can go to Ford and get a new on for free. I had never heard of this before but it is obvious why manufacturers would insist on making this a secret warranty.
  9. There may be some differences depending on where you are. In Canada, Mazda supplies a Mazda branded filter, but it is a Fram filter with a black paint job instead of orange. I don't know of any car manufacturer who makes its own oil filters. I did use a NAPA/Wix filter once but it tended to unscrew itself due to vibration. I have used Amzoil filters before but they are getting expensive and hard to find in a retail shop. I am currently running AC Delco and it seems to be OK.
  10. I have had intermittent operation in my 2009 NA Legacy Wagon for a couple of days and finally got it towed to the dealership where they are burning through $149 per hour trying to find out what is wrong. They had replaced the ECU in 2015 and that appeared to fix things but now I keep getting sudden stoppages in traffic and failures to start with codes for the auto transmission control unit, P0700 and P1718. I got a call back from the service rep saying they are seeing the things I am seeing like operation sometimes but not all the time and are tracing things with an oscilloscope to see where they are losing communication but they are totally lost. They asked me to authorize two more hours, so I did, but this may be the end of this car. The lower left ball joint in my Miata went on January 2, so I have one immobile car in the driveway and the Subaru at the shop.
  11. When my Legacy finally digested its Michelin All Seasons, I replaced them with General Altimax RT43 All Seasons. This was a big improvement over the Michelins even when the Michelins were new.
  12. Once you clean the battery terminals (or disconnect the battery for any reason) the ECU goes into a learning mode where the hot idle starts at 500 RPM and gradually rises over a week if it is used as a daily driver. It can stall during this time and I consider it dangerous - I don't know why they did it like that. Learning modes should be banned. Throttle response should be one of life's certainties.
  13. A friend of mine who is a consultant in automotive marketing told me you may be in luck for a backing plate. The dust shield you would have to pay for but the backing plates are covered by a government-imposed permanent secret warranty across all makes and models and years. If you have a backing plate that has rusted out in your 1924 Model T, you can go to Ford and get one for free. This applies to all cars. I seriously wonder why brakes need dust shields. Disc brakes fling water off by centrifugal force. The only thing I see the shields doing is adding unsprung weight.
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