I took a couple minutes yesterday to go ahead and get the car back down on her own wheels. I checked that all the motor mounting bolts were secure, and took the opportunity to correct the camber on the left side. I also was getting a significant amount of movement on the left side that went away when I ensured that the strut collar was tightened all the way. That is something that will need to be watched. While changing to the street tires, I let the car warm up to top off the coolant. Once it was warmed up and stopped burping air, I took it for a quick drive.
I didn’t go too far before I was getting fluid on the windshield and some smoke. Then I lost power steering. My guess was that the power steering lines had gotten in the way of the alternator pulley and had been cut. The real culprit, however, was this:
This would be the wrong place to install the radiator pressure cap. The worst part is that I paused before driving off to get out to double check that I had put the cap back on but decided not to because I absolutely remembered putting it back on. Oops.
A quick trip to Kroger resulted in beer for me and distilled water for the cooling system. I bled the system again, actually put the cap back on, and drove it home.
Made the drive perfectly with no further leaks or other problems. It didn’t even catch on fire a little bit. The idle is pretty touchy still and I do need to take care of that, but for now I need to focus on getting the motorhome ready to go for the two-day event this weekend.