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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…
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