2003 Corolla "Virus"

I think she did good. I've never needed stickers so bad.

 

Yeah... I think she did a great job. The door? Not a big concern for me. Thanks for that though!

Here's more pics of the dog divider.


And pictures of an oil leak that I've been tracking. It's gotten pretty bad. I need to fix this too sometimes once I pinpoint the actual leak. Gut instinct is that a bottle of ATP-205 is not gonna fix that one.

 

Overdue oil change today. Filter-less change. Wallace wurl was out of OEM filters, and so am I. Not as overdue as I thought. Only 737.3 miles over.


Total mileage so far. 182,077 miles.


I missed having my own camera.


The whole front side of the engine is coated in oil. Tastes, smells, wipes, looks, and feels like engine oil. Doesn't appear to be from the valve cover. That appears mostly dry.

Transmission fluid is a touch low. Tastes, smells, looks, and feels burnt. Been that way since we were in Wyoming. Gah, that sounds so weird to say.

 

Changed shift juice yesterday, or day before(???) with same Valvoline fluid as on the first page.

Here was the old fluid. Just shy of 3.5 quarts drained.


Nastia. This fluid carried me to Florida, back and forth from work, and all over. It carried us from the home state all the way to northern California, and back.

Shifting better now.

 

Never had that type of leakage, but it appears to be a timing chain cover... AKA.. whole face of the engine. I've heard of a few, never saw it this bad.

 

Well fuck, I guess I'll have to do some research on this, or just keep adding oil to it.

I drive the car pretty hard almost all the time so...

 

Corolla virus kill count from this AM. Another mammalian. Big ole bunny rabbit.

 

Almost time for new shoes again. Currently sitting at 187,920 miles. I'm about a gnat's cock aware from the Tread wear indicators.

Goes quick....

 

Swap them for the tires on the Ford. i won't tell the insurance company.

 

Ordered tires for the virus from local wallace wurl. Here's a link. Never heard of crossmax before but for $245 on 60k mile tire. Shiiiiid I'll try it. Supposed to be installed on Friday. This -> is why I ordered tires finally.

The current set were installed 12/17/21. Here's a link to that post. 146,123 miles then. Currently sitting at about 196k miles. So roughly 50k miles on them fuckers. If I had actually ben rotating them correctly which I will do with this set, I'd probably have gotten the full 75k miles out of them.

 

Still kicking


https://youtu.be/vKIcSlwRz1A?si=5gY7Y8mUldsPVMuU

 

Ain't blown up yet

 

The corolla virus has found a new home. Another new father needed a car, and he offered me more than what I thought the car was worth.

 

Another poor soul has been infected