Okay, so my car's been sitting for a good while and never got the new fluids when I got her anyway. Can someone give me a list of fluids with quantities of what I need as well as a few good things to check? Tires are new, I'm gonna change radiator hoses when I drain it and the belt is new - what little stuff would y'all do while you're at it?

 

change all filters, drain & flush gas tank (unless you treated it before it started sitting). Make sure the brakes are in good shape before any hard driving. A buddy of mine (Erick1120) just did an LSD rearend swap into is GS and one of the calipers decided to lock up on him after we got it mounted and bled the brakes. Up to that point the new rearend had been rolling around just fine. When he came back from a short (less than 5 minute, less than a mile) test drive, his right rear wheel was smoking.

I'm just kinda jumping in without knowing the background on this so if any of this sounds like it's out of left field, just ignore it.

But it sounds as though you had very little time to do anything with it after you bought it, so just inpect it very closely, and make sure that everything is in good working order before you go out and tear anything up...

BTW the reason I mention the gas tank thing is due to my personal experience with gas tank issues, see my sig...

Brian Heston

 

Welcome back to the states .
dan

 

And...

Thank You!!

Glad you're back.

Kerry

 

I'm gonna hit the auto store on my way back to pick it up and need to know how much oil, coolant, tranny oil (90 wt?) and rear end (LSD additive?) to add. Does anyone know, just so I can have everything ready to go? Also, the air filter's K&N and I changed the fuel filter - any others?

And thanks - it's damn good to be back.