BMS
12-02-2003, 01:25 PM
Okay, my car's gonna be damn near 300k miles this winter break. I know that I need to drive it easier than I do, but it's so damn reliable I just forget all together how old it is sometimes. For it's 300k mile party I was thinking that I'd treat to something real special -
I want to take off the head, replace the head gasket (for safety), and the vavle-cover gasket (might as well while I'm in there)
Clean the piston heads
Have the head hot-tanked
Possibly look into new valves/cam (would these get worn and should be replaced for overall better engine?)
Flush cooling system
New brake pads/rotors
Are there any other major things that you can think of that should be done (fairly superficial) that I can do? I was thinking that I might wanna replace the piston rings, but that's a little deeper into it than I wanna get for now. The main thing that I am worried about is that I drive from San Jose to Chico (~500 miles round trip) about once a month. I really don't want to be driving down the freeway and have my engine blow up. Also, I don't drive it as nice as I know that I should, and with that many miles I want to do all the preventative maintenance that I can, and maybe I can make it 400k.
I want to take off the head, replace the head gasket (for safety), and the vavle-cover gasket (might as well while I'm in there)
Clean the piston heads
Have the head hot-tanked
Possibly look into new valves/cam (would these get worn and should be replaced for overall better engine?)
Flush cooling system
New brake pads/rotors
Are there any other major things that you can think of that should be done (fairly superficial) that I can do? I was thinking that I might wanna replace the piston rings, but that's a little deeper into it than I wanna get for now. The main thing that I am worried about is that I drive from San Jose to Chico (~500 miles round trip) about once a month. I really don't want to be driving down the freeway and have my engine blow up. Also, I don't drive it as nice as I know that I should, and with that many miles I want to do all the preventative maintenance that I can, and maybe I can make it 400k.