New member, old car

[bronsin]

Change the oil every 3000 miles if you drive in the city mostly. You don’t need synthetic oil that’s a waste of money. Heck even conventional oil is six dollars a quart now! Change the air filter every 30000 miles. I see you live in Canada. I put wheel bearing grease on the lug nut studs and be careful how I tighten them so the wheels don’t get frozen on. Also on the Toyota grease up The brake hub or use anti-seize or your wheels are going to get stuck on. But you probably already know that. If your battery terminals are corroding put we’ll bearing grease on them too. Corrosion comes from leaky battery cases. If you don’t have a leak you won’t need the grease.

Manual transmission. Oh yeah!

The aluminum wheels are a mistake. Do you still have the steel ones? One good pot hole and your shit out of luck!

That’s a beautiful car and you are an excellent judge of car fllesh! Good luck with it!

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Originally Posted by bronsin

Change the oil every 3000 miles if you drive in the city mostly. You don’t need synthetic oil that’s a waste of money. Heck even conventional oil is six dollars a quart now! Change the air filter every 30000 miles. I see you live in Canada. I put wheel bearing grease on the lug nut studs and be careful how I tighten them so the wheels don’t get frozen on. Also on the Toyota grease up The brake hub or use anti-seize or your wheels are going to get stuck on. But you probably already know that. If your battery terminals are corroding put we’ll bearing grease on them too. Corrosion comes from leaky battery cases. If you don’t have a leak you won’t need the grease.

Manual transmission. Oh yeah!

The aluminum wheels are a mistake. Do you still have the steel ones? One good pot hole and your shit out of luck!

That’s a beautiful car and you are an excellent judge of car fllesh! Good luck with it!

Thanks!

I like to take good care of my cars, I normally will run synthetic and do the oil changes at 3000 miles regardless. It's not that much more expensive when on sale, so it doesn't bother me!

As for rustproofing, I'll be doing it myself with Krown once the warm weather comes. That way it will seep into all the little cracks and be ready for next winter.

For the wheels, the steel wheels that came with the car were trash, rotted out. These were a very cheap alternative (found them used for $200 CDN) and I like the look.