The suburban’s running again! David and I drove around for a while, picked up a few supplies, searched for a car wash and hung out with Maria a bit along the way. I’m really glad that I didn’t throw a connecting rod when it was hydro-locked. Took some time to take care of some small things like the license plate, changing the oil again, deciding not to put the old grille “guard” back on (too hard, didn’t do crap in the last accident), etc. Had to hassle some weird renting neighbor to stop parking in my driveway and blocking me in too.

Once all was settled with the plugs and the battery, I spun the engine over for about a minute all together with no kick. I gave it gas eventually and it started coughing a bit. I had to nurse it for about 45 seconds to keep it running, then it idled okay and burned out all the mess. Some MMO in the new oil, the new fuel, and some isoheet in the fuel. It’s all cleaned up now, even washed underneath a bit so I can see if we leak any fluids. Did need  abunch of power steering fluid, I don’t know if it was low before but the power steering made an awful noise before I added some. The brakes are still a little soft, I wonder if it’s the hydro-boost.

I’m really excited about this. Pauzed and I started making plans already for him to come up for a weekend of snowboarding in March. I took Anthony and David out to Orexi for dinner in thanks for helping me out so much over the last week. Tomorrow I’m racking my new server at SeaCCP, so I probably won’t get big adventure in, but soon I’ll have to get up to the mountains, snowboarding at Snoqualmie at the very least. It was more convenient when I worked in Bellevue to bring the truck and night ski, I’ll have to figure out something similar now.