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Originally Posted by maxwedge
There may be a ground on the engine near the t'stat housing or intake, don't rememeber but the are easy to spot, blk 16 gage ring type connectors. Rust and/or corrosion are the enemies of a 20 year old car, especially around the subframe supports near the firewall. But in Napa I guess not.
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Well... it's true that it's very dry in this part of California. In fact, when I moved here, forty-something years of sinus problems which I experienced in the midwest (and a short stint in Florida) went away. I can
BREATH again! [grin]
So, then, the car, now that it's out here, will likely not get any rustier (or at least not much more so) than it already is. However, it spent most of its life in the Chicago area... rusty-car capital (due to road salt) of the world... er... well... now that I think about it, maybe not. Florida's worse... but for different reasons.
When I lived in Tampa, though only for about three years, a boxful of tools in my trunk which NEVER got rusty for
years in Chicago finally did get rusty in Florida... after only a couple or three months, to boot! It's because of the salt air rolling-in off the gulf, I learned. People would joke, when I talked about it, that in Florida, if one's car is, for example, parked in a driveway right outside of one's bedroom window; and if one has said bedroom window open at night, and then lies very still and holds one's breath, one can actually
hear one's car rusting as it sits in the driveway all night long.
Though being able to
hear one's car rusting is the
joke part, that it rusts and how
fast it happens isn't. After three years in Florida, the car I drove down there from the midwest had, by midwestern standards, ten more years of rust on/in it. I ended-up selling the darned thing and leaving it in Florida, and then just flying out to California and buying a car out here... which I still have. But now I also have my mom's old '90 Ciera... which I'm bygod gonna' get my money out of before I finally retire! [grin]
I'll check for more ground wires around the intake manifold, and the thermostat (and anywhere else I happen to spot 'em). Thanks!
If anyone else familiar with this car (which I'm guessing is pretty much the same as similar-body-style other-make GM cars from that era) has suggestions, please let me know.
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