I don't have my maintenance records with me right now, but I completely replaced the tranny fluid and filter this year (I THINK it was) .. maybe it was last year ... everything's starting to run together in my mind now.
Yeah, I was planning on driving this car forever, so I'll fix whatever's broken. The plan has always been to just keep adding cars right up through the time the kids started driving and we're at that point now with the first one (and the next one two years away).
Autozone rents a tester kit for $75. I've never used one of these before but it sounds like you need access to the radiator? How's that gonna work with my Taurus? The radiator is buried in the nose of the car. Do I just use the plastic tank instead? And what about the adapters in the kit? Will I be able to tell at the store if the kit has one that'll fit?
Looks like the Craftsman tester is the same as a Stant unit? Online pictures look the same with the metal hand pump, case, and adapters.