May the Power of Steering be With You

When I bought this car off of Craigslist, it leaked oil and power steering fluid. After losing the engine, Hiro’s got me going again and we were only gushing the hydraulic fluid at low speed when going from lock to lock (sounds a lot like parallel parking) with all the dinosaur juice safely still inside. After today, neither.

Suspension restore serious work

Thanks to a pissing coolant pipe annoyingly located beneath the intake manifold, the Craigslist Miata makes a trip to Hiro’s where we not only replace every hose under the hood, but some very worn tie rod ends as well as front wheel bearings while we’re at it. New tires for the new wheels meant we needed an alignment anyway.

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