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Old Oct 6, 2001 | 12:42 AM
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OK guys I'd like to see what everyone else is doing.

1. Oil change (duh)
2. Belts
3. radiator flush
4. brake pads
5. tune up
and on and on.....

just give item and how long or mileage between. Thanx

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Old Oct 6, 2001 | 02:01 AM
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1) Oil Change
Every 3,000 miles
2) Belts
Every 10 to 15 thousand
3) Radiator Flush
At the beginning of every fall
4) Brake pads
This depends on your driving but you should get about 30,000 out of your front and 50,000 out of your back
5) Tune up
Every 100,000 mile but I plan on doing it every 30,000
6) tire rotation
Every oil change
7) Air filter
Every oil change unless you have a K&N or Cai
8) hoses
Although I have no idea on time frame or milage I change mine as soon as they begin to get hard all hoses will start to loose their softness after time.
9) Dry gas
Every other fill up in the winter
10) Fuel injection cleaner
Every oil change
11) greasing the steering joints at the end of the arms
Evary oil change
Sorry I gave you more than what you asked but I got carried away.
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Old Oct 6, 2001 | 02:01 AM
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oh
Clutch fluid every 30,000 same with tranny fluid
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Old Oct 7, 2001 | 01:52 PM
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what is dry gas?
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Old Oct 7, 2001 | 01:59 PM
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Dry gas is what I call "methalethal bad ****" not for your car but to a human. But anyway away from my sick and twisted thinking what it is an alchol additive to obviously is to add to your gasoline to evaporate any condinsation (water) in your gas tank. Hope that helps you out
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 01:10 AM
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Thanks Jaws99, How do you grease the steering joints?
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 01:55 AM
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Right to the inside of the wheel on the bottom at the end of the control arms you will see a what looks like a round rubber circle inbetween two peices of metal at the bottom of the control arm and directly below that busing I just talked about you will see what looks like a metal nipple what you do there is get a grease gun hook it up to the nipple and pump out the grease till it starts to seap out of the bushing alittle bit and then they are greased. and there are only two one on each side.
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Old Mar 12, 2002 | 02:25 PM
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Clutch fluid every 30,000 same with tranny fluid
And how is this done?

Belts
Every 10 to 15 thousand

One of my belts is showing signs of cracking..so how do i go about replacing it? It is the belt on the inside, near the motor. a step by step would be kewl. thanks )

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Old Mar 13, 2002 | 12:46 PM
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www.hmaservice.com will show you how to replace the belts.

I do a flush/fill on the radiator, brakes and clutch every 12 months.

Belts every 36000
oil and oil filter every 3000
Clean/re-oil air filter every 6000(every 2nd oil change)
Plugs about every 10K (NGK V-Power, platinums should last 5-10 times longer)
I rotate tires every other oil change (6000 miles)
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