A good news, bad news day for the SVX

[Hocrest]

The first good news, I got my new tires (Yoko, Avid V4) on my new SVX (92 LS-L). The tires that were on when I bought it last weekend were awful; sitting in dirt for months, hardened and flat-spotted. Now I can drive over 10 mph without a crazy shimmy.

Of course now that my wheels are not making as much noise, I can really hear what I'm guessing is wheel bearings.

Oh yeah, when the mechanic was changing my tires he called me back to the spin balancer to show me how dented all four of my rims were... I haven't noticed much of a wobble with the new rubber, but I've only been up to around 80 mph.

Oh and I noticed that I have no reverse lights, I'll need to look into that.

While the car was up on the lift I did find the source of my brake fluid loss. The drivers/front brake hose was cut and then poorly repaired. Another project for the weekend.

I also noticed today some real funky shifting, I am going to do some searches to see whats happening.

And now for the best of the good news. This car is incredible!! I just went for a drive (after topping off the brake fluid). It is raining like a pissing horse around here tonight and this car was just going like mad. I was on a mildly twisty 4-lane and without realizing it, I was over 80 and hanging to the pavement like wallpaper.

So all in all a great day