So, now that I finally have rolling wheels and I finally put them on, I can roll the El Camino outside and pressure wash the Nevada dirt off and start to do stuff.
About two months ago, my childhood friend visited my house and we drink some beverages and went to Sauna and talked about life etc., but one thing was that we also talked about my El Camino.
We took out the old battery and put in a new one that I had lying around, from various reasons, and then I sat in the drivers seat and put in the key. Then I turned the key...
But nothing happened, except the lights in the dash light up. Nothing from the engine bay, not even a grunt.
<insert image old battery vs new battery>
Oh, I tried if the engine is seized or not and I turned the engine by hand, with the help of the wrench, back in the winter.
As I changed the "new" set of tires under the El Camino, I noticed that the same F#¤%ing tire is deflating, well it wasn't the same tire, but in the same position. Driver side front wheel.
Since I don't have running engine and even if I had, there is no driveshaft to make the El Camino move, so, I had to push it out and then winched it back in when I am done with it.
Luckily, it is a bit sloped towards outside, so that the El Camino rolls out with a bit of pushing.
And now that I am writing this, I noticed that I planned to do before and after, but I forgot to shoot that after. And now that the El Camino is back in the garage, the light is completely different.
The good thing is that when you don't know what works and what not, and you are prepared to change everything you can just really go for it with the power washing.
The year is ending and El Camino isn't moving anymore this year, so it's time to see what and how far we rolled this year. Out of the garage in April and back to (different) garage in November. So that 7 months of driving around and we rolled 3614.3 miles(5816.7 km). A bit over 500 miles per month, not bad as we didn't take any longer trips this year. Last year we did trip to Northern Finland and rolled 1300 miles on a single trip and month! Average mileage is around 18 litres per 100 km. A increase from last year's ~17 l/100km. I bought a new tires with wheels last year and had to install them under El Camino in September. Originals were 14" wheels and I'm not sure were those tires 215/60 or 205/65, The new set was 15" wheels with 215/70 and we drove with the new tires only two months so it didn't affect that much on last year's mileage, but I hoped it would show in this year, but no. Okay, we had more in city drives than longer drives so that is a one reason why mileage increased. One thing that should help getting lower mileage is installing a insulator between manifold and carburetor, by lowering carburetor heat energy and thus eliminating excess fuel vaporation in carburetor.
