{"id":877,"date":"2023-02-03T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/?p=877"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:05:04","slug":"2012-2023-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/repairs-servicing\/2012-2023-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 -2023 Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is not just a blog of routine servicing, but also repairs and improvements<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-884\" src=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vette032Web-600x355.jpg\" alt=\"Vette032Web\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vette032Web-600x355.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vette032Web-768x455.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vette032Web-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vette032Web.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Between 2012 and 2022 there wasn&#8217;t much to report apart from the annual service. I didn&#8217;t drive the car very much due to complications from failed back surgeries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In \u00a02018, for reliability, I replaced the original radiator with a new three core aluminium radiator. The original radiator was still OK but old and only 2 core.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2022 I began to hear a rumble from the diff and had it rebuilt by a local expert. Why it began to be noisy is a mystery because I&#8217;ve always looked after the car, never driven it harshly. The diff was full of oil of a reasonable colour. My best guess is that it was age combined with not being driven enough. I also had the aircon serviced, fitting a new dryer and evaporator, blocking up several air leaks in the system to make it more efficient and a new valve. I replaced a power window switch.\u00a0I also replaced all 4 tyres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not just a blog of routine servicing, but also repairs and improvements Between 2012 and 2022 there wasn&#8217;t much to report apart from the annual service. I didn&#8217;t drive the car very much due to complications from failed back surgeries. In \u00a02018, for reliability, I replaced the original radiator with a new three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs-servicing","category-tech-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}