I left Wilmington and went to Raleigh for Hurricane Floyd, stations weren't necessarily out of gas but the power was out nearly everywhere for a good while afterwards, so it amounted to the same thing in the days after the storm. That's about the main reason I could see for taking some extra...
My '03 is in the death VIN range, when I pulled the front cover off recently the oil pump gears were in good shape surprisingly enough. 143k on the motor and oil pump never replaced prior as far as I know. Figured it made it this far with the dowels so I left both in place on reassembly. I did...
You might want to swap out that heater hose for an oil resistant hose, coolant hoses usually don't tolerate oil/petroleum products well over the long term.
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