{"id":3298,"date":"2023-10-07T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2024-05-20T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:46:14","slug":"upgrading-to-agm-among-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/upgrading-to-agm-among-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to AGM&#8230; Among Other Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One morning I turned the key and immediately noticed a hesitation, and the starter motor sounded like it was not turning over as fast as usual. Immediately I knew that my battery was the culprit (a quick voltage check confirmed this) so without hesitation (and with an awesome warranty) I headed to my local Costco to exchange my battery under warranty &#8211; which normally would be free. However, when I got there I decided to try their AGM battery this time around, so I paid an extra $50 to upgrade and I had the new battery swapped in in less than 10 minutes &#8211; which included cleaning the positive terminal and swapping to new post washers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_agm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_agm1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_agm1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_agm1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I was already in &#8220;garage mode&#8221; I decided to tackle another job &#8211; I had a very very small rear diff leak that needed to be addressed. &#8220;Small&#8221; as in maybe 1 drop of diff fluid on my garage floor a day. I already had the fluids and tools for the repair, so I went to it and was so focused on getting the job done that I forgot to take pics; the only photo I have is from 2 weeks before when I purchased all of the items needed to remove the rear diff cover, reseal, and pump in fresh diff fluid:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_diffchanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_diffchanger.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_diffchanger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_diffchanger-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That took a good 2 hours (I was taking my time and eating my lunch in between steps). Finally, there was still sunlight outside so I also gave the truck a scheduled oil change. Again, no other pics because I was just zoned out in garage mode, so here&#8217;s a pic of the stuff I used for the oil change:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_oilchanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_oilchanger.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_oilchanger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/raine_ft_oilchanger-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Feels pretty good when you get a lot done in a day. My lunch (homemade ham and cheese sandwich) was pretty delicious too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning I turned the key and immediately noticed a hesitation, and the starter motor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,587],"tags":[821,813,815,816,818,819,822,823,817,814,392,395,820],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engine-drivetrain-stuff","category-misc-and-other","tag-5w-30","tag-agm","tag-battery","tag-battery-swap","tag-cold-start","tag-diff-oil","tag-dorman-washers","tag-garage-mode","tag-hesitation","tag-interstate","tag-mobil-1","tag-oil-change","tag-rear-diff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}