My friend’s algorithm for replacing a car is:
If you spend 50% of a year’s worth of car payments on repairs, two years in a row, it’s probably time to get rid of it.
For example, if your car payment would be $400: $400 x 12 = $4800. If you spend $2400 in repairs two years in a row, it’s time to consider letting it go.

That doesn’t count wear/maintenance items. Brakes/tires/fluids/wipers are all routine maintenance items, and don’t count. Learning how to do your own maintenance is *well worth* the effort. Youtube is an excellent resource.

“Guess who’s getting a welder!”

I mean, it’s going *somewhere*…

why’d you replace the pump? If it was to fix the leak, this time, do more diagnosis before you load up the parts cannon.

There’s an emerging market for automotive InfoSec

I say: Don’t bother draining it. just roll it inside. People who don’t understand won’t understand you having a bike inside anyway. Personally, I love the look of a bike in the living room, but throwing a cover of some sort over it should keep most fuel smells contained

Dollars and time.

flush it, and drive it until it blows up. might be a week, might be a decade.