Recent content by amblerman

thank you for that explanation.

20w50 in new england in early 80s vw rabbit

Ah. it's a PayPal feature on its own. I was looking on FCPEuro's site to see if it was some unique promotion they had with Paypal. Interesting. ty very much for this Might order me up 1000lbs of wheel weights just to return them. ;-)

Can you expand on why your return shipping was free? Is this a Paypall and FCP thing agreement? A paypal feature? something else? -A

I took advantage of it when a control arm snapped when my wife had an unfortunate encounter with a curb. I was NOT going to take advantage of it because it was clearly our fault and had nothing to do with the part of FCP. When I went on to order a replacement, they had a page about how eager...

He may be taking advantage of FCP euro's guarantee that allows you to return broken/worn out parts for full refund. Believe it or not you can return used oil to them for a full refund. Of course you will have to pay shipping if you aren't local so there is cost to that. Last time I was at FCP...

Nice. I'm assuming you got the car cheap and the fix sounds like it required little to no $ to implement. I am curious though. how was the debugging process for this? Did you have scanners that allowed you to understand that the car didn't know it was in park? How did you determine the "not in...

you bought it as a non-runner. What was wrong with it and what did you have to do to get it running again? was it related to hybrid system at all? Just curious. I don't know why honda wasn't more of a standard player in the hybrid world. They did it but only occasionally. LIke why wasn't the...

I have been going through my memories trying to remember what store brand I might have used way back in the past and I am coming up empty. recently I have used plenty of Napa synthetic but that only started in the 200X. I suspect when I was younger I just assumed brand name oils must be a lot...

First drum brake job (1982 rabbit) . During the job I drew a picture of what it looked like before I took everything apart (remember... 82 rabbit.. no cell phones). Even with the picture, I managed to put one of the springs on wrong so that when I depressed the brakes, the spring must have...

Oh my gosh. I did the same thing but in my case it was on 1997 jetta and the empty arm slipped out of my hand as I lowered it to the glass. it only dropped about 4 inches but the spring tension and the sharp edge of the hook was enough to create some spider webs in the glass. So annoyed given...

in 80s VW rabbits, 20W50. Ran that year round. This was mostly Castrol 20W50 and some Texaco Havoline. Whatever was on sale at the local KMart clones... Caldor.. Bradlees.. etc. I am dating myself with those references.

For the non-aircraft mechanics, can you explain what those are and why they are so useful?

If anyone is interested. I have been using these for about 3 months on various projects and have been quite happy...

The SG/CD time frame is where I have my first memories of working with and paying attention to oil. Thank you for the memories. Not memories of those particular oils but memories of changing my oil for first time as part of keeping some early 80s VWs running