Recent content by frankiee

No, it is not easy. That is why once a car has rust it is akin to having a diesese. Thats why I said its a tough thing to do. A person would have to cover every square inch of the whole vehicle. Covering the affected area will be a patch. It will still rust under that patch because the exposed...

Galvanic corossion is like a battery. Anode and cathode.You took a good pic of the anode. Now find the cathode and seal it so no water can come in contact with it. Thats a tough thing to do.

Alcibiades Bit of interesting reading at the link provided if you like. Diesel is near the bottom of the article. http://www.sae.org/automag/techbriefs/05-2006/1-114-5-20.pdf

This person also wrote Quote "Keeping your headlights on does not affect your gas mileage. The car's alternator is spinning at all times when the engine is running" That is also in the hogwash column. This person says that - "As an engineer, and the son of an engineer" I am going to...

I remember playing with tire pressures when I was young. Those days of going round corners at 70 and 90 mph. (Remember those). The one thing I found out was that a highly inflated tire got me into the rhubarb at speeds that I should have been able to make it. I remember one such instance with my...

Ive had problems like that after replacing a heater core on a Chev Suburban with 5.7 Air can do funny things. I finally just cut the most upper most heater hose and put in one of those things that you can connect a garden hose to and flush. So now it can flush and let air out. That heater hose...

Father got is at about 140,000KM How did the suspension and front end on the '93 hold up over all those miles? 1 ball joint. 2 tie rods. 4 shocks. No springs (that we know about I forgot about the fuel pump in the tank, 2 of those. As far as I remember it has rear ac and heater core which we...

My fathers 93 Suburban has 410,000KM on it and we just had to to the regular stuff. No engine; no head gaskets, no intake gaskets, no O2 sensors, no transmission problems, no nothing! Just pads, shoes, sparkplugs, few oil changes, We did have to replace the thermostat. Its the best vehicle he...

GM Electro Motive Division (EMD) We change the oil every 4000 hours of various use. (Mostly around 735 RPM) If that were a road vehicle at 60 mph then that would be 240,000 miles between oil changes. Engines are worth about $240,000 to $260,000 each. I can believe 800,000 miles. I certainly...

Yep Bro and I did a bunch of trials one summer and conclude that the camper top did get better mileage. So I suspect that the gate up is the same idea. I see now that speed cyclists are putting units that fit behind their calves for better flow of air. It seems that the block shaped calf muscle...

First production car with over 300 HP Thought of me getting a new one. I like the idea it has the rear drive.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/sub_care_sat/1272451.html?page=1&c=y That link will be better at describing change of battery than I. I only want to say that I am very cautious around batteries and other people handling batteries. I had ond blow up once. Lucky that I was following...

The battery is full of dilute sulfuric acid. Keep the battery upright and dont spill any on you. On ships our safety requirements have us wear rain gear and full safety goggles while working on battey banks. Make sure there are no sparks in the area. Make sure there is no electrical draws that...

I grew up changing tires by hand and I would not do it if I had a dollor in my pocket. Worked in a scrap yard for years and separated the tires from the #1 steel wheel and even with a new modern tire machine some of the rubber was a big headache. Some tires are nice and others you tear the tire...

Take the belt off and run for a very short time and see if the noise disappears.