Recent content by kc27

I took the OP's question more about work life now that the COVID public health emergency has ended. I believe the government ended it this past May or June. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, we will probably always be dealing with COVID going forward.

You, and probably everyone on this forum are maintenance minded individuals. The article implies many consumers today are not of that mindset and will be satisfied with 10 -12 years of use of their equipment, and that the "no oil change" engines are designed to last that long. I saw a Toro...

According to the article from 2015 linked below, the "no oil change" engines will last the lifetime of the equipment they power, which the article says could be 12 years. Briggs & Stratton research revealed consumers understand oil changes can lengthen the life of an engine, but still do not...

When you do your post winter inspection, how are the pins and 3M silicone paste?

@atikovi You said you don't travel much. If you have a reliable vehicle, the time, and don't mind driving, why not go for it? People I know seem to fall into two camps. One group stays within a 50-mile radius of home, and any location outside of that distance is a major trip/expense/production...

If you do a once per year oil change and use the equipment for intervals such as six months of use, then six months of storage, when do you do the oil change? Before storage or when bringing it out of storage?

My library offers "Auto Repair Source from MOTOR" online.. It is inferior to ALLDATA. In many cases, there are no illustrations, and wear items that are often replaced are not even covered. In my case, I would buy a year subscription to ALLDATA DIY and then might use it two, maybe three times...

Mitchell has a couple of free demos on the DIY portion of their site. Take a look. Maybe it is just that I am familiar with ALLDATA, but the Mitchell online manual seemed inferior.

I have not needed my ALLDATA DIY subscription in a while and it had expired. When I went to renew it, I got this message: "ALLDATA Classic DIY will still be accessable until your subscription expires, all new vehicle subscriptions and extensions will be managed through the new ALLDATA DIY...

I am in the exact same situation as the original poster. Besides the oil changes, now is the time of year when I get under our vehicles and apply Fluid Film ahead of road salt season. Frustrating not to be able to do anything. I was given a total recovery time of three to four months, with no...

Telephone tech support of service providers like internet/cable, or cell phone, etc who give the scripted line when you call: "I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused." And then when you explain your issue or question, which may not even require an apology, they continue to...

I applied Sil-Glyde to the exterior seal on my quarter panel window. When first applied, the seal looked nice and black. One month later it has a white film. This is on a vehicle that is garaged most of the time and hasn't seen rain or been washed since the Sil-Glyde was applied. The Sil-Glyde...

Maxima Guy - what about dropping the pan to change the automatic transmission's filter and to remove whatever the pan magnets have caught?

I was advised that if a high mileage vehicle has never had an ATF change, a sequence of drain and fills with some driving in between each drain and fill would be less stressful on a neglected transmission rather than replacing all of the fluid at one time. I liked the idea of just doing exchange...

Here is new fluid compared to the old fluid. The old fluid did not smell burnt, it just was really dark. The vehicle has 110,000 miles on it. I don't thing it had been changed recently, if at all.