Recent content by Lapham3

I get a chuckle watching fellas in their bass boats coming to jump on the trailer like the pros do. After a day in the sun drinking beer it's usually quite a show..

Not really. Basic cars with few or no options still had manual chokes in '64-including my '64 Falcon.

My '80 RX7 had the same choke setup. It worked fine.

That video has been around for a while now-pretty good. They don't have parallel parking as a test requirement anymore in Minnesota. The new people coming here mostly couldn't pass it. Easier to dumb down than to get called names

I also like the Fumotos and use them where practical. Also the extractors where it works. I now fuss about the tight access and mess with these plastic under drivetrain belly pans and oil filter changes. We had bought a 1980 Mazda RX7 with the filter inverted on top of the engine. I'd punch a...

I quit using aluminum wheels in winter. Of course, cosmetically they deteriorate but the main thing is the sealing beads and the air leaks

I would think that any of these would use a buttress thread as your bench vice has.

It reminds of the Polaroid instant cameras of 50-60 years ago. The cameras were fairly inexpensive and the film packs were very expensive-also copiers and ink cartridges

I tend to drive faster on the wide open highways, but slower otherwise. I get very good life out of tires and only had one alignment needed. I don't care for entry fellas messing with my lug nuts or drain plugs. This in 55 years of my car life.

I like my battery unit for small jobs, but my gas backpack can't be beat for the big jobs.

The '03-'06 Elantras were unchanged with 2.0 low HP Hyundai/Kia engines.. My '20 GDI 2.0 uses the same spin on filter as the '05.

My understanding is that the problem was at their Alabama engine assembly operation where there was machining debris left in many engines. I've had two Elantras and both fine with virtually zero problems. The '05 is still going with around 175k miles and the '20 with few miles is fine. I made...

The actual manufacturer often varies over the years. My early Buick Riviera had Korean made Hercules tires. This was in the mid 1990's.

I've written on this before. I worked in a tire shop in the late 1960's. We had transitioned from the old standard bubble balancer to a spin balancer and had a dial indicator mounted on it. This was steel wheel years that were pretty true if not damaged. We viewed a tire with over a 0.030 out...

My wife's 2005 Nissan still has the original working sensors on the front.. I had the rears changed about 5 years ago when replacing those rear tires as 10 years was what was suggested as about the time frame of battery failure. You never know sometimes-