Recent content by LouC

Great project and nice to see it progressing Our "classic" jeep is the old '98 ZJ Grand 4.0 which is in need of a full restoration. Especially body work. Mechanically it is in pretty good shape, only 181,000 on the 4.0. On the ZJ series there is just enough room to not need that oil filter...

When I had to change the trans oil on my 07 Jeep in the dead of winter (not bitter cold but 32*F) there was no way it was pumping out of the trans pan cold. I had to heat the pan with a heat gun to get it to flow. Worked pretty well, I was able to suck out about 1/2 of what was in the pan before...

If you are using a vacuum pump if the oil is too hot it can collapse the plastic hoses and make the whole job take longer. For vacuum pumps warm is good, hot not so much, but cold won't work at all. Now if you HAVE to use a vacuum pump on a cold engine, you can CAREFULLY use a heat gun to heat...

I’ve heard of this happening on Yamaha 4 stroke outboards as well and one thing you can do is simply use a good vacuum pump to suck the oil out via the dipstick tube. It will not get every last bit of oil out but if the oil has been changed regularly it is inconsequential; I used one of these on...

Well the Bronco LOOKS great but, the better performance comes at a cost of complexity and expense if you keep it a long time…take a look under the hood of both….the Ecoboost in the Bronco is quite a bit more complex, so that extra power does not come with no strings attached. In addition if you...

This is the end result of Euro-management that does not understand the US market. The promise from Obama when ChryCo was handed over to Fiat was that we’d get high mpg cars from them. So what happened? FIAT sales = big zero repeat of 70’s no real surprise Dodge Dart = needed more development...

The question is WHY did they put the starter there? This reminds me of some inboard boats with really bad engine access & in some cases you have to pull the engine to change a starter. Especially bad on twin engine I/O installations. Some you can get by just removing the exhaust manifold on the...

I have an OEM Mopar reman trans in my 1998 Jeep installed in 2007 & is still fine 100,000 miles later. Also have a Mopar reman alternator that I installed in my 07 Jeep after a big box Carquest alt failed after 6 months (had to get it done in one day). So yeah I prefer OEM reman to big box hit...

Well I think all Toyota V8s hid the starter under the intake! That includes the Tundra Sequoia and various Lexus models that use the same engine….

I have driven 5 or 6 recent Hemis and each one was quite like a sewing machine.

I used their filters for years on my inboard V6 & never had a problem but the filters for the GM inboards don’t have bypass valves because the bypass is in the filter mount on the block. I did have trouble with one of their spin on fuel filters because the threads weren’t cut properly.

I don’t believe we voted for an unelected EPA to have complete & unquestioned control over either fuel economy or exhaust emissions.

Which is why the EPA must be dis-armed from their unilateral ability to dictate policy & regulations with no oversight, no accountability, and no ability of the public to question them. That friends is not democracy! My fantasy if I am able to realize it is to buy only vehicles untouched by...

That’s been my point for years. We’ve heard Gore & now Kerry howling about saving the environment; what we don’t hear is how much benefit we are getting, is it going to make a difference & at what cost? Why do you think the less affluent nations are pushing back against the wealthier nations...

German Engineering’s philosophy “Why make it simple when it could be complicated?”