Recent content by meep

Beautiful purchase - very classy.

I liked my husqavarna 4 stroke straight shaft trimmer - reliable and good unit, but the shaft angle was shallow so I was always hunching over to use it, and it was not interchangeable. So I picked up the ryobi 40v and eventually gave the husq away. The ryobi won’t give the number of hours over...

Is that quarts all it takes? I would have thought more. What about diffs and t-case?

I get why he asked - this is a pretty knowledgeable forum. I’ll bet if there had been a real “gotcha” he would have wanted to know about it. As it turned out, none of our posts condemned the choice he was leaning towards in a manner that would change his mind. I’ve learned stuff here.

Tried to chop roots around the recently cut crepe Myrtle stump - got all I could but the stump wouldn’t budge. Hooked it up to the tow hitch and 4 low and it simply didn’t budge. I romped on it a couple of times and it held firm. Guess I’ll try to just cut it down a little lower and plant the...

In my experience, Yokohama has been the most precisely made tire I’ve owned. Of the three, I’d go with them without doing a whole lot of research.

I’m so glad to hear the turbo 4 has been done well. Toyota has had them for a while but not in mainstream production. One of these could be in my watch list when the f150 ages out. One note about tire changes - my tundra rode stiff (2006 TRD). Little did I know, but Toyota absolutely went with...

It’s kinda unique in how it feels. It’s got that boxer 4 grunt which is playful and a little truck-like off the line, and a little rowdy at speed, and does not disappoint when thrown around. I wish the interiors were more upscale. The one I’ve been in was entirely wrapped in black plastic from...

I’ll add a vote for valvoline Dex6 like @BrendanC. I’ve used it in the past in both native Dex6 and Dex3 applications and it’s been good for me.

What a nice truck! Ours are very similar, mine is an 18 with the 2.7. The 3.5 is highly regarded as a “go forever” motor which is perfectly suited to run with if you’re not towing something large regularly. There’s no evidence anything is going wrong with the engine. If you aren’t sure, run...

So much hard work. Pruning holly bushes is one of my less favorite things. Cut down a crepe Myrtle which was planted frustratingly close to the house and was a roach-carrying squirrel ladder. Drove many miles to help a good friend get his daughter’s shipped moving belongs from a freight...

Man, a lot of bashing the OP? Looks clean enough, and it’s dark but that’s to be expected and the diesels keep the oil dark anyway. Looks like you got in there before anything bad happened. Not sure where the relationship is and if you are up for taking on that role, but it was nice of you to...

@Torrid, the paper clip trick is the first and most primitive defeat of the a/ss system in the fords - you simply bend it into a “U” and press it into the back side of the wiring harness connector as it plugs into the defeat switch. The signal is read on press, without needing the release. It...

I lived in a very hilly town with short, slow, curvy streets. A friends mom had a late 70s civic cvcc. Manual choke! That thing was hoot on those roads. Rumor? Truth? Seems like Honda also achieved a carbuerator which was good for upwards to something like 70 mpg back in the 80s. While it was...

Not sure what snow handling is like in your area, but the CC2s are good in the snow. They won’t be “snow tire good,” but they aren’t a run of the mill GT tire either. We don’t get much snow here, but recently had a 1 week snow-in. I was out daily … of the Michelin LTX M&S, continental contitrack...