Recent content by Mitch

6mm is .236, use a 1/4-20 . .014larger You will be hard pressed to find a 7mm bolt, to my knowledge they are only used on French cars

back in the 70's I used to work with my father in law who had a Winona in the block crankshaft grinder. We did quite a few, usually just one rod journal on large equipment.

I was riding with my boss in a 2013 ford ranger when he stopped , put it reverse, let off the brakes and we coasted downhill going forward at about 30 MPH. He hit the gas and all that happened was the engine stalled. He is an engineer so we don't expect any better

Back in the 70s the auto parts store I was at ran a dozen vegas for delivery vehicles. All had the edelbrock water injection kit on them. Most of those vegas were the 75-76 models with iron sleeves and most went over 100k before engine fail. They injected water thru the air cleaner lid into the...

I keep my vehicles for about 15 years. I live in SoCal so the sun kills wipers more than anything. I have tried the PIAA wipers, good for about two years, Anco's, good for a year. I buy several sets at a time from Rock, with shipping I am paying $2.91 each. So $12 for two years of Ancos or $ 42...

Water cooling on an air cooled car, that is a 61-64 Corvair

I did this to my Scamp trailer almost 12 years ago, still working well

Most likely, wrong application. On the dodge b300 van chassis, their are two different ballpoint part numbers. One for heavy duty , or not. They both work, just the stud is longer on one and the castle nut is useless on jeeps people use the ball joints for the zj on their tj and vs versa. Same...

The Toyota filters from the 80's were famous for sticking. I remember a few oil change places buying engines

Key on -off three times, the odometer will display the trouble codes if present

OE oil filters , ever since the 80s with the Toyota drain back problems

I have a set of SK locking extensions, used them for over thirty years now. You have to pull the locking sleeve down to take the socket off. I bought them in 3,6,12,18 and 24 inch lengths

back in the 70s the rislone rep would show up driving his mid 60s dodge with a 318. All he ever ran was straight rislone.

I still have an old "Airguide" compass in my FJ40

Last time I used one was back in the early 90's I changed oil on a hot engine and melted the plastic liner