Recent content by MN Driver

ok, so I'm confused on what the Display Name is because the email suggests it won't be my existing user name? ..but wouldn't it be the same? MN Driver appears to be my display name and it's not customizable. It's also my user name here now, is it not the same for some people?

You've got to flip those around A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job.

"Have you done anything to clean the piston rings, such as Auto-RX?" No I haven't, after hearing that it wasn't successfull even awhile after you rinse it didn't seem like there was any reason for it. When I took my valve cover off it was spotless and very clean inside so I figured that the...

@Drew99GT I have the 1.8L 7AFE. I'm going to be flipping it around so it faces up like yours, I just need to grab a better cutting tool to shorten the hose because if I close the hood when it is as long as it is right now it kinks the hose.

I will have to check it here and there, I'm going to flip it around so the loop faces up to avoid that problem. I just need a better tool to cut through that hose. The material is almost 1/4" of two layers of rubber with fabric run through the middle just like how a belt is produced.

Okay, this is what I did. I searched all over the place for something other than the PCV valve that I had before. Went to Autozone, Checker, Carquest, and finally found something other than a Fram or one that was made by another company that looked and acted like they were made by the same...

Have you had the tractor in storage for awhile by chance? It sounds to me like you are seeing a little bit of moisture, possibly from heavy condensation. Usually it burns off when you've been running the engine long enough to get it up to temperature to boil off/evaporate the water.

@Jason Adcock - On an hourly basis this engine runs around 3000 rpm 90% of the time. I've noticed that during parts of the duration where I am not on the highway, I do not notice any consumption gas tank to gas tank, which is typically 400 miles per tank.

I got a 3/8"ID x 24" emissions hose and cut a half foot off of it, it was super thick hose and I think I need to cut more length off of it. The loop seems too big, I'll see your picture and let you know how it compares to mine, right now the loop is higher than the two openings the two ends...

@Drew99GT Did you put the coil so that it was below the normal level of the PCV valve? Do you need to pull it off and let anything drip out from time to time? What viscosity of Maxlife are you running? Any difference in viscosity over the winter?

Well, I went to a few auto parts places and it seems that Fram is the brand that everybody has but the old PCV valve that I just took out was a Fram so I replaced it with the only thing I could find that wasn't a Fram. It is the Autozone brand, says Champion on the package so I hope it is...

I wouldn't worry about it if you used Boot and Nuke. With it you have overwritten the data over the entire surface of the drive rendering the data that once was there into a random assortment of unreadable garbage. If anyone actually wanted the data from the computer, they would find it from a...

@Gary Allen - 4 quart sump @harley145000 - I'd take it to the scrap heap if it wasn't the most reliable car I've ever had with only a consumption issue and a water pump as the only issues in 50,000+ miles of owning this car. This car just got 42 mpg on the highway on the way from Nashville, TN...

From what I know from talking to various car dealerships. Their sales and service seems to be more of an entrepreneurial run it the way you want to in order to make your profit. I recently watched a video on Youtube of the GM higher ups Mike Davidson and Bob Lutz discussing the Chevy Volt and...

I've been traveling a TON lately just got back from an 1400 mile trip and will be going on an 1800 mile trip which I am leaving for tomorrow, and at the end of next week I will already be nearly 4,000 miles into this OCI, even though the OCI started last week. 5,000 miles will be very soon, so...