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Originally Posted by HangFire

AOL news message board. Topic: "Here's how often you should really change your oil" Oil Change IntervalClick here for the thrills and chills Comments that grabbed my attention: "Change the filter only.... every 5k when using full synthetic oil ( it never wears out)" "If your oil gets dirty...

https://www.rapidrobertsinc.com/ Several nearby locations. Lots of people pumping away so new stock constantly added to the tanks. Conoco gas with an additive package described on their Web site main page. Minimal price differential between Rapid Robert's price and the cheapest joints in town...

Nine years have elapsed since the Scan Gauge was discussed here. Sold the dern thing a couple years ago. Tired of entering info. Got half the purchase price from the buyer. The feared death of the problematic instrument cluster has not occurred yet in the 12-year-old Chevy pick-up. Hoping for...

Photo from interview at the local Vet's Day parade. Still happy with the AC/Delco filters. I can find the Made in USA version locally. Switch to straight dino oil. Weather conditions not extreme enough here to demand the more expensive fancy high-tech lubricants. Still unsure about adding goop...

Greetings, No late-breaking or late-braking news other than a change of nomenclature. Intellects far superior to mine have perused the shanty pictures and proclaimed that what is seen does not meet the standard definitions of what constitutes a shanty. Instead, the assembled horde declared...

Thanks, gents. Very kind of you folks. I wander the Web. If I come across something of possible interest or assistance to the local herd I will plop the info and/or link upon the bestest slippery stuff place in all of Webdom.

Might as well be social instead of my normal Disgruntled Old Coot persona so for those perhaps unaware of the existence of handy-to-some Web sites below lies a bounty of clickable beauty: Kelley Blue Book.. click me you brute Different areas of the country use one of the two the most. The...

Howdy, Used for years to assist buyers and sellers of used vehicles the Kelley Blue Book made the transition on-line where it can be readily used by the human herd. Along with that transition is the migration to the Web of "on-line graves." And here, for your viewing enjoyment, is the on-line...

Disgruntled Old Coot huddled in a hovel, a shanty atop the cultural backwater of the Ozark Plateau was in a picture posting mood so wandered over yonder 'cross the holler and ended up here. Pondering in the shanty Long-haul trucking days in the late 1970s You DO have your own...

A major benefit of buying an older used Chevy or keeping a new(er) one for the long term is the availability of parts via salvage yards and the immense amount of aftermarket parts. Generally, Chevy stuff is cheaper then Ford and usually much cheaper than Mopar. That was the compelling reason I...

Atop the cultural backwater of the Ozark Plateau. A Disgruntled Old Coot huddles within his hovel, a shanty on the edge of a small city, the 3rd largest in Missouri but a city that would be easily swallowed and disappear if located with the Bos-Wash metroplex or the LA basin. Unable to sleep...

The rock that will live infamously

The Cat Came Back Old Mr. Johnson had troubles of his own He had a yellow cat which wouldn't leave his home; He tried and he tried to give the cat away, He gave it to a man goin' far, far away. (Chorus) But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, they thought he was a goner...

Grew up watching the nightly TV news... the never-ending Vietnam Conflict. Present for the evacuation in 1975. Then ran off to assist in getting the SS Mayaguez from the Cambodians who pirated the ship. Cold War shenanigans here and there. I have always been a reader, mostly non-fiction, and...