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    '67 GTO 400 engine

    I'm partial to that color, too. My first car was a '70 Grand Prix. Two tons and tire smoke halfway through second gear. I wonder what the hose-tee contraption on the intake is. I'm used to seeing one hose from the manifold to the PCV, and a separate one from the back of the carb to the brake...
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    New Machines in Agriculture

    Pretty interesting stuff. They've come a long way from calf buckets, 8-cow milking parlors, and hay stacker wagons. My dad moved round bales with two homemade tines bolted to the bucket of a JD 4020. The narrator mistook chemical sprayers for irrigators several times, though.
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    Which band is your favorite for their lyrics?

    How could I forget Tom Waits? Lyrics AND cowbell: And these character sketches:
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    Why would a freezer evaporator ice over?

    Long story short: Frigidaire side-by side fridge started getting warm but the freezer was cold. I changed the defrost thermostat, and that helped a little, but the damper is also bad. There was ice below the evaporator, but not on the coils. Freezing up must have broken the damper. Long...
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    Which band is your favorite for their lyrics?

    Lots of my favorites are probably more "singer-songwriters" than bands. Does that count? John Prine Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings James McMurtry Steve Earle Springsteen John Hiatt Leonard Cohen
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    Want to Transfer photos - need help

    Does your computer have a slot for the camera's memory card? If not, it must have USB ports. The easiest option might be to buy a USB card reader. I found one in a clearance section once that's just a little bigger than a USB thumb drive. It takes two different sizes of cards and fits the...
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    Best/Favorite first riff/20 seconds of iconic rock song?

    Some of my favorites-- Tom Petty: Mary Jane's Last Dance AC/DC: If You Want Blood (You've Got It) Metallica: Battery, Master of Puppets Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil Black Sabbath: The Mob Rules Here's one musician's list of top electric guitar intros:
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    18 Year Old Water Heater

    That's how I'm leaning. More than once, I've tried to fix something that worked and caused more trouble for myself. I'd like to change it on my schedule instead of the water heater's. Thanks for the other replies. Lots to think about.
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    18 Year Old Water Heater

    This thread gives me a little hope. I just bought a house with a water heater that, according to the serial number, was made in 1993. The house was built in '94. We haven't moved in yet, but it makes hot water. The first thing I noticed was a plastic drain spigot at the bottom. Should I dare...
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    AC system cleaner question

    I ordered the Toyota kit from Amazon. What came did not have the actual Toyota red label. It had a green label, and was made by Servicerite for Southeast Toyota distributors. It very well may have been the same stuff in different cans. The big can of foam worked as advertised. The stuff in the...
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    Wanna go for a ride? (filthy vehicle interior)

    It looks like they tossed the whole ashtray out the window awhile back instead of just dumping the butts at a stoplight.
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    Apocalypse movies

    The original broadcast made a real impression on me, as a jr. highschooler living about an hour from the nearest missile silo.
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    Stolen Tags

    I think I threaded the screws into the existing plastic insert, and then put nuts and washers on the back. The screws in my kit are long enough for that to work. The kit also has black plastic covers that snap over the screw heads. This was on a pickup with a metal bumper. Plastic bumpers...
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    Stolen Tags

    I had a tag stolen off my pickup at a motel in Reno. I was moving there, so I just called the issuing state to report it and then got Nevada tags. My first visit to a Pep Boys was for anti-theft license plate hardware, stainless steel screws with tamper-proof Allen heads. I can't remember if...
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    Heater core ??

    Any updates, Mrjlube? Did the dealer replace the heater core, or did you take other measures?
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