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Probably kerosene in all honesty. Kerosene gets used in a lot of those sorts of things.

Underpants gnomes.

Too thick? For all intensive purposes? Yes, absolutely. You'd get better MPG from thinner oils and they'd protect it absolutely fine. As for 5/20 to 0/20 thats a [censored]. Given that you're in Ks (Kansas?) the benefits of 0/20 likely are immeasurable at best. If you can get 0/20 for the same...

I recently did a timing belt on my Dodge Stratus, 2.4L (essentially the same engine). Truth be told it was a nightmare, but I'd never done it before and never attempted something like that before. Getting the timing belt off and changing the idlers and stuff was actually pretty easy. Timing the...

Throwing on a new gas cap would be a reasonable test, but a lot of shops, I can easily see, don't want to do 'seat of the pants' sort of jobs like that. If you throw on a new gas cap and have the customer leave to see if it fixes it, that customer could easily (dumbly) assume you know nothing...

Originally Posted By: Sunnyinhollister You can drink distilled water. De-ionized water is different from distilled and should not be consumed. Deionized water and distilled water are just two techniques to net the same result...water without any dissolved salts in it. Both are designed to get...

"distilled water (for drinking)" You know you can die from the ion imbalance that could cause, right? Assuming you mean real distilled, deionized water. Filtered water, bottled water, reverse osmosis water, etc, is a different ballpark.

Packaging looks like the same sorta [censored] you buy at a sketchy health supplements store.

Pressurization raises the boiling point, so, logically this bit of physics was defeated. Worst case scenario I can see with that is the coolant boiling. Boiling coolant can cause hot spots and possibly cavitation issues but with all the additives in coolant, this is typically a non-issue. The...

Unless you're buying a Valentine One or a high quality Escort Passport series (high sensitivity chipsets a must), you're pretty much just buying an indicator that tells you "too late, you're screwed!". Sounds like there's plenty of Passport "rebrands" out there though, so I'd suggest looking...

Yeah, your car is cursed: its in Chicago; lol.

My reservoir feeds at the highest point in the system so for the first while I park and hear the bubbling. Eventually it fills itself back up perfectly and we're good to go. That initial fill is brutal though. The t-stat had a sort of check valve thing in it to bleed air, but that was too...

You can't loosen the filter from the top of the engine -? Not being sarcastic, genuinely just asking.

A good additive that will help things "stay reliable" is just regular engine oil changes. You have no problems, don't start trying to "fix" them arbitrarily. You're better off saving that money to replace the valve cover gaskets. MMO and all those additives are feel-goods at best. Take the...

80 - 90 is hardly high speed driving. Down an Autobahn at 130? Thats different