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Thanks for all your responses. I now feel good about using the Lubriplate.

I am installing new rings and rod bearings in my 1949 Farmall Cub. I went to one auto parts store asking for assembly lube and the clerk tried to sell me a can of PB Blaster! (Good stuff, but not for this application.) I went to NAPA and the fellow pulled a tube of Lubriplate No. 105 grease. The...

Thanks for your replies. It looks like I'll give the oil to my son to use in his 40 year-old outboard.

A neighbor gave me several 16 oz cans of Evinrude oil for 2-cycle engines. It is for a 50:1 mix. The cans are old enough to have no UPC bar code and open with pull tabs. My question: does unopened oil deteriorate in the container and is there any reason not to use this oil in my air cooled...

BuicGN, Likewise when I first started driving many years ago found a group of lights on a street in Bessemer, Al. that had green on top with red on bottom and no yellow caution light. Back in those days, the color of the red and green was such that I as a color-blind individual could not...

Is Castrol even available in the US in this container? I note that the illustration is a 5 litre container.

Where are the faux Buick port holes?

What national brand of automatic transmission fluid would be suitable for my '01 V70 XC? I prefer not to have to purchase the Volvo brand.

Why Dear Abby Only Prints Letters From Women? Maybe this is why it seems only women's letters to Abby are printed.... Dear Abby, I've never written to you before, but I really need your advice on what could be a crucial decision. I've suspected for some time now that my wife has been...

Thanks, Oldmoparguy. That was just what I was interested in.

I figure that on this forum there is probably a good liklihood of finding several old-timers who remember Tom Macahill. He wrote automotive related reports for Mechanics Illustrated for years in the '50s and '60s. Just out of curiosity, I have been trying to find any biographical information...

I just came across a web site for the following drain valve: http://www.fumotovalve.com/ Does anyone have any opinions about this product? Is there any significant hazard to using such a valve for oil changes?

I also used a Murray lawn tractor for many years (Briggs engine)which I had purchased new. It was 22 years old when it became inoperative due to carb problems. I didn't want to sink the money into it for a new carb, so I just replaced it with a Sears - Kohler engine. My dad had an old Murray...

PECANS IN THE CEMETERY On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me,"...