Recent content by TwoC400s

I appreciate the effort. Yeah, at this point I've watched about a dozen videos or more trying to see what the clamps look like, and I've yet to see this style clamp anywhere. Google AI thought it was a band clamp from a chainsaw 🧐

So you think the bumps are just to give you a place to set your pliers to pull it tight? Why do auto manufacturers have to come up with new confusing ways to things we've been doing for decades??? I have never seen a properly squished Oetiker clamp fail, they're nearly fool-proof. Why deviate?

OK, hear me out. This is my working theory: The yellow line is the fulcrum point that cams the tail over, the blue line is the side of the notch that interfaces and locks over and onto the red line (they're both straight cut faces where the lines are drawn). But somehow I've got to get the end...

it's two clamps up above, here's a close up of the locking mechanism. I'm assuming I fold the blue side back towards red, and the small hump past the tall tabs (red side) locks into place in the cutout of the blue "tail".

Initially that's what I thought as well, but the more I look at it the more confused I get. It has *two* sets of tabs, the tall ones like you would normally just fold over and tap down with a hammer, and a second smaller set that almost looks like guides. And the tail has some kind of hump that...

My friend has one, the original engine was replaced ~5 or 6 years ago at 98k miles, the current engine has ~95k miles. It's currently driven by his daughter; they're not car people at all, so no idea how diligent she is with the oil changes. IMO it's a ticking time bomb.

Unlikely.

I was planning on removing the axle tomorrow. I haven't gotten under the car to see what each band length is. It came with a few extra smaller clamps, but only two of the larger clamps, so I will have to use the larger clamp in the picture at a minumum. I'm assuming it's the inner clamp, but...

Yeah, I'm just worried when I fold them over there's some secret handshake (so to speak) to get them to lock in before I fold the tabs over

Yes, this is one set for one end. The other end has the normal Toyota fold over style.

Bottom line: I received a Toyota branded CV boot kit today and it had a style of CV boot clamp I had never seen, and can't find anything about it on the internet. Back story: While doing the front breaks on my daughter's 2008 Prius last week, I noticed the passenger side boot had split. So I...

It was my understanding that while PAO (and esters) supplies aren't being directly impacted by the Hormuz closure, there just simply wasn't enough current PAO/ester production and inventory to handle the volumes required for reformulation efforts away from GpIII.

I know there are resources out there that track crude/nat gas inventories and even bulk gasoline and diesel storage inventories; is there anything similar for base stock inventories or blended/finished product inventories? I'm guessing no.

and so it begins

"Mr. Global" (whether you like him or not, he does say some stuff) posits that the UAE has chaffed at OPEC's production limits for many years. They're leaving to go it alone because they think the price of oil is going to be "higher for longer" and they want to cash in on their excess capacity...