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I generally let everything I operate idle for a short period before I shut down, while I do my methodic left to right shutdown of switches (depending on the vehicle). I blame a youth misspent around old turbo SAABs, leaky British cars, Pipers, etc. Drives my family nuts;)

I was also always told the jiggle pin is to keep the passage clear, I would leave it. Original thermostats for my Tr6 had the pin and I always left it as I always use a tablet of GM Stop Leak when I flush coolant (original heater core, etc.) and was concerned about the passage staying open...

Just out of paranoia, if you replace the warning lamp switch w/ a sender, try to find a gauge sender w/ 2 terminals so you can keep the lamp or install a buzzer. VDO and others make them.

He played Damien creepily well.

A few years ago a friend and I started to visit arcane, unusual, niche or just off the beaten path smaller museums, lets call it the "Places our Wives Wouldn't be Caught Dead At" tour. Lots of old cars, boats, airplanes, trucks, engines, trolleys, etc. Craftsmanship and innovation. The...

I am generally a fan of Redline, but they and Porsche are a bad combo on several models. I tried their manual transaxle fluids in our 9x6 cars and the shifting was very notchy warm, but just terrible when cold. Obviously a PDK is different but as someone already noted, Redline may go wide on...

Socket head not safety wired and backed out or just buggered install of the actuator(?)?

Very good stuff!

Play with cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, commercial equipment long enough and you may rethink this...

None on cars, yet.... Well, there was the time when I had some avionics work done on my dearly missed Dakota, new Garmin, transponder, comm panel, etc., at a new local shop. Got an iffy feeling about the owner as the job progressed, but the work seemed OK after a short test flight. Next...

From a hiking trip a while back, a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake. Feisty bugger but I was in his house, I gave him a wide berth as I passed but he still rattled and coiled into striking position despite me being ~10' away at that point. I've read that moderate sized rattlers can only strike...

Probably or maybe.... How does it seal to the center tube or base? Deform like some M&H's or compress like those with thick fabric seals or just O rings? Given the application, I would not experiment. Penny wise and....

Can't really think of a logical reason to not change the filter, but if you must reuse, no way would I remove and reinstall the same filter.

A couple of the oldies

For the spare bottle one keeps in their trunk or frunk. Refilled bottles are messy.