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Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX How's the head and gasket? Good question. No milkshake on the dipstick, haven't done a compression test. Engine is an aluminum head/iron block. Part of the reason I'm thinking of draining the oil is to see if there is a milkshake. It hasn't been making any...

Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX How's the water pump? Fine. It was changed with a new Mazda pump three years ago. The reason the belt snapped was poor maintenance. Once I pulled over and found the belt, I realized that I hadn't changed the belts since I changed the timing belt and water...

Originally Posted By: GMorg Did the oil darken alot or does it still look clear/amber on the dipstick? Still looks the same as when I poured it in, no darkening.

Before you answer, consider this: I had just changed the oil and had about 30 miles on the oil before the alternator/water pump belt snapped. Hot enough for the coolant to spit up out of the overflow bottle and lost about a cup of coolant. Engine shows no ill signs, oil is 5W-30 Pennzoil...

I have a recently purchased '93 Volvo 940 Turbo. Yes, the year in the subject is different. The original owner went through two engines, the first was replaced under warranty by Volvo, the second was a junkyard pull from a '92 740. The wonder of Volvo plastic-tanked radiators. Now the '92 B230FT...

Well that makes me feel a little better. I am fairly certain that the used oil in this particular container is just from the car in question (a '96 Miata) and a '96 Subaru Outback. It had been sitting for awhile, and I just slightly tilted (no funnel and just topping off the oil in the engine)...

I've got a bit of a dilemma right now, and I'm not quite sure how to handle this. My wife woke me up early this morning telling me the car wouldn't start. I sent her off to work in my car, and fixed hers. I checked the oil in her car as I was finishing up, and noticed it was a little low. We've...

Thanks for the information. I live in an area that doesn't have any bike stores whatsoever, but we do have quite a lot of auto parts stores. I don't like special ordering things, so I am trying to find a locally available grease. The John Deere grease will help because there is a JD dealership...

That is great news, as I already have a tube of the stuff. I use it for brake caliper slides. Thank you both very much.

I am trying to re-grease a set of RST front shocks for a bicycle. They have elastomer inserts that require the use of non-lithium grease. I am looking for a readily available (such as parts store, farm store, etc.) non-lithium grease to use to re-pack these shocks. I am surrounded by quite a few...

I was looking for a 75w-90 gear oil to do a flush on my '96 Subaru Outback before swtiching to synthetic. Now, normally I would just switch but this transmission had recently been split apart for a re-seal. Subaru manual transmissions have a center differential inside the transmission case and...

Thanks for posting this question. I use Delo 400 in my '77 T-Bird and I'm driving it during this cold snap here in Texas. It was 17F last night, and forecasted to drop to 12F tomorrow night. Right now it is 21F.

I tried two bottles of Auto-RX to quiet HLA ticking during start-up in a Miata, no such luck.

Thanks to my fine public education, I ended the second Auto-RX rinse 200 miles too early. I drained the rinse oil and now have 0W-40 Mobil 1 along with a new filter. This was my last application, should I order and start another one?

I'm about to treat my '96 Mazda Miata with 145,000 miles to two treatments of Auto-RX. I am right at the point where I need to change the oil and I usually use Mobil 1 0W-40. I've already planned to use Chevron Supreme for the rinse phase, but should I go ahead and use it for the initial dose...

And I'll second this notion. They were plagued by a poor lineup that didn't meet the times. And when they did something about it, they shot ahead of the times. The Eagle 4WD cars and wagons were oddities back then, but now Subaru doesn't sell a car without AWD. I will disagree that the Pacer...

And I'll second this notion. They were plagued by a poor lineup that didn't meet the times. And when they did something about it, they shot ahead of the times. The Eagle 4WD cars and wagons were oddities back then, but now Subaru doesn't sell a car without AWD. I will disagree that the Pacer...

Are you basing that statement on age? In so, OHCs are older than pushrods.

I was about to ask this myself, only if anybody has seen M1 SUV in North Texas around D/FW.

But the Delvac container doesn't have a translucent strip to gauge the remaining oil.