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If you're ever in this situation again, here's some preventative steps. --Use a hex bit socket and mallet or nonmarring hammer and pound that bit socket into the plug as far as you can with gentle but firm taps. The single biggest reason that hex plugs strip is that the key is never fully...

Yes, but for the more open minded who know that 4wd isn't a must-have, it's a tremendous opportunity.

Sub zero temps are a non-issue for condensation; the air is too dry to hold much moisture at all. Condensation is mostly an issue where you have a heavy iron/steel mass in an ambient environment where the dew point is crossed. Think Louisiana or Thailand where for most of the year the dew...

If thermal cycling had any beneficial effect on the new parts, they are defective. There's a lot of effort invested into heat treating things precisely so they do NOT change as a result of thermal cycles.

I've posted something this this effect before, but it bears repeating: Deposits are the primary reason modern engines die. Even if VRP wasn't *quite* as effective in wear protection, it would be worth trading that to gain the cleanliness; on balance, you're better off in almost every case...

I saw that episode of Lubrication Explained. It's quite interesting, copper as an additive. I'll just stay tuned on this one.

Not that I heard.

Until I watched this video, I had no idea that varnish fell into so many different categories and was such a complex topic. I think you will enjoy this discussion here, especially the discussion about current approaches to remove or prevent it. It might shed some light on how VRP (and perhaps...

Just ordered more 15w40 for my “thick base oil PCMO” experiment.

Yes, There’s a process called PPAP (pre-production approval process) whereby the manufacturer must run a statistically significant sample of parts and submit them for performance testing (or submit the data). That data is submitted to the filter buyer for acceptance. At least, that’s how it...

Normal because credit scores to some extent are the measure of profitability for the lender. High score, low default risk, more profitability. It’s not like they are giving higher score people lower rates on credit cards and such… Sometimes a higher score actually translates into lower cost...

Yes to all this. When you need credit, you can’t get it and nobody will give it to you. When, once you establish a history and have good score, everyone is tripping over themselves to give you a card you don’t want or need. The banking industry has gotten lazy and no longer wants to pay a human...

MTM products in general are best in class. I recently upgraded to their stainless lances nozzles and the MTM stuff is top notch. I’m still using the STIHL orange hose I bought when the hose furnished with my PW failed. VERY happy with the STIHL hose...

You do you, booboo. I’m not here to sell anyone tools. Use what you love and love what you use.

Taiwan is always my first choice for hand tools. Icon, Capri, Tekton, Astro, you name it— I’m almost always looking Taiwanese first. Why? Because rarely is any tool better in terms of actual precision and quality, and in the tiny few cases where you can find a better tool, you will pay 3x or...

A smaller head and the lowest backdrag are hardly “nothing”. Readily available service parts and rock solid warranty are hardly “nothing”. You might not get enough to justify that higher cost, but you can’t say you get *nothing*. I’m not a snap-on fan boy. Like I’ve said before, my box...

Very impressive! I’ve had excellent results with my Mayhew and Wilde punches and chisels.

Some dedicated off-road rock crawling tires are intentionally bias ply, because when aired down, the tread has much better conformability to obstacles.

The term is ambiguous, but the idea is simple: it’s the ratio of the number of particles per ml (typically) upstream of a filter to downstream. So a beta of 75 means that 75x the particles are upstream (75) vs downstream (1). In other words, the filter caught 74/75 particles. Beta has two...

Yeah, there’s too much oil in it almost certainly. I guess I need to decide if it’s worth it to yank it all down and try again. Probably so, since the SuperTech R123a is only $10 a can or so and it takes barely over 2 cans to fill. How does one purge the oil? I have compressed air available...