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I had an EZ Pass from PA since I used to use the turnpike to get to my folks pretty regularly. When OH got EZ Pass, it worked fine for that too, and used it in IL once. So, if the state has EZ Pass, then yes, it doesn't matter which state you bought the transponder from, but not all states use...

Gyro nailed it. If the starter drive dog doesn't turn freely, it will do exactly as OP described. Hopefully there's no rust between it and the crankshaft, but a few drops of oil in the hole will soak into the felt pad that's inside.

Back from vacation, back to this project. Today, making new gaskets for the turn signal housings. The old gaskets pretty much crumbled into several pieces, so I couldn't really use them as templates. Scratched my head on how to make new ones (NOS ones are ridiculously expensive), and came up...

I've probably banged, bumped, bruised, and cut myself enough times, it's tough to say. One stands out though: Lying under the MG bleeding the clutch with a vacuum bleeder. Not wearing safety goggles was a mistake. Pulled the hose off the bleeder, but a drop of brake fluid flew off the end of...

Got back from a week long trip to Maine on our first long trip in our camper. Up until now, it's always been within an hour or two, but it was a good two day drive. Observation: The truck does an admirable job towing our little camper. It does have a tow/haul mode, so the transmission stays...

Thanks all, thinking there might be looking for a new tablet soon. This one might be OK for watching movies on a plane.

Haven’t used it regularly for a while, but we’re on a trip and I realized I can’t see embedded images on most websites. Didn‘t realize I’ve had it since 2013. I knew AT&T dropped the cellular service for it a long time ago. It appears it’s too far behind to get any updates. Is it pretty much...

A Predator 4000 or 4375 would fit that description. Used to have a 4000, upgraded to a 9000. A 4375 is a non-inverter.

I've not heard of damaging a parking pawl that way. The pawl can take the weight of the car sitting on a hill, though in the days of cable operated linkages I'd have to pull harder to pull it out of park if it had the weight against it. I always use the parking brake on a hill to avoid that...

Didn't get to spend a lot of time on it this weekend, a little trouble with a widespread power outage, having to get the generator going since the family was coming Saturday for stepson's graduation party, and we had FIL's birthday party today. Got the crispy wires off the turn/parking light...

Thunderstorms blew through Friday night, and we caught the edge of it. Heard some big gusts of wind since we had the windows open, followed by some loud crashing noises. Uh oh, branches are falling. Very paranoid since a tree fell on my truck last fall, even though we had the tree trimmers...

When it's not the i-Zombies, it's the ones who seem to think they are so important that they must be in constant contact. I do community theater. During one performance, one fine individual not only ignored the part about silencing her phone, it rang during the performance and she ducked...

So glad I got the turn signal/parking lamp housings out. Those wires were extra crispy. Even the jacket crumbled into pieces as I was pulling them out. Drilled out the rivets holding the bulb sockets to the housings, and I got the rubber grommets out from the housings. Surprisingly, the...

I confess I ignored a CEL on the wife's car for more than a year. It was the clogged ports on the air injection system, a common issue on an Equinox 2.4. It ran fine, it was just complaining that the air injection flow was too low during warmup. Made a few attempts to fix it, but finally...

The timing belt is a little pricy if you have a shop do it. The valve adjustment I'd be a little on the fence. Honda says adjust them if they are noisy, but I gather the J35 valves can tighten, not loosen. If you're reasonably handy, the timing belt can be a DIY, but it's not for the faint of...

After some consulting with the vintage Lincoln expert and my dad, we figured out the trick to getting the headlight bezels off to find out what's up with the turn signal lamp. A little pushing to unhook the tabs, and it's off. The good news, the turn signal and parking light filaments are...

2021 Ram 1500, 56,800 miles Out: Pennzoil Full Synthetic 5W-30, 4828 miles. 38% oil life remaining In: Valvoline Advanced Full Synthetic 5W-30, STP S11665 filter Got a long road trip with the camper coming up, figured I'd get it out of the way. Brilliance struck when I dropped the oil...

Ahh... Finally a nice sunny day and I've got the big jobs with the yard, the house, and the other cars out of the way. Back to work on this project. Battery is in great shape, and with very little cranking the engine roared to life. Now onto the dodgy lighting. Between the factory diagram, a...

Seems like an odd procedure, usually it's moving the crank that's forbidden when the belt is off. Maybe that crank position is considered safe so the cams could be rotated completely without a valve bumping. Like I said, if you turned the cam back the way it came from, you're fine.

Chances are, it simply rolled off the peak of one of the cam lobes. The rear bank cam on my Pilot can do that, so if you bump it it may flip off the peak of the cam lobe. As long as you simply turned it back to correct position, you're fine. If you tried to do a complete revolution and forced...