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That's an interesting observation. I tend to brake more like your wife but have never experienced pulsating brakes on any of my vehicles. This technical paper has a lot of good info on brakes. I always use the break-in procedures described here...

The price of new diesel pickups is pretty outrageous to me. In early 2007 I bought a 2007 Ram 2500 diesel. Had to order it from the factory because I wanted a manual transmission and not a lot of expensive options. It was something like $38,000 plus tax. I had recently come back from a...

Amazon made it more difficult than necessary for people to use Smile. You literally had to order from the Smile webpage, otherwise there was no donation if one made an Amazon purchase the usual way. Why didn't they make it so you could just toggle Amazon Smile with an account setting, so all...

I lived in Minnesota for 25 years before moving around the country a bit. I've spent plenty of time in the Tahoe-Truckee area, and the mountain passes to get there. I think you are totally overthinking this. Don't drive with chains on unless the CHP is requiring it. It sucks driving with chains...

If someone has an older diesel, like a Cummins 5.9 or one of the Mercedes 5-cylinder diesels from the 1980s, then a couple minutes of idling prior to shutdown can be beneficial, especially if the engine was pushed hard immediately before parking. Almost all turbocharged vehicles now have water...

I don't know much about the 2K paints, but Eastwood sells them. https://www.eastwood.com/paints.html?cat=978&color=1038

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Which turbo does your engine have? My 2007 Ram was the first year of the 6.7, and it had a water cooled Holset HE351VE. I have a hard time believing they don't use water cooling on the newer ones, to protect the variable geometry hardware on the compressor.

Doesn't the Cummins 6.7 use a water cooled Holset turbocharger? Unless you changed it to an aftermarket twin turbo or whatever, idling for two minutes isn't going to do much of anything to cool it.

Physics is not taught in high school anymore? That can't possibly be true. I did some substitute teaching three years ago and it was definitely offered as an elective, just as it was in the 80s when I was in high school.

I don't have a solution to your problem, but just want to say that the California regulations on emissions are loathsome. I was active duty military back in the 90s, and spent several years in Southern California. Even though I was a Texas resident the entire time, with my vehicle registered in...

Yes, definitely. If it's in bad shape you can send it to a professional shop. A machine called a "bed knife grinder" is used to restore it. The process is similar to sharpening the blade on a commercial paper cutter. If the bed knife is in good shape, you can sharpen the blades by putting...

That thing is awesome, except for the powertrain. Going up a mountain grade would be dreadful! Put in a C-Series Cummins diesel. Or some Detroit 8V-92 iron would keep the 70s theme going!

Fresh oil does not attack or wear away engine components. However, an interesting SAE study showed that the detergents in fresh oil will wash away the tribochemical film that forms on bearing surfaces. The study was based on a small vehicle fleet, with oil change intervals that varied between...

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One should not expect to see a lot of iron particles coming out of motor oil. There's very little steel-on-steel contact in an engine.

I had an Excell pressure washer that I bought new at Home Depot about 20 years ago. It was the least expensive gas-powered model I could find. It had a 6hp B&S engine and I believe the rating was 2,300 PSI and 2.4 GPM. It worked great for many years for use around the home, cleaning a wooden...

My mom has a 2008 Chrysler minivan that she leaves in a cold Minnesota garage for months on end. I got her a Battery Tender Jr from Amazon for around $40. It works really well.

Sorry to hear about your grandmother. God rest her soul. I moved to North Texas a few years ago. I'm in the "reddest" congressional district in the US, and Texas is pretty red in general, so pro-gun is a given. I'm in a city of 100K people, ~120 miles from the DFW metro area. The people here...