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Last one I can think of. Had a teenage friend who managed to turn the nozzles on his Toyota Celica (?) sideways so he could spray windshield washer fluid (he used water) on people that would walk up to his car. Or the people working the drive-thru at the fast food places. Which reminds me of a...

Another one... A guy at work spray painted a golf ball black to match a coworker's bedliner. Then he put the ball in the truck bed so every time the co-worker accellerated or decelarated the ball would roll and make a noise against the back of the cab or the tailgate. Took him a few days to...

I'll start. I was maybe 16 or 17 and my parents had an early 80's Buick that was starting to have some issues. So one summer evening, I ran a jumper wire from the high beam headlight bulb to the horn. Then I put the beam switch on high so when the lights were turned on the horn would go off. I...

Does anybody know if the Schrader valve in R134A system is the same as the Schrader valve in a tire? Same thread, seal materials, removal tool, etc?

FYI, for those of you that don't have access. Check with your local library. Mine offers access but you have to do it on one of their computers. My buddy's library actually distributes login info so their patrons can access it from home. I used to buy factory service manuals on CD or in pdf...

I wish I would have installed one of these 15 years ago! During Covid-19 stay-at-home orders and subsequent cancellation of my kids' sporting events, I had more time to do repairs and lots of preventative maintenance. Because it's more convienient, I'm finding I'm much more inclided to do...

I find it hard to believe that a rental vehicle would see many gravel roads to blast that paint off.

One other thing. I had ordered head gasket, intake gasket, valve cover gasket, exhaust manifold gasket, and head bolts from RA. Grand total of $58 which included shipping from 2 warehouses. All the gaskets were Felpro. When I took the exhaust manifold gasket out of the box, it was actually an...

OP here. I don't frequent this forum very often... did the format change? I notice my original post is now one big paragraph with no line breaks. --- The car is fixed. Finished it up two weeks two ago. I ended up taking the head to a local guy I found on facebook. He machined 0.015" off. Said...

Originally Posted by Dave9 Scrap value in this market is about $200. Repaired ready to drive, it's worth what, about $800 if not rusting out? You didn't mention rust but that would be high on my list of considerations. Last two non-running, teenager-wrecked vehicles I sold for scrap brought...

OP here. Lots of comments to sort through. Some made me laugh. Yes, I can be an impatient tightwad. Part of my impatience is that I don't want it to drag out so long that I forget how it goes back together. Overheating was caused by a cracked radiator. I replaced the radiator and drove a...

I'll preface this by saying I'm just an internet-educated hack with some tools and a decent barn where I can work on things. Plus two teenage boys with a propensity to tear stuff up so fixing up an older, inexpensive car to keep around as a spare has a certain appeal. The car is a 1998...

Originally Posted by Kira What are the peaks at 2005 and 2007? The peak for 2002 was an engine. What's the red line? What's the green line? Sorry the legend got truncated in original post. Green line is annual miles driven on secondary y axis. Orange line is average odometer reading (divided...

For some reason the graph is loosing resolution. Trying again...

So for the last 19 years, I've been using Microsoft Money and entering all my expenses for pretty much everything we buy. So I ran some reports and made a graph showing my annual car maintenance expenses. Then I realized that I am too much of a geek as I also record all the odometer readings...

Originally Posted by Trav A decent size compressor, torch set w/cutting tip also and gas/mig welder (not flux core) are indispensable and IMHO a must for more in depth work especially in the rust belt. Something like this will work fine and is cheap enough for DIY...

Twenty years ago, I hated working on my stuff but did it because I was poor. Today, I have undertaken more and more work on my own. Mainly because I have a couple teenage boys who tear things up and I'm still not independently wealthy. However, along the way I've acquired some things that make...

One from my first car; back when I was 17 and irresponsible. I think I sold it around the 180k mark because I thought the supercharger was on the way out.

OP back again... I read all the comments about the time they were posted and there were some valid concerns/observations about purchasing an older lift without first seeing it operate. I had some of the same worries but took the risk. At this point it seems it worked out as I can happily...

So it was a bit of a splurge but I just purchased an older 2 post VBM (Challenger) lift. I'd been watching craigslist and facebook marketplace for a while and finally found one for about 50% of a new imported lift. I considered a new imported lift but went and looked at one that local guy...