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    HPL Recommendation... GM 2.0L LTG Turbo

    Funny thing. So I bought 3 12-quart cases of HPL's Green ATF fluid about six months ago. Both my 2021 Canyon and wife's ex-Mazda CX-5 are approved for it. She got hit and it was totaled before I swapped the fluid so now I have 24 1-qt bottles. The 2020 GMC Terrain w/the 2.0L LTG has the 9T50...
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    HPL Recommendation... GM 2.0L LTG Turbo

    Don't know. Carfax doesn't show maintenence history bit the first thing I do will be to replace everything!
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    HPL Recommendation... GM 2.0L LTG Turbo

    Thanks man, I wonder if a Euro blend of the No-VII 5W-30 would be worth it. Viscosity and HTHS is a tad higher.
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    HPL Recommendation... GM 2.0L LTG Turbo

    My wife does A LOT of short tripping. Probably 10k miles per year but lots of short trips daily. If this was a highway ride I probably wouldn't even ask this question.... but the short trips put her under "Severe Service". With 100k on the clock and an unknown history I'll definitely be...
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    HPL Recommendation... GM 2.0L LTG Turbo

    Looks like I'll be picking up a 2020 GMC Terrain with the 2.0L LTG Turbo. 100k miles, unknown maintenance history but runs nice and no obvious sludge or gunk visible through the oil fill hole. What would be the best HPL oil for this engine? I've never had a turbo engine before so the game is...
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    Rant: Accident right after replacing parts

    Final update. They totaled it. They took it apart a bit to look for unseen damage and found that the subframe was tweaked and it needed lots of suspension work. They offered us $8,500 which actually wasn't that bad but I got them up to $10,500. Bummer. It was perfectly maintained and in...
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    The used car market is tough. I need to change my approach.

    I didn't read all the responses but I've got some thoughts as I'm looking for a car to replace my wife's that just got totaled. Most people hate dealing with private party. Craigslist and FB are so full of scammers that I'd rather not even bother. You may be a dealer but your ads and...
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    Yahoo Mail not loading 40% of emails.

    Yahoo is on its last legs, I'm surprised it has lasted this long. Same thing with AOL. You might consider changing a more more modern email service, like Gmail. Using your Google account to log in to yahoo still relies on yahoo.
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    Best Aftermarket Steering/Suspension Component Brand???

    Thanks man, I'll check partsgeek out. I've always been a RockAuto fanboy. So partsgeek doesn't have any Sankei 555 parts listed for my application, but if I go to Partsouq.com I have plenty. Prices are comparable to Rockauto/Partsgeek prices. Partsouq.com is a weird name for a website but...
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    Best Aftermarket Steering/Suspension Component Brand???

    Replacing the steering and suspension components in the front end of my 1987 Toyota 4Runner with IFS suspension. All of it. New upper and lower control arms (ball joints pre-installed), inner/outer tie rod ends, pitman arm, idler arm, etc. Toyota still makes a couple parts but they are stupid...
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    Best HPL for Oil Burning Toyota 22RE

    That is the right thing to do! But I've got a bit of a problem. When I did the B12 soak one of the spark plugs came out tough and went in even tougher. I'm certain the threads are toast and the next time it comes out I'll need to do a heli-coil. As soon as this happened I had a flash back to...
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    Overpriced truck; '97 F-350.

    I see alot of comments here from people not in the rust belt. 80's and 90's trucks are getting sought after and considering they don't exist anymore in the rust belt....people are willing to pay big money. If this had less than 100k miles on it I could see it fetch this price on...
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    New tire needed for 5-10K miles--how important is it to match?

    A front alignment issue would cause excessive wear on the FRONT treads....100%. If you never got the tires rotated, the fronts would be bald and the rears would look great. If you do get the tires regularly rotated you might just eventually be wearing out all 4 tires from a bad front...
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    Blew Up My Dad's MTD Lawn Tractor

    We probably could have. But the mower was undersized/underpowered to begin with for the size lawn and a bunch of other things had been going wrong at that point. We had already replaced the electric PTO twice, the deck spindles were starting to go again, and the Hydrostatic rear end was...
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    Best HPL for Oil Burning Toyota 22RE

    Yup! The timing chain is quiet for now, not sure if I have metal or plastic backed timing chain guides. If the rings are indeed worn that maintenance will get done on an engine stand when it gets re-built. Might be a while as it runs great.
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    Best HPL for Oil Burning Toyota 22RE

    This will take a minute to explain. :LOL: As I said above, I got this when I was 18. My father had an auto repair shop so we had access to a lot of vehicles people wanted to get rid of. This particular 4Runner had a TON of body rust and bad engine. I got it for $200 and put a junkyard...
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    Rust penetration in wheel well - water leaking interior?

    Since this isn't some classic car in need of a "professional" repair, and you state that you aren't going to have it forever....here is what I would do. Take off that wheel liner to expose the rotted/rusted out area. Use a scraper to get rid of the undercoating or whatever gunk/paint is on...
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    Best HPL for Oil Burning Toyota 22RE

    @tired One of these days I'll take the valve cover off to take a peek at how dirty it is inside. The 80's was the peak of emission gadgetry and this engine is covered in vacuum hoses, vacuum control valves and other doo-dads. All of those hard and soft lines are now brittle as heck and most...
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    New tire needed for 5-10K miles--how important is it to match?

    I had a set of those on my wife's old Nissan Versa. Got plenty of miles out of them. Were all 4 tires wearing poorly or just the fronts? Did you have them rotated regularly? I'll bet you were either close to the load limit of the tires and chewed them up or you have an alignment issue...
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    Blew Up My Dad's MTD Lawn Tractor

    Around 2000-ish. I was a teenager and one of my chores was to mow my parents lawn. All 3 acres of it with my dad's MTD lawn tractor. Nothing special, it was a Home Depot unit he got in the early 90's. Probably an 18hp engine and a 42" deck. If the grass was thick and the motor got a load on...
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