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Originally Posted By: expat Originally Posted By: Kestas I've undercoated my cars before with fluid film type of rustproofing. I've applied up to five gallons on cars. A couple cans just wouldn't do it for me. My thoughts are, little (or less), but more often (like once a year), might be be...

Lots of BITOG love for Mobil 1 0W-40 and Castrol Edge "Belgian" 0W-40. Great performance, especially for the price.

It's fairly common for oil pressure senders to get wonky on those when they get old. Plus its right by the oil filter...maybe you knocked it with the filter wrench and finished it off?

I'd like to pick your collective brains. I picked up a Chrysler 300M with the 42LE automatic in it. It has a transmission and hypoid final drive in a common case, but with separate fluid reservoirs for each. The owners manual states specifically "use 80w-90 GL5 gear lube in the differential...

Originally Posted By: JonfromCB As I recall, Your air cooled boxer has an oci of 6K. I wouldn't recommend going much past that. Even the best oil is going to start to shear and deplete the additives somewhere around 4-5K miles... especially in an air cooled engine. Plus, why also risk putting an...

Straight EP80 used to be recommended by OEMs as the cold weather alternative to EP90, but I think it went the way of the dodo once multigrades came about. Flying by the seat of my pants, I'd fill it with 80w90 and call it a day.

Does it mention country of origin anywhere? Looks reasonably well made.

Originally Posted By: UrS4 DEF(urea/adblue) has nothing to do with the DPF and regen! Nobody said it did.

With a lot of highway driving the DPF will need fewer regens.

If you insert the new style filter into the housing and seat it, it should close the drainback port and allow you to pre-fill. This seems to somewhat cut down on cap breakage too. The oil pump on the Pentastar is a monster; it flows so much that your engine will never notice the difference...

While there are some attractive cars out, I'd say generally I'm not a fan. They've become too fussy and busy looking. I'm much more a fan of the streamlined look of ~20-25 years ago. The 92 Cadillac Seville will always be among my favorites. 94 Jaguar XJ and 98 Chrysler LHS were both very pretty...

I have not struggled with alcohol as others have, but I know a few people who have. All of them swear that sobering up was the best move they've ever made, and that AA removed a lot of the stigma. Congrats on your first month!

Originally Posted By: wemay http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...a-frets-quality “There’s too much quality risk in China to produce there,” Takashi Yamamoto, executive vice president of Lexus International and an engineer who’s worked at Toyota for 33 years. The company also still has to...

They took the engine from a free-revving 865 to a big, slow 1200...judging by the torque figures. Water cooling. Huge radiator. I'll reserve my real judgement for when all the specs come out, but all I see is a fatter bike with worse gas mileage and a less exciting engine.

The 3/4-16 thread was the standard for decades - I use a 3614 variant on my 74 MG. It's not going away.

Well, I did a right awful job explaining myself, and my edit time expired Let me try again. If you have a digital multimeter that reads duty cycle, that will read dwell for you. As others have said, shoot for 54-60 degrees for a 4 cylinder if you don't know the manufacturer's spec. The meter...

If you have a digital multimeter that reads duty cycle, that will read dwell for you. As others have said, shoot for 55-60 degrees for a 4 cylinder if you don't know the manufacturer's spec. Edit: Whoops, it's a 3 cylinder. Going by the 'old math', that would put you at 75-80 degrees.

Use some heat on that stuck fitting (carefully). Don't apply anything to the new fitting. Flared brake fittings work best all by themselves. Since the vehicle is 28 years old, I assume the other brake lines are too. By that time, treat all lines as if they are bad, especially rubber ones...

It sure is. When Obamacare passed we at work all saw an immediate 35% increase. Now, (as of 1st October), they will be dropping our PPO for an HMO with worse coverage, and my rates will increase an additional 50%. I will now officially be able to buy similar private insurance for basically the...

I had a 95 model AWD for many years. Parents bought it new, I bought it off them at 65k miles and drove it to a little over 100k. Sold it in 2011. Factory exhaust wasn't much to write home about. Rusted out in 4 years. Replacement systems averaged 3-4. Sidebar: a flow-through muffler helped...