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    How do these plugs (high res pictures) look?

    Kind of tough to tell the condition of these plugs with the photos here, but you can do so readily enough with these spark plug reading guides: http://www.motorcycleinfo.co.uk/resource...g_condition.jpg http://gasolinegirls.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/spark-plug-reader-chart.jpg...
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    Foam pre-filter with normal paper filter

    Originally Posted By: Jim Allen Originally Posted By: TC Lookey what I found! Wix filter wraps. http://www.wixfilters.com/filterlookup/afw.asp Wish they covered more applications. All those on the lars are round filters for '60-80s carbureted and TBI engines. I imagine with a little...
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    What will Carmax do with my car?

    Don't know, but my guess is they may auction if off. I thought they specialize in newer rides. One thing I discovered some years back is that if you can't find a private party buyer for a used car, try CarMax. They were the only ones actually willing to pay me true wholesale for my Chrysler...
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    Foam pre-filter with normal paper filter

    Lookey what I found! Wix filter wraps. http://www.wixfilters.com/filterlookup/afw.asp
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    Looking for a 3" non-reusable cone filter

    Might try this: http://www.airfiltersonline.com/index.php?categoryID=97 http://www.summitracing.com/search/Department/Air-Fuel-Delivery/Part-Type/Air-Filter-Elements/
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    Driver license cash grab

    Originally Posted By: Tempest Originally Posted By: Stelth Something to remember about government agencies at all levels: they want your money. It's the entire reason the DMV exists. Most of the car license fees in this state go to fund schools. Makes perfect sense... Well, not so much...
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    Looking for a 3" non-reusable cone filter

    You might go to a couple parts stores and look through the technical information sections of their filter catalogs. They sometimes used to show different shapes of filters, or at least their dimensions, and you could work off that.
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    Horizontal oil filter

    If you're getting lifter rattling on start-up, or the oil pressure gauge takes longer to show full pressure, those could be signs that the filter is draining overnight and the lubrication system has to refill everything in the first few seconds of the engine starting. It doesn't take a defective...
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    Liqui Moly or Total

    Originally Posted By: skyship LM Synthoil High Tech 5/40 and their other oils are real good and are now outselling Castrol in Germany. You also have a good range of additives available. The French don't have any real oil fields! Why would one need native oil fields to produce high-quality...
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    Sluge fiction or real?

    "Hulk SMASH Quaker State!...Quaker State cause sludge..." I dunno, I've heard those claims before, but was never sure if it had some truthiness to it, or was simply an urban myth. Either way, this Quaker State talk dates back to when mood rings were popular and the two Miami Vice guys had...
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    PQIA Tests Five More Oils (7/11), Two get Alerts

    I just took a quick glance at the link, and if I'm not mistaken, NONE of these would be what I'd consider a "name brand." (Although I did see a bottle of O'Reilly's oil lower on the page, whatever that was about.) If you buy a oil that meets a certain spec as indicated by the label, you're...
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    Super severe service

    "Severe service....It's a brutal regimen..." I'd suggest this is really just basic "city driving," and accounted for in a basic City/Severe Service schedule. Hate to give simplistic advice, but your mom's driving is well accounted for in the Toyota manual's Severe Service recommendations. No...
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    Toilets!

    Just get an Destroilet toilet for the bath you're remodeling, and all will be well. Just don't breath. http://theworldwasturning.blogspot.com/2010/05/arriving-at-cabin-or-destroilet.html http://clunkbucket.com/of-the-dodge-mahal-and-the-destroilet/
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    How full of stuff is oil filter when oil changed

    There's certainly safety margins built into filter change out schedules. If an air filter change-out is called for at 50K miles, there's enough calculated margin there so the vehicle will run smoothly, breath well, and pass smog at 50K and even somewhat beyond. If that wasn't the case, it would...
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    Very, very tigh tranny drain plug...just leave it?

    As mentioned before, if you try it again, use a penetrant such as Liquid Wrench. That alone might help. Perhaps you could have a temporary, expanding rubber drain plug on hand in case things go south. Search for "drain rubber plug dorman" at Google Images
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    Mityvac brake bleeding: Closest wheel first?

    Farthest first, closest last, is typical. A common brake flush sequence would be (first to last) passenger rear, driver rear, passenger front, driver front. I successfully used that sequence with a Mityvac many times back in the day. If you're living in Britain or Australia with a right-hand...
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    Driver license cash grab

    I don't think they're charging you for "years," but for their service and the costs involved during your visit. So $25 to issue a new license, or replace one, without pro-rating that $25, makes sense. But it's a bummer that they didn't just make the expiration date four years from now -- that...
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    Liqui Moly or Total

    Originally Posted By: mason1125 Originally Posted By: TC I can get it easily and cheaply from an internet shop in Arizona. Can you tell us which shop you can get Total at fair price? This site threatens to ban folks for including anything that might be interpreted as an "ad" link, but you...
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    VW Filter placement

    Originally Posted By: mason1125 Originally Posted By: TC "It requires removal of a bunch of turbo plumbing and the passenger headlight assembly, and very small hands (like mine)." I hope the factory made the darn filter BIG (either in size or at least total pleat surface area) so you didn't...
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    Liqui Moly or Total

    I've purchased both of these LM and Total oils for a 2008 VW Passat. LM doesn't provide any useful information in their spec sheet other than certifications, and they won't respond to e-mail requests for info either. So their customer communications policy appears to be "Go pound sand." Total...
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