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Original post: "It does make me wonder about an air cooled engines and full synthetic." Synthetic motor oils have been widely available and used for a several decades now. If there were common incompatibilities or Martian green slime issues when using syn in grass chewer applications, that...

Short version: If that's what the design engineers want in that compressor, I assume it's for a good reason.

My one regret during past car rentals is not "going for it." I had reserved a National midsize car at Charlotte airport, and they let you pick the car as you walk up to the "midsize" aisle, rather than assigning you a make and model of car in advance. I eyed a silver Chrysler 200 while...

My advice: Do NOT store oil bottles in your car for an extended length of time unless you can guarantee they’ll remain upright. I had one or more leak recently, dumping perhaps a cup of oil onto the floorboard carpet. And I DID check the bottle caps at one point beforehand. The catch: I...

This has got nuthin' to do with nuthin', but it still makes me laugh when I think about it. Maybe 7 years ago I asked an experienced Audi mechanic I frequented which water pumps he preferred, and I rattled off a couple German brand names. He responded "None of those," and then mentioned that he...

Interesting....I always wondered how the tamper caps were installed at the plant. Makes sense, if that's the method used. The tightness of a cap isn't of much significance, of course, unless the bottles are transported or otherwise tip over. When sitting on a shelf, no problem, of course. Some...

No need to even leave your chair... http://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?LH_TitleD...+compressor+oil

This seems so trivial that I hesitated to post it, but what the heck... Whenever I purchase motor oil I automatically check and tighten the caps before I even get to the cash register. Years of routinely seeing wet bottles on the store shelves led to that, plus the desire to avoid an Exxon...

Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek He actually put it in fuel and not oil. Gee, when I was battling the issue in corolla, I didn't think MMO as gas additive would do the trick. Someone with oil burner wants to try? OK, I'm a dork. Somewhere along the line I was mistakenly under the...

Although I have no knowledge of Porsche lifters, I've seen MMO cure lifter ticks in the past and know that this rude-and-crude petro-solvent can be a simple, harmless, and cheap fix for stuck lifters, or at least some of 'em.

I stumbled across an interesting thread in a VW forum in which two different VW owners reported they were able to reverse their oil consumption problems by simply using a retail crankcase petro-solvent such as MMO. If you read through various message boards, some VW/Audi owners can go through a...

"Haynes or Chilton." IF there's a significant difference between the two -- and at least one person here has suggested there isn't these days -- I say BOTH. I'm guessing that both the manuals combined might equal an hour's work at current mechanics' rates. So if you end up being "saved" by one...

Last year I bought several jugs of Lubro-Moly Synthoil Premium 5W/40, and just recently I got more curious about what it's all about (the lame product data sheet offers next to nothing other than certifications). So last week I sent e-mails to TWO Lubro-Moly U.S. reps asking for just a couple...

Yes and yes. Personally I've never seen a technical data sheet that showed differences for the "same" bulk and bottled oil. What would be the point? If additive packages in the oil settled out relatively quickly, that could make the top half of a stored 55 gallon drum of motor oil slightly...

From a Genie screw drive opener manual... "Lubricate door rollers, bearings and hinges: Use silicone lubricant or lightweight oil. Lubricate the drive screw: Wipe off old grease using a lint-free cloth. Apply a light coating of silicon based grease. For best results, use Genie® GLU-R."...

Just for fun, look up your filters in the Mann Filter USA catalog. Consistently well-made German filters for Euro/US/Japanese rides. https://www.mann-hummel.com/mf_prodkata_usa/index.html?iKeys=36.1.0.30.1

The thing that makes airline travel more difficult nowadays is the utter lack of anything remotely resembling these... http://www.jethag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/panamlift.jpg http://thetubesareclogged.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/southwest1970stewardess.jpg...

This simply wouldn't work for a gas engine, and the zombies would methodically pull out your spleen and liver and eat them (uncooked, no less!). The carriers for most retail fuel additives are oily petro-solvents such as kerosene, naphtha, diesel fuel, mineral spirits, pale oils, isopropyl...

"The US is stretched so thin that Canadian air tankers have been called in." I know that in years past, it was standard procedure to have several leased Canadian "Super Scoopers" from Quebec (if I recall their home base correctly) relocate to Southern California for several months over the fire...

FYI, a Google search of "party ideas OR activities OR games" comes up with a boatload o' debauchery. I recall that the motorcycle gang in Mad Max carried around a nude woman’s manikin with them, so I suspect that’s an important part of the equation as well. And togas, of course, per Animal...