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Got a new to me 1994 sonoma. Needs a gas tank and a shock mount, I figure, may as well take the bed off and fix the frame while the gas tank is off.

Tearing down a shed calls for some cultch removal. Wife and I freecycled a baby stroller; someone hoping to adopt came and looked at it and took it. Was structurally sound but dirty. They politely email and say they don't want it so if we got any other leads forward 'em. (why not freecycle it...

mother in law's 3.8 lesabre MAF went crummy a couple times... code was IIRC p0107, MAF reading low. Cleaned it a couple times over the years then replaced it with an advance auto rebuilt a couple days ago. Not our first choice but we could get it ASAP last weekend. Worked for a couple days, in...

A couple weeks ago was doing a piston ring job on a friend's saturn. Partsamerica.com cancelled that part of my online order due to unavailability. Went to a NAPA that's the regional warehouse and they looked 'em up under an old part number and could not find any in stock nor know when any could...

So I get my bay of "our" 2-car garage occupied with a saturn in-frame engine rebuild and right when everything's torn down to nothing the wife says her car's making noise like a wheel bearing. Shoot, it's a saturday too. I take her car to the junkyard on monday when they open and get a whole...

Bought a whole computer off ebay real cheap b/c I got local pickup. It was flaky and part of that flakiness was a 512 mb ram stick that sometimes POSTed as 256. I swapped in a known good stick and things improved. Not having great diagnostic skills I filled out RMA info on crucial's website and...

We need 'em. Now. I was thinking local businesses could set aside a few marked spaces at the far corners of their lots: close to the road, far from their buildings. These marked spaces are assured against towing as long as one picks up their car by, say, 10pm. Benefit for the business owner...

http://maine.craigslist.org/car/692237748.html If a high school student can find a "timing pacer" I will pay for his college and hire him immediately thereafter! Quote: I was going to just sell this car for parts, but it just needs a timing pacer, so it's great for a first car for a...

1YPE-191707-21G1-01-8C051409 8 HP briggs electric start on a 1986-ish toro riding mower. sometimes have spark. have read that anything past 1982 has electronic ignition. otherwise I would be pulling the flywheel to check the points. here's my q, then: Is the coil, riding near the flywheel...

Maine only has a few motorcycle driver's ed schools. Going for a 15 hour course that follows a national ciriculum. 5 hours in the classroom and 10 hours hands-on, on honda 250cc bikes in a parking lot. If I pass the class, I get a MC endorsement and don't have to take a state test. They keep...

was thinking it might be cool to put all the energy saving threads in one place. might fit well under the alternative fuels section.

just picked up a 96 cutlass ciera wagon off craigslist for $300. People are really eager to bargain when a rear power window is stuck down, and they've fixed it with plastic bags and duct tape! The wind noise/flapping was as loud as you'd imagine at 55 mph. Has the 3100, intake manifold...

As if more proof is needed, I was watching "Wheel of Fortune" last night and a dude called out a letter that was already on the board.

story Ironically, a couple hours after the story broke, I checked my credit card online. My cc company got the memo and went in full fraud lockdown, so I can't access my unbilled (recent) activity. So I'm powerless to tell them if my card is being used by n'er do-wells, until statement time. A...

coworker has a 98 sunfire 2.2 leaking from what looks like a very long gooseneck that goes from a freeze plug type hole in the passenger side of the motor around to the driver's side where it meets the top rubber hose that goes off to radiator. Autozone has a rough picture of this pipe when one...

Lost power 3p yesterday- 5 pm today. 5 miles closer to the ocean-- nothing-- ocean kept air warm enough to not be an issue. First night, kerosene lamps and candles: At least it was sunny and 33'F today: These trees over my service entrance wire actually made it through: Ran a generator...

97 ford contour 2.0 does this. Unknown but possibly sordid history, just got the thing. Harness looks good insulation wise, I have heard about the dreaded "harness rot" on these things. Alt was initially not working, I replaced a fuse that activated the dash idiot lights including the charge...

https://diamondsclassaction.com/ has an online form one can submit for $$$ back. Yeah the lawyers make out like bandits but if you bought a diamond or diamond jewelry from September 20, 1997 to March 31, 2006 you get a cut, with little effort.

Just brought home one in a long line of saturn s-cars. Yeah it needs 3 tires and a door panel. Thermostat already, spark plugs probably. Good cleaning. Had about a quart of oil left in it, I threw some used delo in there for the drive home, now running maxlife 5w30. Probably a little dirty...

Like watching an odometer roll over a 2nd time. No BBS I've ever been on, anywhere, has someone with this many posts.