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I will be wanting to test some crankcase oil in a 2nd generation, low mileage, Dodge Cummins in the near future. It has been a long time since I have done so, but not many miles. I used to send samples to Blackstone and was happy enough with their work. I see that there are several oil analysis...

Could have been worse. Engine rebuilds at 100K to 138K miles with 1960s and 1970s tech metallurgy aren't unexpected. The Kumho tires weren't mine. They belonged to colleagues, were on rental cars, and were featured in a supreme court decision.

You were fortunate that your `74 only burned. Our `74 BelAir spontaneously crystallized the front U joint and the drive shaft catapulted the car, with my dad at the wheel, into a bridge abutment, then into a ditch. The cracked collarbone from the shoulder belt ended his cancer remission. Left me...

I just answered my own question, "What's a PSS?" We do so little driving that any brand of tire will outdate before it wears out. Yet I want the best possible performance for accident avoidance. Cost is seldom my main objective. If the PSS had been available to fit our minivan, I would have...

What's a PSS? And I have also had many sets of Michelin tires since 1973, including a set of retreaded Michelin tires. The last set is the only batch that gave me trouble. Well, that's not exactly true. We had incipient tread separations on a set in 1984. It took a year to manifest to the...

The Michelin tires that cracked at 3 years weren't OEM. Subaru put Continental tires on as OEM, and they were like driving on grease. I swapped them out to the Michelin tires at 300 miles. The Michelin tires had much better road manners, but really poor UV resistance. My OEM experience with...

I had this same issue with a set of Michelin tires on a Subaru. After three years, but more than less than 12,000 miles, they were badly cracked all over and the sidewalls looked like suede by 2017. This was severely disappointing after using nothing but Michelin since 1973. I am trying out...

I did fix up an old car for a kid. Back in 1997-ish, I bought a 1983 AMC Concord that needed attention. Why a Concord? My daughter's grandmother, who was about to quit driving, wanted my daughter to have her showroom condition mint green 1974 AMC Hornet. Three days before my mother planned to...

I have used several brands over the years. Can anyone recommend one that can be permanently mounted under the hood, and then plugged in kind of like a block heater? It would need to be able to handle the heat.

Has anyone had any experience with ZAK Differential Oil Additive? Or even heard of it? A few months ago, the dealer (that used to be good) changed the oil in both differentials on my Outback and supposedly added some of this ZAK Differential Oil. I've gotten used to the idea that it is in...

There's a Pemex refinery in Deer Park, Texas.

It has been a long time since this Circuit Court Case. And Kumho has had ample opportunity to improve their air-leaking reputation of the 1990s. Still, I won't use them. My opinion.

That rust makes my skin crawl. The only rust we get in this part of Arizona is after the paint evaporates, leaving bare metal.

I use a Motiv and it is OK. I needed to go through it and replumb it so it would actually hold pressure. It's an older model, so maybe the newer versions are better. The best one-man bleeder I ever used was given to me by the widow of a retired LaSalle mechanic. He had loaned it to me several...

First was a learning experience, a wretched 1971 Fiat 850 Spyder, in 1979. I paid $900 for the car. Vacuum gauge told me that a cylinder had zero compression. At 903 CC, the engine ran OK at high idle. I pulled the engine by hand and carried it into the back bedroom of the house my new wife and...