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Change your sway bar bushings NOT endlinks. Done!!!! Dealerships always makes the customers change the endlinks due to $$$ and rarely ever the cause. If you go over a driveway in an angle you'll hear a clunk, clunk, clunk almost like an oscillation as the van shimmey's side to side. 100% of...

Napa white box are low line raybestos rotors. Those china rotors have worked very well for me. If you really want to have some comfort in your purchase why not go to a shop that has a "metrix/worlpac" account. You can get some japanese made MOUNTAIN brand rotors. I hear very good things about...

Do you own a sunfire?????? Simple solution is find a reputable tranny shop. Transmission issues are way too common for those cars. The tranny guy cannot hide if he scans the computer and shows you the codes present. If its not the TPS it'll be the trans. Failing cables are not too common for...

The valve springs will be wimpy soft pressures enough to control the valve from bouncing and floating. In my old pushrod motor in my 1965 beetle (11's in the 1/4 mile)I use chevy springs. Aprox 150lbs seat pressure and aprox 380 lbs at the nose of the cam on full lift. Using tool steel lifters...

For what its worth....if you were my customer I'd simply do this. 1)drain the rad 2)add 2 bottles of stop leak 3)add coolant Idle the car and remove air pockets in the system. Cross your fingers that the leak stops in the cabin. IF and IF all looks well now decide on changing the radiator...

Just take a drive to your local transmission shop. Get them to test drive and quote. Ask friends in your area and ask who's a reputable tranny shop. Grenading sunfire transmission is no new news to anyone in the automotive industry. Cracking drums and other failures is common. From leaking...

Most cases plastic tanks leak at the crimp where the core meets. The rubber seal looses tension from all those heat cycles.

ODD problem you had with a 3rd party. I've NEVER had issues using Continental, gates, dayco, Mitsuboshi etc etc. I've installed ALOT of 3rd party T belts. Gates is a Honda OEM belt IIRC. Does the 2.2L subi have a hydraulic tensioner? or is it a mechanical one? I cant remember. If its hydraulic...

The SnapOn Modis only costs 8 grand CDN!!!! I still use the primitive MT2500 aka "brick" but in time I'll need to update to the new Solus. I'll use a scope (BEAR 4gas analyser w/ scope) when I look for misfires and efficiency issues. The Scanner helps alot with live data with movies so I can...

Originally Posted By: CrAlt Originally Posted By: alanu I'm suprised your "made in Canada" rotors were so cheap. Typically the North American made rotors costs alot more. I am not a consumer, I am a shop operator/tech. These arnt just rotors.. they are the rotor with the hub built in ..for a...

Originally Posted By: 440Magnum Originally Posted By: greymach Im trying to find out if head gasket problems are common on 2.4 CRV engines. The car has 40,000 miles. I have never heard of Hondas having this problem with such low milage. We have had problems with rearend noise at 9,000 miles and...

Originally Posted By: Market525 pbm, I've done this job on the 2.3L Accord numerous times, so I wanted to add a few points. Crankshaft holding tool - google SP Tools 60100A and you'll get many hits. The tool runs around $50. Buy it & don't look back if you are doing this job yourself. SP stands...

What oil viscosity are you using???? 2)big nut holding the drums. Its a real stupid design. You'll see that the leading shoe is extremely thin. No worries 'cause Ford made it like that brand new. Looking at the design its and afterthought. First generation focus's had the rear nut loosen and...

Originally Posted By: eljefino I used permatex blue RTV on a shift tower gasket on a saturn transmission, left it overnight at 5'F (yup!) with a 100 watt bulb a few inches away. Metal still cold to the touch. Cured fine. Did same with a thermostat gasket smeared with RTV on my cadillac cimarron...

I tell my supplier the car make and they determine the thread pitch. Sometimes I'll even put the effort and measure and calculate the pitch. Never a problem.

I've used whatever my supplier gives me. I've never had a problem with mystery nuts. Use your trusty copper never sieze and call it a day.

Just change it. Carefully paint pen everything. Paint a mark on the oil pump orientation, pulley and belt. Do the same for the crank and cam pulley. The Tbelt and balance shaft belt uses 1 bolt/nut to tighten both tensioner pulleys. ITs a real [censored] design. I often find the bolt on the...

I wish I got people paying 99 bucks for focus rotors. I make bulk of the money working on fords and chevs but that just "too easy". I've done a good handful of focus brake jobs and most China rotors are absolutely fine. Typically the wear on the rotors on the Focus are significant enough to...

If your using the traditional paper gaskets with the thermostats I'll use Permatex right stuff or Kleen Flo elastomeric grey stuff that is equiv to "right stuff". Apply it and drive away.

Originally Posted By: CrAlt Originally Posted By: alanu Consumers are cheap. Companies must be concerned about profit and deal with competition. Its a viscious cyle. It has everything to do with profit and very little to do with the consumer. I just priced a set up raybestos rotors for a...