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I DVR all sorts of shows and watch them when the is bad. Hot Rod Garage is one of my favorites. Lucky Costa and Alex Taylor crack me up. Anyway, Alex turned Lucky on to a drink called Boba. He liked it so now every time they need to test a car, they take a Boba break. I was curious about it and...

So my mom has this limited edition Mother’s Day Snap On ratcheting screwdriver. It came in a kit with a pair of pliers and a pair of Kershaw scissors, all with pink handles. I must have given them to her thirty five years ago. On my last trip to see her I was fixing stuff around her place and...

This past Saturday I had just finished riding my bicycle on some tasty singletrack. I'm driving home when my blower fan stops blowing. Now I have no AC. All I can think is great, now I have to get into the dashboard... This is going to be a horror show. I stop at the parts store and before I go...

My son calls me yesterday. He's 18 and bought his first car, a 2005 Ram Quad Cab, last spring. He went to get it inspected and it failed because his driver side tie rod end was weak. They quoted him like 365 bucks to replace it, align it and reinspect. I said go to Mars (an old school auto parts...

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Guy I see when I commute was saying the timing chain in his 2011 F150 broke. Doesn't know if the valves hit the pistons or not. He said NO dealer on Long Island will fix it and as of yet, he hasn't found a private mechanic that wants it either. I've seen this too. Everyone in our area wants to...

So... I think I may have caused this. My wife got a new 2021 Traverse back in May. Last week, I rotated the tires. When I was retraining the TPMS monitors, I was trying to figure out how to get the dash into learn mode and I pressed the lock and unlock buttons on the remote at the same time...

I have a friend that moved to Oregon years ago. The other day, his little three cylinder Geo commuter car blew the head gasket. The coolant leaked out through a ruptured hose that heats a plate under the carb or something. Anyway, we were talking as he sent me pics of the disassembled and...

https://jambalayagirl.com/collections/jambalaya-girl/products/jambalaya-girl-jambalaya-rice-5-pack-8-oz We were in Florida this past August. One thing we do is when we go grocery shopping down there, mostly at Publix, is we grab things to take home we don’t usually see at home. We forgot all...

This is a Hope Pro4 on my favorite bicycle. Was I climbing a huge hill? Landing from a huge drop? None of that. I was exercising my dog. We stopped for him to pee. While stopped, my bars turned hard right. I started to pedal and only had one hand on the bars. The other had the leash. I was...

In some other 5.3 threads I asked Clinebarger some questions about building a non DOD 5.3. My work schedule has been insane for the last two years but now I’m getting ready to do the build. A few months ago my son and I found a 5.3 short block available for sale locally so we grabbed it. I...

So I mentioned in my headlight thread that Chevy saved a few pennies by putting a tiny oil filter on my wife’s new car. The picture doesn’t do it justice. It’s really small. Take a look when you get a new car. We took a big road trip and thankfully I changed it out with a proper filter.

So a month or so ago, my wife picked up a 2021 Chevy Traverse. I had not even driven the car until two weeks ago when we took a trip to Florida. On the way down, she was driving through the night. At about 4 am, I woke up and took over. I start going and the car is incredibly smooth at 75, then...

About ten days ago, my wife bought a new Chevy Traverse. Wait... Let's backtrack a little. When I first met her in 2001, she bought herself a new Saturn L300. In no time at all, lost one of the keys. In 2009, she bought a Kia Sorento. Being married by then and remembering the Saturn's key, I...

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So the building I have worked in since 2003 has changed hands. The old owner left and it is currently under construction for the new people. All of the old tools and equipment are long gone. As the project is nearing completion, we are starting to build a new crew. The chief asked me to choose...

The house we live in was bought from a woman that was basically a hippie so she let weeds run rampant. My wife won't let me use Roundup because of the lawyer commercials so I largely spent my weekends pulling weeds. Last week, I saw my neighbor making "something" and then spraying it on weeds...

My stepdaughter bought a brand new CR-V last March. In the 15 months she's owned it, she managed to rack up 40,000 miles. Last Saturday, she calls us and says her car is dead and won't respond to the key fob. I said open the door with the key and make sure the battery is still there. It was. She...

Since this Covid 19 thing started, things have certainly quieted down across the board. The grocery stores around here get picked clean and it becomes interesting trying to decide what to make for dinner. The other day, I opened my front door and there was a white styrofoam cooler on my stoop. I...

One of my friends bought a new Ram pickup a few months ago. Crew cab, some kinda goofy cowboy motif in the interior. Nice truck though. Anyway, been fine until last weekend. He calls me up and says the battery is dead and it won't start. He had somewhere to go in his wife's car so I dropped off...