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I looked around and couldn't find this thread anywhere in here, so - yep, it looks like the loco "threw a piston" all right!!

I just had an interesting discussion with my local Ford dealer's Service Manager. I have an '07 Expedition with 65K miles, and the Ford Extended Service Plan (ESP); the "Premium Care", highest coverage/cost plan. It'll be good to 96K miles. The guy told me that, as a condition of the ESP...

This evening, my brother and I were mounting some Blizzaks for my Expedition. He has a neat, high tech spin balancer (sorry, don't know the brand) which shows the amount of weight required on the inside and outside of the assembly, as well as the location, obviously. For the heck of it, we...

One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister's house for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick. She told my sister that she needed something from the store. When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the...

Stopped at the local NAPA store today to pick up something or other, and wandered into the oil section, naturally. I saw Wolfs Head 15-40 "Semi-Synthetic", and thought "hey, that's neat", then, when I asked them the price, they came back with "$2.37/qt". I about fell over. It has the CJ-4/SM...

Oshkosh 2010.

Picked up a WIX (NAPA, actually) PowerSports #1348 filter for my BMW motorcycle this morning - on the side, it says "Affina, Gastonia, NC". I'm guessing Affina is a WIX subsidiary?

Brother changed the oil in his GoldWing this afternoon - used new Rotella "T" 10-40. After he was done, we looked at the bottles, and noticed "Energy Saving" on the label. Now he's wondering if there might be a problem with the wet clutch. It doesn't say Energy Conserving in the starburst, and...

Added this to the stable a couple weeks ago: It's quite the bike. I rode a 2010 version at the local (State College, PA) dealer's "Demo Day" about three weeks ago, and was lusting mightily for its DOHC radial valve engine after reading a couple road tests, but they only had an '09 model in...

Watching SpeedTV right now - they're showing last year's Charlotte World of Outlaws race (tonite's race postponed by rain). They did a segment on Steve Kinser's engine, and his crew chief said they use "17-35 synthetic oil".

Okay, got Blackstone's report back today. The bike is a 1000cc water-cooled V-twin. Filter is Puro ML16818. The oil was M1 10-40HM which was what I put in before last winter. I changed it this time (put in M1 15-50) at only 1350 miles because the shift feel was getting notchy. I know that's...

Read something some weeks ago at a cycle forum, and something strange just popped into my conscious (stuff like that happens more and more as I age; what I want to remember, I can't, while other stuff just pops up when it wants to ). Anyway, the guys there were talking about whether or not to...

Friend of mine recently returned from a trip to France to deal with his late uncle's estate. He said the uncle, who was a bit eccentric, had left his old farm to him. While he was looking around the place, he noticed there were a bunch of chickens and baby chicks in the chicken coop, and he...

Saw this on a 1936 Model "A" at a cruise-in/car show yesterday. The filter's turned a bit, and I couldn't get my girl to understand exactly what I wanted to show, but, it's an FL1-A, alright!! Pretty neat:

This should liven things up!! Nephew just picked up a Yamaha/Star Roadliner - an 1854cc air-cooled V-Twin, and is wondering what the 'best' oil would be. Side note - that thing is a behemoth!! It's longer than a GoldWing!!! Kids nowadays!!

Had to get my girl's oil changed at QuikLube this AM (time...); they used YB 5-30 (I watched); I guess that's what came out of the bulk tank, anyway. My normal OCI is 5,000 miles with MC 5-30, but the YB should be good for that, right?

This pretty scary stuff. Is there anything that's actually secure any more???

YouTube video about Kelly Johnson and the SR-71.

There is a giant Pennzoil pop-up that blocks half my screen - how do I make it go away??? The little "CLOSE" button doesn't close it, and I can't see either the post I'm trying to read, or what I'm typing, if I'm responding to a post...

Temperature in the low-mid 70's here in SW PA today, so a bunch of us headed out. My V-Strom (M1 10-40HM), brother Stan - Goldwing (Rotella 15-40), his wife Kathy on a 250 Honda "Reflex" scooter (just changed last night - Honda 10-40) they picked up yesterday, friend Steve on a Goldwing (Rotella...