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    How important is it to drain oil hot?

    Everybody "knows" that draining your engine oil when hot is "better" (gets more crud out, drains faster), but reading a book on oils and filters I bought from Noria, they suggest that draining cold is just as good. I'm wondering about say a motorcycle that you want to change the oil going into...
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    Fram Tough Guard vs PurolatorPure 1

    This is just one data point, but here goes. On my daughter's Toyota with the 3S-FE engine, which takes a small oil filter on the side of the block, the filter operates almost upside-down, I have been using the Tough-Guard. When I restart the engine after it's good and hot and has been sitting...
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    Simple trick for small stuck screws

    Like headlight mounting ring screws. Apply heat to them using a pencil-type soldering iron. I did this on my old Impala several years ago to replace what I think were original headlights with halogen sealed beams - I had also put some Kroil on them, but when I heated a bit with the soldering...
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