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Looking for a yes or no on this one, here's the back story. My son was invited to an event and my wife and I gave him $40 for expenses. When he got back he still had the $40 and he said the other family paid his way for his birthday next week. For the record $40 is no burden to either family...

Changed the plugs on a 94 Crown Vic, out of habit I put a light coat of anti-sieze on. As soon as I finished I realized what I've done. So at this point should I replace them with steel plugs, retorque them once in a while or clean them and put them back? Real experience and speculation is welcome.

Not much to say here, looks good as predicted for a short OCI. I've used up the "included" services and I'm on my own now. I'd love to do 10k OCI's but I'll keep the 6K due to warranty until 100k. At least I can put a dent in the AZ clearance stash!

I believe, at least in California, that the welfare/unemployment benefits are too generous. I recently interviewed a guy for a job opening. When I told him the job started at $14/hr with full benefits he actually laughed and walked out. As he walked out he said he does better than that sitting...

Just for fun I wanted to show off the extreme temperature differences in California. In San Miguel it's going to be 109F today and 27 miles away at the beach in Morro Bay the high will only reach 65F. It's amazing that the 1500ft Santa Lucia mountains can cut off the cold Pacific air so well.

My wife's Outback has about 360 miles on the 0w30 AFE and I'm noticing lower oil temps. This is not scientific and I'm not 100% sold on my claims, just an observation for now. I was expecting maybe a few degrees hotter when moving up to a 30 grade but the opposite has happened. The previous oils...

I put on the Fumoto yesterday, I'm using the blue fiber washer and the long nipple version, F108N. No drips or seeps yet and if it does I'll change to a factory crush washer. I'd say there is almost 2" of clearance between the bottom of the nipple and the bottom of the plastic cover. Even...

I'm not worried about the lead, I'll see how it plays out next time. I was a little surprised that the BC had better TBN that the Gold bottled extended performance from the previous OCI. I have at least 2 more 10K BC OCI's in the AZ discount stash. Sorry about the pic, I'm not on a real computer.

The wife's grandparents passed down the Crown Vic for our son. Sorry about the bad pic in the oil fill. Seems to be nice and clean in there, has always used that oil with 3-4k oci since 20k. I might switch to a HM oil it I feel guilty with the long history on one oil type.

I think my parents made a big mistake, let me explain. Their VW diesel is getting bought back and they were set to buy an Outback to replace it. They took a look at the new CR-V, fell in love, and rushed to have a March 30th date to recieve the payout. They could have waited until 2018 to take...

Instead of buying my 10 year old a new computer, my mom offered her old ipad (first gen) so she can write a book. I'm looking for a hard cover keyboard to jazz it up and let her type more efficiently. I've searched online quite a bit and haven't found one. Everytime I think I have it, it ends up...

I was never into Jags but I like this old lube chart! Why be concerned about what brand your car wants, just spec them all!

I hear a lot about using a thicker oil to increase the oil pressure. In my 2005 Silverado 5.3 I have noticed the opposite effect. When I used to use Amsoil I always noticed my pressure drop as the oil thickened over the 15k OCI. I recently changed my oil to Castrol 0-30 which we all know is...

Is this oil just a 75w80 gl5? The 5 gallon bucket of it says 75w80 and the alternate is 75w90 gl5, what do you think? I'm planning my first front diff oil change and looking for options. (2016 Outback 2.5) The few companies that make 75w80 gl5 don't recommend it for Subaru right now.

My local morning news made a big deal about warming centers being open today because it's going to rain for 3 hours and the high temperature is only going to be 59 degrees! LOL...

So I have to drive from central CA to southern CA in a few hours. I'm debating which road to take. I5 is open and I want to go that way but there is another chance of rain and I don't want to be delayed from another mud slide. Does anyone from the area have any recommendations?

Well I know I didn't need to but I really wanted to so I changed out the FF at 782 miles. I noticed it started to look dirty on the rag when wiping the dipstick so I went for it. I was really surprised that it was black as coal in the drain pan, I'm glad I changed it now. I could tell that the...

Well my wife's new Outback has an oil temp guage so I can't obsess out weather to use 20 30 or 40 grade oil so much. If it runs cool I'll give up my dreams of running 0w40 M1!

I talked myself out of going to the shop to save money and change the rear diff oil myself. It has no drain so the cover has to be opened. I did buy a lube locker gasket so i didn't have to worry about the rtv. I've used rtv in the past with 100% success rate but I'm lazy now. I washed the axle...

At 100k I changed out the smurf fluid on my 2005 Silverado and if I remember right it was still blue. This time at 150k it is very black. Does anyone know if that is somewhat normal or is it burning up something? I use my 4X4 almost every weekend. Both the oci were 50k.