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my 94 Integra with 150K miles on it is getting harder and harder to get into 1st gear while it is cold. its a little better when warmed up. i wonder f there is anything that i can add to it to help it. any suggestions?

hi. i test fuel injectors regularly. i used to use gas but the post office has a fit and wont ship them with gas in them. now i use water and a digital flow meter. i used to have problems with the injectors if they sat around on the shelf for more than a few weeks. the water would react with the...

hi. i have about 50 sets of GM TBI units with the 2 large injectors to clean. i will be selling them on ebay sometime soon. i have set up my pump and cleaning rig and now am shopping for some cleaner to run through them to make sure that they flow well. what are the best active ingredients to...

if i use rubbing alcohol (70%) alcohol mixed along with a fuel injector cleaner, will the 30% water cause any rust in an injector that is stored? i am going to be cleaning a whole bunch of injectors this winter down in the basement and i am trying to keep it somple and i cannot use gasoline in...

i am looking at doing some injector cleaning in my basement this winter. i used to do this in the garage at my old place using b12 chemtool with good results. now i will have to do it inside in an area where chemical smells and flammable liquids will be a problem. my question is can i use a non...

i am working on my sisters 99 escort wih 157k miles on it. i pulled the valve cover today and it was about as sludged up as you can get. black goo everywhere. i ased her what oil she uses. she gave me a blank stare. that's all i got out of her before she went to the airport. i drove the car...

i am doing a upper cylinder decarbon ization on my sisters 99 escort with 157k miles on it. i used 4 bottles of 50% rubbing alcohol to do it. i dont think that it would hurt anything and that it might offer extra cleaning action over plain old water. whadda ya think? am i just crazy?

hi. i just got a new 2 hp craftsman mini-tiller with the tecumseh motor. it works pretty good and all that. what should i use? i have not owned a 2 stroke anything in 15 years. i am sure that there is some good stuff out there in regards to 2-stroke oil and engine oil. any suggestionsz?

hi. i have an empty bottle with fitting used by a chevy dealer to clean the fuel injectors on GM vehicles. apparently you disconnect the power to the fuel pump, hook this up to the test valve on the fuel rail and run the vehicle on the contents of the bottle. i was thinking about using laquer...

i have been saddled with the task of cleaning up about 40 old valve covers and lots of underhood parts for sale. after using pb blaster, mineral spirits, gojo, naptha, ext i am sore of hand and about 10% of the way done. is there anything that will make easy work our of this old baked on carbon...

i am getting a frantz bypass filter to put on the old 95 acura integra. 128k miles, just getting ready for second auto-rx clean cycle. when it gets done i will probably use gc gold. with proper use of LC20 and TP changes every 2500 can i safely push the OCI to 10k? has anybody tried this on a...

i have a 95 integra. it has 126k miles on it and i am putting a frantz TP bypass on it when i get done with the auto-rx dino oil. i want to run at least 15k OCI's on it with a make up quart every 3k miles and LC20 added when needed. can anybody give me a reccomendation on where to start? i am...

i am getting the dreaded output shaft bearing noise on my beloved 1994 integra. it say for 6 months last year and it started making the noise afterwards. it is getting harder to shift. what can i do to limp this thing along a little while longer? what fluid can i use? can i flush it? thanks. james.

i went to google and typed in "Motor Guard oil Filter" and up came the link that said "Ralph Wood brings you his Motor Guard bypass lube oil filter ..." and i clicked on it and up came a porn site. the address of the site is "http://85.255.117.38/site.htm?lng=1&trg=rc" i think you might want to...

i am looking at putting a bypass filter in my 94 acura integra. possibly frantz, possibly motorguard. i would like to tap it into the oil pressure sensor port on the engine. it seems the easiest to do. i only wonder about the oil light staring me in the face all of the time. i would rather avoid...

i am getting a 5-30 kendall oil change for my auto-rx clean phase from the local firestone dealer. i have never heard anything about it. does anybody use it regularly?

hard carbon deposits. every engine with any amount of miles on it has them. you are only seeing the small ones that can get through the oil filter screen.

has anyone ever shown dyno results from before and after the auto rx cleaning regimen? everybody has a butt dyno, not all are properly calibrated.

i shag used car part on ebay sometimes. i recently started using laquer thinner to clean them. it works pretty well. is anything better? i am wearing out toothbrushes at an alrming rate with this stuff.

i just bought a 1994 integra with 124k miles on it. it runs ok but not like a friends newer integra with 80k miles and the same engine. i pulled the valve cover and got some pics for a before/after of auto/rx. no major build up but black gook and varnish everywhere. i did a compression check and...