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Greetings, I want to get my wife a video camera as a gift. She likes to film the dogs, wildlife, outdoor activities, etc which she now does with her laptop. Have heard good things about both Sony and GoPro. Any recommendations? Thanks. Nibbana

Greetings Oilmen. I use Lucas extra heavy duty grease in my mower spindles and some Ag equipment. It used to be available at Walmart. Now all they have is the Red'nTacky. Walmart worker says it's a distributor issue. Doesn't know when they'll have it in again. The cheapest on ebay is $24/tube...

I have been looking at WalMart for "regular" M1 10-30 oil for months now and can't find it. They have the "high mileage", "extended performance" and maybe some other types of Mobil 1. But can't find the regular old bare bones stuff that I've been using since the 80's. No problem getting the M1...

Greetings Oil Men, Need a new water pump for my 1993 E350. It is a bit of a pain to replace this thing so I don't want to do it again. And I don't want to break down. But I don't plan on putting many more miles on the vehicle either. A new Gates from RockAuto is $30, ACDelco $60, Motocraft $70...

Greetings Oil Men. About a year ago I went to check the Transmission fluid in my 1993 E350 5.8L gas. The dipstick felt like it was stuck but I pulled hard and it came out. I noticed there was a spot where the dipstick had rusted to the inside of the filler tube. Didn't make a lot of sense to...

Greetings Oilmen, I need to replace the rear brake line in my 2002 E150. Rock Auto has the Poly Armour PVF and the nickle copper. What's the best? Have to drop the tank to do this. Thanks. Nibbana

Greetings Ye Merry Oilmen, I use 93 octane fuel (e10 AFAIK) with StarTron fuel additive in all my outdoor power equipment. I have had to clean varnish flakes out of carbs on both the Echo string trimmer and the Husq hedge trimmer so far this year. They don't get used often but at least a few...

Greetings. I disconnected the battery in my wifes 2013 Kia Rio in order to replace the starter. I replaced the starter and the car starts, runs and drives as it should. Except there is no clock or radio. Fuse is good. Manual says after the battery is disconnected clock must be reset by holding...

Greetings oil men. My wife's starter failed on her 2013 Kia Rio. The availability and prices are all over the place. I want new and don't want to compromise on quality. Napa has one for $246. Ebay ranges from $77 to over $300 for claimed oem. The oem I have failed after only 135K miles, mostly...

I have a squeaky smog pump in my 1993 E350, 5.8l. I have had the thing out twice and was able to lube all the bearings pretty well except the front bearing, which I attempted to soak in oil overnight by just setting that end down and putting oil in there. No success. Still squeaks. Don't really...

Just replaced all four ball joints on the 2002 E150 with new Moog grease type. (Broke one 24oz ball peen handle swinging on the axle yoke. Steering knuckles looked like Titanic anchor.) What's a good lube interval for these? IIRC, they used to say 1K or 2K miles. Don't want to do that again...

Wondering if anybody knows the answer to this. I am going to replace a toilet and want to get an American Standard Champion 4. They come in one piece and two piece models. I would like to get the one piece but was told by a plumber that (years ago) they didn't like the one piece toilets because...

I have changed many, many spark plugs in my life but don't ever recall having a bad spark plug. I changed the spark plugs on the wife's Kia yesterday. The old Champion copper plugs were essentially perfect. The gap had opened about .005 in 30K miles but if I had regapped them I don't see why...

Got four new General Altimax for the Kia Reo on December 30 2015 at the local WalMart. Without checking, I'd say 40-50K miles on this set of tires as of now, two years later. The receipt from WalMart says P185/65/15 which is what the door jam says and the owner's manual says. Had a damaged tire...

I have about 60psi of static pressure in the system. When I turn the ac on, the clutch engages but quickly cycles off at 85psi high side, 26psi low side. I jumpered out the two pin pressure switch so that the ac clutch remains engaged. The pressures are 90psi high side and 14psi low side with...

I am not getting any cool air out of the front vents with temp set on cool and selector on vent or A/C. I am getting heat. The A/C compressor is cycling on and off around 26psi and 46psi. The truck has a rear A/C unit and it is blowing cool air. So I assume the A/C is working but the blend door...

Here's a very nice trick I got off a guy on one of the Ford truck sites. To replace the fuel pump on a full size van you have two options that I know of. The first is to drop the fuel tank. This was pretty much out of the question for me as the truck was sitting outside in the snow and not...

The circulator pump gaskets on my oil fired boiler/hot water baseboard heat are leaking. I was going to shut the valve above the pump and shut the zone valves, and drain about 1/3 of the water from the boiler to get the level below the pump. Do I need to worry about purging any air out of the...

This is the first time I have seen this idea. Absolutely fantastic. Can't wait to see these on daily drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3cFfM3r510

I have a 2006 Chevy Aveo with 207K+ miles, standard transmission. The car normally idles around 800rpm. Recently, when I have a lot of accessories running, (lights, fan on high, wipers, etc) when I slow down to come to a stop and push in the clutch the idle drops to around 500-600 rpm and then...