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Per title, '99 Camry 5SFE which for inexcusable reasons I've neglected. 150,000 miles on her; short-duration/miles in-city usage. I'm setting myself up for some major hurt, here, and I wanna pull back from the precipice. I want to ease-off the sludge by slowly dissolving it. Car has a 5MT, it's...

Canada is facing an incredible raft of car thefts, mostly in Central- and Eastern Canada. Cars get stolen, put into containers, and shipped to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, mostly, via the port of Montreal. I'm on the west coast... still an issue, but somewhat less so... My question: if...

Caveats: i) Not a fancy video, and it's a mite long (I encourage folks to stick with it to the end); ii) English is not the Presenter's first language; he speaks clearly albeit with an accent; and iii) Probably the Presenter ought to call the synchro rings "blocker rings" ('cuz until they...

Per title... and due to the slope I want to have two different elevations of TOC (top of concrete) and possibly three separate garage doors. Any comments in that specific regard would be appreciated, well, particularly re how to do the garage apron... which I'm obligated to have. 2' apron is the...

Was clearing out my mom's house a couple of years ago when she passed and I came across two cans of pcmo... Veedol and B/A. See attached photos. The B/A can-top, that's self explanatory... but I have to admit the sae grade designation is a bit confusing to me... SAE 20-20W (not like how we'd...

My flex joint is broken (result of a "bagged" engine mount) - and I want to replace it. My question: typical muffler shops, presumably, would want to see the car "intact", and then it seems to me they'd zip-disk-cut-out (or sawz-all cut out) the broken flex joint at locations that are i)...

Can someone perhaps direct me to where those two topics are- or were being discussed? i) I was wondering if the Chevy-Shake phenomenon has ever been solved, and whether buying a 'Burb beyond a certain model year would be before- or beyond the prb years... and ii) also whether Active Fuel Mgt...

This may be a stretch for most of the Forum participants due to the median age of people here, but I have a question - related, as the title suggests, to mostly three-speed domestic car manual transmissions. There was a time when synchromesh was only on second and "high" gear. Now I know in...

I present comparative engine health testing results on my '99 Corolla... with about 127,000 miles on it. Car was acquired with about 100,000 miles, some 15 or so years ago. Not much use 🙂. I tested the car cold, using the FAA directed leakdown testing method (used for piston engined aircraft)...

Per the title, this is the second (😡) time this has happened on my '97 Civic EX 2 dr 😡. Per the pix, attached, the rubber portion of the dipstick has shrunk and now it's a sloppy fit into the hole in the transaxle case. As indicated, this was a new dipstick I bought, and it, too, now is sloppy...

Per the detailed title, I both have the above 3 codes being registered and, somewhat strangely to my way of thinking, I am experiencing a low rpm miss that comes-in just beyond cold start. ... Meaning, all is good until coolant temp is closer to normal operating temp. Also, this misfire appears...

Any thoughts on the thread title? Thanks in advance to any/ all who answer. Oh, btw... aluminum head.

I have a '97 Civic 2 dr; SOHC VTech (sp?)... D Series engine. The car has 62,000 miles and has been off the road the last 3 yrs. I just changed the fuel (lifted the fuel pump, siphoned the fuel out, put AKI 94 fuel with stabilizer in). The car had a new timing belt + new wtr pump some 13 years...

General question for my learned sisters and brothers: As some of us try to get every last mile out of our respective cars or trucks the eventuality of very $pendy or unavailable ABS units starts to be evident (at least in my experience). So the question becomes: will an ABS based brake system...

I'm generally not an old car kind of guy, but I think the following is a cool car... albeit likely VERY heavy on fuel. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-chrysler-300b-4/ It's got a Hemi (and batwing aircleaner to two 4V carbs). What's very rare is the three speed manual. It's not on the...

Per the attached three snapshots, I am embarrassed to say that my outdoors-stored 2017 Mazda is full of organics buildup, on never-waxed paint 🙁. As Mazda's have extremely thin clearcoat, I would like to poll the Learned members of this forum re how to proceed. I am willing to accept leaving...

Per the attached three photos I just bought an apparently Non-Serviceable case-size 51 reversed terminal, 490 CCA battery for my Honda Civic ('97). I asked, at Polar Batteries, whether I could buy a similar battery with removable caps... but they had no such beast. I am a bit uncomfortable with...

This is a bit long, but pretty funny. Those '70's Porsche's hehe... and please don't tell me this isn't a "real" P-car 🙂. https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

My question to Forum members who are in the know re these dual clutch automated-manual transmissions relates to whether, domestically, there exists any infrastructure (yet) to dig-in to these 'boxes. Any specialist Companies out there. I've heard that for Porsche's PDK, the answer is no... and...

"Backlight" meaning rear window... Do folks have any experience with this? My '97 Civic coupe is pretty cherry; has only about 60,000 miles on it, but of course is now 25 years old. The ravages of time, not mileage... I have water leak(s) in the trunk. Honda used comparatively little (and...