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Hello BITOGers. Maybe you can help. My daughter's 2011 Buick Lacrosse is missing two of the six air cleaner box bolts that close the intake upper over the filter. We discovered this when we changed the air filter today. Apparently, the places that serviced her car and "checked and inspected"...

Hello BITOG-ers. I have an iphone question. Maybe your experiences can assist. I leave the screen brightness down while I am home. Then, I find myself outside and the brightness is still down. I then can't see the screen to do the passcode entry. Is it possible to set the iphone brightness...

Hello BITOG-ers. I am reporting in a hack that might be useful to others: use black RTV to repair torn speaker foam. In my case, it was the built-in subwoofer on am old Dell XPS laptop. It is maybe2 inches in diameter, so is a small speaker. The surround suspension foam had torn all around the...

Hello BITOG crew. I have seen other posts like this and so am doing one. There is healing in the telling, even if anonymous. I never thought I would feel this way about a pet. Our cat Jack died yesterday. He was 15+ years old. My wife had him since he was born and brought him into our...

If you haven't run your machines in a while, give them a good look before running them hard. I went to mow the portion of the yard that is still thriving in this drought. I fired up the tractor and bits of stuff came flying out the front. I pulled off the intake and there was a mouse nest. I did...

Yo BITOG crew. My Mazda 6 has a shiny, chrome-y emblem on the steering wheel and every now and then the sun glints off of that right into my eyes. I had thought about dulling it with a scotch brite scrubbing pad or light sandpaper or covering with a paint of some sort such as model paint...

Yo BITOG crew. Is there any reason not to use some leftover hydrostatic fluid or ATF in a chainsaw? I have about a quart of leftover LV Hygard from changing the hydro on my JD 316. Any harm in using that as chain lube (or any power steering or ATF for that matter)? Hygard is one of those...

Last night, my daughter's car was splattered and smeared with red grease. If it is anything like Lucas Red n Tacky, it is going to be an unrighteous pain. To make matters worse, it is now freezing here in MN. She doesn't live with me so, this is all second-hand info. She doesn't have immediate...

Yo Oil Guys. I recently did a siphon/fill of my daughter's car power steering as noted here: post on bitog That got me thinking about next year when I do this to her car again. So I did some research on Chrysler ATF+4 certified brands. I found that most were basically the same except for...