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I added a catch can and my coolant loss disappeared for a long time, then one day I started loosing coolant again. it took a couple of weeks to figure out the catch tank was leaking!

Its hard to do burnouts with a big dually truck.

My building days are over. I no longer have the desire, the drive, the money, nor the parts to build another ride. My body has been telling me its time for the last 3 builds. Every one was more difficult then the one before it. Even just keeping the ones I have maintained is getting tough. I...

Placing bolts to hold things in place looks easy until you add a few more things. Then what was easy suddenly becomes not so easy sometimes. After a while, you grow an understanding why some cars are assembled the way they are, and why some of those bolts are just hard to get at to remove...

You can but LED bulbs that fit into the old incandescent bulb fixtures, just the bulb itself that replaces the 1157 bulbs. I have not personally used them, but I know a few guys that do, and they tell me they last longer then the old 1157 bulbs did. Those do not have the dot LED look. I have...

Wasn't much great detective work going on at that point, it was more of the idea of "What should we try now?' I was pretty much the guy operating the screwdriver, and just throwing out thoughts like the other guys there. I know we replaced a lot of those HEI rotors those first few years. By 78...

I agree with Mercury Mac. Go with the LED bulbs with the LED flasher that has the ground wire. If your using OEM light housings (front or rear), you really need to be sure the inside of the housing (that surrounds the bulb) has a good, smooth painted (or reflective) surface. A white painted...

I have a process list with every build. I make up a lit of the things I need (or want), then put them in the order in which they need to be done (you soon discover that some things just need to be done before others). For me usually I had money to buy parts but no time to work on the project, or...

That gas station I worked at was a Mobil. We had a Hostess bread truck and a US Mail privet carrier (under contract with the US Mail for that specific route) 1 ton truck that both got parked in the garage at the gas station every night. Both trucks left the building early in the morning. The...

My wife had flowers with open blooms on them in her flower bed on the south side of our house this morning, up here in the north west corner of IL. These flowers are about 3 weeks ahead of normal this year. We had 70s yesterday, and upper 60s before the cold front came through this afternoon...

The 1st job I ever had was at a 3 bay gas service station. There were 2 lifts and a wash bay, that served as a mechanics bay until Friday, when the car washes started for the weekends. They also had a wheel alignment rack out behind the building. Besides the boss, there were two mechanics on...

Ha ha ha! I'm betting that doesn't turn as well as he thought is was going to.

You got me beat, I was too old to do that stuff 25 years ago, no wait, 30 years ago... No wait, actually I would have never done that. There is a reason I was a mechanic and a welder. I can't do anything wood, or anything very far off the ground.

Those 4.7s don't have a very good reputation. There were some valve seat issues, lifter seat issues, clogged up oil galley issues, and timing belt guide issues. From what I have heard, the clogged up oil galley is bad news, but once the other issues have been addressed, the motor seems to be...

Is that a challenge???? LOL! I'm smart enough not to accept that challenge. I know me. LOL!

Yea, I'll try to keep the stories short stories. (y)

When we lived out in the country, we had a well and a septic tank. We did not have a holding tank, and the pressure tank was only about 3 gallons. The well was suppose to be 150' deep. We lived there 16 years, and had 2 children. We never had an issue with either the well nor the septic tank or...

Thanks. I've spend a lot of years translating automotive and heavy machine operation functions to people without an understanding of how those functions work. I often get accused of writing books because most of those translations get wordy. Blame that 12 grade writing comprehension class...

I don't remember our family having a black and white TV. I do remember we had a color TV but a lot of shows were still in black and white. Does that make me an "almost old fart"? :D I'll be turning 68 later this year.

The total timing on a Mopar is deemed to provide the best performance at 36 degrees total advance. If the motor pings at that 36 degrees of total advance, you either add higher octane fuel, or you reduce the total timing until the pinging quits. Reducing the timing generally reduces the maximum...