Recent content by t0ked

No cash. There is no attendant booth per say. AmEx is the only credit card and any debit card is accepted. You must swipe your member card before using the pump or the combined AmEx/membership card.

My father owned a 1981 Caddy Sedan Deville with the dreaded V8-6-4 engine. Check engine light after hitting every pothole due to dumb routing of wiring harness. Weekends were used to fix the Caddy. It was [censored] brown exterior with a [censored] brown vinyl interior. Granted I did learn to...

Meatball Shop, Redhead, Crif Dogs, DBGB, Saxon+Parole, Prune. Just a few of my favorites just outside of SoHo but easily walkable. Soho has become a bit cliched and chichi, but you can't go wrong at Mercer Kitchen, and Pegu Club which are my regular places. But so many restaurants to go to...

I see workplaces and schools do this all the time. Diet drinks are as bad as full sugar drinks but in different ways. Aside from carbonated drinks ruining teeth and leeching calcium from bones, diet drinks also raise insulin levels. But with no actual sugar to work on, it just hangs out in the...

A Costco near me just opened a gas station and I've been using strictly Costco fuels on my cars for the last 2 months. They are consistently $0.20 cheaper than average fuel prices in the NYC area. I don't notice any change in my family's cars, except for one. My father has a 2006 Explorer with...

My X301. Love it. With the battery slice that goes in where the optical drive was, I used to go almost 6 hours of heavy use. light and strong. Before that was my X41. I still have it but that with that slow HDD, I can't even tolerate booting it up! I've been spoiled by my SSD. Obviously, I love...

The one main problem with the 3700V1 is its mediocre NAT table. Newer versions and later models have much larger tables. On the 3700v1, 3-4 clients running torrents, online games, or other packet intensive apps will cause the thing to crash. the 4500 ans the new Asus models have much larger...

BTW, to GMBoy... I loved the Astro/Safari vans. We used to rent those all the time when going on big family road trips. Big, powerful, reliable. The only problem was rear wheel drive. I got stuck in a freak hail/snow storm in colorado while renting one of those. Never did so many (non...

Chrysler transmissions SUCK! Especially on their minivans. I can tell when a chrysler pulls up to the intersection outside my house without even looking out the window by listening to that ridiculously loud CREAK they all make when down shifting. My family has a 99 caravan... 3 transmissions. 2...

Pull the PCB and then drill some holes through the drive. Unless you've got some serious a$$holes going through your stuff, your data will be safely destroyed that way. This is the way I dispose of my drives. I love using my DeWalt...

I love my Pro Dry. I bought the entire CAI from aFe for my FJ Cruiser. It is basically the same as the TRD intake offered for the FJ, except TRD comes with an oiled filter. Great construction as everyone mentioned and top notch quality on all parts delivered.

Funny thread. Funny OP.

guess I'm anal about changing fluids. I've also changed my differential gear oil twice already. Well, car is paid for and I want it running forever.

I have 2 quarts of Castrol Synthetic ATF. I was thinking of adding them to my tranny. I've been using Mobil1 ATF for the longest. I usually drain and fill my tranny fluid 1-2x a year, so at this point, it is likely all Mobil1 ATF. Would people not recommend mixing or would this be fine?

Formula Shell is fine. It's what I've been using in my clean and rinse phase. Discounted at Costco. It's a pretty basic dino oil. A couple of UOA showed that it does surprisingly well. The additive package is not too robust as to interfere with AutoRx. Frank has used AutoRx with CastrolGTX