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Doing a LIM and head gaskets in a 04 impala with the 3400 and 304900 on the odo. After pulling the heads was extremely impressed by the condition of the cylinders and had to share. The owner is a customer of ours who runs a taxi service in town - this one sees the longer trips as well as in...

Heads up on these - just got this email from a supplier Good afternoon, This email only concerns the customers that are utilizing the VALVOLINE brand oil filters. FYI, on an issue with the VO105 filter from Valvoline. In extremely cold temperatures there are issues with the seals causing...

Okay I have to ask. My 01 F150 is now going on its 7th idler arm since i have owned it (2008). 160k miles with a 16 mile daily commute (6 miles gravel with 2 of those miles on rough section line road. I am getting tired of replacing these, it is [censored] near ever year. The rest of the...

I currently have 15w40 rotella in the sump and previous fill was 10w40 m1 4T. In the morning I usually have very little time to warm up the bike (10-15 seconds of idle before i'm in gear and rolling. For about the first 2 minutes or so of my ride shifting is quite stiff/rough and my clutch drags...

We had a fire last week in one of our storage shops from what both the fire marshal and insurance inspector believe was a damaged extension cord. We had one outdoor cord that ran heat lamps in the chicken coop on a timer. Cord was plenty heavy for the job ( 10/3 cord powering 3 - 125 watt lamps)...

Alright so I have a newer HP laptop with windows 8 and the hdd just died without warning. Right now I can't get into windows and when I try to do anything in the recovery menu it says the drive is locked. I have chkdsk running via command prompt trying to correct any errors and unlock the drive...

Just thinking, I was riding motorcycle in a light jacket yesterday! 8-12 inches of snow forcasted and 45 mph winds.

Last week my probe had a messy divorce with its clutch. My truck is currently in mn with my sister so I had to take a car off the lot. It came from from Las Vegas Adesa auction last week and I was only planning on taking it home for a night. Well needless to say I fell in love with it and...

Tonight I just finished replacing all spark plugs in my truck. All the plugs and 7 of the coils are original with 140k and hundreds of idle hours. Old plugs had .090 to over .100 gap and the truck had noticeable misfire cold and under load. I reused all the coil and boots after cleaning and...

Last night on my way home from hunting my car started acting strange. At idle it misses on 1-2 cylinders, one is pretty much a dead miss and the other is intermittent. At low rpms/speed it feels like the brakes are dragging and bogs quite a bit until 3500 RPM or so and on the highway the car has...

Decided to put ball joints in the truck,lowers had some bad play and figured it was time to do it. Passenger wheel bearing was rough as well so that was going to be replaced. But for the life of me I can not get the axle out of the hub. Driver side was a bit hard but air hammer knocked it...

In my f150 I noticed since I have started driving it again it has a pretty bad bog. When it is cold and you pull out anything under half throttle it slowly takes off and it sounds like the engine is laboring, then after a few seconds it comes out of it and pulls normal. Once hot the bog is gone...

So August is normally when I change all my vehicles. My truck however only has about 4k on the M1 0w20 and I don't really want to dump it when their is life left in it. Summer is 90% pulling a 7500lb trailer and mostly all highway, sitting for a few weeks at a time, no DD. Winter is all short...

Car needed new front gasket as was leaking into the wells so I figured might as well take a few pictures. It is cleaning up great and quite pleased overall. Bit of background on the car: Was purchased 2 years ago, and sat until last December. Car had 57k on it at the time, and is currently at...

Hey all, looking for a little advice on an oil for our new showcar. While its more of a racing engine than a street engine, the oil we are looking for will be used for cruising around town and car shows, so many cold starts, very few rpms, and almost no throttle. Background on the engine, it is...

hey all, Tomorrow im going with my mom to pick up her new rav4. has 0 miles on it and i want to know what you guys think is best to break it in. i already got the oci all figured out, 5k on ff, then dump for m1 0w20 every 5k. but i will be the first to drive it and i want to know if i should lay...

Hey all, Tonight when i was changing alts in my car, I started thinking about if syn oils really make an engine that much cleaner inside. Since one of our tow trucks was down having new bushings in the autoload, and i needed to flush brake fluid in my truck I figured I would compare. Quick...

Whats the best cold weather oil, either 20 or 30 weight. after jan first(my next oil change) the weather really starts getting cold and I would like the thinnest oil at startup possible. temps drop to 5 degrees to 5 below nightly, and will dip a few days into the 30s and 40s below. The oil...

Hello. Over the last week I have been trying to figure out a good oil for one of our cars. Its a 71 Dodge superbee with a 440 in it. Its pretty built, running 13:1 compression, alum heads, and a large cam. Last time it was on the rollers it pulled 805.7 on the 200 shot. The car is mostly use for...

I just purchased a 2001 ford f150 with the 5.4. Engine looks great and runs amazing, but i do know the prev owner changed the oil every 3k with M1. but, in the 130k miles, never changed the tranny fluid. it shifts nice and nothing is loose, but i have been told by a few mechanics that if i...