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Thanks, that's good to know. I've had the 100 miles membership for twenty years. Never had to use it, but I always wondered if they would give me a hard time if I wanted it towed home.

Will they tow it to my home instead of a shop? I do all my own repairs, so a tow to a shop is worthless to me.

Maybe it's just the light, but that oil looks like it has some antifreeze and/or water in it.

I always take a voltmeter along when battery shopping. Very often the battery with the highest voltage is one with an earlier date I always take a voltmeter along when I go battery shopping. Often the battery with the most recent date has a substantially lower voltage than one with an older...

Yep, that thumbnail settles the question. Thanks for searching for me. I thought I had done a pretty good job of searching YT on this. I kept getting vids on the spindle nut hubs. Guess I gave up too soon.

Thanks for the replies. I will schedule it for 20 minutes rather than the much longer job I was afraid of !!

So in 2013 Honda Civic went from the big spindle nut type of rear wheel bearing to the kind that has the four bolts . I have a 2013 Civic with a bad rear wheel bearing. This Civic has drum rear brakes. It will be easy to remove the 4 bolts as they are on the outside. My question is: will I be...

There are a lot of chemists around. Most likely, they considered the OP an excellent candidate, but they had other excellent candidates. It would have been slightly better for them to have one more excellent candidate, but not really that important.

Try wearing shoes with a rigid sole. I ride with hiking boots.

Most likely belt tension is too low. The higher viscosity of the cold fluid requires more torque to turn the pump and the grab of the belt is less in the cold. If the belt is just marginally tight, it will work normal at higher temps and slip at colder temps.

Originally Posted by bullwinkle I'm impressed at the ability to do an alignment without a rack, I've always made things worse when I've tried! I've been doing it for 40 years on all our cars and never had excessive tire wear or handling problems. Below is a synopsis of what I have done. It...

Originally Posted by Bottom_Feeder Originally Posted by toad Why would I need to look at the threads? The tie rod adjustment would not work if one side of the shaft was not left handed ! Where I made my mistake was not realizing that only a left handed nut can go on a left handed shaft. Stupid...

Originally Posted by mk378 You can look at the exposed threads on the rod and tell if it is right handed or left handed. Yes that will be useful once I get to wrenching. I was foolishly laboring under the misconception that a right handed nut could be screwed onto a left handed shaft, and...

Originally Posted by Bottom_Feeder OK, I'm going to be 'that guy' and say something snarky but applicable. You feel you're mechanically confident enough to do a driveway alignment on a vehicle but you're unable to visually determine if a threaded rod has left- or right-handed threads? Why...

Originally Posted by Lubener I hope you are doing this on an alignment rack. It sounds to me like you are doing the tape measure method which is ok to get the the alignment shop, otherwise you won't get it close enough.. It would help if you mentioned what you are doing this on. No, not using...

I'm preparing to do a REAR wheel toe in alignment. I see that the REAR tie rod has two jam nuts, one on the outer end and one on the inner end. Is one of these nuts left handed? Both nuts are somewhat corroded so I don't want to turn one of them the wrong way and think it is corrosion that is...

I use a metal measuring tablespoon. If you have steady hands it is easy to pour out a tablespoon or two and the spoon fits nicely into the fuel inlet of our cars. I can get all but maybe a couple of drops into the tank without spilling any. Measuring tablespoons come in a number of different...

Originally Posted by Gebo I just finished changing the brake fluid on my cars and my LS400's cap was a little loose as well. I just got it snug and let it go. Let us know if the new cap fixes it. I got a new cap today and it fixed the loose cap problem. Thanks for all the replies. I'm not...

Originally Posted by NoNameJoe Is the inner screen assembly inside the reservoir? As far as I'm concerned when you lock the cap down, the seal is actually being created between the rubber on the underside of the cap and the plastic assembly inside the reservoir with the screen. There's a bit of...