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You may well be right. I'm still apprehensive about it, just seems very light in the rear.

4L65 or 4L80? I know some of the 4L60/65's could be a gamble, some doing high miles and some... not... not trying to poke sticks at GM. But I believe the 4L80 is a bit more stout, hence the question.

No idea, never tried. It does feel a bit high geared taking off--remember, this is the single speed CVT, no launch gear, I didn't get the 2.0 with that CVT. Other countries don't seem to list a towing capacity for this transmission, which kinda puts a damper on things. My biggest holdback? I...

Bolts in cardboard is good, baggies with marker is good, but usually I don't take stuff apart and wait weeks before getting back to it. So I usually just have a mess and hope I remember where it all goes. Will say, sometimes I can thread the bolt back into whatever place it came out of, after...

That was just a couple of years, first year woes. Many got replaced under warranty, thus leaving it questionable just how many are still in the wild with this potential issue. Want to say, their biggest issues are lifter failures (which may take out the camshaft?) and oil coolers. The oil...

I suspect this gets driven little, more show than go. If actually used, breakage expected if not celebrated.

Probably does. And I bet the entire setup will sound awesome. Designed in a time looking for cheap, I do believe. Many tradeoffs to control cost I bet. I recall seeing in Hot Rod magazine, Bonneville salt flat, someone used a reground cam so they could use the exhaust ports for intakes and...

Seen it done. No idea if it's to code, but I tend to think, it's from someone trying to be over the top on protection. Not sure it hurts anything. But I don't bother, don't see the reason--you remove the cover, you're your own warranty. When I did some wiring recently I put all the outlets...

As long as it's name brand, how bad can it be? I did buy TBK to do my timing belt on my last car. Then again, it was non-interference, so I had little to lose... Name brand parts, just packaged up by TBK.

Spent a half hour reading up on the Social Security tax torpedo... after that, the last thing I want to do right now is think. Time to watch some youtube or something.

They'd probably sleep through it. Maybe wait a few hours until the hangover starts...

Yep. Fun to sit in on the quarterly report and hear that there's a bonus for last year's effort--and that furloughs aren't off the table. And no pay raise this year. Absolutely beats layoffs, those are no fun to sit through. I remember one year getting my bonus the same week as I took a...

That was my first thought. EV demand may be down, but the market may be down in general, EV and ICE. As you state, everything's expensive now.

True, although I need a trailer hitch on my next car. I regret getting my Corolla due to this--I don't trust it to tow even a small 4x8 trailer. Next vehicle needs that and the ability to move a mobility scooter. But I think I'm moving out of the tightwad category. That's probably my...

Not sure. Guessing $5k and up. Plus another $1k for R&R. Depends on the vehicle and what transmission it is. Maybe you can get lucky and score a junkyard find at a grand, but you still have to install, and it's still a gamble. CVT's don't seem rebuildable, and I want to say I've heard of...

Can’t one say the same thing about any of the latest automatic transmissions?

Been wondering where you were! In college I wound up with my own font… I tend to alternate between block and cursive, whatever is faster. As long as I can read it, I don’t care what others think of it.

Bummer. I usually have it just about right, but had a good year and sold off some RSU’s that vested, so I have to write a check this year (err, wife does, she seems to like this stuff). I keep a spreadsheet for my budget. I have in it the tax brackets and thus can estimate my tax load. But...

Got the brakes done yesterday. The service mode for the electronic parking brake didn't work properly, or more likely, I didn't do my bit properly. Regardless: applied 12V, got the darn thing disengaged, was able to press the pistons back in. Done. I think the prior years had a manual e brake...

I can see why. I've pressed coworkers to document their work. And have a separate tool where I would track project status. Intent being, how did we get here. Too often I have found us documenting the answer but not the reason why. People have to follow a process, and to make it easy to...