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I dug into my Regal today to perform some major repairs: timing set, vacuum pump, and transmission fluid change. I know everyone loves pictures, so here goes: Plugs with ~8k miles Old timing components: New balance shaft components installed: New timing components with ZZP upgraded main...

I picked up 20k shares 4/15 at market open for .03, held a bit too long but sold yesterday just before noon yesterday at .065 for a nice little $666.18 profit. Not huge numbers, of course, but I played with what I was comfortable losing and ended up winning a little. Did anyone else here dabble?

Complete useless post, just wanted to share my excitement in receiving my first ever order from HPL: 6 quarts of 75w90 cold climate that should be enough for 2 changes in my Regal's transmission, and a quart of the 30 weight engine cleaner. That'll be going in after I get the timing chain...

My Regal needs the vacuum pump replaced to cure an oil leak, so I decided to pull the valve cover and do an inspection. Boy am I glad I did: Look at that slop! I'm sure it's original @ 120k, so off to ZZP I go to order a complete timing set including their upgraded timing guides and bolts...

I know lots of my fellow members need Toyota pink coolant so here you go. Menomonie, WI location for anyone local that wants to stop by.

Upcoming flight MSP-SLC and back, originally booked Comfort+ both ways. After a few weeks, the price of First for the outbound dropped from over $300/pp to $140/pp, so I jumped on it as my partner hasn't flown in a LONG time and this will be our first "trip" together. Fast forward to today, I...

Well, it's official: she's gone to her new home. I connected with the buyer through one of the Reatta Facebook groups I'm a part of, really nice younger guy. He, his wife, and their baby drove up from Des Moines using the opportunity to stop at the Mall of America before making the drive out to...

If anyone needs an AC compressor for their 89-94ish GM 3800 equipped vehicle, this would be a great way to save some money. I received this compressor with a slight bend in the clutch plate so RA is sending me another one and don't want this one back. Other than the clutch needing to be...

I ordered a (wholesale closeout) new AC compressor for the Reatta, long story short I got it installed before I noticed the part had been dropped and the clutch plate was slightly bent. I initiated a return last night (Sunday), got an email before noon central time asking for photos of the...

Not sure if this is at all Menards locations, but I was in yesterday in Rice Lake, WI and they had 10-12 jugs of QS Full Syn for $20 and change. All the other weights were marked at $60+ and were all gone, and the single quarts were still priced at $6.99/ea. Just posting in case anyone needs to...

In my case, 5th gear gets skipped 95% of the time. The 4-5-6 spacing in the Regal is just too close, so I've found that holding 4th gear up to 55 and then shifting directly to 6th lands me right around 1,800 RPM. 2k RPM is really the sweet spot when cruising, there's plenty of torque available...

Well, I finally took the prepaid plunge. I've been a T-mobile customer in one way or another since '07 (technically left for Sprint in '10, which was then merged back into TMO), but paying $65/mo for one line while using absolutely none of the "perks" just became too wasteful to ignore. I took...

As the title states. I met with an orthopedist yesterday to finally get my shoulder pain diagnosed, and his opinion is I have a partially torn labrum in my left shoulder. I have an MRI scheduled for next week, depending on the damage I'm hopeful I can skip surgery but given the symptoms my...

The wife and I were considering buying a small pickup to use for gardening chores and whatnot, however my FIL has a 2006 Ranger 2x4 2.3 that we'll be inheriting at some point so we decided to look into getting a small trailer instead. It's really only going to be used for gardening projects...

The 1080p HDR stream through Paramount+ looked INCREDIBLE on my Sony A95K OLED. Even my mother commented on how good it looked during the halftime show. I heard the YTTV 4k upscaled stream looked great as well.

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I opened my Zillow "Home Report" email only to find an active listing! I sold the place for $245k on August 25th, and it was listed for sale for $250k on January 22nd. The information in the listing is HILARIOUS to me, as it's chock full of blatant lies...

I usually make a point to swing through the automotive aisle whenever the Mrs. and I visit WM, and this was today's discovery. This XG 9018 was part of what looked like a freshly stocked row, and my GOD is it bad! So bad, in fact, that my completely auto oblivious girlfriend commented: "Wow, is...

Cleaning out some of my HiFi stuff, figured I'd see if anyone here might be interested: I've got a pair of very clean Boston Acoustics VR1 floor standing speakers along with a Paradigm Studio CC V2 center channel. One woofer on the center channel has a missing dust cap on the cone, but works...

The Regal is coming up on 5k miles since purchase, so I'm going to dump whatever the previous owner used and start fresh. I was at WM today and picked up this oil change package: FRAM XG9018 - DOM 23323 (11/19/23) 6 x quarts of Castrol Euro Car 5w30 (API SL) - DOM 23318 (11/14/23) So all in...

Just a quick heads up to those here with TMO: give them a call or chat (I used Facebook Messenger through their page) and request that the "Stay Magenta" promo be added to your account. You can choose between 6x $10/mo or 2x $25/mo in credits. I was already planning on leaving after my 2...