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| bio | website | twitter.com/glmotorsports |
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| location | Toledo, OH | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | 4 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 73 |
Just another nobody out in the world, banging out some code from time to time...
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Dec 27 |
answered | How to detect a failing car alternator..? |
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Dec 24 |
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2010 Mercury Milan Headlight alignment Horizontal screw should be near the vertical screw. Make sure to check out proper headlight alignment though. Don't just aim it where you think you should, do the measurements. |
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Dec 21 |
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How to prevent body damage and rust from salted roadways? Good point, it's common for the door drain holes to get plugged with debris, thereby not draining and contributing to rust all along the bottom edge of the door! |
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Dec 20 |
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How to prevent body damage and rust from salted roadways? Nokian makes a whole bunch of excellent snow tires. Bridgestone Blizzaks are also quite good. Michelin Arctic-Alpin work pretty well in the Winter as well (not as good in the the deep snow as the other tires I mentioned, but better on ice IMO). |
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Dec 20 |
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How to prevent body damage and rust from salted roadways? Good point on the spray inside wax treatments. I've used LPS3 rust inhibitor with good success to extend the life of expensive/difficult to replace areas. A bodyshop friend of mine swears by waxoyl (and put a bunch of it preventatively in my car when he did the the last set of of rust replacements patches). |
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Dec 20 |
answered | How to prevent body damage and rust from salted roadways? |
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Dec 18 |
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Wet battery durability based on how we start a motorbike engine Standard procedure for starting an airplane is to turn on the beacon light (as a warning to anyone near the airplane) before starting. However, in cold weather that's not done, sometimes even that little extra draw can make the difference between the starter pushing the prop over the hump or not. |
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Dec 11 |
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Alignment is out of spec a tad - should I worry? deleted 4 characters in body |
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Dec 7 |
answered | Alignment is out of spec a tad - should I worry? |
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Dec 6 |
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Sound system volume fades in/out erratically I had a similar problem with a Mitsubishi once. One of the wires in the radio harness was damaged and was intermittently grounding. So briefly that it didn't blow any fuses, but did overheat and eventually melt one of the fuses and part of a wiring harness. Check your fuses to make sure none show any signs of damage. |
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Dec 6 |
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Is it normal for the oil to be dark in color right after an “oil change” in a 10-year old diesel car? Heh, turbo petrol engines with forged pistons tend to dirty oil really fast too... |
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Dec 5 |
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Diesel vs Petrol motorcars. Pro's and cons? Another downside I just thought of. Diesel engines are MUCH harder to re-fire if you run them out of fuel. Which happened to me once because we couldn't find any fuel stations that served up diesel and ended up running out trying to find one... The re-priming process was inconvenient, time-consuming, and we still nearly killed the battery by the time we finally got it restarted after someone brought us some fuel... |
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Dec 5 |
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Is short drive trip bad for your engine? Most notably it's far too short a drive for the engine get fully to temperature and burn out all the moisture. |
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Dec 3 |
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How to properly change out spark plugs? In addition to the anti-seize, it's also wise to put dielectric grease on the contacts on the plug wire to prevent the wires from rusting to/seizing on the plugs. |
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Dec 3 |
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How to reduce vehicle swaying (body sway) Upgraded swaybars are the single best bang for the buck improvement you can make on a car's handling. |
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Nov 28 |
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How long can I drive on a donut spare? My manuals both say that the donut spare tire is only good for 50 miles. |
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Nov 28 |
answered | How old is too old for a new tire? |
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Nov 27 |
answered | Is it OK to replace only 2 tires on an AWD car? |
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Nov 27 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Probably a stupid question: normal for lubricant to leak around edge of new tire? |
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Nov 26 |
answered | Impala no heat at Idle |
