I’ve only used mine on my car once, to remove a bolt head holding the plastic battery tray in. 10 years of battery acid, salt, and moisture made the hex head into more of a carriage bolt head. Good tool to have on hand sometimes. I bought mine for home stuff, breaking up concrete around fence posts in order to replace…

My HF air hammer is going strong after ~3 years of intermittent use. Guess it is like anything at HF, you take your chances, it might work well, kinda work, or not at all.

It sounds counterintuitive, but I think the solution to this might be to hire MORE people driving smaller vehicles. Unload the containers somewhere near the port, pack the contents into smaller trucks and vans that people with a non-commercial driver’s license and no special training can legally drive on the road.

‘bout three fiddy... not $350, but $3.50. It is of course worth a lot more to me, but I’d get nothing if I wanted to sell it or if it were totaled.

Nope. They will tow the car, but the owner (even the guy with a suspended license) can get it back by paying the towing/impound fees. The argument is that the owner may not know the driver doesn’t have a valid license. Or, the car may be needed by others in the family. I get that, it would suck for a guy’s wife to be…

Just the other week around here a 50-ish year old woman out walking her dog was run down and killed by a guy with a suspended license. Not only was it suspended, but he’d already been cited for driving after it was suspended too.

The guilty party in this, Elaine Thomas, is already 67 years old. I doubt she personally profited from the fraud other than by collecting whatever salary she was receiving while not doing her job. No provable harm has befallen anyone due to her actions and she is not currently a danger to anyone. I’d be inclined to…

I’m just a simple minded caveman, your lightning powered automobiles frighten and confuse me, but I’d think that if a manufacturer (*cough*ford*cough*vw*cough*any of them*cough) was trying to make the sale of an electric vehicle a success, that...

I think it is mostly applicable in RWD vehicles. It works, whether automatic or manual. In a manual, you just push in the clutch. The reason why it works is the difference between kinetic (sliding) and static (rolling) friction. If you’re in drive and jump off the gas, the engine braking can have essentially the same…

Yeah, I’ve always figured that if EMS is anywhere near my underwear, I’ve bigger things to worry about than how clean they are.

Start asking them if they know what people’s natural reaction is to unexpected loud noises. I can’t speak for anyone else, but the last thing I want to do when someone is perhaps being a little careless is to trigger their startle reflex. Especially so when their uncontrollable reaction may result in bodily harm done…

I’m picking up what you’re putting down. Even within those categories, not all tires are created equal. My car and my girlfriend’s are very similar; dimensions, weight, power, both AWD, etc. They’re from the same manufacturer and only 3 years different in age. They have all the same electronic assists, traction…

I wonder at what point you call 911 and tell them you’re stranded on the side of the road with no way to make it to the “safe” shoulder. Certainly if someone were walking there without a car, they’d respond to a call about that. Even if the tow driver hasn’t left with your car and not you, it’s only a matter of time.

I agree! Drain and re-fill is OK, but do not flush. The flush will remove not only any blockages in the coolant passages, but will also remove any blockages in any leak paths. Or maybe to put it differently, if you’re supposed to have 1mm of metal and instead you have 0.8mm of rust and 0.2mm of metal, the flush…

Used engines are almost always cost effective over a DIY rebuild or a “remanufactured” engine. It all depends on the car of course. If the vehicle is in otherwise good condition... I mean, it is a 24 year old Buick LSS... but if it’s not rusty and suspension, drivetrain, steering are in good shape, and the interior…

This asshole!?

Hairpins. God dammit, here I sit working my ass off (not really) for 40 hours a week to make what I make (actually can’t complain) and you tell me that between the nineteen fucking teens and nineteen fucking thirties this asshole became a fucking multi-millionaire selling fucking hairpins! Hair. Pins.

I disagree. Airplane seats should not be able to sit upright! All seats reclined all the time! Okay, maybe not reclined as far as they can now, but fully upright is too upright for most people to be comfortable. A nice middle ground of partially reclined with no option to adjust up or down.

Have you ever looked up the price of a first-class ticket?

Can’t say that I’ve ever ridden the hound, but the charter busses I’ve ridden are about a million times more comfortable than airline seats. That alone has me wondering “How bad could it be?”