You’d need to pull the cam covers, and buy/rent/borrow a borescope to look down the drainbacks from top to bottom (and look in the service manual to see where they are - I am not really familiar with the innards of the Toyota V8 family - though I’d expect to find 2-3 along the lower edge of the valvetrain well, and…

If memory serves from previous iterations, and I suspect the ‘21 will be similar, you should be able to get the 60/40 up through the Lariat. KR, Platinum, and Limited force the buckets and console.

I don’t live in the Rust Belt anymore (yay!), but I’ve unfortunately had occasion to have repairs done to my ‘19, and they seem both fixable at aluminum-qualified shops (I had the work done at an indie shop near the office I don’t go to anymore because COVID, but which does a lot of high-end and often alloy-bodied…

Chrysler has stepped up their game with the materials a bit, but after spending time with them all before buying my ‘19 F150, I’m still a bit skeptical, Ram’s design? Yes. They’ve done a good job with that since the ‘02 DR version, which was... you guessed it, let down by cheap-assing the materials (note: I worked for…

In about 21k miles on my 2019 Platinum 4x2 3.5 Ecoboost/6.5box/Max Tow (so 3.55 gears), I’m consistently able to hit the EPA city and combined numbers, and if I didn’t live in Texas and drive 75+ on the highway, I’d hit the highway number consistently. The one time I had a sufficient tailwind on a long highway run,…

Query: have they checked the oil drainbacks from the cylinder heads through the block and back to the sump?

I ask because this sounds like a partially-obstructed drainback that can keep up with low-RPM oil volumes but is overwhelmed after sustained running at highway RPMs. Since the pump is a fixed-displacement unit,…

Nope. And I absolutely *hate* missing Thanksgiving with the family.

My folks are 79 and 76. They have some underlying health conditions. They’ve (surprisingly for both their age and the fact that they’re life-long Oklahomans) both being reasonably careful to avoid COVID. Our usual large family gathering (a “light”…

Yeah, the under-bed tank was an option for extended range. Optional dual tanks were pretty common until light trucks were (finally) forced to adhere to passenger-car emissions standards, including evaporative emissions, and thus we started getting larger primary tanks (my ‘19 F150 has the 36-gallon tank available…

Price-dependent: 1968 Shelby Mustang GT500KR
Price-no-object: 1968 Ferrari 275GTB/4 or 275GTS/4 NART

Love me some mid-50s F100s, especially the big-window ‘56s, though being long-and-large-of-body, the ‘53-’55 non-wrap-around windshield setup definitely helps entry/exit.

Until the mid-1970s, the most common location for the gas tank in pickup trucks was vertically in the cab behind the seat. Just look for the filler neck on the B-pillar by the beltline.

My uncle’s 1980 Mark VI could be programmed with a user-specified code.

Amazingly, despite a lot of Fords in my fleet over the years, I only just got my first one equipped with the keypad last year. My 2019 F150 Platinum has a bewildering number of ways you can unlock/lock its various portals:

Back in ‘93, I was on a hot-weather test trip that was gathering data to improve the climatic wind-tunnel simulations, so we had a number of competitive vehicles as well as FoMoCo products along, one of which was a 2nd-gen Espace. I don’t recall exactly which engine it had, but it was a gasser and had a 5-speed manual…

I’m glad someone else noticed the port-a-loo (to use something vaguely British-sounding) in the corner, and I’m dismayed that more Jalops aren’t talking about that.

Yeah, I’ve noticed that, too. Or at least thought I noticed it. Part of it may be that when I first started using Rain-X on my ‘65 Mustang with its original and rather beat-up windshield, the contrast to even how brand new wiper blades performed as so great that I considered it as close to a real-world miracle product…

Haven’t seen a problem in my ‘19 F150. The older stuff doesn’t have a sensor. :)

Yeah. I’ve been using Rain-X since the late 80s. And I use their washer fluid as a kind of “renewal” for the coating I put on the good ol’ fashioned way.

I raise my glass to Mr. Barbour. A true legend who earned that status. The world is better for his being in it, and lessened by his passing, though we can carry on his spirit.

“You didn’t do a very good job last year. You only saved one sinner, that was Todd McGuire. He’s the little sumbitch that set my church on fire.”

I love that song.

 I used to be able to ignore them. Then I had one a as a rental while my truck was in the shop (it wound up costing me as the person who hit me had an insurance company that insisted with both of their Good Hands that a Nissan Versa was functionally-equivalent to an F350 and utterly refused to pay the difference), and…