This is an example of “coastal rust”, Lincoln City is a coastal town, and instead of the wheel well and undercarriage rust you’re used to seeing from the spray from salted roads, this poor truck is rusted from the top down from the salt spray in the air, from the ocean. Why most of the engine compartment looks…

If you want some interesting reading, look up the Cougar Ace; it didn’t fully capsize, just listed at like 45 degrees full of brand new Mazdas headed to Seattle. Mazda didn’t want the PR nightmare if the cars were sold and had subsequent problems, even salvage parts, so the whole load of 8000+ cars was shredded. 

I second this... Said the same thing for me :-( 

I second this... Said the same thing for me :-( 

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, the final scenes look like something out of a mid 90s PlayStation game... 

My assumption would be collecting scrap helped the war effort in that the scrap could be used to make things like guard rails and fences and such and the raw materials that would have been used for that, could be diverted to the war effort. 

seriously, FUCK those goddamn LED headlights, there isn’t a SINGLE ONE that style that is not completely OBNOXIOUS to oncoming traffic. We can all agree sealed beam lamps suck, but there are ways of upgrading them that don’t involve blinding the shit out of oncoming traffic.

All else aside, it’s a nice rig, maybe not…

I heard that fish oil is an ingredient but that could be one of those “This is why it attracts fish” urban legends

We had a new service writer who didn’t quite understand the concept of NOT telling the customer we’d have their car done by x time before it even came apart, so you’d be in the middle of something and he’d come out and want an exact time of when it would be done “Oh well I told the customer we’d have it done by 5 and…

My grandpa used it for everything too, even sprayed fishing lures with it... He’d joke that all you needed to fix anything was duct tape, JB Weld, and WD-40... If it moves and it’s not supposed to - duct tape or JB Weld, if it doesn’t move and it’s supposed to move, WD-40. 

starting fluid works too :-P 

I used to feel down and feel like a failure when I screwed up too.. And then I watched the senior master tech in the shop pull a car out without the oil filter tightened down and left a nice trail out of the shop... 

Yeah, if it’s a captive nut drilling it off and replacing it with a RivNut is probably preferable... 

David, don’t beat yourself up over it, it happens to every mechanic sooner or later.

If the thread chaser doesn’t fix it, you might be able to drill it out by hand, by just using progressively larger drill bits. Will be slow and tedious but probably faster than pulling the engine (although you might be able to undo…

Back in the mid 2000s I had a 1987 Subaru GL turbo station wagon. Loud enough to be annoying, and fast enough to be fun without being overly so... I decided that knowing how long it would go on the fuel light was a good thing, so when it came on steady I noted the mileage and again noted the mileage when it sputtered…

when I was a kid my dad had all manner of hot rods and classic cars, we had a 1939 Dodge sedan delivery, had the original flathead inline six with I think a three-on-the-tree, it ran but only thing I can remember from back in the day is sitting in it making engine noises. He also had a 34 Ford 5 window coupe that at…

You’d think “desert rated” would also include some sort of cooling system and/or air conditioning upgrade to deal with temperature extremes (Although if memory serves me, the Gladiator has a pretty beefy cooling system as it is) or other stuff to deal with the wild temperature swings in the desert... I’ve woken up to…

Brayden, Cayden, and Hayden’s mom is probably named Barbara and drives them to practice in a Range Rover - This is for Jennifer to take Timmy, Steven, and Stephanie over the river and through the snow to grandma’s cabin in the woods. 

This. Go get a basic tool set. Watch some youtube videos. Go buy new rotors and pads from Rock Auto and if the exhaust is rusted to shit, go to an exhaust shop and most of the time they will be able to weld new pipes to your existing cats and stuff. You know what is wrong with your current car, unless it is a complete…

Not Matt Farrah’s Million Mile Lexus but Murphy’s Million Mile Frontier... 

If they used a 280Z as the donor, it would be an L28. Dunno what an L20E is, an L20B is the 2 liter four cylinder they used in the trucks and some of the later Datsun cars, L20 (sometimes referred to as an L20A) was a 2 liter straight six they used in Japan.