You know, when I’m in my cage and I see somebody on a sportbike hauling ass up to me about to pass me, despite the fact lanesplitting is illegal where I live, and it still annoys me they are driving like a douche, I don’t try to block them or start trouble like an asshole. Why is this so hard for people? What part of…
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The Vanagon laid eggs via its oil (that’s not a “leak”, it’s an egg laying), which are too small to see with the naked eye. Those eggs then hatch into larvae, which you see here. Eventually they will turn into...
A great story, and sound troubleshooting advice for anything.
Speaking of gasoline...One Lemons race we were running a completely rust-perforated Alfa GTV. We kept having fuel starvation issues. Initial diagnosis was fuel pump, overheated to the point where it burned your hand to touch it and the impeller was actually locking up. The puzzler was that the replacement fuel pump…
I’ve told this story before, but it is so appropriate.
The cynic in me says that the idea isn’t to prevent the crime, just to punish you once you’ve committed it, there’s more money in punishment than prevention.
Doing the brakes on my manual-trans ‘98 Forester S. Fronts go fine, get to the left rear. Wheel off, caliper off, rotor screws off. Go to pull off the rotor - nothing, seized to the hub. Grab trusty rubber mallet, apply a little force, nothing. Hit harder. And harder still. Standing in my building’s parking lot,…
49-51 Lincolns (and their Mercury siblings) were hot once too.
bikers are the worst.
I had 1987 Plymouth Voyager with a RARE manual transmission. It was a rust-bucket, really sad when I purchased it from its prior owner. The powerplant ( if that’s even appropriate for the hamster wheel motor) was the 3rd one and the odo had gone over at least twice.
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These guys know what’s up.
If you can dodge an RPG, you can dodge a trailer hitch.
That guy has the reflexes of someone who grew up in a war torn country.
FINALLY. AN EXCUSE TO POST THIS PIC! Ok. I’m good now.
It’s the spare
In one of the pictures you can see that it is a spiral spring attached to the driven rear wheel. My guess is that it prevents front end from lifting while driving.
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