Replacing the motor mounts in a 96 Roadmaster Wagon. Three bolts each, should be no problem right? well, in order to get to the bolts, you need some sort of f#@%ed up 19 elbow wrench to clear the lower control arms to access the head of the bolt that is inside the front crossmember. Not having said magical wrench, I…

My buddy and I were at the beginning of a 1000 mile road trip, he had his farm truck (1992 GMC 1500 V6) loaded up with all of our gear. As we start up the Cajon pass outside of San Bernadino, CA, he runs over some debris and then a minute or two later looses drive. It is pouring rain so after 45 minutes, I find him…

Nebraska, all of it.

When road tripping, we (friends of mine who have made the journey) refer to it as the void. You avoid the void at all costs. Also, as we have found out while driving through there, despite being a source of food, Nebraska has nothing to eat on the road. I even called truckers on a CB radio to…

Perhaps you should buy a reliable old shitbox instead of a beaten to hell within a micrometer of its life requiring massively more money that you bought it for to even be able to drive down the street shitbox.

But then again, I buy cars in California, so I am spoiled on the lack of rust, to each their own demise.

Get a 5 gallon fuel can (or three), jack vehicle up, drain tank into fuel cans, refill after vehicle is serviced.

Or, go hoon around a parking lot late at night on the edge of town or in an industrial park where no one will care that you are hooning aorund.

The Tumultuous Saga of Soup Can.

The Tumultuous Saga of Soup Can.

This summer I was the organizer of a 5 car caravan taking 19 college age/ young adults from Southern California to South East Idaho for a week long medieval fighting camping event. Miraculously, despite having 19 people in the convoy spread out across 5 vehicles, we managed to leave…