The Patron Saint of Shadetree Mechanics.

I could go for getting my body towed by a drone and letting CIWS turn me into fish food. 

They’re called Massholes for a reason.

I once had a conversation with a friend that happened to be a retired engineer that worked for several different automakers. I asked him why they made cars so hard to work on. He looked me square in the eyes and said, “We design cars to be assembled in a relatively easy manner. If we designed them with the mechanics…

I just want to share this chain by brother and I just had. I sent him the article, and here’s the text replies. Preface this, my brother is 19 years old, has owned over 10 of these Cummins models (all in the mid 90's), and he can blow-apart, clean, and put back together an entire Cummins engine in hours. Kids kinda my…

Uh, it’s a car blog isn’t it? Where else does coal and renewable energy get used?

While coal is mainly used for supplying power I am one of the unique individuals to use coal to heat my house. Yeah 40-50 years ago it was popular in Pennsylvania, but thanks to natural gas and propane, it took a big hit. I don’t have a rotating jig for my Dakota. I only have a shovel and a Gorilla Cart. But the PA…

It’s worth $50? Nothing is new:

I kinda feel like if you name your child something like that, you’d better have pretty tough skin.

Their clientelle outside the WRX/STi just doesn’t care. Because “Symmetrical” AWD, Safety, Utility, outdoorsy Granola, Dogs and Love something.

Yeah, I want to low-key call bullshit on the headline, because that wasn’t what happened. “Black Navy Sailor Shot and Killed By Man Attempting to Steal Car” would be accurate, and is still tragic, even though Attempted Thief doesn’t appear to have been acting out of racism, which is what I assumed had happened when I…

Mutha ‘uckas won’t sell a Chrysler to a Kiwi....

He’s not really helping. Helping would be cleaning the river of all the toxic waste dumped in it by General Motors over the decades. Helping would be stripping out all the pipes and replacing them with newer better pipes. What he is doing is a temporary band aid on a much more serious long term issue.

Most of the plumbing is original to when indoor plumbing became a thing, right after the Civil War. Why would you fix what still works fine? The only copper is because the kitchen was reconfigured 50 or 60 years ago, the rest is cast iron, other than a bit of plastic for sink traps connecting the sinks to the iron…

The bulk of the lead lines are the service lines from the meter to the house that the homeowner is responsible for replacing. There may also be some lead lines from the meter to the pit, but it’s highly unlikely they still have lead mains. 

Point of use treatment is a lousy solution in the long run. I would like to see him invest the millions needed to upgrade the root of the problem, the aging infrastructure in flint.

My favorite story about that is how the Merlin was created by hand by RR and took many many man hours from artisans to build one.

Huh, are you sure? All those Pace ads told me that New York exists solely to make salsa!

My take (from the management side):

I don’t want any employees to ever feel the need or desire to form a union.  If they do, I haven’t done my job right.  Not because I should be spreading anti-union rhetoric, but because I should be able to make the business case clear to them and treat them well enough they don’t…