Hot sauce is a must for me. My biggest complaint about Mac and Cheese, one that Mrs Deer-Tay just doesn’t understand, is that it’s completely one note. All I taste is cheese. Throw some hot sauce on it, Hank’s Heat is my favorite but I’ll take anything, and I can eat it. Makes the emergency Easy Mac lunch out of the…

Funny you mention that. I picked up a 79 Z28 from a friend’s uncle who was giving it away if I could get it towed off the property. When I realized the hood scoop was fake, I broke out the jigsaw and cut myself a hood scoop.

Way too late to the party but I’ll throw in my 2 cents. I’ve been DDing a 1995 BMW 530i with a 5 speed manual for the past 2+ years, currently has 203,000 on the clock. I bough it with 160k. Original engine and trans according to the previous owner, who owned the car from about 40k. No idea if the clutch was ever…

Ohhh you got the fancy Marquis! My grandfather had one, not quite velour seats but whatever Ford’s version of it in the mid 2000's was. I had to change the coil packs and re-secure the driver’s door power lock actuator (the rivet used to hold it to the door is the weak spot, I managed to sneak an allen head bolt and a…

Is that a shot from the Tron sequel? Or am I just losing my mind?

My immediate thought was “Somebody call da amberlamps.” I remember seeing this for the first time in college and laughing my ass off.

Star for you sir. Regretted not having the shop do the slave cylinder on my 530i when I went to pump it up after bleeding. I didn’t quite seat the end of it all the way into the clutch fork, it slipped while I pumped up the clutch and exploded everything into the bell housing. A free tow from AAA and $180 later, the…

I am a big fan of this, since I have a propensity to “baby huey” things as my old boss would say. 1/4" prevents me from over tightening and damaging screws/bolts.

Never been into drugs, more of a drinking and hanging around person, but I did knowingly help a buddy transport his “baby.”

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find a Gob picture. Thanks for making the scroll worth it though.

Can’t say I agree with your first comment, but god damn star for you. Now excuse me, I have to go put some water in Buck Nasty’s Momma’s dish.

I have a hard time getting Mrs Dirte’ to stop leaving the knives in the bottom of the sink, soaking in a pot of water, cleaned but sitting on a wet dish towel, really anywhere except cleaned and back in the block. And she’s worked in a restaurant before! Her father was a chef (he’s held many jobs, trained chef being…

I think she went to Meatwad’s school of Automotive Technology. Don’t worry, Boxy Brown will set her straight:

Yeah they have that split to make them easier to get around the bar, but the ones on my brother’s cobalt must have been tight because even with the vegetable oil they were tough to slide along the bar and into place. His car is such a pile though, he’d never hear them making noise if they did.

They sway bar bushings didn’t fight you on the install? I did the ones on my brother’s Cobalt a while back, instructions stated to use vegetable oil as petroleum based oils can eat the rubber. Smelled like PAM in my garage for a day or so.

Shouldn’t “That’s Heavy” be in reference to the CP vote? I still don’t understand what earth’s gravitational pull has to do with this.

Unfortunately it wasn’t just Ford, Dodge did the same thing, ran into this with my 94 Ram 2500 last year. Did a write up on it too. Such a pain. I just laid out the extra cash, bought all new studs and hubs in addition to the pads/rotors and pressed everything together ahead of time in the maintenance shop at my…

I have to say, I love that Suburban next to your Saab. Tires are a little much but damn do I love the looks of the K5 Blazer/7th Gen Suburban.

I get it from your side. Since I am a reasonable person who has some wrenching knowledge, buys quality parts and works in the maintenance/engineering field, I also know when to accept that a failure is not always the fault of the last person who touched your car. So I’ll admit I have a different outlook than most…

Interesting, obviously not the case in NJ, as that is where I live.