Oh indeed, the electronics were by “the prince of darkness” Lucas and there are vacuum hoses everywhere that become brittle and crack making for a fun game of find the vacuum leak. But, it came with a 5 speed, handled decently (for what was available), and had a convertible that was easy to operate (which was rare due…

I don’t get the hate placed on them. They made like between 88 and 105hp which is pretty good out of a carb’d 2.0 at the time. They had a cheap and cool looking convertible and handle excellent. They are an old school analogue car that if were continuously updated would have been a good miata competitor from BL. 

My guess is stuff got clogged in either the ABS pickup (usually a tone wheel with a hall-effect sensor) could also be called a Wheel Speed Sensor.  It is an input to all those systems and if dirt or crud (snow and the like) get in between the pickup and the tone wheel it confuses everything. 

Agree go with aircat, or ingersoll rand, or some other name brand.

I’ve seen dudes use it for mechanical fans too.  Because the fan always spins when you try to break it loose with a wrench you can sometimes hit it real quick with the chisel to break the nut loose.

My go to way to remove a balljoint after taking the snap ring off it to cut the top of the ball joint off with an angle grinder, soak it with pb blaster and just zip that thing out with an air hammer.

I voted NP mainly because this is an S2.  944's are getting up there in price and the S2's are pretty rare.  If convertibles are your thing then I could see someone paying this.  The 944's are far easier to work on than other Porsches due to their layout and are also cheaper to upkeep.

Your call but you may have some luck cutting the bolt flush to the weld nut and drilling it out if all else fails. Start in the center of the bolt with a really small drill bit and gradually increase the size of the bit.  Eventually the bolt will have so little integrity in the center the you can knock it out with a…

I don’t dislike it, plus it’s similar enough to the new models and toyota has a pretty shitty warranty so that’s not much of a factor. I don’t think I could order a new one that’s set up the same way without paying a crazy amount of money so I’m just going to keep this one forever. It’s black on black SR5 premium…

Everyone else is saying tires, which I agree with but I’ll also add to that brake pads and rotors. I put some EBC greenstuff brake pads on my old audi and they were significantly better than stock.

We were working on finding a new 4runner (preferably the trail edition with matching cooler) and ended up getting a used one because the dealer said there were none in stock and they didn’t know when the next delivery would be.  Went to pick up the truck we just bought and there was a new one on the lot... So, I’ll…

I have both of these and they easily take of the most stubborn filters. The claws just dig into the metal if it’s on crazy tight. I had them break the adhesive on the gasket so the gasket stays on which you need to check before installing new filter but other than that never had a problem. Way better than a strap…

Americans already have a love for trucks, with the EV sedans approaching truck weight and the EV trucks approaching Abrams M1 Tank weight we are looking at massive destruction.

If it was lowered and had a decent engine and a manual I’d be into it.  Looks like a 4-door CR-Z.

I feel like anti-roll bar is more commonly called a sway bar than stabilizer. Also exhaust manifold and header are not the same. Exhaust manifold typically refers to the OEM exhaust (one piece cast iron) whereas headers typically are aftermarket (individual tubes welded to a flange). The exact distinction though is:

The 7.3 is pretty much as bullet proof as they come and this particular set up (new body old engine) only lasted until ‘03 when they switched to the 6.0 which was trash. This truck lacks the DPF, DOC, SCR, EGR coolers, and other emission equipment that are failure points on newer trucks. To find this body style with a…

It like the designer asked management how many patterns and management came back with “all of them, all the patterns”

Lets see the last Mercedes with a manual was the C300 sport in 2011, if I recall they didn’t come with a wagon, and it certainly didn’t come in brown. Honestly I think I’d have to go back to the 80's to find a Mercedes equipped with the Jalop spec. So, this is a case of its not me, its you Mercedes.

I would try to find an engine/trans swap combo. Also if you are going to keep a manual in it I’d prefer the LS1 with a T56 (better highway mileage, stronger trans, etc.) over the T5.

I mean this sounds very similar to a CPO program just with different limits on age/mileage.