My wife likened the sound to a camel giving birth at anything off-idle.

Another vote for keeping the rotary in place is that they’re stupid easy to R&R... Working alone in my home garage with basic hand tools, my first time ever pulling the engine & trans out of one of these took an entire 4 hours. Install being the reverse of removal, took slightly less time.

Yeah. Metering Oil Pump or “MOP”(sometimes “OMP” for “Oil Metering Pump”). On my RX8's I removed them and premixed w/Idemitsu.

You get this a LOT in SoCal. It doesn’t rain frequently enough for people to pay attention to their tread depth, but when it does rain... look out. When I worked there I could go out and show you a dozen cars w/bald tires in a walk around the parking lot on any given day.

They still haven’t fixed the typo for the trailer tow package...

Can’t help but think of “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr:

Sounds more like the clutch disc let go vs. something internal to the trans. Either way is going to require dropping the transmission, but once you get it dropped, hand turn the input shaft in any gear, and see if the output shaft spins. If not, trans rebuild time. If so, as you probably already saw during disassembly,…

I sincerely hope so. My CX-5 would regularly eclipse it’s EPA numbers... but it’s worth noting my CX-5 was a 2.0 6spd m/t 2015 model and it scores the same as the diesel FWD in combined (29 combined, 26 city/34 hwy).

Here we go with anecdotes again... but my FWD 6spd M/T 2.0l 2015 CX-5 would regularly score 36+ MPG on the highway between fill ups on 86-87 octane (aka the cheap stuff). Granted, it was slower than a Prius, but once you got up to speed it wasn’t too difficult to keep it there.

Have lived in Lafayette, IN, had to look real close before I realized it was satire.

But also, Nissan is coming out with a thing called “Rear Door Alert” and hopefully this kind of thing catches on with manufacturers who actually make cars that aren’t terrible. Because idk about you, but I need my left shoe for driving.

Going from this:

Greetings, and welcome to 2017.

The kids doing this now were probably 5 when that was a thing.

Yeah you’re right about the F150 diesel’s tow rating. I remembered seeing it 6-8 months ago as 7k lbs and being kind of disappointed, I googled it before I posted the comment above and google said it was 7k lbs (without citing a source).

Google lied to me, as did some older articles. Thanks for the update.

Except 50 years ago, people weren’t so delusional that they thought they needed something with a 10,000lb towing capacity to tow a 2,500lb trailer. (yes, I know the F150 diesel is rated for 7,000lbs).

I made it 37 seconds into that video before rage closing (is that a thing?) to prevent me from I throwing my laptop off a balcony. What the hell did I just watch? Do such people exist in real life?

I mentioned this further down in the comments, but this totally reminds me of the original Men In Black movie, with the alien in the “Edgar Suit”.

Needs more Sagaris.