Thank you! I loved (love? it’s getting better...) that show, and I really miss its roots of buying a cheap car, making numerous yet inexpensive repairs, and selling it for, well, cheap.

Peter, I like these write-ups. Reminds me a lot of Edd China on Wheeler Dealers. He’d go into great detail on diagnosing and repairs.

Great post! Always good to see people taking care of a vehicle and I enjoyed reading through the steps and seeing the pictures. Jalopnik could use a whole lot more of these posts!

I can totally maintain dry eyes while seeing a 2nd rate (3rd world)
“GP” get driven in to a ditch, but my eyes start to water seeing people who have been oppressed to the extent these people have introduced to American BBQ. I mean, c’mon - who doesn’t get teary when someone says “in North Korea, we don’t just not have…

Thankfully the South Koreans have already thought about this. Defectors go through months of education to bring them up to speed in the modern world.

Reminds me of this.

And half the dumbasses appear to be shooting vertically.

It’s important to remember that most of these regional commuter systems in Japan are owned by companies which can develop real estate around their stations. That means apartments, department stores, office space, etc. Japan is built around trains like the U.S. is built around cars. In any sufficiently large Japanese…

Well that sucks.

Sorry to say, but this apology is more of humble brag. Works extremely well in marketing as well. It is similar in strategy to recall a perfectly safe product that is misused by some extremely dumb individual. Shows that the company cares about the customers even the extremely dumb individuals and it is usually so odd…

Leave pizza out of this.

New Age Japan is what the US needs to strive to be in infrastructure. Japan as a whole is not some idyllic paradise and has its own issues.

What’s funny is the Trump supporters who call themselves “Deplorable” seem to not understand that they’ve done the same thing

The thing about systemic racism is you aren’t necessarily aware of your own bias. It’s unconscious in a lot of cases. Which makes it more insidious than rebel flag waving, Nazi saluting, white pride racism. Ideals have been handed down to you by your environment, upbringing or work culture, and you absorb it without…

I’m a black man working in the IT industry (enterprise support; I’m no software developer) born in Louisiana and raised in Southern California. Systemic racism to me is widespread stereotyping and judgement based on race. In my field, the norm is white, Indian, and Asian. I’ve been involved in engineering and robotics…

I’m interested in your next comment. Hoping for something along the line of “Huh. I’ll be damned. I stand corrected.” Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem fashionable to concede admissions like that these days: Digging in of heels and giving no quarter is more likely.

You can bore out the cylinder and used oversize pistons, though in some cases, you may be able to get away with a hone job and some new rings.

I suppose the real question is - why does this crossing have arms to prevent vehicles from getting *off* the tracks?

No one ever trains for these situations.