What have you done to your vehicle lately?
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well, I have 7
Tundra. What a peach of a day to do the serpentine belt, idler and tensioner. Oil change, air and cabin filters. Rotated tires, checked brake pads, ok for now. Good for the winter. Its Friday night, margarita time
Lonesome Dove
A man of vision but with no mission.
I've been postponing errrrr procrastinating ok ok ok neglecting to have my Tacoma rotors turned and replace pads. What? It stops good
I've had a new set of pads and rotors sitting in their boxes in front of my car for many moons. Rotors are hotspotted so they pulsate when they get too hot, but there's so much material left on the factory pads I've just been dealing with it. Only got 54k on the clock.
here's three...
you can see another in this shot...
This is one of the nicer ones. Anyone know where this is? Some little town along 183, but I forget which.
This is the one I've been messing with the most lately.
You can see the nose of the 7th one here
southtexaspilot
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Son’s car was running rough. Found the oil was overfilled and the plugs looked like this. He had taken it to a quickie oil change place. All is good now.
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I had my own gas station in the 70's. Had my stepbrother working the pumps, you didn't have people filling their own tanks. Anyway the real money maker was the oil, I told him I'd give him a dime for every quart he sold. I noticed he was selling a lot of oil, in those days you checked the oil when pumping gas. I asked him to show me how he checked oil, he'd pull out the stick, wipe the stick put it back in and look at the stick again. Then tell the customer they needed a quart. Nipped that in the bud.Son’s car was running rough. Found the oil was overfilled and the plugs looked like this. He had taken it to a quickie oil change place. All is good now.
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<>Son’s car was running rough. Found the oil was overfilled and the plugs looked like this. He had taken it to a quickie oil change place. All is good now.
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Looks like running 2-cycle mix in a 4-cycle engine ?
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One didn't check the filter once and they double gasketed the new filter on a 350 in my bobtail truck. The gaskets blew under heavy highway load and I lost the engine. I recall the dealership charging either $6k or $8k for a new engine back in the early 80's.
After 20 months of ownership, 11k miles, a couple dirt rooms and a couple mud slingings, I washed it for the first time. What a nightmare.
So yeah… I kinda wheel it. But no, I have not towed anything with that behemoth drop hitch. But it can lol.
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So yeah… I kinda wheel it. But no, I have not towed anything with that behemoth drop hitch. But it can lol.
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Replaced a wheel bearing the other day. Whatever happened to simply replacing the bearing? This hub assembly was $200
Would have done it sooner but every website including GM parts sites shows the wrong part number for my truck…I had to dig around to determine the right part, was a tota PITA / waste of time but at least I didn’t have to tear into it twice.
Would have done it sooner but every website including GM parts sites shows the wrong part number for my truck…I had to dig around to determine the right part, was a tota PITA / waste of time but at least I didn’t have to tear into it twice.
Had one go bad on a 2012 Accord one time and I had a shop replace it, twice. They ordered a non-OEM and it didn't have the right number of magnets so the ABS system would throw a code. I think the OEM hub was around $150 back in 2016.
O’Neil say that’s it’s a quality piece, very heavy. I typically stick with OEM, in this case AC Delco.
33” tires and “I’m not gentle” driving had something to do with the failure. I’m gonna keep an eye on the other side…
Driving home last week, almost stepped at the stop sign right behind my house and hear something that I could not identify but didn't sound "good." But, motor stayed running, everything felt normal, so I made the couple final corners into the garage with no issue. Sounded like a quick series of metal on metal clanks, could feel it in the floorboard. Kept thinking about what could make such a noise without any catastrophic failures and was coming up with nothing. Pop the hood and pretty quickly found the source of the noise.
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Apparently a common issue on this motor. The mass ring / inertial dampener in the crank pulley is only secured by a friction fit rubber belt between them. Over time, it finds its way free. With 4 years and 55k miles on the odometer, this should be covered by the 5y/60k powertrain warranty.
Apparently a common issue on this motor. The mass ring / inertial dampener in the crank pulley is only secured by a friction fit rubber belt between them. Over time, it finds its way free. With 4 years and 55k miles on the odometer, this should be covered by the 5y/60k powertrain warranty.
