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New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why
Jalopnik ^ | May 20, 2025 |  JORDAN A. RODRIGUEZ

Posted on 05/21/2025 4:42:50 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: redfreedom

“I have 3 vehicles with oil bath air cleaners. I really like them.”

I had one decades ago. Hated it.


121 posted on 05/22/2025 5:55:32 PM PDT by TexasGator ().'1'11\1I11111111111.1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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To: redfreedom
manual choke, stick shift and step on starter it’s practically theft free.

Yes, manual chokes, and my dad taught me how to drive on an old Chevy wagon with a 3 speed column shifter. Tire iron was under the seat in case the linkage bound up.
Though I never had a step on starter some of the diesel trucks I drove had a step on Jake brake. And a split axle. Lots of related dairy farm stories as well, praise God.

122 posted on 05/22/2025 6:02:42 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: TalBlack

“I have a 1998 version of oil level warning “

Level or pressure?

What car?


123 posted on 05/22/2025 6:05:32 PM PDT by TexasGator ().'1'11\1I11111111111.1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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To: daniel1212

As a young man I drove a 64 Ford heavy dump truck with two transmission. Instead of a two speed axle splitting each gear, the second transmission split each gear 3 times. Talk about a nightmare to learn to drive. But I did it. It was an awful lot of double clutching and listening to the engine RPM’s knowing when to do it.

The first transmission was a 5 speed, the second a 3 speed. So in essence it was a 15 speed.

I had a snow blower truck with three transmissions. When blowing snow I put it in low, low, low. It went so slow I could get out, walk up front to the blower, start taking a leak. By the time I was done the trucks cab door would be beside me and I just got back in it.


124 posted on 05/22/2025 6:24:48 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: TexasGator

Level I think. 98 Firebird. The old sending unit prob I think.


125 posted on 05/23/2025 4:57:44 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Perhaps there is another problem....... Ford and UAW


126 posted on 05/23/2025 5:08:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: redfreedom
I like looking at old cars too. But I sure as hell don’t want to rely on one for every day transportation. No thanks. I’ll take todays cars every time.
127 posted on 05/23/2025 7:27:46 AM PDT by Ditto
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