Posted on 11/29/2004 1:59:05 PM PST by Clive
Read the article again. She is talking about how stupid her boyfriend is.
Depends...What color is it?
Heh! What year was it?
~smiles~ The windshield will ~never~ defrost in winter. Ain't happening! I drove blind to school in college on icy days with my two room-mates hanging out the window telling me when to turn, when to stop turning, and when to stop.
My first car..age 17, in 1964, was a 57 VW beetle..a blast. Was working as a camp counselor in the Adirondacks..one night late..run out of gas..the first, and last time, I've ever done that...thought I had enough to make it back to camp.. so i'm stuck out in the woods, middle of nowhere..2 am..rummaging in the trunk..found a can of STP gas treatment...figured what the heck..poured it in....sucker started up...got me the rest of the way..
My Acura is a little bit of work, because I have to put a floor jack under it to make clearance. My Explorer, you just wheel under on your creeper.
My wife's Benz...uses synthetic oil (eight quarts) and costs about $100 at the dealer. They recommend use of a topsider to change the oil, and the filter is on top of the motor. I can change it in five minutes, without having to get under the car, for about $40.
It's one of the few things I like about the car.
I know you've told me this before, but I laugh every time. I just get such a great mental picture!
Remember, my Bug will have it's own bedroom...the shop! Got a heater and everything.
Slant 6 and push button transmission. Mine had 150K on it when I sold it and I saw it driving around town eight years after that. Great solid auto.
LOL.
It was a '71 I think. Maybe a '70.
I ended up tearing it apart and completely redoing the heating system so MY bug actually did defrost the windshield in winter. But that's all it would do.
I used PVC pipe and built a direct line straight from the heat exchangers to the windsheild with no provisions for heat to any other location. Then I insulated the PVC.
The problem with bug heaters is that the heat source is way in the back, practically under the rear bumpber. Then there are two steel tunnels that run under the car on either side. There is a vent at the back seat people's feet, then a vent at the front seat people's feet, then vents in the dash, and then FINALLY vents at the windsheild. well, as you can guess, by the time you get to the windsheild, there isn't much air left, it all got siphoned off at the last 3 stops. and the dampers on the vents don't close all the way, so theres really no way to turn off the heat to any one location. And on top of that, the hot air is running in a steel channel UNDER THE CAR! The outside is cold and the air in that channel loses temperature pretty fast, so much of the heat just gets wasted. One other tip is those pesky heat exchangers. They go bad pretty easily and they are really expensive to replace. I never did figure out a good way to fix the old ones. All I can say is you gotta bite the bullet and buy new ones or you won't get any heat no matter what you do.
I still had to wear long underwear and wool socks, but at least I didn't have to keep an ice scraper for the INSIDE of the windsheild
It sounds like you have an overload and not a direct short circuit.
Are you sure that the proper size fuse is being used?
Actually, give me the model and year, if it's a 1992 to 2002 I can look it up and tell you what size fuse it should be and everything that's on that circuit.
I have all the Ford/Lincoln/Mercury shop manuals and wiring diagrams for those years.
heh heh...
It's been years since Jiffy Lube only charged $20 for an oil change.
They're currently up to $30.
I found a receipt in the 1988 Ford Mustang GT that I bought used from Jiffy Lube in 1996 where they charged $24...
Hold on, I'll get the manual and tell you what I know...
Take-out's even easier :-)
"He was driving his "super reliable" car into which he pours nothing less than premium gas"
There's your first sign right there. High-octane really doesn't do any better in most cases than normal gasoline.
I had a water problem with one of the taillights on my old car, so I removed it from the car, took it to the sink, filled it up with water, noticed where water was leaking out, dried up the water and sealed the leaking seam up with silicone sealer. Then I put it in the oven on low heat for an hour or so to dry out the water inside and help the silicone cure faster.
...ask me directions to Louisiana, where his family was.
article this not sense make.
she thinks taking care of your car doesn't prevent breakdowns??? what? I wouldn't really call a flat tire a breakdown anyway
Ok, it's a Ford Aerostar XLT. 1996
Fuse location 8
It doesn't say this controls the shifting from first gear in my book, but when the car won't shift to second gear, the fuse blows...don't know if it's the cause or effect.
We're using a blue 15amp fuse.
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