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The Grinch is by far my favourite Christmas show so my son thought I'd enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9-5DJhBh6M

I'm just starting to assemble a motor. I have a freshly honed Motown block. It was boiled and cleaned after machining but I want to go through it and make sure no metal shards are hiding inside the oil passages. The gallery plugs on these blocks are threaded but I still want to apply sealer...

Is there a way of visually telling he difference between an SBC stroker and BBC 454 flex plate? Both are externally balanced.

Kevin, you've got some splaining to do! I've been driving across country with my family in a Saturn VUE pulling a 5X8 trailer containing all of the stuff that CA movers won't take ( a long list). Leaving CA, there were a lot of hills so I wasn't surprised when the fuel economy was terrible...

Usually, when it starts with the caption "waning, graphic content". I think BS, but this one is pretty crazy: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/08/bus-crash-china/2631789/

I had to rent a trailer to move some precious cargo to the east coast including all of the "toxic"aerosols and paints for my car, photo album and, of course, my wine and scotch collection. I drove the thing home from U-Haul and was shocked how noisy and bouncy it was. Granted the trailer was...

I'm starting to assemble my 412 SBC and would like to check the clearances. I'll probably use plastigage as I don't have a good inside mic. I need a target clearance to order the bearings but would like to know the tolerances as well. Based on this article among others...

Ive been preparing for assembling my block by watching some YouTube videos. That and some are very entertaining and the pass the time while I'm on the road. In any case, I've been watching a series by a guy named Johnny K from Wisconsin and he introduced an idea and tool for essentially...

I changed the oil on my DD today. I pretty much always use Mobil 1 and today was no different. On the 5 quart jugs, there is a thin, plastic seal which I normally push my finger through and pull out. Today, it tore in half and folded inward so I couldn't easily get at it. About half way...

This may seem like a small thing, but it pisses me off without fail. The lower screw on my driver's side door pull won't hold. I have to pull the door shut with my window open. The screw seems to grab ok but it just doesn't hold well enough to close the door. What is a good fix for this? I...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/10/its-cold-in-europe-so-cold-a-swiss-guy-put-a-wood-stove-in-his-volvo/ I'd do it myself but we end up having all kinds of winter spare the air days where I'd get fined for running it. I wonder how long until someone puts in an artificial one for ambiance.

During aj long drive a couple of weeks ago, I was kind of annoyed at how squeaky the front end was. I knew that it might just be the control arms but thought that it could be the sway bars too. I had an old, rusty site of stock bars on the front and the rubber end links I think were from the...

More looking for edgumucation than anything else. Had a nice, long drive yesterday with a couple of the local vette guys. Had a great run. We met up at a friend's place and I parked on his driveway to celebrate the fact that my car currently isn't leaking anything. I had to back out of his...

Is it standard practice and necessary to balance a driveshaft after you replace U-joints? Granted I have a new yoke and am using a conversion U-joint on the front, but I would think that nothing has changed with respect to the balance. I was planning on having it done yesterday, but traffic...

It's time to get started on my next engine. For those of you that don't remember, I had a minor mishap with my last one that resulted in me replacing it with a cheap, used crate engine that has less power than my old 72 Chevy Vega with a straight 4. Kept me on the road for the summer at least...

I posted a while ago that the oil pressure in my cheepo crate engine 350 runs extremely high. Idle pressure was on the order of 100 PSI and it was higher at speed. I attributed part of the issue to running high viscosity oil (15W40 Rotella) and part to running a filter mount without a bypass...

Based on Birds post under my electricity 101 thread, I picked up some crimp connectors with integral shrink sleeves (3M I believe). What is the correct way to shrink the sleeves? I know that a propane torch works but I don't imagine this is the correct way. Paint stripping hair dryer?

Am I the only one that didn't know that you need to change the oil in a jack? I was whining at Sears about yet another one of my top quality K-Mart, I mean Sears tools failing. I mean if you can't trust cheap, Chinese junk from Sears, who can you trust? The sales guy suggested that I change...

I vaguely remember reading that the collectors on the shorty, stock headers on 1982's were larger than those on the 81's. If so, do they offer any performance over stock ram's horns? I've got the 69 style stock sidepipes and would love to get rid of the ram's horns but damned if I'll pay for...

I snuck out of work a little early today. I got everything I wanted done and went in early anyways but I wanted a little more daylight to get a few things done on the car. All of my missing parts came in so I wanted to finish putting on the sidepipe covers, wiper hoses and wanted to do a...