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Friday, May 9, 2014

Heat soak. Hint: its not a hot relaxing bath...


Names have been changed (repeatedly) to protect the guilty...  
 I have to use my good friend Sam as my example for this one. Its a guy thing, he gets it. Joe called me a few hours ago to ask what happened, what went wrong up at the trailhead. Now, John drives a small sedan- not a big truck- so even the fact that he got up to the trailhead is a testament to his driving skill.  

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Blow-by: not just how you pass someone...


Hey all, Machine Whisperer back again, this story is a bit sad, but its a short one too. Today, I had to do one of those things that I loathe doing: I had to tell a car owner that their engine was only going to go another 20,000 miles at most. Since the car already has 262,000 miles, I don't feel too bad about having to tell them- plus they have a year or more to decide what to do about it.  So how did I come to the conclusion that the engine will only last another 20k miles? I had a few clues to work with...