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My IP is leaking a fair bit from the head, or whatever the part that the injector lines plug into is called. I'm trying to swap out the seal via the in-car method I've seen mentioned on this and other forums, where I loosen the torx bits holding the head on, cut off the old seal, and then stretch th...

I'm finally starting to work on my car since it'd be really nice to have. Before hand it had a significant leak from the IP. I'm trying to get it started up so I can run a compression check, but the IP won't suck up any fuel. I pulled the feed line for the IP and stuck it in a detached and full fuel...

What are the three brackets around the 4spd (?) trans mount?

I don't think I've ever heard of an automatic starter solenoid making it past 200k miles...

All the usual stuff would be done too, barring the fuel filter since that only has ~10k miles on it. I'd like to be thorough because it goes through a ton of oil. Something like 5 quarts every 1500 miles. Besides that it runs fine, it just takes a bit to get warmed up and stop missing. The clutch is...

Long story short, I've had my bunny sitting unused for a while as a kind of insurance policy against high fuel costs, and it's time to collect! The downside is that the engine (early 1.6l) is in poor shape, and it needs a ton of work. It has about 350k miles along with blow-by and a lope/miss after ...

Has anyone noticed that diesel has closed the gap from a high of about 90 cents difference, to 25 cents as compared to the price of gas? Any ideas as to why? Just the usual change in refinery spread . Here's what is happening: The margin or spread for the refiner, which is the difference between cr...

Refineries had a gas glut and had to make it up via margins on diesel, but that should be changing in the coming months according to an article I read.

AFAIK the engines don't need to be replaced, just meet emissions regs. So for most rigs on the road we're looking at an ECU/ECM recalibration and maybe a DPF fitted on the exhaust. Some businesses will have to buy totally new rigs, but w/ an average lifespan of ~8 years most won't. And there are sta...

I seriously doubt CA is doing this to promote new truck sales. Like you said, many trucks are just rebuilt instead of replaced, and the emissions from a two stroke detriot diesel in a gravel truck aren't anywhere near what every other emissions source, even lawnmower engines and wood stoves, have to...

Doesn't the dollar going down mean everything else that's not just U.S. based goes up?

Of course it will owners hard in the wallet, but the hit won't be nearly as bad as what those rigs would cost the state if left as is, which is the point of the program. Pay five billion over the next couple decades to upgrade rigs instead of losing sixty billion via sickness/death. There was also t...

It doesn't look like the higher diesel price is going to stop anytime soon specially in the U.S. where taxes are higher on diesel than gasoline. It's not the higher taxes that's causing the difference in price, it's refinery costs. Check this out . ~10c/gallon in terms of refinery costs for gasolin...

Regulations expected to prevent 9,400 premature deaths, improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gases; more than $1 billion in funding aid available for business owners Diesel emissions are associated with cancer and exacerbate cardiovascular and respiratory ailments, as do smog-forming emissions...

A location would help.