Newbie to this forum and this car... some experience with auto
maintenance, but not for a few years...
Need to change out the water pump on '96 Cavalier 2.2L (115k miles and
orig water pump) and can't figure out how to release the tension on the

Yesterday I purchased a used Japanese import - a 2001 Toyota
Prius hybrid car.
It has Yokohama tires, steel belted radials 165/65 R15 81S
OK so far; that gives me the profile and size information, and

I would like to present to you the (near) future of transportation...
Diesel hybrid cars (full two-mode plug-in hybrids)
Diesel for motorcycles
Diesel (probably 2-stroke) engines for general aviation (including

I'm working on an 89 Mercury Grand Marquis wagon (Colony Park) with the
following symptoms:
 1. Left turn signals light solid, but do not flash.
 2. Right turn signals light & flash

There is a very interesting article on http://LiveToBe100.org about how
to drastically increase you gas mileage.  The great thing about it is
you don't have to buy anything.  The guy has some very interesting
ideas.

Have an 85 S10, 4 spd manual transmission. Got it 2 months ago. I ONLY WANT
TO GET 1 MORE MONTH USE OUT OF THIS TRUCK TO DO SOME WORK. SO:
1. It ran fine for first month.
2. Now it's hard to put into gear while driving. (with car off it'll go into

could someone please let me know from start to finish how to change the
water pump on my rover 214 sei
thanks ken
ps i know this is a big ask but im desperate.

I've got an '84 Pontiac w/ 2.8L 173CI V6 (really a Chevy V6). The orig
choke has been acting up, barely sets on a slightly cool morning and
almost immediately opens making the car prone to stalls for about the
1st five minutes.

Any ideas about what might cause excessive brush and slip ring erosion
in an alternator?
I put a new unit in my '79 Porsche 928 about 6 years ago. A few months
ago, it began to exhibit intermittent operation. I took it apart and

Hi all, i recently changed my brothers altenator in his daewoo laganza. i
jumped the car to get it started and it started. drove it for a few then
parked it. my brother came to pick it up and it wouldnt start. it  seems
as if the battery connection was going in and out. but the ...

Appreciate some help on this
What can cut off the current supply to the fuel pumps to shut them down
while driving? This happened to me already twice in one year. The car
would not start again until I jump start one of the pumps with external

This van backfires out the intake (once) under moderate to heavy load.  It
also misses at idle during cold operation.  The miss disappears as it warms
up.  The backfire remains.
I replaced the worn out plugs, wires, cap, rotor and PCV.  This improved the

So recently, I bought a 1990 Jetta that runs, but makes a lot of noise.
(Some of this is due to a hole in the muffler.....)
I changed the oil over to synthetic, bacause it's over 100k miles.  But
since I changed it, the oil pressure buzzer has been coming on

I am planning on doing almost all of the grunt/prep work on my 67
camaro before being sent out for paint. I have recieved didderent
opinions from body shops reguarding the EDP coating on my new
sheetmetal.  I have almost all new metal on the car.  Some is Goodmark

Very often I drive with my motor bike only in areas where
only gasoline with octane rating of 95 is available.
They call that onealready 'super plus extreme',
but I need a bit more 'extreme' as my motor needs octane 98.