Hey all,
My wife and I just got hitched and I've now inherited the
responsibility of maintaining her little 2002 Toyota Rav4... her pride
and joy. I've been taking it in for its regular oil changes for a while

I got this vintage oldsmobile diesel float from ebay without googling
it first.  There are a lot of heels in my area and it heats up badly
on my road home(elevation 2200ft).  I am a trucker and the diesel
trucks have high speed elctric fans for doing heavy lifting on

So I was at Harbor Freight today and picked up this brake bleeding kit for
$30.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92924
On further inspection it seems to be a gizmo that produces vacuum using

A bit of (near silently) idle curiosity:  Are there any efforts
underway to adapt or develop a hybrid for city police duty, be it
patrol or the fleet cars that detectives and so forth use?
Seems a natural fit:  all that stop-and-go driving where regenerative

I have a 1991 Mazda B2200 Pickup truck (with Air Cond) with bad piston
rings.
I took a good engine from a 1987 Mazda B2200 with no AC.
My questions are:

What are these things on an AC system?

at the moment I'm having trouble with some leaking transmission
seals.    But the truth is that it's not worth fixing as the actual
trans itself is going out.   So I purchased a bottle of trans sealer.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be working.   I do have a question

Both my cars (Lexus LS400, Land Rover Disco) have auto trannies, and
the manuals say to change the fluid every 30K miles. In general, does
this mean a full flush, or drain what you can (30-40%) and replace?

Last year my alternator died on me in my 85 toyota corolla, so
naturally i had it replaced.
but now, not even a year later it seems to be gone again!  It started
off with just the warning lights

My friend recently purchased a 1982 fiat 2000 spider and it pops out
of first gear badly.you can't even hold it in first gear.I have never
been inside of this trans before but my guess would be the sunchro/
blocker ring assembly. If it was the shift shaft wouldn't it have a

My '97 Chev K3500 has the stupid "wax motor" actuator for the center
disconnect on the front axle. While it's generally worked adequately, it
looks like it may have finally died. It wasn't working this weekend when
I needed it so I had to do a bit of winching to get unstuck.

Hi all, I decided to replace (instead of rebuild) my rear brake
cylinders, and am regretting the decision.  If anyone has done this
before let me know.  The hole just isn't big enough to allow the old
cylinder to pass through, and I don't know how to get it out of the

Have a 2000 Mazda Protege ES with 127k on it
Check engine light keeps coming on so took it to
Autozone where they hooked it up to analyzer
Error codes suggest something abt bad valve guides!

I'm looking for an auto repair manual which I can download from the
web but it has to be in MS Word format.  I've come across several
websites selling downloadable manuals but they are all in PDF format.
Does anyone know if someone sells auto repair manuals in Microsoft

I plan to move U.S for working as an auto mechanic.
I'd like to know what is the average wage and working condition.
I'm working as an mechanic apprentice in Canada since I graduated from
a community college having degree of Automotive Service Technician