The past few weeks were a mighty struggle. What started out as easy patience exercise turned into an outright threat to our next winter opportunity - we found a promising housesit in central Italy! But

Being a Mercedes Benz mechanic, I have encountered many leaking water pumps throughout my professional career, but today's leaking water pump on ML350 Mercedes Benz 166 really challenged my expertise and

Through the power of dog we will be just fine.

This was a rough week and required all my time, but I'm catching up now! We ran across a flower I don't recognize, and I am wondering if any of you know what it is? I know it's a 'weed'; but I'm using

Helping a friend on a motor problem in his jeep, while we are having good weather! We knew he had lost a head gasket, so today was exploratory surgery. We started with this: Everything must be labeled,

My Son bought a retired Highway Patrol car, with a blown engine...cheaply, and started rebuilding her. He has the motor and supercharger purring now, so he moved to the front end. A tiny amount of play

Putting a single, then a double flare on a 3/16" brake line, or anywhere else you need to.

Hello, and welcome to my page! The past several weeks have been warmer than usual here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, especially in the south central U.P. It's been above freezing during the day almost

Hello, and welcome to my page! Over the past week or so, I've been working on the brakes on my 1993 Ford Explorer. The problem started when the brake line that runs from the front of the vehicle to the

building a flat bed for the truck

Hello, and welcome to my page! Last year I wrote a series of posts about working on my older Ford Ranger pickup truck. I bought the truck to use for hauling my little travel trailer. I wanted to make sure

Hello, and welcome to my page! At the end of my previous post about my pickup truck, I talked about the need to get the exhaust manifolds off the engine so that I could either replace the exhaust pipe

Hello, and welcome to my page! My last post on this project was 13 days ago. Since then we've had some rather cold weather, and then several days ago, it warmed back up to a bit above freezing during the

Hello, and welcome to my page! The last post I wrote about this project was about 10 days ago. I should have written this post several days ago, but I just wasn't in the mood to do it until now. In the

Hello, and welcome to my page! If you read my last post about my work on the pickup truck, then you know that I was worried that the weather was not going to be nice enough to get more work done on the

Hello, and welcome to my page! A few days ago, the weather turned out to be a good day to do some more work on my old pickup truck. The temperature got up into the low 60s F, so I was able to do some painting

Hello, and welcome to my page! A few days ago, I was able to get back to doing some work on my old pickup truck. I'm trying to clean up the frame on the truck so that I can paint it to slow down the surface

Hello, and welcome to my page! This is part 2 of the series that I'm writing about my pickup truck project. You can read part one at this link. In part one, I talked about replacing the rear shocks on

Hello, and welcome to my page, eh! In the middle of August, I bought a 1994 Ford Ranger extended cab pickup truck. The plan was to use it for pulling my trailer wherever I might want to go with it. My

A car’s check-engine light (CEL) is usually the first indication that something is wrong. When that little dashboard light comes up, it can quickly induce a sensation of dread. However, without properly