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Engine Replacement as Part of Maintaining Crossover SUV

new engine So it turns out that engine replacement is part of maintaining a Crossover SUV. But what other options do you have if you’ve got more than two children? A minivan is too small. Everything else is too ugly. And the Crossovers are very expensive and...

Which is Better: No Bumper, or Wooden Bumper?

Rear end of dirty car without rear bumper. When my wife was 20 years old, she bought her first car, an old Gran Torino station wagon. It had chrome all the way around the front and back bumper, but the back bumper was kind of hanging off and would scrape the ground...

Wasted Money on Another Part from Amazon

My lawnmower needed a new carburetor. The ones on Amazon are between fifteen and twenty dollars each. The ones made by Briggs and Stratton, the people who made the lawnmower engine are about 10 times as much. So I bought the Amazon one, put it on, and adjusted the...

The First and Last Time I saw a Mercury Matador

Red Mercury Matador The first and last time I’ve ever seen a Mercury Matador was in the 1980s. My best friend and I were about 14 years old. We’d go behind his dad’s garage–he was a mechanic– and find a car that we could take out for the day to...

Dodge Neon

I would never let my children eat in the car, but some people do, like a woman we knew in the Early 2000s. She had 6 children and a beat up old Dodge Neon, and she needed to move across the country. White Dodge Neon She was going to drive that car. We couldn’t let her...

Video: Remove the Engine Again?

Do I have to Remove the Engine Again? (video transcript) All right. Going out here to the driveway and look at what I found here. Look at all of this all of this on the ground.You! (camera pans to the SUV)You did this. I just finished swapping the engine in my SUV...