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Hydraulic lifters are self adjusting but not necessarily silent. Properly adjusted the lifters should be just a little loose to avoid burning valves. They shouldn't make a loud clicking noise. The lifters have to bleed off a little oil in each cycle just so they can readjust. If they didn't do...

I confess, I shamelessly ripped the line off about 40 years ago and have used when ever the question comes up. I think it was originally a line from Susan Anton and she probably was wearing heels at the time as her height is currently listed at 5'11". I can do that flat footed and heels really...

The manual transmission doesn't have a sensor. You can measure just about anything else including the rear end and the temperature of an automatic but there isn't one in the manual. The only reason I can think of is because the manual may not generate enough heat to be an issue. It might be a...

May or may not help. Page 129 in the manual indicates your chest needs to be 10 inches or more away from the wheel. You might need to recline the seat a bit to accomplish this but the manual indicates not more than 30 degrees from the upright position. I know for some people that isn't...

This may be a dumb question but the steering wheel moves forward and backwards when unlocked. Have you tried pushing it all the way forward? It's a safety issue as well because if you too close to an airbag when it goes off, it can cause serious injuries. I am on the other end of the scale at...

In my case, it would be over 53 years. I guess the government is good for one thing, turning out high quality printing. One thing about anti counterfeit measures, you can't blame it on anybody else.

You're right. I was looking at the wrong chart. I remembered it was 3 something. it was 300 billion. That would make it a 100 time increase.

PVC valves were one of the first emission control devices and were a required retrofit at least in Arizona along with a vacuum retard when the engine reached a certain temperature. You don't really need a PVC valve but it's one of the things that they might catch when they do an emission control...

True, People now demand power brakes, power windows, power steering and high end audio. But the government requires safety items like crash resistance, air bags. much lower emissions and high milage. Somewhere the cars became more durable. It used to be you figured on an engine rebuild at...

Blame the government. Once you could buy a VW or Ford Maverick for about $2,.000. High end for a car was about $4,000. I didn't have the money to buy one of them but I paid less than $9,000 for my 82 GT. My 96 GT was about $27,000. An Econo Boost is far less than a GT or Dark horse but the...

Years of driving 20 miles each way in Los Angles traffic, when I moved to phoenix I wanted a home closer to work. It's 3 miles one way on surface streets with little traffic. Add a couple more miles if I have to drop mail off at the post office. People complain about the fuel the car uses but...

There is a saying about opinions that I will not repeat here for fear of the moderators. Anyway, people buy cars for different reason. I buy them new so I don't start with somebody else's problems, drive them carefully and then keep them for over 150,000 miles. I got my car in September and have...

With the car cell phone turned off there will be no communication with the outside world. On thing I am not sure about is the car has the ability to call 911 if you have a serious crash. I don't know if that works when the cell phone is off. There may be diagnostic information passed over the...

You can turn off the car cell phone in the menu. Connecting your cellphone gives you hands off access to the cellphone so you can take incoming calls with the touch of one button on the wheel. You don't need to use your phone for anything else. I have my car configured to use my home WiFi so it...

That can't be right. All three transmission have a final gear between .62 and .64 so you would expect the top speed to be nearly the same. Either the rev limiter is in place for the tr-3160 or you are using 5th gear instead of 6th gear. As a double check 2,000 RPM is about 70 miles per hour in...

Smaller semiconductors save space and they are able to handle less power as well. As for the dead batteries, there is much more powered off the battery. Used to be the engine computer and radio were the only things powered when the car was off. Today you have WiFi, Cell phone and the computer...

The difference between 3.55 and 3.73 is only about 6% which might make a difference on the track but I am not sure you would notice it in day to day driving. Personally I am not sure that high ratio rear ends is the way to go. The A10 will skip gears indicating the gears are too close together...

Yes I paid a dealer premium and I don't regret it. By the time I received my car I had been trying to purchase one for over a year. I kept running into closed order books and by then I just wanted to get it over with. The dealer reduced the premium as I have been servicing 3 vehicles there for...

As far as I can tell, all of the lights are LEDs. They don't needs as heavy of wire, they use less power, they are more dependable and the electronics don't need to handle as much current so it runs cooler. They didn't intend for them to be replace so I hope the tint you have doesn't block much...

I suspect that some of those parts aren't in normal stock as they don't expect them to fail or be needed. For example the bolts and sprocket may have come from the engine assembly plant that doesn't normally provide replacement parts. Ford used to have 10 or 11 part depots located around the...