Bykfixer

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Good questions. I'll start with the brake fluid. If you brake a lot, say a lot of city driving with lots of stopping there can be condensation from all of the heating and cooling. But…you'd feel it in a soft pedal. As in pedal effort suddenly feels squishy. I change mine when the pads get changed. If your brakes feel ok under foot you don't need to change the fluid. Coolant is in a sealed system so unless there is a leak it should last a good long time. Again, a lot of short trips may "age" the coolant faster than 100,000 miles but certainly not at 30,000. Some change theirs every few years, even though they really don't need to. Good on you for changing those filters. Well done! I drive a fleet vehicle for work so they require it go to those big chain oil change places and frankly I'd rather not. They charge too much and frequently try to sell me stuff I don't need. Stuff like filters that are high profit and easy to swap out. My advice would be to ask around and find out where your neighbors, friends etc take their car and go that route. You'll be helping a local owned business while getting trustworthy service. Best regards.

Skanska expanded. They had a crew replacing a bridge over the James river in Richmond Va. That crane was brought in to hang girders over the river from the shore, which required lift capacity beyond the typical one(s) used around there. Note the truck to the left is about 7 feet (2.2m) tall.

I like giant Tonka toys

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That one is my son's new puppy. Her brother came home with me Chocolate lab mom, stranger in the night dad Yesterday they played all afternoon.

I've no experience with Amsoil for auto tranny but felt a noticeable improvement in shifting standard trannies when using it. So it stands to reason it can help an auto tranny work smoother.

I like puppies

At my work we have had issues with trucks seemingly having a mind of their own when new and it's the tires every time. Don't know if it is a soft tread thing, tall sidewalls or belts wandering. My current truck is an 018 with 44k miles that seemed to settle down around 5k miles. We had a Dodge that never did settle down after spending all kinds of $ on suspension and finally after 4 different brand of tires it behaved.

I wonder if……

It may be "escaine", which is a suede-like microfiber you clean like regular upholstery.

Steak

I like it when I'm trimming a rose bush, grab one to place in a jar and while heading indoors the Mrs arrives from work so I hand her the rose. Or when I come from work and the dog greets me at the door, tail all wagging-like. And the parrot says "welcome home"…… Or when a nice breeze blows just as the grass cut chore is over and the Mrs brings out a tall glass of ice cold spring water. Or when a new baseball cap fits my noggin just right without adjusting it. Or I step on the bathroom scale expecting to have gained weight but the scale shows I actually lost a little. Or when my son and I went to do the first start after an engine swap, expecting a hard to start issue but ole bessy fires right up. Or when the lawnmover starts first pull……again. Or helping out old people. Or thanking a soldier/veteran. Or tipping the person at the toll booth. Yes I stop and pay in cash so I can do that. Or when the voicemail on your phone was not a robo-call and instead was a friend telling you "hello, here's my new phone number" Or when you sneeze and a perfect stranger says "bless you". Life is short. But smiling makes you live longer. Trouble with being dead is it lasts so long.

Today my boss issued a new fuel card for the work truck since the current one expires this month. I slid that thin little plastic card into my wallet but kept the current one in there. On the commute home I noticed my wallet was a noticeable lump and remembered that one extra card in it. I mean like half way home it bothered me enough to pull the wallet out of my pocket and toss it on the other seat. It's strange how that small change can seem so big. Tomorrow I'll activate the new card and cut up the current one after I make sure the new one works. With gas pushing $5/ gallon where I live that fuel card is like a pay raise.

Yahoo!!

The folks at NHTSA raise the bar year after year. So a 4 star rating may have dropped to three simply because Toyota did raise their bar. In other words the car is not less safe. But the rule changed for stricter standards may cause the reduced rating.

I don't like sitting in my favorite lawn chair and hearing ripping sounds. Uh oh! Stitching is failing…… As a bonus the joints were all assembled with pop rivets. Sigh! Oh well, I'll just drill out the pop rivets, fix the stitches and reassemble with screws.

Ford

I like cherry Pepsi on occasion. That's about as close to whiskey as I'll go these days.

heat

Sometimes an EGR system loaded with soot can cause the darndest things. In the old days before the car had all kinds of sensors the old vacuum checker at various points in the system could point out where vacuum is out of spec leading the mechanic to know if it's the exhaust valves out of spec, the EGR clogging, low compression etc. I had all kinds of idle issues from a Honda once and it turned out a small leak in the head gasket had just enough coolant get into the exhaust pipe (undetected) and caused extra back pressure to give me a bunch of random grief like hard to start, shut off after releasing the throttle, low idle etc. Eventually the leak was bad enough to show up in the form of noticeable coolant loss but until then man it was so aggrevating.