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And another thing is the amount of complexity it adds to the overhead of the engine. A whole other level of adjustments and it would all need to come off to set the overhead and or remove injectors on the 24v engines. Engine brakes are a PITA from a maintenance stand point, the exhaust brake is the simpler and most practical on a pickup.

Your guess is as good as mine on that one.

Ha Ha yeah we already talked about not mistakenly filling it with diesel, she has been pumping diesel for a lot of years now. This thing is weird as it doesn't have a gas cap, the thing has a rubber flap you just shove the nozzle into and the fuel fill door seals against it when it is closed.

It is near half price to buy if one buys it before 6 months and or 6k miles on the vehicle too. Just got to thinking and now I am down to only one diesel vehicle again, first time since 04 when we bought the 03 jetta and had the 02 cummins and then had the 05 cummins so had 3 diesels for a while and no gassers on the place now the 2005 cummins is alone amongst 3 gassers. I

This one is really good for the price. http://www.honda-extended-warranty.com/Coverage.aspx#LiveTabsContent4761 http://www.honda-extended-warranty.com/crv.aspx#LiveTabsContent5021

I hope so too, this thing is 100% drive by wire and everything is electronic and touch screens ect. I am going to get Honda care extended warranty for it to cover us to 6 years 120K miles, zero deductible plan will run around $900+- if purchased within the first 6 months or 6k miles.

Wife had a tearful parting with her tdi Jetta and was still overwhelmed at what the crv has for options gizmos and gadgets neither of are used to. Going to be a bit of a learning curve figuring out what this thing has to offer and how to use it.? Wife posing with the new ride right after leaving the dealership

Well the wife says good bye to the VW TDI world in a couple of hours, she is really sad as am i a bit but the world still rolls on.

Got the wife set up to haul a steer to the meat plant to get butchered and take a cow to the vet to get pg checked and checked for hardware. Fun day of trailering today with 50+mph winds but the blizzard is missing us to the north just a bit.?

Will add them to the will call list come monday morning.

Doing some searches I found a couple shops in Washington that specialize in custom cam rebuilding and grinding will give them a call today. Yeah its been a headache, wish I would have bought the used engine i found from a mower that was an IDI I would have been done by now lol. I have everything else done so thisis the last hurdle.....................I hope.

Here is my issue, am re-powering a Kubota tractor with a newer bigger engine from a different application, problem is the engine I am putting in is a direct injection engine and parts i need for my application are rare and i can't find what I need used and new parts are really expensive. I need a different fuel injection pump cam and the ones i have sourced are from Indirect injection engines of the same size but the cam lobes are a bit larger diameter on the IDI engines than on mine and i am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a cam regrind shop that will do custom work? I can send in one of the larger diameter sourced cams and send in mine for the pattern to copy. For reference The used cam cost me 65 bucks and a new cam is 550 bucks.

Yep its a bicycle tube for one of my wifes bikes.

Haha you have a long way to go. It's easy to keep things neat and orderly when the collection is still small lol. here is just a portion of mine, I have numerous others in all drawers deepwell impacts both half and 3/4 dr and lots of specialty sockets of all types.? Every drawer is stuffed full and I have other work benches and portable tool boxes stuffed full too. never mind the mess my shop is a total disaster this winter too many projects going on mixed in with a total hellish winter and two tractor engines and a tractor scattered throughout has been a headache.

To this day the best of the best daily use hand tools i have ever bought back when i was getting started are cornwell brand tools, I have never broken or had to warranty any of my hand tools I bought from them have all the originals and they get used more than anything else to this day. Once we lost the local Cornwell dealer I tended to lean towards Mac tools a bit more than any other brand and they have never let me down either, I liked their boxes better and were more reasonable. Have matco, snap-on, craftsman and lots of off brand tools.

Having wrenched for a living and having to buy all my own tools over the years I have amassed quite a collection of about every major brand name tools, all have their good and bad. There are so many good options and choices now versus what I had to choose from 20+ years ago when I got started in the trade. There is also a lot more crap brands for tools out there too that do not even meet the cut to be called tools IMHO.

If one has an hour meter one their vehicle changing based on hours of operation is the best way to go about it along with fluid analysis. Knowing the older vehicles do not have hour meters it is best to know the quality of fluids you are using and your specific driving habits along with the environment you are operating in. Both my rigs are new enough to have hour meters and I have basically got the mileage range to hours operated down to a general range for me. 7500 miles is about 225+- hours, tracking both rigs over the last 5 years of servicing. But i backed the 2010 Hemi off to about 200 hours or 6K miles max on the engine oil, Have tried several different types of oil and according to fluid analysis results the additive package is almost totally depleted by 7500 miles even though Chrysler suggests 7500 service intervals I do not run the oil that long anymore just for insurance.

Neat way to test things. That video is six years old, many changes have happened to all manufacturer models and technology since then already so it's not relevant to what vehicles and technology are on the road for 2017. It snowed this morning so all the roads were icey and slick while doing the test drive and i was nailing the throttle on the honda in different types of driving from dead stop and from different speeds to see how fast the automatic AWD system would react and it was nearly seem less on rolling romps and split second reaction from a stop when i could feel it start to spin.

Done deal "almost", just put a deposit down on a 2017 Honda CRV so it doesn't get sold before the car return happens march 7. Works out good because its the same dealer that sells the VW too so it was easy to work out a deposit to hold deal lol. Drove the Subaru forester this morning was nicer than I expected from my previous subaru encounters and previous ownership but very rough riding and choppy every single road crack was very prominant throughout the cab and it had rather hard seats. Next went over and test drove the CRV I had found and instantly fell in love with it, its more quiet way way way more comfy more options more refined felt like it had more power for a larger vehicle with a smaller engine than the subaru, Subaru had a 2.5 litre and this honda has a 1.5 l turbo engine, mileage rating is about even to a mile per gallon higher on the Honda. http://www.bismarckmotorcompany.com/new-Bismarck-2017-Honda-CR+V-EX+L-5J6RW2H8XHL003570

I am talking head room and ease of acess for people and cargo and out not cargo space persa. looking at the overall dimension specs they are very close. the outback externally is longer and wider which equates to more shoulder room, The ground clearance is the same the headroom is an inch more on forester but overall all other specs are very similar which is surprising as they look so much different parked side by side..................... Except for the one thing that is the deal maker / breaker, there is not a single outback on the lot under $30K which is what my wife wants to stay at or under no exceptions. The forester we are looking at has heated leather and a moon roof marked @ 28K the closest outback with similar options start at 32-33K. no deal go back to start line lol. The Honda CRv's we are looking at are loaded up pretty nice or nicer than the subarus and are right at 30K even which even has her shying away from them for that reason alone.

Outback is too small overall for her wants and needs and not going to happen. We are going to test drive the forester on saturday to see, the 2017 is a totally new design so we will see. If Subaru has not changed their seat design or cabin space that will kill it too. I had one my wife had one and my mother in-law has a 2005 outback and I barely fit in the dang thing and is the most uncomfortable car ever and that is for short across town trips, no way in hell i would want to drive it any further, got to shoe horn myself in it. My wife even hates it.

Looking things over closer and more searching has narrowed the field to two, Honda CRV she did a very short test drive on but not enough to get a good feel more to see how it felt comfort wise, and the Subaru Forester which the local dealer has on the lot but we have not test driven yet. Has everything she is looking for in her price range. She got her date finalized on march 7 to turn her Jetta in so crunch time to figure out what she will replace it with.

Here is a link to tons of pictures of the Oroville spillway fiasco. http://imgur.com/a/OeOJ5

My uncle and his wife just moved to England a few weeks ago for her job, he said 90% of the vehicles over there are diesels with manual trans, said its hard to find both gas vehicles or automatics. he just bought a 2011 VW diesel with a 2.0 TDI and DSG auto which he said he had to look high and low to find the auto tranny. Also said there are tons of other models of vehicles and all with diesels over there not offered here. He was talking about VW having a vehicle that resembles a pickup over there but can't remember what he said it was called.