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Not quite offroad, but 15 years ago my wife lost control of our 86 wagon while going through an s curve on ice and laid it on it’s side. The tow truck driver said it was totaled and she told him she’d drive it home and let me decide. No glass was broken. I replaced the left front fender. Three years ago, our daughter hit a deer, smashed the front bumper, headlight, hood, and radiator. I repaired that damage. We’re still driving that car. It’s now at 317,000 miles and still going strong. It refuses to die.

This subject was widely discussed and know about within CDOT 13 years ago. There's nothing suspicious about mag chloride. The slat rats that's moved there from Calfornia and Texas must have the highways clear so they can safely travel the speed limit to the slopes. Big business dictates what's used.

Yep...Very dangerous, just like 15-40 gallons of gasoline under your car or like propane in your home for heating. IF it was very dangerous, it wouldn't be allowed in your home or used in AC overseas.

Propane works GREAT and can be mixed with R12 and oils used with R12. It is "illegal" to use in some states, however propane is very commonly used everywhere in the world except the US. Would DuPont have anything to do with that?

Worked great until it started leaking. Replaced the o-rings in it, then disconnected it to prevent future problems. I now just heel & toe on hills.

Ebay has changed it's feedback ratings to only reflect the last 12 months. This seller has only sold 3 items in the last 12 months and had one negative, hence 66%. This new system stinks for sellers that only sell a few items/year.

I agree. K&N doesn't sell their filters to over the road trucks. The trucking companies know what works best.....paper filters. They have too much money invested in their engines to use second class filters. They were the first to get rid of oil bath air filters when pleated paper filters were introduced. When in doubt about a product, if it can be used on large equipment, see what they are using. They are the first to jump on the bandwagon if it's good.

Rick, you obviously have never replaced a u-joint on a 18 wheeler. I have (no, not bearing failures) and they are constructed basically the same as an automotive cross including the seals. The same applies to other steering and suspension components. Seals are the same configuration made with the same materials only much larger. Although I don't always agree with you you are very knowledgeable of Subarus, BUT you do not know everything there is to know about all subjects and this is one you don't have a clue about......end of subject.

GD, crawl under an 18 wheeler and then report back to us what you saw. Those aren't slow speed vehicles.

This customer having his air cleaner element changed every 3000 miles was showing his ignorance. Once a "cake" of fine dust accumulates on the filter element, the air cleaner filters MUCH more efficiently as verified by document #680536 published by the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1968. In this publication, the radiotracer technique was used to measure piston ring wear caused by dust metered to the intake air, fuel supply, and crankcase lubricant of an industrial diesel engine. Several basic air cleaner configurations were evaluated for their effectiveness in reducing ring wear due to ingested dust. This document titled "Ingested Dust, Filters, and Diesel Engine Ring Wear" is still available from SAE at http://www.sae.org/servlets/productDetail?PROD_TYP=PAPER&PROD_CD=680536. This customer was defiantly ignorant about air cleaners and his knowledge was also severely lacking on lubrication.

The only u-joints, tie rod ends, shackles, drag links, & etc I've had fail in the 45 years I've been driving were the newer cheep zerkless garbage that was factory installed and I'm still driving vehicles I purchased in the 1960's. I wrenched professionally for 15 years as a heavy equipment mechanic and the main reason for failures then was when the crews did NOT grease the equipment as required. If greasing was bad, heavy equipment manufactures wouldn't put grease zerks on $500,000+ equipment. The more expensive the equipment, the MORE grease zerks there are.

It's my understanding the refrigerant oils are different between r12 and r134a and are not interchangable.

Several years ago I read that hydrocarbon refrigerants (propane, butane) were legal and commonly used most everywhere in the world except in the United States as an alternative to R12. You might want to research this option. I personally haven’t tried it although I have considered it. Many people fear using a flammable refrigerant but it doesn’t seem like it’s nearly as hazardous as carrying around 15 or more gallons of gasoline.

Oldsmobile used water injection on their turbocharged high compression 1962 or maybe it was 1963 aluminum block V8 from the factory. The compression ratio was somewhere around 10:1 or 11:1...I think. I'm sure it would work IF you set it up properly AND don't forget to keep water in the reservoir. Edit: See http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1962-1963-oldsmobile-f85-jetfire.htm