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Here’s What Happened When We Cooked A Meal Using Car Parts And Garage Tools
Can you use a car’s oil pan as an actual cooking pan? Does a hubcap make a good bowl? Can you use power tools to peel potatoes and carve chicken? Will a piston work as a cup? Will a pushrod function a straw? Does a pickle fork work well as an actual fork? These are…
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If You Want To Learn How To Fix Cars, Small DIY YouTube Channels Are A Godsend
I didn’t start fixing cars until I was a freshman in university, and by then, the internet was filling with how-to DIY YouTube videos that helped me get up to speed in short order. Lots of YouTubers spend tons of time making videos to show the rest of us how to fix things, and I…
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Low-Budget Habits And Goofy Tricks I Use To Keep Old Cars Alive Longer
In years of driving old cars, I’ve picked up some habits, maybe superstitions, that I’m convinced have helped keep my decrepit vehicles on the road. For the sake of everyone else’s retirement-age cars clinging to survival, I shall impart some of my secrets upon you unwashed cretins.
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Don’t Wind Up Like This Person: Check Your Car’s Critical Steering And Suspension Parts
A few weeks ago, while driving to pick up a battery for my recently-drowned 1948 Jeep, I noticed a black second-generation Ford Escape curiously sitting in the road, straddling two lanes. One of the wheels was cocked hard to the right with lots of camber, and it didn’t take me long to realise what had…