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You guys won't believe the absolute fortune to get this roadworthy. The mechanics blame Covid, I blame my husband for allowing them to hold it hostage...all-round a 1st-world-soap opera. But no matter, I have Faye Hadley on one screen here and this on the other: Additives Liqui Moly |...

I have 4 Border Collie x Australian Shepherds in cars a lot. They sit/lie/stand in harnesses and I just drape heavy duty painters dropsheets over everything..floorcarpet and sides for when they need to do the paws on door, head out the window thing...just throw in washer once a week.

I happily pass on knowledge from whatever skillsets I have when I can to others. As long as there is requisite gratitude I reckon the pass-it-forward sense of global community-sharing is quite cool.

I guess you could have neighbours & passers-by giving cheery/helpful commentary:p I did a melodramatic clean-out of our junk-pit garage over NYs and am now setting it up like my teenage bedroom - posters, neatly colour-coded files, pretty baskets of polishes, oils and lamps:D Now for the...

Same here. I'm setting up my garage for my new after-work absorbing hobby, and have already printed out all the words of wisdom I've gotten here & pasted them on the wall Ta, have put this on my new hobbyist garage wall along with other words of wisdom

so in total, how many diferent types of grease and oil are needed to maintain an old explorer?

Just before 9pm here on NYE...the early fireworks are shooting off around the neighbourhood. So Happy New Year and best wishes to you and everyone else on here for 2021:D:bounce:

what do you use to clean all the 'bits' with?

yes bravo to you, very impressive. And indeed the fellas on here are super generous about sharing their time and expertise. I'm at the millenial-bought-herself-a-hey-wow-cool-$1000-camping/adventure-car-at-auction-yet-has-ZERO-clue-about- getting-it-roadworthy. Gimme 40 years - when I'm 68 &...

If I ever manage to drag this sorry pile of metal to Townsville to visit my ol' Dad, I look forward to a reverent bumping of bumpers and extolling on the superiority of Scotch bloodlines on the way through. My husband spent his happy lost 20s on the Gold Coast, so each time we pass through a...

"10 foot barge pole" quote comes to mind:banghead:

thanks so much, this is brilliantly helpful!

wow, fantastic...yes this makes sense!! I'm only in my beginner 'hearing' of the Explorer engine & LPG engine & bits( and reading all about it) but this makes sense! Thanks SO much!!

Ta....yep I think everything on it's underbelly is broken. When the cops pulled me over they were laughing as it sounded like a metallicky nightmare under there ...it conked out each of my last three roundabouts:-) I'm gonna go buy a camcorder as this will be a mystery rebuild project to...

yes the 5 cylinder sound happened after he messed with it...so I'm thinking spark plug. He could have trashed the engine entirely- my bad. I've been told the engine will have to be lifted out ($600-$800) for anyone to check. Magic man says that's nonsense but he's going on a 3 week holiday today...

nah, serves me right for paying some random guy $20ph cash. A guy recommended to me at the dog park of all places. I know plenty of BAD mean assholes (on both sides of the law)...but he's just a hopeless babbling drunk now who's terrified as he now knows who I work for. Who knows, he could...

ah yes I think the sway bars are broken. Streets around here are windy and every time I turned a corner or went around a tight roundabout the car pretty much broke down entirely. I can't change them myself, my husband's bedridden with cancer...and mechanics around here charge $70-$90per...

only 5 cyclinders now. Weird thing is none of this could be heard or was picked up when i bought it and first got it tested. Also it sounds VERY different after the drunk mechanic did ?? to it while I was at work. Like a different truck. I know he put the wrong oil in and my neighbour said he...

upside of that I guess is your oil is cheap:D btw update on my poor old car is autogas Magic man was indeed great. showed me there is zero wrong with the gas switching. Shook his head at the invoices and swore a lot....asked why, while charging me hundreds of $ over nonsense, none of the...

Remember minimum wage here is $19ph, so every $79.99 bottle is filled with the sweat and tears of jostling autoshop sales kids on $25ph each (before commission).

Hey German Engineer look what I found: Molygen 5W-30 5 Litre.

I really honestly have no idea what oil to put in. Unlike most on this site I truly have no idea about cars. In the 9 years I've owned cars I 've always had old cars and the last two have been 20 yr old Fairlanes on dual fuel (100 acre old Ford Factory up the road, so 20 yr old Fords very common...

thanks for that, I'll take note! we clueless ones never know who to listen to. I've decided to change the oil to what you guys suggest and also change the spark plugs...fingers crossed the dual fuel LPG switching problem solved.

Our temps are very mild compared to yours I think is the reason for the oil thing. For eg I live in what is considered one of the coldest parts of Oz and our coldest early morning winter temps (2-3 months of the years) are around 40 F...we consider that freezing! The only time I've ever seen...

here's some ideas: Why is fuel more expensive in Australia compared to the United States? Several main reasons… Australia has very little oil in the ground, so imports most of its petroleum requirements, paying internation market rates. The USA has gigalitres upon gigalitres, the USA only...