Wrenching

Removing My Subaru Outback’s Flat-Six Engine Was Actually Easy and Fun | Autance

Removing My Subaru Outback’s Flat-Six Engine Was Actually Easy and Fun | Autance

These cars are not too hard to wrench on, which is lucky, because it turned out mine needed a lot of work.
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Edd China Had To Get Creative and Invasive To Clean This Swampy Range Rover | Autance

Edd China Had To Get Creative and Invasive To Clean This Swampy Range Rover | Autance

What comes out of the transmission is nightmare fuel.
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How to See if Your Old Car Has Keyless Entry You Didn’t Know About | Autance

How to See if Your Old Car Has Keyless Entry You Didn’t Know About | Autance

If you have an older secondhand car and wish it had keyless entry, it actually might already.
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A Little Vibration Turned Into a Big Lesson in My Cheap Fiat Abarth | Autance

A Little Vibration Turned Into a Big Lesson in My Cheap Fiat Abarth | Autance

I assumed that maybe I needed to learn how to drive the car better. But, no… the car was just broken.
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Where I Find Therapeutic Joy in Menial Car Maintenance | Autance

Where I Find Therapeutic Joy in Menial Car Maintenance | Autance

There’s deep joy in small, menial tasks.
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I Almost Had to Re-Install My Subaru Outback’s Engine Twice | Autance

I Almost Had to Re-Install My Subaru Outback’s Engine Twice | Autance

Knocking is usually very bad.
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A Junkyard’s Price List Can Let You Know if a Car Is Reliable | Autance

A Junkyard’s Price List Can Let You Know if a Car Is Reliable | Autance

While I’m doing the math to see if a car’s worth restoring and re-selling, I use Car-Part’s national database of junkyards to see what parts cost.
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My First Trip in the $800 Daewoo Involved Building a Makeshift Power Steering Line on the Side of the Road | Autance

My First Trip in the $800 Daewoo Involved Building a Makeshift Power Steering Line on the Side of the Road | Autance

Despite some hardships this cheap orphan car did make it home. And soon, it will be racing.
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Replacing My Subaru Outback’s AC Compressor Was Hard but Saved Me a Lot of Money | Autance

Replacing My Subaru Outback’s AC Compressor Was Hard but Saved Me a Lot of Money | Autance

Air conditioning repair can end up being very expensive (it rarely “just needs a recharge”) so I decided to try and do it myself.
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Why You Should Understand Roll Center Before Lowering Your Car | Autance

Why You Should Understand Roll Center Before Lowering Your Car | Autance

You’ll often hear “lower center of gravity” as a benefit of lowering a car. In reality, messing with geometry is a little more complicated.
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