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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Changing Spark Plugs and Plug Wires on a 1999 Mercury Cougar V6

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The old Cougar developed a misfire. Sometimes when I hit the gas, it would hiccup or go chug-a-chug, especially if it was below 2000 RPMs. I...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

How to Fix a Westinghouse LD-4680

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Our friends were given a 46" LED LCD TV that didn't work. The previous owners were watching TV when it just turned off. It sounded ...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Fixing My Car With a Little Help from Above

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I've rebuild a couple power steering pumps because it's so much cheaper to buy the rebuild kit and it usually isn't hard. But th...
Monday, December 1, 2014

How to Build a GPS Navigation PC in Linux

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For this project, I used my old Acer Aspire One D257 netbook PC and a GlobalSat BU-353-S4 USB GPS receiver (or see the GlobalSat web site...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Moonlight Savings Time

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Today, we set our clocks back one hour to normal time. What if daylight savings time was reversed? Shall we have moonlight savings time? Wha...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Replacing Rear Sway Bar Links on a 1999-2002 Mercury Cougar

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There was a clunking sound coming from the back when the car would hit a bump, especially when one side ran over the bump. Looking at the su...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Diagnosing a speedometer failure on a 1999 Mercury Cougar

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(Update) Bottom line: the VSS signal is too low for the instrument cluster. It needs at least 7.2V on the VSS signal wire at the instrument ...
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