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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Fixing a Persistent Oil Leak

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After replacing the valve cover gaskets, the oil pan gasket, and the entire timing cover set on my 1999 Cougar 2.5 V6, I still had a pretty ...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

How to Sell a Car

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How hard can it be? Some people put very little effort into preparing their car for sale, and even less effort in creating an ad. But with p...
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

She wrecked two cars in a week! Fixing the Cougar's wheel bearing, etc. from hitting a curb.

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What goes around, comes around. And I don't mean that in a wheel bearing sort of way. As a parent, I get to watch my kids repeat some of...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

How to install NVIDIA driver 352.63 in Linux Mint 17.3

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Last March, I wrote a guide to install the NVIDIA 346.35 video card driver on Linux Mint 17.1. A few things have changed since then. Since w...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

1000 Lumen Duracell Flashlight Teardown

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Here, I'll show you how to disassemble a Duracell 1000 lumen flashlight. While it may not be very practical, somehow it's satisfying...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Diagnosing Insufficient EGR Flow

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1999 Mercury Cougar 2.5L V6 OBD-II trouble code P0401 The check engine light came on and gave me code P0401 for insufficient EGR flow. I ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Obnoxious Password Rules

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We've all seen password rules, and most likely been annoyed by them. They think they're doing us a favor by requiring a highly secu...