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Congrats on the mammogram, BRENDA, and happy belated birthday! It seems like lately every time I get a mammogram they find "something" which leads to more and more testing.


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It's been COOOOOLD around me the last few days for the season because of this wacky weather.

I've decided to treat myself this winter. I'm not going to be a human popsicle. My usual rule is "No Heat Until November... No Matter What".

I turned it up to 65, which is 3 degrees higher than I ever turn it. I think I'll keep it that high all winter unless I start getting monthly bills over $200 because of how inefficient the system is.

Maybe this spring I'll finally get the new furnace and A/C installed. We'll have to see how my car and teeth situation is by then.- SIX

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Thanks Sig. I've already been there with the more testing. I've had two biopsies done and I've got two medical clips in me because of the biopsies. So far I have been lucky.- BRENDA

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Thanks Sig. I've already been there with the more testing. I've had two biopsies done and I've got two medical clips in me because of the biopsies. So far I have been lucky.- BRENDA

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I guess there's hope for me yet! I had one area that had TWO biopsies (an X-ray guided needle biopsy and then a much more extensive excisional one, plus those clips) but so far that's the only area that needed a biopsy even tho they've called me back for 3D mammo and ultrasound for the other breast.

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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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Silverfish are gross. Ew.


Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.



I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.



Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.

Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.

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Silverfish are gross. Ew.


Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.



I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.



Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.

Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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That is a very poor map. That red line is about 400-500 miles south of the WI/UP border, where Brown Recluse is our poisonous spider. Canada is far closer to that line. I'm not sure how much farther north Brenda is.

Brenda, what is your latitude?


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Silverfish are gross. Ew.


Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.



I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.



Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.

Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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That is a very poor map. That red line is about 400-500 miles south of the WI/UP border, where Brown Recluse is our poisonous spider. Canada is far closer to that line. I'm not sure how much farther north Brenda is.

Brenda, what is your latitude?


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Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.

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No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.

I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline?

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If it's really random, then it could be an electrical problem. Have you tried cleaning off the spark plug wires?? Or replaced the wires?? You wouldn't think it would make a difference, but it does!

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No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.

I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline? - SIGNY

Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.- SIX

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Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough? - SIGNY

Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.

Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline. - SIGNY

This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.- SIX

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Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty. - SIX

Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.- SIGNY

It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.- SIX

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If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.- SIGNY

What is "diesel" in that context?- SIX

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If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup. - SIGNY

I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.- SIX

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Did some research on seafoam and watched some youtube videos and I was sold. Not just the standard stuff, but the air intake variety and the transmission stuff as well. I bought it all.

Put 16oz in the gas tank. Easiest thing I did.

Oil was a bit trickier because I put too much oil in when I changed it. Had to bleed about a half quart out before I put 3.5oz in there.

Sprayed the entire aresol can for the air intake as per instructions. Used a couple of bricks to put the RPM's about 1000 above idle during this process. Ended up with a check engine light during this process, but disconnected the battery, put it back on and restarted it. Light hasn't come back on after about 20 miles of test driving.

Put half the can (about 8oz) of the transmission seafoam into my transmission.


So far so good. Even though it's not humid and I can't really test anything, there is already a very noticible difference in how the car is running. It's much quieter now (well... it's still loud with the exhaust issue, but you know what I mean). The steering wheel vibration is very minimal compared to before. I haven't noticed much of a difference with the transmission yet, but I didn't really expect to. Online reviews said it took anywhere from 100 to 200 miles and up to thousands of miles before the problem went away.

Leaving the car out overnight every night this week to emulate what I'll be doing when I work and I'll start it up around the time I would be going home in the morning and we'll see what happens.

I'm about 600 bucks into repairs now, including the new tires and windshield, so I'm hoping that I can get another year or two out of it now.

But even if I can't, there's a LOT to say about how much I've learned about cars in the last 3-4 months. Can't really put a price on that.

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No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.

I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline? - SIGNY

Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.- SIX

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OK, equivocal.

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Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough? - SIGNY

Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.

Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline. - SIGNY

This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.- SIX

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If it's coated with carbon, the inside of the tailpipe won't be "dirty", it will be a deep, light-sucking velvety black.

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Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty. - SIX

Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.- SIGNY

It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.- SIX

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I have idea idea what kind of soil is in your area, but if it's grayish then you might just be picking up road dirt.

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If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.- SIGNY

What is "diesel" in that context?- SIX

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The car will continue to run ... sort of ... even if you shut off the ignition. Kind of knock and rattle because the gasoline vapors auto-ignite, even without the spark plug firing them. In fact, that's what high-octane gas is supposed to solve: "engine knock", when the gasoline "goes off" before it's supposed to and creates a pinging, rattling, or knocking sound, especially under acceleration. But that doesn't sound like your problem.

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If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup. - SIGNY

I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.- SIX

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I'm really beginning to think its just dirty spark plug wires or a dirty/broken distributor cap. Seriously. There's a lot of voltage in those lines ... enough to cause a little lightning bolt (spark) in your engine ... and if your wires aren't clean the electricity can "leak out". I know it sounds crazy, but it's true, and it's a really cheap try: All you need is WD-40 and some of that dielectric grease that you already have.

How to:

https://itstillruns.com/clean-spark-plug-wires-2283270.html


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Did some research on seafoam and watched some youtube videos and I was sold. Not just the standard stuff, but the air intake variety and the transmission stuff as well. I bought it all.

Put 16oz in the gas tank. Easiest thing I did.

Oil was a bit trickier because I put too much oil in when I changed it. Had to bleed about a half quart out before I put 3.5oz in there.

Sprayed the entire aresol can for the air intake as per instructions. Used a couple of bricks to put the RPM's about 1000 above idle during this process. Ended up with a check engine light during this process, but disconnected the battery, put it back on and restarted it. Light hasn't come back on after about 20 miles of test driving.

Put half the can (about 8oz) of the transmission seafoam into my transmission.


So far so good. Even though it's not humid and I can't really test anything, there is already a very noticible difference in how the car is running. It's much quieter now (well... it's still loud with the exhaust issue, but you know what I mean). The steering wheel vibration is very minimal compared to before. I haven't noticed much of a difference with the transmission yet, but I didn't really expect to. Online reviews said it took anywhere from 100 to 200 miles and up to thousands of miles before the problem went away.

Leaving the car out overnight every night this week to emulate what I'll be doing when I work and I'll start it up around the time I would be going home in the morning and we'll see what happens.

I'm about 600 bucks into repairs now, including the new tires and windshield, so I'm hoping that I can get another year or two out of it now.

But even if I can't, there's a LOT to say about how much I've learned about cars in the last 3-4 months. Can't really put a price on that.

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$600 bucks including tires and windshield is a pittance!

Sea Foam, huh? I'll have to look it up!

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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The wires and the cap were going to be my next step, actually. Rather than just throw money at parts though, I wanted to first do all of the fixes that should have been part of regular maintenance anyhow and were just good things to be spending my money on.

I was surprised to see how cheap the cap would be to replace. The wires were a little more expensive then I was hoping though. Going to wait a while before I go that route. It shouldn't be a dirty job, so I'm not really worried if it gets a bit colder before I do that.

I'll look into the directions you sent.


I do believe that JSF gave me the idea about trying seafoam way back before I even fixed the oil leak.

Check out this video about it, and the follow up one the guy made a year later:

Next year I'm going to try out the Lucas stuff he used, or perhaps another kind of additive to see if I can plug up the remaining small oil leak.... assuming my car makes it that long.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.

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Huh, interesting video. I have to say, the "clatter" from the sticking lifter(s) was definitely eliminated!

There are some very powerful solvents - aside from oil or alcohol-based - that will take sludge and carbon out of the system. One problem with the ones I'm thinking of, tho, (dimethyl formamide, methylene chloride, and the like) is that they will also dissolve all kinds of gaskets like the head gasket or the gasket under the carburetor. So I'm assuming that they aren't using THOSE solvents!

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Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.

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A "moisture drier" can be any kind of alcohol (or acetone) because water mixes in with the alcohol, and then the alcohol/water mixes with the oil or gasoline. So any water in the bottom of your crankcase or gasoline tank will be flushed out.

It's a common problem with oil refining: dewatering the oil. There is always some residual water at the bottom of the storage tanks, and SOME water dissolved in the product, even if only 0.1%. In winter, can be a SIGNIFICANT problem if the water "drops out" (goes out of solution) and freezes in your gas line or filter. There used to be something called "dry gas" ... which used to be diethyl ether (before they got all weirded out about the propensity of ethers to form explosive peroxides on storage, and substituted alcohol instead) and it worked like a charm. Better than alcohol.

I imagine that they use "aromatics" (toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene) as part of their carbon/ sludge dissolver, since aromatics are safer for silicone gaskets.

I would look at Lucas more closely. There have been problems with some oil additives swelling the gaskets ... head gasket, carb gasket, valve cover gasket ... and then when you go back to regular oil the gaskets over-shrink and then leak. I had that problem with my 2001 Civic when the shop used a modern synthetic oil once (I always ask them to use "regular") and then when it got another oil change - with regular oil- it started leaking like a sieve.


But FWIW I looked up Sea Foam+complaints and didn't find any.


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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis.

If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

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Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis. If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved! - SIGNY

Last night was pretty easy to solve. I ate too much after 6pm and my body never got to digest it properly before I had to take my meds. So, I am trying to do better tonight.
I don't sleep well. At least not right now. Mostly because of stress from living in this place and trying to find another place.- BRENDA

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.

I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline?

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Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.

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Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough?

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Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.

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Here are my thoughts ...

If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline.

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This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.

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Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.

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[ Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.

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It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.

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If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.

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What is "diesel" in that context?

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If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup.

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I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.

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If it's really random, then it could be an electrical problem. Have you tried cleaning off the spark plug wires?? Or replaced the wires?? You wouldn't think it would make a difference, but it does!

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There is a long time electrical problem with the car. I've never tried to "fix" anything electric except for changing the plugs themselves.




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Did some research on seafoam and watched some youtube videos and I was sold. Not just the standard stuff, but the air intake variety and the transmission stuff as well. I bought it all.

Put 16oz in the gas tank. Easiest thing I did.

Oil was a bit trickier because I put too much oil in when I changed it. Had to bleed about a half quart out before I put 3.5oz in there.

Sprayed the entire aresol can for the air intake as per instructions. Used a couple of bricks to put the RPM's about 1000 above idle during this process. Ended up with a check engine light during this process, but disconnected the battery, put it back on and restarted it. Light hasn't come back on after about 20 miles of test driving.

Put half the can (about 8oz) of the transmission seafoam into my transmission.


So far so good. Even though it's not humid and I can't really test anything, there is already a very noticible difference in how the car is running. It's much quieter now (well... it's still loud with the exhaust issue, but you know what I mean). The steering wheel vibration is very minimal compared to before. I haven't noticed much of a difference with the transmission yet, but I didn't really expect to. Online reviews said it took anywhere from 100 to 200 miles and up to thousands of miles before the problem went away.

Leaving the car out overnight every night this week to emulate what I'll be doing when I work and I'll start it up around the time I would be going home in the morning and we'll see what happens.



I'm about 600 bucks into repairs now, including the new tires and windshield, so I'm hoping that I can get another year or two out of it now.

But even if I can't, there's a LOT to say about how much I've learned about cars in the last 3-4 months. Can't really put a price on that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Huh, interesting video. I have to say, the "clatter" from the sticking lifter(s) was definitely eliminated!

There are some very powerful solvents - aside from oil or alcohol-based - that will take sludge and carbon out of the system. One problem with the ones I'm thinking of, tho, (dimethyl formamide, methylene chloride, and the like) is that they will also dissolve all kinds of gaskets like the head gasket or the gasket under the carburetor. So I'm assuming that they aren't using THOSE solvents!

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Yes I see ...

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Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.

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A "moisture drier" can be any kind of alcohol (or acetone) because water mixes in with the alcohol, and then the alcohol/water mixes with the oil or gasoline. So any water in the bottom of your crankcase or gasoline tank will be flushed out.

It's a common problem with oil refining: dewatering the oil. There is always some residual water at the bottom of the storage tanks, and SOME water dissolved in the product, even if only 0.1%. In winter, can be a SIGNIFICANT problem if the water "drops out" (goes out of solution) and freezes in your gas line or filter. There used to be something called "dry gas" ... which used to be diethyl ether (before they got all weirded out about the propensity of ethers to form explosive peroxides on storage, and substituted alcohol instead) and it worked like a charm. Better than alcohol.

I imagine that they use "aromatics" (toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene) as part of their carbon/ sludge dissolver, since aromatics are safer for silicone gaskets.

I would look at Lucas more closely. There have been problems with some oil additives swelling the gaskets ... head gasket, carb gasket, valve cover gasket ... and then when you go back to regular oil the gaskets over-shrink and then leak. I had that problem with my 2001 Civic when the shop used a modern synthetic oil once (I always ask them to use "regular") and then when it got another oil change - with regular oil- it started leaking like a sieve.


But FWIW I looked up Sea Foam+complaints and didn't find any.

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Edit: I also told you to use STP for your oil leak, but you ignored the free advice. Even argued against it.

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Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis. If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved! - SIGNY

Last night was pretty easy to solve. I ate too much after 6pm and my body never got to digest it properly before I had to take my meds. So, I am trying to do better tonight.
I don't sleep well. At least not right now. Mostly because of stress from living in this place and trying to find another place.- BRENDA

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If you don't drive, it must be very difficult to look for a new place. I hope you have some other resources available ... internet postings or FB or housing authority or some kind of neighborhood bulletin board (internet or otherwise). Here we have a website called nextdoor.com which has been very helpful as you can query the most local of areas (the dozen or so blocks around your place) or expand it to perhaps several miles around. If you have that website in your city, I recommend it.

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Today, I boogied out of the house early to hit my most-local native plant nursery. They inventory and put out new stock on Monday/Tuesday (when they're closed) but if I wait until the weekend they might run out of the things that I want (like what happened last time). So today I got all of the things that were on my list ... two more Catalina cherry to complete the privacy screen, a bunch of buckwheat (cinereum/ashy-leafed and parvifolium/seacliff), more golden bunch-grass (purple three-awn) ... and found a few things that I knew I wanted but didn't know were available - foothill penstemon and mahonia repens (a loverly layered groundcover for the shade, which is already growing happily in another part of the yard.)

Today is a toasty 89F, and tomorrow will be an even toastier 91F ... and I have other things to do today and tomorrow ... but there's supposed to be a big cooldown on Monday which will give me the oppty to plant more of my plants.

Does the happy dance!!

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SOOOOO envious of your warm weather.

I think I'm going through a bout of the SADs right now. Today will mark burning half of my days off and I haven't gotten nearly as much accomplished as I wanted to by now. Slept in quite late today and have done nothing of value since I've been awake.

I have managed to get quite a bit done until today, including some non car related stuff that's been on the backburner for some time now. What a waste of the day though....



Fired up the car again this morning and everything looks to be a-okay. I might take a trip up to my work to buy some stuff and back just to get a real feel of how it's performing now. I'm feeling really good about it.








@Brenda. Still wishing you the best in finding a better place. Has the landlady been a bitch or has she at least backed off a bit?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Well, who told you THAT???

Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.

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Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead. - SIGNY

The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday. I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon. So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far. - BRNEDA

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Well, who told you THAT???

Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.

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The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday.

I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon.

So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far.

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It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!- BRENDA

Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead. - SIGNY

The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday. I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon. So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far. - BRNEDA

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Well, I know I get MY back up when people start scolding/ patronizing me!

Can you put on an I'm listening to your pearls of wisdom face while you ignore her?



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Well, who told you THAT???

Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.

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The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday.

I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon.

So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far.

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I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.

I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.

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I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.

I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.- KIKI

It is taxing and it is odd in a way as I have known this couple off and on for years. They are friends of a lady that I knew since I was a baby. This lady died last year and she left her house to them.

It is also taxing because of their religion. She's a doctor but also the wife of a semi-retired minister, so they bring their religion into a lot of discussions I have had with them. That ticks me off to no end as I just throw science back in their faces.

And in their own ways they have issues with minorities. Example their son got married over the summer to a Thai girl. The new couple came over for a visit in September but because of Trump and his travel bans, their new daughter in law couldn't enter the US to change planes. Their son came on his own and then their daughter in law had to fly direct into Canada.

The husband of the woman, I work for couldn't understand why that happened. I could only look at the man and think, "You dumb f&ck! The President of the US has problems with people of different skin colours."

This man also related a story to me a year ago that his father had told him. His family may have Indian blood. He was so horrified at this idea, that I sat at the other end of the table from him and pointed at myself and said, "Sitting right here. My family has no problem with being Indian. We're proud of it."- BRENDA

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I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.

I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.- KIKI

It is taxing and it is odd in a way as I have known this couple off and on for years. They are friends of a lady that I knew since I was a baby. This lady died last year and she left her house to them.

It is also taxing because of their religion. She's a doctor but also the wife of a semi-retired minister, so they bring their religion into a lot of discussions I have had with them. That ticks me off to no end as I just throw science back in their faces.

And in their own ways they have issues with minorities. Example their son got married over the summer to a Thai girl. The new couple came over for a visit in September but because of Trump and his travel bans, their new daughter in law couldn't enter the US to change planes. Their son came on his own and then their daughter in law had to fly direct into Canada.

The husband of the woman, I work for couldn't understand why that happened. I could only look at the man and think, "You dumb f&ck! The President of the US has problems with people of different skin colours."

This man also related a story to me a year ago that his father had told him. His family may have Indian blood. He was so horrified at this idea, that I sat at the other end of the table from him and pointed at myself and said, "Sitting right here. My family has no problem with being Indian. We're proud of it."- BRENDA

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Was invited to a neighborhood end-of-summer party a few weeks ago. The couple who hosted it, plus a few of their friends, have a band that's pretty damn good. The drummer is particularly good. They played all of the oldies that I remember and like ... Riders on the Storm ... Dust in the Wind ... Grange (ZZ Top) and they did a GREAT job! I had a blast!

But I've had uh haw haw haw (ZZ Top) and dust in the wind stuck in my head ever since!



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Pity would be no more,
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Continuing to blitz on all fronts .... hubby's retirement (and nailing down health insurance for all of us) ... home renovation .... the garden.

Especially the garden. Been devoting a few hours most mornings lately, before the day gets too hot, to do the cleanup, pruning, and planting that one is supposed to do in the fall here. Yesterday, I devoted a lot more time than anticipated cleaning up around the driveway - mostly pruning, raking, and sweeping; plus giving the vehicles a quick wash and filling tires.

I filled up one of those ginormous greenwaste bins that our trash company makes available in our fair city. And wouldn't you know it? You can hardly tell the difference!

It WILL make a difference, I tell myself, when the Santa Ana winds blow and there will be fewer leaves and pine needles to drift across the driveway. But so far ... meh!




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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

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Irma Bombeck ... one of my favorites back in the day, god rest her soul.

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