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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not magic liquid. Targeted viscosity. Slows or stops leaks.

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I heard Ford Titan engines cost $1,500 for spark plug replacement.

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I get the jump box when on sale for $15-25. One place, Harbor Freight Tools can be your friend.
But a jump box should be plugged in once a month.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, well ... it was the battery BECAUSE .... there is ANOTHER electrical fault in the car! THIS one keeps the rear brake lights on. (One fault fried the wires to the right rear window - so I pulled the fuse- and the other one disabled the trip A/B functions to the odometer, so I managed to shift it over to total mileage and I KEEP it there!) I didn't see that in the bright daytime, but hubby noticed the lights when he pulled in the driveway. I had to disconnect the battery.

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Not magic liquid. Targeted viscosity. Slows or stops leaks.

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It would have to be magic to stop this leak. I'm assuming mine is as bad as the video I saw since I'm leaking so much. You can actually see it coming out of the seal and steadily dripping as soon as you turn the car on. I won't know until I remove everything to get to it. I've gone through 33 quarts since I started working in the middle of November.

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I heard Ford Titan engines cost $1,500 for spark plug replacement.

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Jeez. Why the hell would that be? I changed mine for 8 or 9 bucks in parts a month or two ago.

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I get the jump box when on sale for $15-25. One place, Harbor Freight Tools can be your friend.
But a jump box should be plugged in once a month.

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I hope that one works for you when you actually need it. I only buy harbor freight stuff for disposable extra tools like wrenches and hammers and screwdrivers and stuff. I wouldn't want to be stuck with a dead battery and a Harbor Freight jump box.

I think I paid 80 bucks for my Black and Decker and that thing still works 10 years later. You could probably get it for $60 bucks on sale if you waited for it. Maybe even less for some crazy Black Friday deal or something.

I just saw a Stanley one at WalMart for $70, but it was only half the size of my B&D one, and didn't have the A/C plug outlets and air pump that mine has.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Obviously you know it all. My Jump boxes work fine, on every vehicle that has needed it. Even when I forget to charge it. A co-worker had one that didn't work, after using it for 3 or 4 days in a row without recharging it.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Obviously you know it all. My Jump boxes work fine, on every vehicle that has needed it. Even when I forget to charge it. A co-worker had one that didn't work, after using it for 3 or 4 days in a row without recharging it.

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Harbor Freight sells crap. That doesn't mean that it doesn't work all of the time. It's actually a great place to buy a lot of low end tools for backups. I move around my house and garage a lot when I'm working on stuff and sometimes even though I have 3 or 4 hammers and tape measurers I can't find one in my house because they all made it out to my garage. In those situations it's nice having some cheapo backups that I got from a place like Harbor Freight. Good on you for buying several of them at that price.

I'm thinking that you never have driven around a car in the condition of mine for any extended period of time, and without any cell phone to boot. If my car breaks down on the way to work on the expressway at 10PM when it's snowing and 20 degrees outside, I'm walking to the gas station... and then I'm waking up a family member who lives out of state to come and pick me up.

Sorry man, but I can't afford to put my well being in that situation in the hands of some off brand Chineseium piece of shit that may or may not work just to save 40 bucks.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just to weigh in on Harbor Freight ... some of the stuff they sell is quite good, a lot of it not so much. Hubby, being a former motorcycle mechanic/racer and talented woodworker hobbyist, knows a thing or two about tools. When it comes to testing tools ... flatness, rockwell hardness, etc ... Harbor Freight doesn't test well. Screwdrivers bend, wrenches round nuts, planes have dished/ uneven surfaces etc. Possibly power tools are better because they're mass-produced for a wider market. So buyer beware; you could get a real deal or ... not.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why, thank you THUGR! I feel better now!

Of course, I'm still a mess. That neck/shoulder pain was just a specially painful place where my arthritis flared up, but really, it flared up EVERYWHERE. Every joint hurt to one degree or another, even my thumbs, and I had "pinching pains" running thru my body ... some weird cytokine "body ache" response. Then on top of that, I have completely lost my sense of smell since Thanksgiving. And I mean completely: vanilla extract or garlic juice, I couldn't tell you which was which. There could be a big smoldering fire in the house or electrical insulation burning in the car - food could be spoiled - I could stink like a dead rat - and I wouldn't know. And since I'm the family cook, we have had some not-very-good meals lately. Apparently, I have had a chronic sinus infection that prolly accounts for the anosmia. And then on top of that, my hearing is going, my allergies are flaring, and I sleep like shit because of nasal congestion/ tongue swelling/ snoring and general pain.

So I eliminated gluten and lived on aspirin for a while, which really REALLY seemed to help with the joint/ cytokine pain. Am currently on steroids and antibiotics. (Steroids sure make you feel great! They nailed all the remaining pain and I'm sorry to be weaning off of them.) Got a mouth-positioner to reduce snoring - it really works! Little by little, I'm working my way to feeling better.

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You're welcome. I can't begin to tell you how reading all the has made my day.


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