Good news: Tonight I taught myself how to use a fuel pressure gauge, including diagnostic tests involving clamping off the supply and return lines. Bad news: It takes the Formula about ten seconds to bleed off all 42 pounds of fuel pressure from the moment you turn the key on (but don’t start the [...]

I sure haven’t posted anything in a while. Truth be told, these days I’m often too busy to say much of anything coherent. Since I mostly write for this site during my lunch hours at the office, and since my workload has been so heavy lately, not much has gotten posted. I [...]

Wow, this day from hell just keeps trying to one-up itself as the worst day in my life. And that goes for my wife and I both. What a disaster—nothing is going right. Actually it’s more than stuff not going right…stuff is actually going out of its way to go wrong. First it was minor [...]

I took my wife’s car in for an oil change on Saturday. Truth be told, I almost changed it myself. But it was raining out, the car was going to be soaking wet and the muddy chassis would be dripping all over me. I really didn’t want to deal with that. So I dropped by [...]