• Mechanic’s Tale: Mightier than the Sword

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    Old Tubal Cain didn’t stop inventing after he forged the first sword, giving man domain over the earth. A few thousand years later he turned out an even mightier implement, the wrench, which dominated the ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: Let Freedom Beep

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    The automobile, thanks to the internal combustion engine, has contributed more to individual freedom and equality between the classes and, yes, diversity (ugh) than any other device in human history. ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: EGR Equals Grrr!

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    I was working on a basic ’97 Ford F-150 last week. It was powered by the mediocre 4.2-liter V-6 engine, rather than the mighty 4.9-liter in-line six that used to make a Ford six-cylinder truck better than ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: Ford Follies

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    MORE: Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine - and lost. More Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint The first six months of 1942 must have been ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: A Clean Car

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    Mechanic's Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine - and lost. More Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint My neighbor is one of those guys. You know, the kind who set a ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: Winter Maintenance

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    As the Wehrmacht bears down on Moscow, Russia ’s oldest, most reliable soldier, General Winter, comes to her rescue. The sudden drop to sub-zero temperature has caused the German machinery ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: Theft Deterrence

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    Mechanic’s Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine — and lost. More Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint The advent of cheap electronics in the late ...

  • Mechanic’s Tale: Mechanics Gone Wild!

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    Somewhere, somehow, you may have gotten the impression that mechanics are sexist pigs with pictures of scantily clad women adorning their tool boxes and bathrooms, secretly or not so secretly ogling every ...

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