Jim Roal

A friend had an interesting problem with his 2005 GM car.  The symptom was this: the car died while driving and would not restart.  He towe...

I was a professional service technician (mechanic) at a Ford dealer for almost 15 years.  It was my first career.  I went to trade school in...

I bought a house in 2012 that had a Water Furnace geothermal system in it.  The system has a geothermal domestic hot water (DHW) heating sy...

I sold my Porsche 944S in June 2014 so I could replace it with a newer Porsche.  I started looking for a 996 (or 1999 - 2004 911 for the no...

The Porsche Cayman, especially the early ones, have a rather bad design for the exhaust outlet.  The 2 muffler outlets point directly toward...

This is how you remove the noise regulation required intake restrictor.  The snorkel is intended to increase the air speed under fu...

We are getting ripped off by carriers, and manipulated by device makers.  Wireless carriers are charging us extra for the least expensive th...

About a year ago I started riding my mountain bike on the Rock Island Trail .  The trail will soon span 35 miles from Toulon to downtown Peo...

This is a very simple thing to do but it seems I run into many people who dont understand it yet so I thought I would try to make it clearer...