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Brown paper packages . . .
. . . tied up with string. This is how your purchase from the Adventure Tool Company arrives. Stylish - and more importantly, it speaks of pride in the contents. More soon . . .
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Shock absorbers: gas-charged, or . . . ?
Look at reviews of shock absorbers for four-wheel-drive vehicles in U.S. magazines, and you’ll probably find just two types listed and described: Mono-tube, high-pressure gas-charged Twin-tube,...
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The 2015 F150 should have been the 2014 Tundra
The 2008 Tundra . . . shrug. I’ve been about as loyal a Toyota fan as one could imagine for a long, long time. My first car was a 1971 Corolla with the nifty little overachiever 1600cc hemi-head...
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A tale of two owner's manuals
My friend, master mechanic Bill Lee, sent me these photos. Ponder for a moment the difference between the owner's manual for a 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser, 144 pages long, and the suite of manuals for a...
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The LS2 MX453 Dual-sport Adventure helmet
$400 Arai Xd-3, left; $160 MX453, right (Editor's note: Carla King recently conducted one of her typically thorough tests of a new and very affordable helmet from LS2, on a trip to Baja with Jonathan...
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The Micro-Start XP-1
Experienced mechanics don't often sound giddy over the phone, but Dave Anderson sounded giddy when he called me from his Flagstaff, Arizona, shop, the Good Carma Garage (which really should be a radio...
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Very rarely am I left open-mouthed by a new automotive invention, but this one left me gobsmacked. Land Rover is experimenting with a system that employs a camera, mounted in the front bumper, which...
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Ceramic knife . . . fail
The one certain thing about any knife on earth is that it will eventually become dull with use. Since steel was first created by the accidental introduction of carbon into iron, knife makers have...
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Old and new OME
My FJ40 Land Cruiser has been riding on an Old Man Emu suspension for about eight years now. It’s OME’s standard kit for the FJ40, comprising a useful but easy-on-driveshaft-angle two-inch lift...
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