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Miss manners says: daughter-in-law is spouse of your son. Children of your spouse to whom you are otherwise unrelated are step-children. I once had the vehicle (borrowed) I was driving sputter & die due to a fuel starvation problem. There were a couple of rags in the gas tank, because someone had lost the gas cap and stuffed a rag (or two) into the filler neck to keep the weather out. You've got to respect a vehicle that kept going with no oil changes and "unauthorized additives" in the fuel system. Could this be a new thread? What is the strangest thing you've found in your engine/fuel system/etc.?
Les