Answer:
I help engines spin and pants stay up.
The person who makes me doesn't need me. The person who buys me doesn't use me. The person who uses me doesn't know it. What am I?
I look at you, you look at me. I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?
I must be broken before you can use me. What am I?
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month.