Recent content by Gym123

It's great, having specialty shops.

Head bolts are often brittle after they become 'work hardened'- he's not inexperienced in general, just with these engines, which don't require much torque.

The dealer obviously wants NOBODY to go back to them, since they're lying to customers. EVERYTHING is available, if someone knows where to look. For almost any terminals, Del City is one distributor that sells them- I found out about them when I went to MasterCraft boat service training- someone...

I was thinking of the Packard/Weatherpack connectors used by GM- you can spray water directly onto them from any angle but the terminals were definitely not making good contact. The wires are still flexible, so I doubt the strands have broken and the lights still work. The main Molex is...

I looking at/working on the Ariens, I was a bit surprised to see unsealed Molex connectors, thin wire, bad head bolt distribution (the cause of the head gasket failures) and then, there's the headlights being fed AC Voltage because the alternator can't deliver enough to power them with DC. That...

They don't let us have stockades in the city. Oh, we have them, but they're well-hidden. :)

Where did you add the relay- show photos and a diagram. Is it activated by the crank wire and bypassing that wire, with tab 87 connected to the battery and tab 30 connected to the solenoid? Adding a relay strikes me as similar to adding a fuel filter when the original one becomes clogged. Has...

I'm in the Milwaukee area- that's the reason I installed a heater in my garage. Nothing coming out of the solenoid= bad solenoid, possibly from excessive crank times with discharged/old battery, possibly from poor quality if this part is a wide spread problem. When I went through my Ariens...

Did you test the starter after pulling it?

The Nimblewill.

All I can say is, I hope that stuff never makes it into my lawn.

Raccoons eat cat food- maybe put out plenty of it with water between their entry points and the Chickens.

Paint for lawn stripes is available- why does it need to be blue? I have seen lawns removed, tilled, rolled and a layer of looser soil distributed on top for seeding or sod. The new roots will loosen the bottom layer, as long as it can't become too dry. I don't know where you live or the soil...

Small amounts in the atomized fuel/water mix will burn, but not necessarily well. If a lot of water is in the fuel mix, it's going to lose power. Ideally, the fuel filter(s) do the job needed. Boats often have so much water in the tank that a fuel/water separator is needed and when they're...

I would drop it off at a waste disposal site- it's only one gallon. Or, if someone has a burn pile, use it for that.

Was the new foam fire-resistant, too? That's the material that kills people faster than anything, not the cover fabric. I have a friend who owns an upholstery shop (he has done a lot of aircraft seats & interiors, too)- they recover tractor seats all the time and in fact, we know some people...

Can't fix broken gas. Good thing it was only a gallon.

How can you prevent a super concentrate from affecting the new turf if it rains after application? Is the lawn flat? If it is, why not use a weed & feed/pre-emergent, let that do its job and overseed, to let the new grass crowd the weeds out?

I have to wonder if the people who buy these are proud of the fact that it has the brand name of the mower. I don't understand that thinking.

That's not 'fair trade', that's price fixing- fair trade is for developing countries, so they can receive better price for their products. Did you mean 'free trade'? That was outlawed a long time ago. Setting prices can be done- MAP is Minimum Advertised price but if the dealer wants to sell...

Does the drive shaft have an intermediate bearing? Could that be the source of the rattle?

Why does the plug need to be Cub Cadet brand? That would be similar to buying headlights or wiper blades with Chevrolet on them- the company that sells products don't make the parts, so generic is going to be cheaper and a better alternative may be available.

But they could at least look for the best price! I guess that consider that gouge equal to the local price because their time it so effing valuable, eh? I mean, driving a long distance vs online is fine but not if it involves grabbing the handles to assume the position. BOHICA! And these are...

Why would anyone buy from them when everyone has this plug for much less?

I have one area in the back yard that goes dormant, so I watered it a few times this week and will cut the whole lawn after it grows a bit more- waiting for more leaves to fall. We need rain- it's not growing fast, so I hope the snow waits until I get the leaves off- we're not supposed to see...

I put a starter kill in my '83 Cutlass after it was stolen (and recovered about 20 minutes later, when the guy kicked the metal collar onto the asphalt as he got out of the car at an intersection where a bunch of cops were handling another call). That worked great at car washes and they always...

My friend who worked in V8 Powertrain Development at the GM Desert Proving Ground until about 2002 drives a 1995 Chevy Silverado- he could easily buy new vehicles but why, so he can be stylish and trendy? Not that type and because he has a 2400 square foot garage with a lift IN the floor with...