Recent content by William1

But was it off the ground during filling? IE, did some book say for example, '11.5 gallons' and the shop money got close and never bothered to bleed out the excess.. My tractor spit the first dozen times I did air pressure checks, perhaps 1/4 teaspoon each time. Honestly, other than bleeding...

Another minor point. Tires are often filled with the tire/tractor raised off the ground. So 'squat' can make a full tire seem over filled. Especially true is the tire is low on air to begin with.

Ran for five hours today, flawless. Got a lot of dirt to move over the next month or so, I'll be curious if more dead microbes end up in the filter. Today, the tank was run down 75%, hopefully it moved the dead critters to the filter, I'll check in a day or so to see if the filter is black.

I'd thought about relocating but... once every five years, not worth the trouble. I think I had a condensation issue ten years back, (stored more or less exposed to the elements and the tractor would be soaked with condensation) and I've killed all the microbes, just taking time to get the dead...

My little guy ('Wally') has been working a lot the last two weeks, moving dirt. Today, I noticed him running a little funny. Then suddenly, not holding high rpm. Uh-Oh!!! Misfiring, near stalling, stalling.... Fortunately, the dirt pile is almost next to the shop so I nursed the little guy in...

I use liquid Sevin. Diluted, a funnel and I pour a gallon of the mix in.

Replace it. But a replacement may be horribly expensive. And a lot of data is stored in the meter assy and would be back to zero. There are a few places that repair automobile instrument LCD's, I'd reach out to a few of them. Most are small biz that consists of a expert electronics tech and an...

Thin bronze bushings?

My own experience with 'frozen shafts'. I put what ever it is in a big press, properly block it. Press. 30 tons will move just about anything. Just be prepared for the giant terrifying "BANG' when the bond breaks loose. Like a lot of jobs, prep is 99% of the job and if done with thought, the...

Ah, got it. Hypothetically, it your machine currently has one full rotation of the steering when to go full right to full left, you add this and it now takes six turns to go full right to full left but with 1/6th the effort.

+2 If the zerk accepts grease when removed from the pin, I'd remove the one pin, clean and ensure it was fully drilled.

Doing what you are doing (looping the lines back) will also keep the disconnects clean.

One tach you can use is a non-contact one. Paint a white or silver line on the crank pulley and aim the tool. Cheap, about $20, great for any small engine you have.

I finally discovered a trick for running a scope or clean out brush in corrugated.. Take a small, solid ball (golf balls often work). Bore a hole through it so the camera or tool will fit tight.. Now the camera or tool will slide in (and not snag) over the corrugations easy. The only down side...

Odd.... I'd expect both 5W to be the same at room temperature. Got to be something off with that test. A better test would be a drip test. A quart and a tiny hole for each sample and time to drip a quart. Oil rating is viscosity, 'thickness'/ability to flow not film strength. Do this test in a...