Recent content by JimPghPA

My go-to epoxy for difficult applications is the loctite EA E-20 HP, EA E-60 HP, and EA E-NS HP. It's one of the strongest line of epoxies made and sticks to almost everything except silicon and slippery plastics. It holds up when exposed to most chemicals. E-20 is easy to use. It has about a...

The owner found quite a few things not working when I removed the 7.5 Amp " rear " fuse. I knew the back-up camera was not working. She said the radio, and navigation and key-fob also did not work.

I can't rember where I heard it, but I do rember hearing that with Honda engines, during some portions of operation the spraying of the injectors happens when the intake valves are opened enough that fuel gets sprayed in the back of those valves, and the valves rotate. So over time the entire...

I did that also when I unplugged the backup camera. I forgot to mention that in my original post.

I did disconnect that today and the drain did not go away. I took out the four 8mm hex head screws, and disconnected it and even removed the board completely. The drain still is there.

Hi everyone. I have been trying to find a parasitic battery draining problem on a 2008 Acura TL. Someone else has already tried to find what's draining the battery on this vehicle and could not find it. I found that removing a 7.5 Amp fuse labeled rear, in the under dash fuse box will...

I once used my dremel with a small round ball bur tip to make cuts in the sides of a totally rounded off lug nut. It used up most of the life of that round ball cutting tip, but amazingly both the wheel rim and the stud did not have a scratch on them. And that lug nut sat in a decent valley...

I did not know clamshells had bearings.

Fixing an intermittent problem when you can't get it to act up may require throwing the parts cannon at it. Intermittent AC could be caused by several things such as: 75% chance it's the AC clutch being bad. A bad clutch may appear as being intermittent. The clutch shoes wear down with use...

My 1985 Olds Delta 88 Royale coupe blew ice cubes. The windshield would get condensation outside and I had to use the wipers to clear it. The keys would get sooooooo cold that they would get condensation on them when I got out of the car and let them dangle. Man, the R12 system in that thing...

Basicly, old transformer type chargers can sit for years and still work when needed. But they are dumb and can ruin a battery if left on too long. A few rules of thumb when using one is think of most batteries as having about a 50 Amper-hour capacity. If you charge it to about 1/4 charge and...

There's an old thread here on bitog where the thread starter wondered why his very old charger was charging too fast and putting out too high of a Voltage. I said that many decades ago, common house AC Voltage was 110 V AC RMS, and power companies have been slowly increasing it so now it's...

Thank you. Because of your suggestion I tried it, and it said 8 mm. I had previously googled it and was surprised with a rather long reply that looked like it was AI generated, but it said while it is offset it could not find out by how much. Thank you. Sincerely, JimPghPA

Hi gang. I working on some details of an engine design, and using some of the parameters of the Honda K24 engine as a starting point. I know the stroke is 99 mm, and the connecting rod C to C is 152 mm. I heard the cylinders are offset. I'm assuming the top to bottom centerline of the offset...

Today's small chargers all use a switching supply to reduce production cost. Almost all of them are designed and built as cheap as possable, resulting in units that don't last anywhere near as long as the old heavier chargers that use a big transformer, instead of a switcher type supply. Those...