Recent content by joegreen

The chevy has a tendency to rust out in the rear tubular crossmembers. I think the ford frame can rust out somewhere along the internal side portion. Honestly all seem pretty overpriced unless they are southern trucks.

Currently have hagerty on my old mercedes. Agreed upon value and i feel the rate is fair. Never had to use them but the reviews i read made me feel good about my choice. Most people said they deal well with body shops.

Something with sca added. I know the older 7.3idi suffered from cylinder liner pinholes from cavitation. Not sure about the newer 7.3 powerstroke but it cant hurt.

I think it’s going to vary quite a bit depending on wear. 40-60psi would be fine. Pretty much any oil from a 30-50wt. Maybe tailor the weight to the oil pressure and application

Would recommend oem hydrogear filters. They are made in china but i went through two other cheaper filter brands (stens, rotary). Both filters were less than steller. The rotary had poorly pressed louvers and the stens had a weak leaf spring and the filter media rattled and didnt seal. The oem...

Wow that table is impressive. I love surfing craigslist free section and finding stuff i think i can fix. Basically it either works out im my favor or how it usually goes is i get the item and realize after digging into it it needs more than anticipated but end up fixing it anyway. Its a great...

I second the harbor freight version. It’s quite uncomfortable in the ears but works good and is cheap

Small real garden tractor. Maybee something cheap like an old john deere 200-400 series

What about tire tubes. Cheap and will hold air

If you do the pop up canopy a cheap way to weight it down is to fill 5 gallon buckets with water and tie the canopy to the bucket

Oh yeah I didn’t think of the displacement from the back of the piston motion. I guess that’s why the dipstick screws on with an o ring.

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I opened the dipstick as an easy check and holy crankcase pressure batman. All the compression is going past the rings. I think i could have used it as an air compressor.

Yes its normal. Here is my 2012 cub cadet with the same engine essentially. Fr691v

Im thinking maybe the cylinder got hot enough that the oil control ring spring lost tension and is allowing oil to get sucked into the cylinder. I will have to measure the bore either with my t gauges at various points or i may be able to use a bore micrometer from my job.