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Very Interesting. I always wondered what went wrong inside the valves so that they got so slow and started having ghost flushes during the night. I've never seen just the diaphragm in the stores. The complete assembly is only about $10 however.

A couple months ago I got a call from a local phone number, two guys claiming to be from the COUNTY Sheriff dept. contacting residents who had not shown up for a FEDERAL court jury summons - six months prior. They alleged that my failure to show up had resulted in a trial being delayed and...

I've been behind a trailer that took off on a wobble and if I recall it made marks alternating between left and right tires.

On my 1980's vintage garage refrigeratior the fridge setting is the actual thermostat and the freezer adjustment is just a variable damper that regulates the rate the freezer air is admitted into the fridge section. Get the refrigerator temperature adjusted to what you like and then dial in the...

Complicated. Lower return on your 401K but probably overall financially advantageous because the payment interest stays inside your financial "closed system". Risky because you are counting on no job status changes for 4-5 years which hardly ever happens. I did it one time but decided never...

I'm not sure what I find more disturbing about the golden state - the gas prices or the fact that gas stations don't sell fried chicken.

We had 2 or 3 GM V8 slappers in the early 2000's. Nothing helped or made them worse. Standard drive off procedure was give it 5-10 seconds to get oil pressure up and then drive away easy. By the time we got to the neighborhood entrance 1/2 mile away they would be almost normal. The ones we...

You can go to www.aosmithatlowes.com and they have a product selector button that will start a questionaire . You can select the fuel choice and put in the particulars for your house and see the products they recommend. At the bottom of the spec listing is the expected annual operating cost...

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I have had good results with both Mean Green and Mr Clean diluted to about 1/3 strength in a pump sprayer. Spray the area wet every couple days for a week and after a good rain it will be noticeably better. Two or three cycles of spray and rain and it will hardly have anything left. Still...

In the picture of the block there is another hole below the lifters which I would presume is the way oil gets/drains from the valve springs and rockers. Ya'll have more and better information than I do on the possibility a dislodged pushrod can fall through there so we will go with your...

The picture is the upper half of a Briggs twin cylinder crankcae. The small bearing at the top of the crankcase is where the camshaft runs and the 4 small holes in the two blocks of metal between the cylinders are where the valve lifters reside. The lifters are about two inches tall so the...

I haven't worked on a twin but amoung the causes for bent pushrods in a Briggs OHV single cylinder can be valve guide worked its way up and hit the rocker arm, or the compression release mechanism or the governor gear had a rapid unscheduled disassembly and the shrapnel got caught between the...

As someone who doesn't know anything about transmissions beyond PRNDL, I was shocked watching a Precision Transmission youtube video when the guy explained that regular rear wheel drive transmissions rely on the transmission oil pump for lubrication to all the shaft bearings and gears. There is...

And congrats on having a 220K AFM 5.3 that used no oil for 5K miles.

Best summary I've seen said if you are going to need the SS to live on in retirement work as long as you can to make your SS checks as big as possible. If your main retirement funds come from other sources take SS as soon as you can to maximize the number of checks you draw. People can and do...

OK, fasten your seat belt for a somewhat convoluted explanation of a similar experience I had several years ago. I had a 2008 Impala that was taking longer to warm up in the morning and would run hotter on cool days than on hot days. This engine had an interesting cooling system with the...

That is half of my reasoning for changing oil on a warm engine - there is still the maximum amount of oil left hanging around for the dry start.

The $150 (an entire week of summer job pay) SR50A that went to engineering school with me 50 years ago. Still works perfectly except have to power it with external batteries. I retired it when TI came out with LCD calculators that would run for years on two button batteries.

Our Walmart got some of the chargers installed for Dieselgate repentance. I've seen two or 3 cars over several years. One was from out of state. They are installed on the garden center end of the store out beyond the mulch pallets. Not very conducive to charge and shop.