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Lol, He’s got a point though a few years ago a 7.3 diesel did not put out the numbers this little four-cylinder does and everybody thought it was the greatest tow truck ever.

My truck is the high output 2.7 and my boat fully loaded with coolers, camping gear and gas is at least 5k# and does great. I have a buddy who pulls a 30’ trailer with his 2.7 (old 2.7 not ho also not a Trailboss) probably 6k #’s + and he says it does great. Pulling my 19’ boat It’s usually in...

I know this is an old post but I ave a 2022 refresh trailboss with the 2.7ho engine, delivers 430ft lbs of torque on this new engine plus beefier Block, bearings and crank. Anyways I pull a 19’ boat all over with it and it tows great. It has more power than my 5.0 f150 and my older 5.3 tahoes I...

I bought some today for my 1.5 year old mercury pro xs 150 ($12 a gallon vs $34 gallon of merc oil) It met all the ratings in my manual and comes from Amalie Oil Company according to what I looked up on the nmma website. Think it should be good to go.

I’ve had my husky trimmer for almost 15 years now and have never had any issues with it at all and it gets abused. We use a saw attachment on it to cut under brush, which is pretty tough stuff for a trimmer. Still running the original spark plug and always starts within 2 or three pulls even...

Yeah, I guess for $444 it’s gonna be Chinese. I hear the Honda’s are made in China too so I guess as long as it’s engineered correctly. Should mean lots of available parts in the future if all these brands are the same.

I’d use 10w-30 synthetic (since its new). Breaking in the engine and regular maintenance are more important than oil weight.

Super tech 5w-30 or 10w-30 synthetic or rotella 15w-40 if equipment is run only in summer ( or out of supertech)

I added a magnetic oil dipstick and ran it a few more hours this week and the oil is now mostly glitter free so I think I’m done with the break in. I have been using it around the farm and store it out in the unheated barn. Its been in the mid 20’s in the mornings when I start it and as long as...

I use powermate px synthetic compressor oil, bought it off Amazon for $10. I run a cheap harbor freight 2.5 hp 30 gallon compressor in one of my unheated shops. It used to constantly pop the breaker when it was below freezing, I switched to this stuff and it completely stopped popping the...

If you bought cheaper Chinese u-joints, that’s your issue. They are not uniform at all and many come way undersized. It should be a tight fit grease or no grease.

Changed the generac 2200i’s oil for the second time. The first oil change, I ran a tank of fuel through her and changed it. It had lots of glitter. This last oil change was after 4 hours or so of use and still had about the same amount of glitter. I guess I’ll run another tank of gas through it...

So I did my second oil change today after another 4 hours of run time (super tech 5w-30 synthetic), it was run 2 hours pretty hard. The oil came out pretty glittery. Clearly needs more break in time. Will run it another 4 hours and see how the oil looks. Hopefully it’ll be less shiny, lol.

Yeah, seems good so far. The build quality is as good as the Honda 2200 we used to use.

This is great info! I wondered about the 12v side, when I tested the unit charging my boat I just plugged it into the onboard boat charger because I was worried about an overcharge situation. I guess the 12v outlet is a good feature in an emergency. it also has USB ports that are supposed to be...

My wife saw a Generac 2200i inverter generator at Menards and picked it up for my birthday for $444 after the 11% discount. I ran the included oil in it for a tank worth of fuel. Dumped the oil this afternoon, it definitely had some greyness going on with some flecks of silver, glad I changed...

I know this is an old post but I bought a 2001 Toyota Corolla for my daughter 6 or 7 years ago for $2k. It had less than 100k miles on it and was consuming oil. On one of the Toyota forums I read using thinner ow-20 synthetic oil helped with consumption because the oil return holes on this model...

Suzuki is probably the most reliable motor available today.

I think the OP asked a valid question. I also have switched to marine grease for everything run out of the grease gun. The calcium based grease is generally good stuff and moisture is the number one killer of bearings in these parts, usually from someone pushing the back seal out with too much...

I’m using the traveler marine grease in my new shorelander trailer, will let y’all know if I have any issues. I live in ND and feel your cold weather pain. That being said, my last boat trailer I bought new and used it for 15 years on the same bearings over tens of thousands of miles, until I...