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Having a weird issue with my 99 Polaris Xplorer 300. It's of the 2smoke variety. Runs great. Carb rebuilt and dialed in by someone who knows what they're doing (not me). Plug isn't reading lean. If I nail it from sitting still, it runs great. If I'm on a trail and on/off the throttle...

I can't say I wasn't told to do this. When I bought this engine I had a few people tell me to do the guides / arms / tensioners while it was out. It had a sticker on the valve cover that indicated Ford replaced the parts at some point under warranty and it only had 114K on it. Judging by the...

Time for some leaf spring bushings in my jeep. 2000 Cherokee. Rear Bushing at the shackle. The front leaf spring bushings are good still. I have no idea what they are. Both sides were pulled off of random Cherokees sitting in the woods. Each side is different. The outer diameter of the...

It's the same car for 20 years but so many differences in year to year. 96-2002 have a different parking brake setup than 92-95 and 03-11. The parking brake cable has been sagging for a while. It did work up until it didn't. I like having working parking brakes on my vehicles. I had to put...

My Cherokee ( 2000, 4.0 , 215000 miles) has been losing fuel pressure when I turn it off for a few years now. Used to be one or two key cycles was all I needed to prime it up and it would start like a typical high output 4.0. Meaning - 2 compression cycles and it fires off. Within the last 2...

I got this mower last year for free because it wouldn't start well. Just a little toot of the good stuff and it usually fires off. It would surge a LOT. I was told the carburetor gasket was broken due to the carburetor accidentally being removed during a filter change (no idea..). It definitely...

A good friend of mine does excellent fabrication work. I don't have the patience or time to try to make a flatbed for the truck - as much as I want to. Its condition has deteriorated quite badly and isn't really useful for any truck stuff. Oddly enough, the tailgate is the best part of the whole...

Always an adventure. Got the F350 back together. I put about 50 miles on it since I replaced the passenger side head gasket. No issues that I could see. Wasn't using any coolant in those 50 miles / numerous heat cycles, had way better power than before. I thought I did a good job bleeding it...

Assuming I can get 500 miles on it without it coming back apart ... Open to anything from 0w-20 to a 5w-40. Very worn out cylinder bores and a lot of piston slap. Previously full of sludge and crusty sludge from lack of maintenance and a severe overheat. New timing chains and tensioners /...

Pulled the head off and found this in cylinder 1. The bore is quite worn down and there is a significant ridge on it. This engine ran fine before. Just had an oil leak and some piston slap. Some pics. 2,3,4 look fine

So the old plugspitter 5400 is down for a head gasket job. No overheating / mixing oil and coolant / compression loss / misfire. It's hemmhoraging oil out of the head gasket / block surface. Hopefully it's the head gasket and not the block or head corroded away. In October I took it on a 140...

The bed on my F-350 is shot. Typical of the 99-16 SD trucks. Sides are okay-ish, but the rails and floor are almost completely gone. I currently have a roof section from a Jeep Cherokee that a friend scrapped self tappered down as floor. I was planning on scrapping the truck around the beginning...

Long post warning -- I FINALLY SOLD MY HOUSE! Quite the journey and there's a bit of a timeline. There were threats of lawsuits, an angry guy living in a camper intimidating me ... here we go ! There was an even more dilapidated house next door. It was rented out until 2019 or so. Then it...

Mid January 2020, we leased a 2019 Sentra. Previous model year - I know. Typical of a Nissan lease deal back then, little down, little monthly. The buyout on it was $9800. At the time, both of us were commuting into the office daily, so we never really planned on keeping it. Well the thing...

When we bought the house in the spring, the tank was 3/4 full. Sellers didn't charge us for the fuel in the tank - so that's a win. The local fuel oil supplier won't deliver for less than 100 gallons. We still don't need 100 gallons of fuel. I called them the other day and the current price...

Also - thanks to the water authority for NOT telling me about the leak for a few months so I went through a few YEARS of water. They called last week and said that I had been using an excesive amount of water. 105000 gallons for the month of September. The representative said it was probably a...

Here's a weird one. Wondering if anyone else has been having u joint problems with spicer or heard anything? I pretty much run spicer non greasable u joints exclusively in my Jeep. Greaseable u joints just don't work for me. With cap seals that are made to let excess grease OUT, they let water...

Got the "new" engine in the Grand Maruis. It ran terrible! Turns out 20 year old intake manifold gaskets are not reusable despite what yahoos on the Internet say. Put new I/M gaskets in and fired it up. Full of coolant , belt, etc. It ran for 15 or so minutes and got up to 225 before I killed...

The last time I bought a house, I seem to remember having another 2v modular with a trashed cylinder 5. Hmm. Ever since ive owned the car, its set a cylinder 5 misfire almost immediately when it warms up and is in gear. Doing a clear flood crank, it sounded like there was no compression on a...

The name change goes along with how I'm feeling today! We recently moved to a new house. A bit earlier than expected thanks to a small windstorm on Monday of last week which lead to us losing part of the dog's fence. There were many bad things about our old house. The biggest issue was the...