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    Back from the abyss... :o

    Wow. It's been quite a while since I last posted here. Life got busy and retirement from truck driving came, I started a new business... time moves quickly... Let me duly apologize to everyone who has PM'd me over the last 2 or 3 years, for not replying. And I have several pages of PM's it...
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    latest Havoline 20W50 run in my '94 HD Low Rider

    this OCI was sort of an exercise in neglect... half unintentional, the other half "oh what the heck..." ...anyway, I left the oil in for 13 months... probably closer to 14, and didn't change it as I had been, about every 2500 to 3000 miles... I let it go for over 4400 miles. It's not too bad...
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    Gel point of ULSD...

    Part of my job is delivering fuel to surface mines (strip mines) where they have above ground tanks for diesel. We have begun, at the request of 3 of the mines we haul to, to put in 2.5 gallons of anti-gel additive for the winter season. One particular mine foreman told me that last year...
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    Briggs & Stratton issues...

    I have a 1976 Hahn push mower with a 4HP Briggs engine. It's the old white engine, with the auto choke set up. I have taken the carb down and cleaned it, and put in a new air filter... and a carb base gasket/diaphragm thing... the choke seems to be working right. If you tip the mower, spark...
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    How the grinch stole Sturgis...

    How the Grinch Stole Sturgis (author unknown) Every tramp in Scooterville loved Sturgis a lot, But the Grinch who lived just north of Scooterville... Did not!! And so every August for 63 years, Amid a great thunder and crunching of gears, The tramps rode the Black Hills, those pagans and...
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    franken-puter... can't get to my extra hard drive

    I had a major virus issue with my emachine and it's in the hospital as we speak... I now have a donated Compaq Presario of about 3 years old, and was not happy with the hard drive and RAM, so I took apart my crashed HP which served me faithfully for 8 years until the fan clogged with dust and...
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    explaining the Harley Davidson fascination...

    We have a couple of threads running here with the obligatory detractors of the Harley Davidson brand... they've run (as they typically do) several pages now... with some pretending to want to understand the fascination with Harley Davidsons--but veiling their actual intentions quite poorly...
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    best solution to retreive hard drive...

    I have an old HP Pavilion 580 that the processor crashed (at least that what it seems like)... The fan broke and I didn't realize it, and it apparently overheated and froze... then on re-boot it won't even get to a blue screen. I think the hard drive is probably still good. What would be the...
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    Partial oil change?

    Having looked over the info regarding old oil being able to protect better than fresh oil (a severely debatable point, I realize)... I just wonder, assuming that the old oil argument is correct... I wonder if you could get the best of both worlds by doing a partial oil change? In a 5 quart...
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    I think the answer is...

    ...because they can.
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    Higher Viscosity=better Hydrodynamic film?

    With all else being equal, will a higher viscosity oil provide a stronger hydrodynamic film? For instance, in a high lift cam application, where the oil film is prone to be breached momentarily, will the thicker oil be less likely to allow metal to metal contact? I realize that too thick of an...
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    camshaft lobe wear...

    a good article. it's about airplane engines, but the principles are going to apply to most any internal combustion engine. http://www.sacskyranch.com/camshaft.htm I like the method for finding cam lobe wear particles in the oil filter. Author says oil analysis won't always find cam lobe issues...
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    Havoline 20W50 (SM) Harley Davidson, 3K miles

    I ran an OCI of the new Havoline "Deposit Shield" 20W50 in my 1994 Low Rider (Harley Davidson), with of course the Evolution engine. I had been asked by some folks if I thought the new stuff would work as well as the old Havoline, and not being an expert at anything much more than my own...
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    My 8 year old's drawing...

    I had to make this my new wallpaper. I'm of course biased, but I thought this was pretty darned good. :) Dan
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    fuel pump down on my 1996 GMC dually...

    I've pretty much determined that my fuel pump has quit on my '96 GMC ton truck. I've checked the voltage sources, and they appear in order... the main 12V source, as well as the 2 second 12V pulse that is supposed to occur when you first turn on the key. All that is good. The fuel pump doesn't...
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    Is there a cooling system filter on a 2001 Olds...

    Oldsmobile Silhouette Van... Belongs to a friend. He said it's got a small coolant leak. The dealer said it needed the cooling system filter assembly replaced. Does this van even have a cooling system filter? I'm just wondering if my friend is being sold a bill of goods here, for something a...
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    Advice on buying a used camper trailer...

    I'm looking around for a used camper trailer. Something that'll sleep 6 people, and something that would be considered to be of good quality. I don't know what to look for in a used camper. I want to spend somewhere around 6000 dollars, maybe a little more... I've looked at some Airstream...
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    Why is my computer doing this??

    I have about a 6 year old HP computer... it's the hp pavillion 513c, with Windows XP. I have for my anti-virus the free AVG program. Not sure how good this is, but hey, it's free... :o But here is the thing: When the computer has set for a while without my using it, it's like waking up my 16...
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    STP oil filter, S3614, cut apart photos...

    I used this S3614 on my Harley Davidson motorcycle to see how it would do. UOA came back very good, showing good filtration. These are sold at Auto Zone for around 3 dollars. This particular S3614 would also be spec'd for my '93 Ford Escort. Not sure how much better this filter would be than a...
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    STP S3614 oil filter, Harley Davidson Evolution...

    I wanted to test the STP S3614 oil filter, available for about 3 bucks at Auto Zone (and perhaps elsewhere, I'm not sure)... I did a UOA with a decent 20W50 and this filter on my 1994 Harley Davidson Low Rider, Evolution 1340cc stock engine... Here's that report from Blackstone. I asked them...
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