They used to sell ratchet repair doohickeys for a penny. Seems like a good idea if you have tools with sentimental value. Local Sears, OSH and K-Mart are shut down now; still a few left in the Los Angeles area, but not worth driving to.
Lifetime on hand tools last I heard, although son had three electric drill/screwdrivers replaced.
We had to change the heads to "smog heads" with hardened valve seats.
Didn't you used to think I was Ed Pawlowski? I'm absolutely crushed you've forgotten me.
It must be difficult keeping your delusions straight.
Cindy Hamilton
I use yellow goggles in flat light.
That's confusing two of you said harbor freight had lifetime warranties. I thought you couldn't return anything based on what friends have said.
I've been told (wrong?) that without a receipt you can't do a thing. And even then they said the receipt only works for so long.
If you brought a ten year old hand tool to Sears they didn't ask for that.
Do you have to have the receipt for harbor freight's warranty to work? Or do they recognize their own tools like Sears did even 10 years later?
The cat adopted me; the only cost is cat food and he's happy with Friskies. Oh, you meant catalytic converters? Let me explain a Harley's exhaust system. I've got one set of mufflers with tabs near the end so if a cop shoves a stick it he will think there are actually baffles.
The Toyota is the only thing I have with a cat. I've had three of the same model and never had fuel problems so no need for SeaFoam. I don't use the 'injector cleaner' snake oil either.
I use Stabil in the tanks of the stuff that will be down for the winter but I've had long debates with myself over whether it's necessary.
That's another interesting discussion -- how much of the snake oil actually has a beneficial effect. STP oil or gas? Marvel Mystery Oil? Bar's Stop Leak. I have used Bar's with some success but it was in a '62 Dodge D100. I don't think I'd use it in anything made in this century.
Bob F. is likely Pawlowski becuase he knows Pawlowski is in everyone's killfile already so Bob F re-posts Pawlowski's idiocy.
Yet, when it comes to the "vaccine", Pawlowski says it's NOT your choice. a. Pawlowski believes with the vaccine it's "*Your body _HIS_ choice*" b. He's "being honest" when he tells us this crap (which Democrats fed him) c. I'm "being honest" also - when I say that only an idiot thinks that way
You rabid Democrats don't seem to like any scientific statements because they're true and that's why you can't refute them other than to claim that anyone speaking true statements must be a nutto.
This BobF already said anyone who speaks logic must be from the far right. Now he says anyone speaking true scientific statements must be a nutto.
The clock is still ticking on you rabid Democrats (or even any rabid Republicans out there and even any people of even average intelligence) on finding a single scientific statement that I've made that you found even a single incorrect statement that you can show is incorrect.
So far you haven't found one (for example, you repeatedly claimed mRNA isn't genetic material and then you claimed a medical procedure involving injections isn't under the realm of medical therapy and then you claimed that the risk of dying from Covid for kids in the USA wasn't 0.002% (that is, they have a 99.998% chance of NOT dying) nor that the risk for all adults (including the ones so sick they're going to die soon anyway) is only
0.2% (which means the risk to any one person of not dying is 99.8%).When it comes to the scientific fact that most people are naturally immune to Covid you rabid Democrats failed to comprehend that this means both the seropositive and the seronegative people because you don't seem to like the fact that far more than half the population exhibits zero symptoms to Covid.
What's surprising is that Covid is indeed a dangerous disease in that all those asymptomatic people (at least the seropositive ones) can and do infect others (despite the early claims from the WHO that it would be "very rare").
But I form that understanding of the disease from scientific facts. You rabid {Democrats,Republicans} form your basis only on intense fright.
You call anyone who speaks logic using scientific facts a "nutto." I suspect it's because you don't understrand logic and scientific facts.
You're ignorant (which is fine) but you're also stupid. Because you're stupid, you'll remain ignorant of all the scientific facts.
The Democrat's line of "your body MY choice" appeals to you. Not on the basis of logic. Not on the basis os scientific fact.
Merely on the basis of your own undeniably uncontrollable fear.
Luckily, no. I had a Yamaha Seca with shim-over-bucket. I tried to get the Yamaha tool in preparation but they didn't make one anymore. The gaps were in spec so it wasn't needed.
The V-Strom is shim-under-bucket so you need to pull the cams. Fortunately that was in spec. Checking the valves wasn't my primary goal but to replace a defective stator you need to remove the bodywork, seat, and tank. By that time you might as well check the valve.
The DR650's design goes back to the early '90s and is OHC with screw adjust rocker arms. It's interesting in that it's a one cylinder engine with 4 valves. The rockers are bifurcated to handle the pair of exhaust or intakes. Kawasaki makes a similar big thumper but I selected the Suzuki because of the screw adjust and oil cooled engine. If I'm going to work on it I'd rather go simple. The Kaw is water cooled which might be an advantage for slow climbs on a hot day but not enough to deal with a separate system.
The worst thing I've worked on was an Alfa. DOHC and you could lose a finger releasing the idler on the drive chain. It also had wet liners so you were looking at replacing both the liners and pistons. They didn't offer oversized pistons.
What I'm about to explain below is long - but it explains everything. And I mean everything.
However, the reader must be of at least average intelligence to benefit. The ignorance of people can be cured by reading but their stupidity can't.
The rabid {Democrats,Republicans} position on these two issues is unsound. a. The rabid Democrats' position on the vaccine NOT being your choice. b. The rabid Republicans' position on abortion being based on religion.
We've hashed out how asinine the Democrats' position is where only an idiot wouldn't instantly notice how firmly they stand on the principle of your choice of "some" medical procedures but it's no longer your choice on others.
Either these rabid Democrats firmly stand on the same resolute principle for both or they instantly prove *they don't give a s*it about medical choice*.
The same firm principles should stand for abortion.
The scientific facts are that abortion is a very ugly thing indeed. In New York state, for example, you can abort at 9 months and beyond.
As longs as that innocent child hasn't been born - you can abort in NY. They don't even make any pretext about the ability to survive on its own.
The ostensible argument is a medical necessity & privacy argument (as enshrined in the Supreme Court so we can't realistically hash it out here).
Just as the rabid Democrats hate that people have a right to own guns (as enshrined in the Constitution so we're not going to hash that out here), the rabid Republicans hate that people have a right to abort their unborn child.
The problem for intelligent people to realize is _how_ they each go about eliminating your current rights (as enshrined in the law of the land today).
What's rather interesting is my observation that both actually go about taking away your rights the same way anyone goes about attacking a fortres.
The Germans chipped away for a while at Fortress Europe and then when they invaded Poland everyone realized they would incessantly chip away (each time claiming that's their _last_ attack) until nothing was left.
They'll never stop. Only until France & Britain drew a line in the sand did they stop for pause. But even then, they didn't attack the Fortress Maginot directly. Nobody sane attacks the Constitution directly. They find a way to eliminate your rights with a million little attacks.
Every law the rabid {Democrats,Republicans} make on {guns,abortion} are an attempt to chip away at your rights until you no longer have those rights.
The only sensible protection you have is to draw a line in the sand. It's how _all_ military attacks against anyone have ever worked.
The Japanese didn't go frontal against Washington DC in WWII. They attacked the easier outlying islands instead.
Why? Because they wanted to chip away slowly. They and the Germans and Atilla the Hun and the Mongols and everyone in history from the Mysterious Sea Peoples to Alexander to Hannibal & Scipio, to Vercingetorix to Arminius (fast forward) to today do the same thing.
Everyone. In all human history. They all do the same thing. It takes only an average intelligence (no more needed than that) to see it.
If you can't go frontal against the fortress, you chip away forever. Until the walls fall down and you finally massacre everyone inside at will.
Only an _intelligent_ person can see what the rabid politicians are doing. a. The rabid Democrats are chipping away at your right to own a gun b. The rabid Republicans are chipping away at your right to abort a child
It doesn't matter to them any principle. That's what any intelligent person can see.
You can easily tell principle doesn't matter if you're intelligent. a. The rabid Democrats don't give a s*it about "your body" "your choice" b. The rabid Republicans don't give a s*it about "your medical privacy"
Each wants to eliminate one of your rights. Unfortunately, history shows clearly there is only one way to defend.
And that is to draw a line in the sand and defend against every parry. (If you can come up with a better defense, you'll change history.)
Direct injection is getting more popular, mostly for economy and emissions advantages. The biggest drawback is the high pressure fuel rail. That runs around 2000 psi rather than around 40 psi for multiport. BMW and VW have had problems with the high pressure pump.
Toyota is a belt and suspenders company and uses direct and port injection in the D-4S system.
A lot of the earlier systems used throttle body injection. It was cheap. Also you could replace a carb with the throttle body and vice versa so a manufacturer could put FI on the fender of some models without doing a lot of work. I don't think it's used on any new cars.
Finding TDC on the DR650 isn't as sophisticated. There are markings in the inspection port but you pull a plug and stick a pencil down. Same idea. If the valve covers are off you rattle the rocker arms to make sure you're on the right cycle.
You seem to be intelligent so you immediately understood what I was saying.
My comment about the cats is I've seen what comes out the pipe when engines ingest that stuff and it's not pretty if you wince at the loss of your cats.
Now I'm well aware that everything has pros and cons, just like high zinc engine oil is great for diesels and non-cat vehicles but it's terrible on the cats.
The problem with all these miracle cures in a can that I see is that the can may not even tell you that zinc will ruin your cat - they just tell you how great zinc is in motor oil. You're supposed to _know_ zinc ruins your cats.
It's a question I ask of all miracle cures because I don't know the answer. What does seafoam do to the cats?
I'm kind of sorry that I did! :)
But I learned something that I was previously ignorant of.
As with original sin, there is no shame in original ignorance. The shame is only in when it can't be cured (because of stupidity).
Those were the easy ones. Early Mopars (up to '64 I think) had a tapered rear axle that the drum locked to. It was held on by one large nut. After you got the nut off, which was always fun, you needed a hub puller to get the drum off. Big hammer, breaker bar, and a sixpack helped. Once you got the drum off you could punch out the stud and proceed.
Memory fails but I have the suspicion one of the axle nuts was left handed too.
Hint: stay out of CA when it snows. For a big truck 'chains required' means a set of triple rails on one drive axle, single rails on the other, and a single on the rear trailer wheel.
Most states leave it to your discretion how much iron you're going to hang but CA being CA...
I've got beam type torque wrenches from 1/4 to 1/2 but no crowfeet. I understand the concept but never had t apply it.
To be clear there were two reasons I corrected my use of lug bolt.
One was that the word police have been attacking me for using the correct scientific words for what mRNA is (as you're likely well aware) and even for their lack of understanding of what it means that most people are immune to covid (more than half anyway, whether seropositive or seronegative it seems) and even for my use of the medical therapy terms.
Basically they don't believe in science so what they do is attack science by claiming that the words used aren't words that they would rather you use.
The words they want you to use make things sound different to them.
An example is how these rabid Democrats spit out that 700,000 people died of Covid in the US and yet at the same time they _refute_ that the risk to any one USA individual is only 0.2% (if we know nothing else about them, which is also inherent in the 700,000 number the rabid Democrats just spit out).
Do you see what I see which is that they hate any accurate number that any one individual must assess but they love the same accurate number when it shows (what seems to them to be a bigger) risk to the entire population?
Essentially they only understand scientific facts that make them feel more scared. They seem to intensely dislike scientific facts that don't appear to make the problem far worse than it, scientifically speaking, actually is.
They hated so much that most people are naturally immune to covid that they argued that some people (very few) are apparently seronegative, even as that means nothing in terms of the scientific fact that more than half the human population is already naturally immune to covid (they feel no symptoms).
Of course everyone intelligent (except perhaps for Maria Van Kerkhove of the WHO for some strange reason) knows the scientific fact that even this vast majority of asymptomatic people can still almost as easily transmit covid during the infectious period as a person who can who exhibits symptoms.
But did you see the huge lengths they went to about word semantics to deny that all those scientific facts are, like it or not, scientific facts?
It's that kind of person I was defending against with my clarification of lug as my ignorance can be cured but their stupidity cannot ever be cured.
My family was friends with the dealer who sold the vehicle where I would order stuff on the phone from him using words like "can you get me the tools that I need to check timing" or "can you get me the tools I need to check cam clearance" and he'd call me back when they came in.
That's how I got that dial gauge in millimeter measurements that is in my toolbox as it came with the fitting on the bottom to fit into the spark plug hole and how I got that cast aluminum c-on-a-handle depression tool that fit like a clove (it has a curved molded-in increasing ramp on the side which allowed you to fit it perfectly as you slipped it in and rotated downward).
Later I called another dealer (and another), and found out that NOBODY will buy the tool for you ahead of time (no money down!) if it's a special order.
They do ship parts from store to store nowadays but usually you can just go to the store that has them in stock if it's close so even that isn't of much use.
The stator that I saw people rewind had shorted out. All it takes is the vibration causing two adjacent coils to chafe. Once you have copper on copper, that stator is toast.
I don't know why automotive stators don't chafe wires as much though. Maybe a stator mounted directly to m/c motor vibration is the problem?
Offhand I don't know what a crowfoot is unless it's the kind of wrench we have to use to replace oxygen sensors.
As for channel locks, it's my philosophical advice to my grandchildren that if they find themselves using pliers on a nut then they must be in an emergency so dire that they won't live long enough to find the correctly sized open end or box wrench.
The only time I've used them as far as I can easily recall is that I don't have much large than about an inch and a quarter or so Craftsman open end wrenches.
Some day I'd like to buy a set of Craftsman wrenches larger than what I have, but I can't justify the cost when, as noted, channel locks work too.
It is impolite to speak about people you plonked. Worse, you are spreading mis-information. I am a registered Independent and dislike both parties equally.
You are attributing facts to me that do not exist. You make up stuff to suite your stupid agenda and don't care about facts. Meantime, you go off like a nut case. So be it, sensible people see you for what you are.
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