Recent content by rszimm

In case anyone's thinking about attempting to repair a skid steer that's been in a fire....don't. I once bought one that had been in a fire thinking it couldn't be much more than a few hoses and maybe some wiring. Boy was I wrong. Literally the whole thing needs to be taken apart. Every...

I was at an auction recently that was selling Home Depot returns. Someone had bought a toilet, installed it, put their old toilet in the box, and returned it. Wasn't the same model or even brand. Really? You're going to put a used toilet in the box and return it as new. Some people are...

I thought I had a bunch of stuck zerks but turns out my lever style gun stopped pressing grease. For the life of me I can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong with it. They’re cheap enough that I’ll just buy a new one, but the frugal mechanic in me makes me reluctant to throw away something that...

This engine is in a Ford CL65 Skid Steer. Just figured out that the engine in this unit is likely not the Shibaura U1004 that it originally came with. So what is it? Obviously a 4 cyl diesel. There's a casting mark on the left side of the block that says "S2". There's a serial number...

I'm fixing up an old Ford CL65 skid steer. Most all the non-essential wiring / gauges / switches were stripped out of this thing including the original ignition switch and the entire glow plug circuit (old owner just squirted a bit of starting fluid into the air filter whenever he wanted to...