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    Natural gas conversion - where to feed the gas

    Pictures of the 1964 Cub Loboy converted to propane . You can see the homemade orifice I made from a piece of rubber hose and inserted into the vapor feed line, the full 3/8 red rubber line would not even try to start the engine, the next orifice I cut was to small and would only idle , then...
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    Natural gas conversion - where to feed the gas

    This is what I did, yes it egg shaped the hose a bit.
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    Caues of uneven tire wear?

    What you are saying makes sense, welding the spring saddles on with a lot of weld and building a excess in heat could have pulled the carbon from the surrounding area of the axle tube around the saddle to the weld and making it softer and capable of bending .Everything I weld pulls some no...
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    Mckee Snowlander 320 Parts manual

    This is the 220
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    Good morning!!!!

    -5 F or -20 Celsius here in Northern Indiana, do not hear the roar of the wind ,still dark but can see red lights on the wind turbines as far as 15 miles so can not be much going on. I hope all the rain turns to snow in the south with the temps they are getting, when we get the freezing rain it...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Morning , I have not seen anything good about it yet. -8 F outside and house is popping and clunking, have electricity this morning but did not Friday Morning . Roads covered with ice and traffic running at 5 mph. Schools closed, Wind chill advisory , This is one of the days the bottoms of my...
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    Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

    Got this 25% off coupons this morning and it said it can be shared
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    Loader curl leak down

    When the seal that divides the two sides fails there is no up side and down side, they connect and become one with a little restriction . Bypassing around the seal. The seals went bad in the Power Steering cylinder on my Jinma and you had to slowly keep turning the steering wheel to keep it...
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    Loader curl leak down

    I had that same problem with my loader, it would go down just as fast as it went up and it was the seals. In my case it was just O Rings and shims and wiper seals at the cost of $15 for three cylinders. I think mine had been rebuilt with the wrong O Rings and were not ment to be in oil , who...
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    Good morning!!!!

    25F this morning, moon so bright I thought there was a car in the drive with the headlights on aiming in the window. The last flu I thought I had I was going to stay in bed till it passed, wife called DR. and mentioned a new water heater installed and he said I would not have to sit in waiting...
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    Problem with MTD 25 ton splitter - 4 second delay to 2nd stage

    From what I can tell from all the diagrams is both sides of the pump are putting out fluid until it reaches 500 psi back pressure then it opens a unloader valve on the high volume side of the pump and it just circulates and lets the high pressure side continue working. So it sounds like that...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Bright moon out there this early morning at 4 am, 34 Fahrenheit . Had to get up to load stove . I saw Eric was also up then I thought about him being 5 hours later then me. 4 am here and 9 am there.
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    Good morning!!!!

    I have a well so I have to ask how much money that 1650 gallons cost. You might have to install a holding tank to catch the shower water for the trees, When I bought the new washer I went with front load and was shocked when the owners manual said a top load was around 50 to 60 gallons a load...
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    Good morning!!!!

    41 degrees this morning and calm. to lazy to go out for some sugar maple to put in the stove and put in a piece of Osage Orange, just not cold enough for that yet, stuff is like hard coal, 85 degrees in here and window is up. I use a inversion table to get my back into the mood to cut wood, when...
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    Spring Forward / Fall Back....... still sucks....

    I took a look at St Helens on the Google map and looked at pictures, your holding back mate , you could be giving us yanks bucket fulls of berries. That looks like a south seas Island fairy tale . Your worst day in the winter probably means you put on a long sleeve shirt over your singlet. I am...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Good Morning , 38F this morning, sky is clear. Did not get all my chores done yesterday , to many loafers stopping by , nice weather does that , they had some idea they could drink more coffee then me and one even tried to out talk me.If they show up today they are getting a crash course on...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Good Morning, 45F here in Indiana 100 miles south of Chicago, says high of 57F today. Cut firewood yesterday so I have to dig the Husky splitter out this morning, its behind two tractors ,a tiller and two walk behind snowblowers .More time in getting it out then using it. Time change this...
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    Good morning!!!!

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    Show What Tool You Made*

    I know I only get half a point for this one but to keep it alive I will share it. I had a broken 8mm head/cylinder bolt broken off in the block on a KLF 300 KAW. The person that started the job was going to drill it out but kept falling off the broken bolt until they had little holes drilled...
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    Toro Groundsmaster Snow Blower Attachment

    I went out to mine and tipped it up and took pictures of the skis and the lift arm that I change for the blower. Not quite how I remember it but pictures don't lies outside of photoshop .
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    Show What Tool You Made*

    I have converted a lot of my engines over to propane and use the 20 pound cylinder to run them on.So I needed to fill my own cylinders. I made this propane pump from a air cylinder and two check valves .The handle is a post from a chain link fence. The hose that is pushed into the end of the...
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    Toro Groundsmaster Snow Blower Attachment

    I am attaching the first three pages of my manual with hope of it being seed for thought.
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    What's wrong with the B&S engine on my pressure washer?

    If it is a overhead valve engine you might start with adjusting the exhaust valve , when the gap gets to big the compression release can not work as well and cause your symptoms. Looking at the picture you see a round piece that holds the valve open slightly until it starts then it will spin...
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    Portable Generators

    The liquid line comes out of the big tank, it pushes itself past the first check valve and fills the air cylinder with liquid when handle is lifted. When pushed down that first check valve closes forcing the liquid to go out the second check valve into the small tank and the second check valve...
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    articulated lawn tractor build question

    Some pictures of how case faced two jeep axles at each other then used drive shaft with a sprocket . There is a hydraulic motor with a sprocket driving the chain to the driveshaft.I would not think a mower would have to be this heavy .
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    SKUNK STINK REMOVAL - Question???

    When I moved out to the country 28 years ago I had a few skunks living in the work shop pole barn no doors type of thing. I could see there tails sticking out from under the work bench and they snore .I was so supersized the air compressor and the radio did not run them off or worse. Every...
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    any toro groundsmaster fans on here?

    It is a Toro GM72 , but the blades are after market ,I am attaching photos,
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