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Does anyone have any idea how adding running boards to a Ford F 150 crew cab could make the ride feel much rougher? I built running boards for the local police Swat team. They are clamped over the frame. No welding . They attach at three points from the front door, to just at the bed. They are...

FYI, got a lesson in electric brake controllers today. Long story but the bottom line is, a new controller was installed after a long battle to get my trailer brakes to work. It is a new fangled one with a diagnosis code. It said OL = OverLoaded Blue brake wire. It said a short to ground was the...

Does anyone know of a source for polyurethane bushings to replace the rubber ones in the front axle drag link of a Ford ? I am tired of replacing the rubber ones.

The engine on my ZD 326 will die/ shut off for a split second several times while mowing. It won't die all together just studder. It isn't a miss or loss of power. It dies for a spit second, then keeps running. I really don't think it is fuel. It never looses rpm slowly just dies out and comes...

Is anyone else fed up with the NRA sending out invoices for dues 3 months after you paid for the current year. Then they bill you every three months for the next year. I was paid up 3 years in advance before I figured out not to pay them every time I got one. I just got an invoice and it didn't...

It has been a long time since I tinkered with a Power Shift. My neightbor's YM 1810 has a slow to go reverse. It pulls fine but takes several seconds to go into gear after it is shifted into reverse. Forward works fine. It just started doing it after a tranny fluid change. Any ideas where to start?

Does anyone know if there is a way to adjust the neutral position on the foot pedal? I have a friend that has a 1520 that is either in forward or reverse. There doesn't seem to be a neutral on the foot pedal. He said it had a wider neutral space before. The exposed linkage doesn't help.

Is there any reason I shouldn't cut and reweld an axle tube on a trailer? I have a bent axle and have the ability to cut it and reweld it after I correct the slight bend. I just don't want to regret doing it later. I can replace the axle but this would be quicker and cheaper for me.

I just talked to a contractor I work with about his Case skid Loader. He is trading it in. I don't know the model, but it is pretty good size and has about 450 hrs on it. He has used it himself. I know how it was treated. He told me they allowed him 14K trade in on a new Bobcat. That seems cheap...

I have recently become the owner of a turn of the century lathe. A WF&J Barnes. It was a treadle machine converted to electric. It is pretty much complete other than the treadles missing. I would like to use it. It has a Morris taper center. It measures about .60 at the large end. All the info...

I found this ad. Does anyone have any input good or bad about it. I really don't NEED it, but it is too cool not to have, if I can work it enough to pay for it. I am trying to talk to the local landscape contractors to see if any of them would be interested in having me use it. Skid Steer...

I just finished a lead paint requirement class. It was more than I had expected. Just giving all contractors the heads up. This is going to be haunting us soon and for a long time. I am going to try to avoid any contact with homes built before 1978. The hoops you have to go through and the red...

Does anyone know if a loader for a TA 210 will fit a TA207. If not can someone with a TA 210 take some measurements / pictures, for me to compare? Any help would be appreciated.

I have a friend that has a home built log splitter. It will run about 30 minutes and then the oil gets very hot and the cylinder goes so slow it is basically useless. Does anyone have any input to a solution????

Yesterday I needed my generator and the rear door of my tool body truck was blocked by a trailer. I tied the door back and started my generator. By the time I got back to the truck to plug in the cord ,gas was running down the floor towards the cab. The seat of the carburator had just went bad...

Ok ,since there are several electrical questions on this site, her is one for you. My son is a County Deputy. He just got a new radio. It is battery powered. When he keys the mic in his bathroom, the GFI pops. He did it several times to make sure that is what caused it. This can NOT be a good...

I would like to bounce a couple ideas off you guys. I am having a hard time getting my contractors to pay on invoices. They let me finance their spec houses and custom built homes. I go two to three months between payouts. The only thing worse than no work is having work that you have paid all...

A friend just brought his new Kubota 4x4 by to show me. I didn't get the model number but it was a 32hp 4x4 Hydrostat. When I looked at the front drive axle it didn't have a differential. It was the strangest looking design I have ever seen. It looked like a two wheel drive front end. It had a...

I have a Honda generator/welder that has given many years of good service. Today it finally give up. It will start,run,and gen at full throttle, but it won't pickup and go when on auto idle. Any ideas? Where to start?

I just put an aftermaket grapple on my machine. If I bottom it out, in or out, it opens the relief valve. The arm cylinders don't do that. If you close or extent the boom it just stops. It doesn't unload the relief. Is there a way to add something to keep the new cylinder from doing this?

I just finished adapting a grapple bucket for a Dingo to fit my Yanmar miniexcavator. I lucked out on the geometry of the bucket and it works perfect. It amazes me how much I can pickup with it. I piled brush for just a few minutes to try it out, I have a pile as big as my garage. It will handle...

We have had a couple major wind storms here in the past few weeks. I finally pulled the trigger on a grapple bucket for my mini excavator. I have to make a mount to fit my machine. I'll post a picture when I get it mounted.

I am having a heck of a time finding Flare teeth for my Yanmar VIO 27. The stock bucket has 3 ESCO 18S teeth. I want to replace them with 18 Flare teeth. Yanmar only has the stock teeth. My local supplier can't get the ESCO 18 teeth, he says they are obsolete. That seems weird, since this is a...

Lets hear the pros and cons of putting foam in tractor tires. I have some contractors using it in skid steers. I am having a lot of flats while brush cutting.

I got tired of the brush rubbing the paint off my fenders while brush hogging. So I fabbed some knerf bars to keep it off. When I say Brush Hogging I don't mean bush hogging. If the little Iseki will push it over it gets cut.

FYI, I just found the new Rustoleum color, Brilliant Blue. It matches my TA 207 perfectly. It is the fast dry paint not the old two day dry Rustoleum of the past.

I looked in several chipper threads and couldn't find one with the update I just did. I was servicing my chipper today and found the pins ,that pull the clutch for the feed roller , had worn almost off. The problem was, that the linkage was riding on the pins and dragging them against the...

FYI all that might be interested. I just got my set of paper wheel knife sharpeners from Grizzly tool. One is a carbide grit covered wheel and the other a paper wheel you put rouge on to polish the final edge. They work GREAT. I can put a razor edge on just about any knife in a few seconds. I...

I just replaced the plastic bushings on my trailer springs for the third time in 5 years. I found a set of bronze bushings with grease fittigs on the pins, I hope they last longer. The bolts/ pins were worn and the equalizers were egg shaped. I know every trailer out there over a couple years...

I have a friend with a Duetz engine on a wood chipper. The fuel pump has failed. Is there any reason he can't bypass it and put in an electric?

Has anyone out there used an oil testing service to decide when to change engine oil? I have read about some very long oil change intervals using the oil test to decide when to change. Is this a good or bad thing to do?

Has anyone dealt with Bill Barnett lately? I am trying to get in touch and his home page is down and not returning Email.

I know I need one, I just can't figure out why.

I have a ZD21 I couldn't be happier with. What are the differences between the 21 and 321 for $3000?