Dishwash liquid works great for sliding. Get the cheap stuff, and mix it 50 / 50 with more water. I was in the towing business and that's how I...
I don't think you are abandoning the truck when it needs multiple repairs. Making new driveshafts could take days. In the meantime, you are not...
Cheap department store and Harbor Freight, impacts...... yes, 90 psi. Normal shop pressure is 150 - 175 psi. I ran my air tools in that pressure...
Synthetic oil will dissolve some of the sludge in the motor. So if there is a bunch of sludge behind an already worn seal, it will leak. The...
There are two ways tires fail, either a cap separating from a tire, or under inflation. While it is legal for recaps to be run on the front (it is...
I agree with this. I ran an (auto) shop for 12 years. Anything I took that the customer or another shop did partially took far, far longer than...
I've been helping a friend at his repair shop due to a recent death in their family. Parts are in short supply. Most parts are made or rebuilt...
You're going to get all kinds of "official looking" mail now that you have authority. As well as emails. I have a fake phone number on my...
I operated an auto repair business for 12 years. Most repairs were estimated and billed at "flat rate" or "book" time, those times coming from a...
Have ceramic balance beads installed. They work. The problem with big tire balance, is it costs so much, so nobody wants to rebalance them......
I had E350 Ford diesel vans that had been sitting for 3 - 4 years and still started and ran fine. Diesel fuel is essentially oil, it isn't like...
If you have a choice, get a full CDL. With all of the endorsements. Everything. Except passenger. There is no sense in being a school bus driver,...
Idling a truck, even at high idle, is not good for it. The coolant may warm up, but the oil is still cold, and you will experience "wet stacking"...
Running a fridge off of an inverter is a tremendous waste of energy. There are 12v "coolers" that use a bimetal element to cool, they won't freeze...
It's called "cupping", it is caused by imbalance primarily. Any decent tire shop would be able to tell you just by looking at the tires. I was a...
Some engines have "warmup valves" that block the exhaust to help heat up the engine at idle. Similar to the kind of things that cars had, back...
I'm solar powered. When the sun goes down, so do I. Nappy bye time.
Dimples "in" are normal..... bulges out are damage. I worked for a tire shop 30 years ago and they had an advisory out about the "dimples".
Construction equipment, forklifts etc do tend to use the same keys. This is because different people are in them each day. Newer skidsteers now...
Before you go to all of that work, install an air ride seat. You can find used seats for a hundred bucks or less. All you really need is the base....
