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I have owned this Apache (no longer made) chinese diesel generator for about 10 years now and it has always been a bear to start but it has served me well otherwise running 12hrs on 4 gallons of fuel. It is powered by a chinese clone of the Yanmar 10hp diesel engine and I always saw in the Yanmar manual that there was a decompression lever that was to be pressed before starting. Nothing about that in the Apache owners manual and I never saw it on my unit. It was time for a service on it and this time instead of working on the floor I used my engine hoist to lift it up to eye level. I got curious and started to remove all the panels I could and after removing the end and using a flashlight and feeling around with my hand where it was shown in the Yanmar manual I located it. I then used a 2 3/8 inch hole-saw and made an access hole from above and now the darn thing starts like a champ. You press the lever down turn the ignition and it fires right off immediately and the lever pops closed automatically. It used to sound like the starter was crying as it used to strain trying to get it to barely spin due to the diesels high compression and now you hardly hear it. I found a cork in my wine making stuff that fit the new access hole perfectly to keep debris out. https://photos.app.goo.gl/xPdB2vjJfDVcszbGA

George Carlin summed it up pretty well more than 30 years ago, it`s just worse today. (Warning some adult language used).

The shaft bearings could be worn allowing fuel to seep out around the shafts.

I think you dodged a bullet there, at 350 F it was above what a motor with Class B Insulation is rated for. The thermal protector is not functioning in that motor, it should have opened before it got that hot. Here is a copy paste.. "Another point: for safety’s sake, no one should be touching most electric motors in the first place, unless they are specially designed to have safe surface temperatures. Such motors include those used on bench grinders, power saws and the like. For those applications, Underwriters Laboratories sets maximum acceptable surface temperatures for a metal “surface subject to casual contact” at 70 C (158 F) after 30 minutes of operation in a 25 C (77 F) room. Even at that temperature, however, you don’t want to touch the surface for long. The surface temperature of a continuously (and correctly) operating general purpose industrial electric motor will easily be 80 C (176 F) and perhaps as high as 100 C (212 F)." https://www.cshincorporated.com/r3-r348-m1703-fasco-7190-0369/

Very true https://photos.app.goo.gl/Wzf2WM6o16i4B9228

Circulating some oil in the Chevelle`s https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOxM2iYxy6E4btv2xs4xYrTHqU-Ikq3Tnkffyai/photo/AF1QipNeNd9BRYlIa_cXWgaNpHM_d7fLwzJZYi8t1SGu

Never liked working in a pit myself always had too much of standing in a grave feel to it and they always were damp and usually wet. I restored a 1970 Benwil 2 post lift that was rusting in a vacant lot I paid a little over scrap value for and it allows me to do anything to cars and light trucks. A lift also allows you to work at various heights which is handy for doing brakes or tire work. But if my choice was a pit or nothing I would go for the pit. Also using a 2 post lift has to be done correctly and carefully or you can drop a car, saw it happen a few times in my youth. Here`s my nephew spraying Fluid Film under his car. https://photos.app.goo.gl/66jV3k7njSyZNuyYA

I saw this old snow tire ad and it made me nostalgic as I used to get to drive those Oshkosh snow plow/spreaders at the two NYC airports back in the 80`s and 90`s. They were tons of fun to drive https://photos.app.goo.gl/bYqx6bKH5728BLxF7

Mike`s Carburetor Shop is a great place to try, and Mike is one heck of a nice helpful guy. He also has great step by step rebuild videos on utube. https://www.carburetor-parts.com/

Great Stuff I get it in the 5 gallon buckets and use it for a lot of different things.

Whimsical Welding

In my home state of Pennsylvania they use a lot of brine and rocksalt on the roads during Winter. Needless to say it`s tough on the cars and I got to spend some quality time with our 2009 VW Routan aka rebadged Chrysler Town&Country. The oil pan has bothered me for the last two oil changes and while finally replacing it I caught sight of my waterpump inlet pipe which was in even worse shape. I also had a very noisy front bearing hub that was a charm to change and I did new front pads,rotors and new caliper assemblies. Lastly I put on the four studded snow tires and not too soon either as we are getting snow here already.

Still haven`t treated the roads by me which is very unusual so I was able to get a chilly ride in.

Well dealing with Liberty Mutual Insurance has been a fairly pleasant experience, they reviewed the pictures and I assume the video the UPS field supervisor took when he was here to view the damage. They also wanted a detailed estimate from a local contractor which I submitted and without any hesitation or argument they agreed to the contractors price of $1075.00 to repair the lawn.

Last Wednesday night we got a UPS delivery at 5:30PM and the driver must have been in quite a hurry as he decided to drive his 6 wheel truck across my front lawn for over 100 feet. What really made this special was we had over an inch of rain on the day before he decided to go off-roading on my grass. They`re insurance company Liberty Mutual now wants me to get an estimate from a landscape contractor to repair the lawn.

The 67 Chevelle`s were notorious for leaking rear windows and apparently mine was no exception. It had a new rear window that was very poorly installed and them someone used a tube or two of black silicone caulk to glop all around the window in an attempt to seal it. They then used a dull razor blade without lube to clean up their mess and scratched the new window all to hell. I have a 20yr relationship with a glazier who does vintage car glass and is a chevelle guy. He pulled my rear window and sent me home to clean off all the black silicone and he laughingly predicted it would take me three days to get it all off. Well he nailed it and it did take me 3 days of misery to get it off. I ordered a new piece of glass and drove back to his shop when it arrived and he installed it for me the correct "old school" way. He did a lot of cursing but he was able to get it perfect as he knew all the tricks for old chevelle`s. Took him an hour and a half and he would not take a dime from me, said he enjoyed doing it and it actually looked like he did.

Never saw one like it but the steel-tube reference would stand for electrical metallic tubing also known as thin-wall or EMT. So my guess is that one is only for thin-wall and thus a "pedal" is not needed perhaps the changeable hook was for various sizes and the other benders can do both Rigid pipe and the thin-wall EMT.

When a neighbors lazy teenage son forgets to put out the garbage on pickup day and you try to store it in your garage for next weeks pickup day.

When my 67 Malibu Sport Coupe`s 250 inline six was rebuilt it was bored out a piston size larger and this made it run slightly hotter. I changed out the stock 4 blade fan for a high-end 6 blade 18in. "FlexFan" made in the USA by Flex-A-Lite rated for 10,000 rpms, the 250 inline six red-lines at 4500 rpms. I noticed the difference immediately in reduced "drag" on the engine and it`s superior cooling efficiency has been all the manufacturer promised.

I realize that the fixtures were free but I would go with LED fixtures and toss the old fixtures. The LED shop fixtures have come way down in price and amazon will deliver them to your door. The difference to use a bad pun is like day and night. They provide such superior light for a shop over fluorescent tubes it is like you removed the roof and let the sun shine in.

They will be "Brining" the roads where I live before the month is out so I have been trying to get a ride in every chance I get.

My metal garbage box was getting hammered by the bears this year, getting it open, flipping it over and pushing it around my driveway. I finally ended the problem by taking empty balloons and with a small funnel I add a few ounces of "Gramdma`s" favorite super aroma ammonia. Then using a blow nozzle I carefully fill the balloon with air knot it off add a piece of string and tie it to my garbage box as high as I can. The final step is to smear the balloon`s outside with bacon grease, I had my first customer in less than an hour in broad daylight. The bear bites the balloon and gets a very nasty surprise, I can attest to it being unpleasant as I used too much air pressure on one and had it explode in my face. After using the balloons for a few days my bear vandalism problems were over. I was putting four filled balloons out at a time and as we have a lot of bears here different ones were showing up and taking a try. Now all is quiet on the western front and I haven`t had to clean up scattered garbage for weeks.