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About Los_Control

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    Zen Master, I breathe vintage mopar!

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  1. Los_Control
    Julie I have not talked ... no reason too. You know you have been taking advantage of and there are friends to help you. You need to get that truck out of there as quick as you can. Just incredible the amount of work they have done on it with a $20k cap ... You just need to get the truck out of the shop hands and soon back too your hands. You paid what you owe ... now you owe nothing.
  2. Los_Control
    Thats just someones opinion. We are all entitled to have our own opinion. My Uncle born in 1928 that passed away a couple years ago told me that. He would tell me about the days he would skip school, get Aunt Jennies attention and drag her out and they would take the model A out driving all day. High school sweet hearts that were married for over 50 years til death. The story about the old ford with mechanical brakes and they installed a flathead v8 ford in it. Couple of 16 year old kids, scared the crap out of them ... that car would run but the brakes were non exis
  3. Los_Control
    You are correct really .... Main reason was it did live outside. After a good rain when I would start it a day later, and the electronic ignition would be wet and run like crap for some time until it dries out. I finally got my garden shed built this spring so now it has a place under cover to park. I still use it to pull a trailer with for yard work and hauling brush to the dumpster. I could get caught a a summer downpour, then be dead in the water til it dried out. Just will be more dependable with a hood. Then it has a headlight switch and wiring, but no headlights. The hood will
  4. Los_Control
    Sorry there is confusion. I use that mower to cut my grass ... there is no other purpose for it from me. So while I build a tilt front end on it to keep the weather off of it ... I also built a garage for it and no weather gets on it. No I am not building something special .... just cutting the grass.
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    Back in the day ... ya all wanted what you got. The visor was something your Grandpa ran. Nothing wrong with it. The kids were embarrassed to have such a abomination on the windshield.. Not saying I am correct, just saying if you were a hot rodder in the 50's the visor was for your Grandpas car not yours. So while we touch bases on the visor ... just not really important.
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  7. Los_Control
    I only wanted to add, I am no small engine mechanic .... just have a lifetime of experience with them. And I watch videos. I can usually keep the old junk running. The difference though is our life styles. I was disabled 10 years ago when I was 48 years old. Now 58. I was building houses and doing finish carpentry work, employer was charging the customer $65 per hour for me to be there ... I ran a 3 man crew ... I had no time to work on lawnmower engines. Most working people really do not have time to mess with small engines. Not a bad thing ... just something you ne
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  9. Los_Control
    This is my first pressure washer. I wanted one for awhile and looked for used. Seems they all needed a new pump. Been abused ... Or if they worked & they were asking for as much as a new unit. So I just bought a new one. I think they sell enough pumps that they are reasonable in price. I also am anal about having water connected to it. I wont even check for spark without the water running through it. I just lay the wand on the ground out of the way and have a spring clamp on the trigger to flow the water. I know the engine will not start .... feel it is a good habit to get
  10. Los_Control
    I wonder what cost more ... replacing the engine or replacing the pump? Just figure out why your engine stopped running. I suspect with minor effort even if the valves need adjusted ... will be running in a few minutes.
  11. Los_Control
    Whole lot of information to be learned about setting up a rear end here. Whats the goal ... is it going to be original and taken to shows ... thats one way. What if you installed a 7:3/4 rear end .... A great rear end if not giving it any power. Like a flathead 6? What if you went up to a mopar 8.75 rear end ... do you really need the strength for the engine you running? @Lorenadvice is good. But finding good replacement rear ends or transmissions on older mopar are out of range for many. They mentioned a Ford Ranger rear end which I think is a 7.25 ...
  12. Los_Control
    All I can do is try it and see what happens ... it does ride better then when I had the old shocks on ... It might be ok. I hear ya on waiting on tires .... I think my wife wants to make a road trip to Albuquerque 6 hours 1 way. We only live once, if she wants to make a trip I do not want to stop her with a tire purchase. She knows I need to slather on the dialect grease and new tires. to make it road worthy .... She wants new tires now and says she has triple A A A if she has issues. Let her go. Tire rack has matching tires on the front for $70 each ... I fi
  13. Los_Control
    I am going to take a stab at compression ... Just like a flathead 6 or any gasoline engine, you kinda need 60 psi for it to run? I am guessing a small engine is pretty close to the same. There is a difference on small engines, some have a compression release built in to ease starting. While others do not. My quick research just to get a idea ... A older 1981 horizontal shaft 5 hp flathead briggs & stratton has a compression release built in and a 60 psi compression test is good. While a newer 5 hp vertical shaft lawn mower with no compression release shows 80
  14. Los_Control
    Thanks @JBNeal I honestly did not know there was such a thing as priming your shocks. Although I did prime it as they suggested just by playing with them. When you cut loose the packaging strap you would expect the shock to fully extend. It went about 4" or 1/2 way and stopped. I pulled it to fully extended and pushed down about 6 or 8 times to see if it would start working ... still just 1/2 way. Let it sit over night and still 1/2 way. Then I just collapsed it 6" or so, just the top 1/2 of travel ... still it went 4" and stopped with 2" of travel left.
  15. Los_Control
    Gasoline engines ... just as many issues can be possible as we have words in the dictionary. I have a new pressure washer bought this spring, means it is cheap off shore junk. Used it a few weeks ago and worked fine. The other day I could not get it to start ... I tried ether and nothing so I assumed it was spark. I pulled the plug and it was soaking wet ... pulled the rope a few times and liquid squirted out of the plug hole. I checked the oil and oil just came overflowing out of the dip stick tube. I did not shut off the fuel on the gravity feed tank wh
  16. Los_Control
    Appreciate the advice. also @JBNeal I have some electronics cleaner spray ... was going to use that but no clue what to do next. I will use the dielectric grease on it ... may as well take the harness off the computer side and do same. Although I went Friday to buy some and Ace did not have it. Looks like a road trip to pick some up. I have to change my attitude about my mechanic. I had a chance to work on the struts and he did everything he could to adjust them. Only thing left I can do is remove them, get the die grinder out and create more adjustment. ... Or repla
  17. Los_Control
    @desoto1939Is correct. My local parts store, Charlie will take me in the back where the hoses are and show which are correct size. Then we look for one that can cut down to fit. The left overs I save and you can cut them down to squares and make nice heavy rubber shims out of for some future use You also can buy the universal fit ribbed hoses ... they are kinda sorta period correct and possibly could do what you need. I do not know how many turns you need. Today cars all use pre-formed radiator hoses and a mental thing. What we are use to seeing. Using the metal tube an
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