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I read on a F150 forum that the only fuel injector cleaner recommended by Ford is Chevron Techron. Don't know much about diesels. Supposedly Seafoam is bad for the cats. And I would not ever put Seafoam in the engine oil.

Yep, very important. That is why you have to be careful with a toy hauler. Adding weight to the usually rear of the trailer could induce dangerous sway. I was working with this engineer in FL. He thought he was a lot smarter than he was. Anyway, he hauled a load of household furnishings back to his IN home with a uhaul trailer and he was complaining about that terrible uhaul that would start swaying if he got above 55mph. I had to break the news to him that it was his fault by not putting enough weight on the tongue. Geez, I disliked that guy!

Shoes! You saw her shoes!?

Our current President said what he would do and he's doing it to the surprise of the deep swamp as much as the deep swamp will allow him. They are fighting him every inch of the way.

I'd have to do a TSA patdown to be sure!

the guy is nekkid from the waist up. The girl is nekkid from the waist or close to it down.

Gosh!

I'm surprised you got 32mpg with the idle mixture screws set at 4 turns out.

The only cure for "New Bike Fever" is a new bike! Congratulations! I hope you enjoy many exciting, safe miles on it!

When I woke up this morning, I remembered that I had not seen my RSV keys for a couple days. I foolishly have been keeping both of the OE keys on the same ring so if I lost them I'd be up the creek. I usually keep them in the lower left pocket of my cargo pants or hiking shorts. I checked my desk drawer where I usually keep extra keys and they weren't there. I checked the pockets of the shorts and pants I've worn lately dirty and clean and no keys. I then went out to the garage and breathed a sigh of relief. I had left them in the ignition! It has taught me a lesson to not keep both keys together so I can't lose them both at the same time.

For those of you who have HBO, they have the series "Pacific" available to watch. It's about WWII in the pacific theater. I've watched 3 episodes so far and I'm really enjoying it. Extraordinary courage, sacrifice, and maybe a devine hand, allowed our forces to defeat the Japanese who had much far more ships and planes (in the beginning).

I'm not quite that cynical. I could name a few whom I think care about the country but that would be too political. I could also name a bunch who only care about staying in power. On another note what is going on in AZ and FL really makes you wonder.

Most people my age know someone who died in that war. One of my friends name is on the memorial wall. And a cousin took a bullet in the abdomen but survived and recovered. I was lucky. I was sent to S. Korea.

Cowpuc says he uses the cheapest oil he can buy such as the dollar store oil and he runs the heck out of his 83s and 84s up to and over 200k miles. Most of us probably are overly concerned about oil brand and type, including me. My first car was the family 55 chevy 6 cylinder. We changed the oil in that car every 2k miles and it still needed a rebuild at 60k miles due to massive oil burning. I buy brand name oil for everything and change it at 5k on my autos and 2k on my bikes due to concern about the clutch debris and that is probably too often.

GM got in on the money grab with their DEXOS certification. Oil suppliers have to pay GM big bucks to put Dexos on their oil bottle when the oil most likely meets the new GM spec whether or not it is listed on the bottle.

The main reason I posted the video was the links that the guy went to for information.

Many people who don't vote because their single vote among maybe 200million eligible voters doesn't make that much difference. But, I wonder how many of the people who think that way buy lottery tickets where the odds are 1 in 300 million!

As irritating as it all is to watch we should participate in the political decisions as much as we can if we are knowledgeable. My personal opinion is that I would like everyone to have to pass a civics exam and an economic exam before being allowed to vote. If you know nothing I don't think you should be able to vote. The country is at a tipping point with its tremendous debt, tremendous trade deficits, the changing politics, and the direction of the country is critical to our descendants future. My day is about done but I would like to see my kids and their kids live in a great country with freedom of speech and have the opportunity to succeed.

I didn't see Shell rotella on the list?

That must be the Texas way! When I was growing up in the 50's in a small NC town there was a mechanic called "Pluto" who had his own garage and worked by himself. He always wore one of those train engineer caps with the bib turned up. He only owned hand tools. He charged $4/hr. Anyway he was famous for holding a spark plug wire in one hand while holding his 3rd member close to the car so a spark would jump! Maybe he was from Texas originally! Maybe it was a substitute for Viagra? When I was 16 or so I took the family 55 chevy to him for swapping out the throwout bearing. I had bought the bearing. It took him one hour to remove the transmission and replace the bearing and reinstall the trans. Charged me $4.00.

I've had plugs bridge over with carbon that wouldn't fire (in a Chevy of course) but this plug was the original plug in my 85 ZN700 Kawasaki bought in 2009 and it only had 1,054 miles on it and was clean. You are correct in that I've never owned a two stroke motorcycle.

Or you can remove the plug and put back in the plug cap. then lay the side of the plug against the engine and turn the engine with the starter and see if there is a spark at the plug gap. If you have spark on all cylinders, determine if the carb diaphragms are doing their job. On a Gen 1 you just remove the fake gas tank cover and air cleaner and watch the carbs while you blip the throttle. I'm not sure how you run your bike while looking down the carbs. And i would immediately put a half can of Seafoam or my favorite Gumout with PEA to the gas to start cleaning the carbs. On my Kawasaki when I first bought it one cylinder was dead. I confirmed spark to the plugs but didn't check the plugs. One of the plugs was dead. Only plug I've ever experienced being dead in my over half century of working on autos and some bikes.

I bought a used Layton 25' travel trailer in 89 and kept it for 4 years, until the kids got too old to be interested in camping with the old man. I was divorced at the time. Anyway, a week after buying it, I towed it 600 miles to Disney World with a WDH but no sway control with a SWB 86 F150. I was a road hazard without sway control. After I got back home, I added a Reese dual cam sway control to my Reese WDH that had 1,000 lb bars. It was very stable after that. Anyway, a couple of tips I'd like to pass on. One is to disinfect the potable water system periodically. Another is to not leave the awning up in a rain storm unless it is tilted down a lot so water will not build up on the awning becuz if it does the weight of the water can bend the awning aluminum roll tube or whatever the proper name is. I bought it for $5300 and sold it 4 yrs later for $3300 with the bent tube. It was a lot of fun but I'm not too keen on towing a TT.