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I'm with DAA I was old when all of these bands came out and never listened to any of it except if my kids subjected me to it.

The motors need fuel, spark, and compression to run. When it dies pull the plug and check for spark. Then see if the plug is wet or dry. If it is very wet it is getting too much fuel, if completely dry it is not getting gas. The last thing is a compression test. Sometimes the coil that makes the...

That was one of the first things I did, so a good suggestion.

I sent SOS an email thinking it would take a while and they contacted me right away. The tech just left and we have heat again. I told him how I knew to call and we ended up talking how to fix his Jeep while we were testing the furnace.

The pilot flame sensor is working and the control board senses it and turns on the main gas valve. The problem is that the gas doesn't make it to the combustion chamber so no flame and the flame sensor tells the control board to shut it down after about 8 seconds.

Thanks, I'll do some calling

Our furnace went out yesterday and its getting cold in the house. I went through the ignition cycle and everything works except the main burner turning on. I am getting voltage to the main valve solenoid and hear it turning on but no gas seems to be making it to the heat chamber. The other...

Nothing too new for me to report on but Saturday I finally finished the two big projects I have been working on. My friends 02 Ram V10 truck is now running and ready to feed cows. I must have done something right as it started on the first try. The other project was my snowmobile motor. It...

On my 73 Commando I swapped the bull nose for a CJ hood and grille with home made fenders. I also used two commando frames to make the LJ equivalent frame. If you look up the family commando project here on RME you can see how I did it.

One of my neighbors that I help out with Jeep problems brought their son's 97 TJ by for me to look at. All forward gears worked fine but it wouldn't go in reverse. The problem ended up being something I have never seen. The left front caliper bolt had come out and the caliper would flop back in...

Spent yesterday installing an 8.0 L Dodge V10 in my friends truck, what a pain.

I just wrapped up a motor rebuild for my old Polaris snowmobile. I took the damaged pistons and cylinders off the 500 motor and transplanted some 440 heads. Turns out they share almost every part except the pistons and cylinder heads. I put in a piston and ring kit and resealed everything. I...

Back in my day there were no front wheel drive cars, no video games, no computers at your house and the ones at the university used paper punch cards. When I started doing engineering work in the 70's the entire engineering department shared one VT100 terminal. Also loved going to the A&W drive...

I went to the very first two burbot bashes before it became more commercialized. Had a great time.

I went up to Rockport Thursday and got into lots of perch. The ice was fine out in the lake but in the afternoon I went through the edge coming off the lake. Went a bit over my knees but my ice suit kept the water out.

Well this motor is not an ATV/UTV or motorcycle engine but I wanted some opinions from those who might know what could have caused this Polaris fan cooled two stroke to do this to a piston. The piston melted badly on the exhaust port side of the piston. The other piston shows a fair amount of...

That's tempting, I do have a 440 motor in the basement that needs a top end rebuild maybe I'll get the parts and fix it up. The sled had a dead 440 when I picked it up years ago.

Any idea as to what the company is called so I can look them up ?

I pulled the engine apart and one of the pistons melted. What felt like a broken rod was actually piston chunks hitting the crank. The good piston looks to have a fair amount of wear as you can see past the piston at the rings. I wonder if the melted one got blow by or if it got a lean fuel mixture.

Thanks