Recent content by JRHill

" I do not want a system that requires servicing or anything. " Awww, just one more little chore?

The bubbling air thing for iron is no joke. A neighbor has a water well with heavy iron taste to the point it is almost undrinkable. He has a 500g tank next to the well head and fills it full. Then he has an air pump that just bubbles air and lets it go as long as possible until water is needed...

If I come across the NIV style I'll post if for you.

A friend sent this to me recently:

I've heard of 'hot stacking' but never experienced it in all my years. Hot stacking is running a diesel at high idle but not under load for an extended period. Actually I think low idle for long periods at no load would be worse. But why would anyone do that anyway? A truck idling at a stop...

I have a new to me 20 year old changfa single cylinder generator. I also have a turbo diesel monster and an old B7100 and a diesel 6x4. I never have diesel problems. Most people don't understand the dynamics of a diesel engines - they are thinking carburetors - if they even understand those...

Definitely. I've just been bending way over to the right for 35 years.

My big girl has cross links - and one of 'em broke years ago. The toy tractor has cross bars but not all of them fall into the lugs. If it was more of a problem I'd have cross bars on both. Thank the Lord both have rear diff locks and I use the lever or floor push button before I need to. It's a...

Question to those knowledgeable in the B7100 fuel injector: Is there a governor involved for high speed? I'm guessing not but it's never come up. I've wondered though.

When I hear 'run away' or 'over revving' I think of over the full throttle setting and NOTHING stops it. The B7100 kill 'lever' and the throttle act on the same shaft to the injection pump. If you can shut down with the kill lever under the dash then I think your linkage is screwed up somehow...

Chains of the B7100 AND on Big Berta AND they never come off. Tensioners are heavy tarp straps after I get them cinched as tight as possible. GOOD quality chains are indeed expensive. But only once have I had a cross bar break. But we don't have any hard surface to scratch up. Lastly, I don't...

With one after another news item for people's behavior at airport's and in the air I have little to no desire for anything to do with that travel anymore. My last round trip from Portland, OR to San Antonio just put frosting on that cake. Fortunately all the stuff on our bucket list is checked...

I had trouble with the cross bar above the bucket on the loader. It had been welded previously before I owned the tractor. I welded it up and it broke again so I ground ALL the old stuff off, gave myself some chamfer and made a root pass then another on each side of the root with zero undercut...

Whether either of the hand trucks, the 4 wheel cart, etc, there are NO decent tires or tubes that don't immediately fail - or fail shortly. All the replacements are the best China has to offer me. So they all get replaced for solid tires on wheels.

Anyway, since that trip I have had the brochure for the L02 lineup on the table next to the my chair. The wife has to have seen it and KNOWS I stopped in there. She hasn't asked if there is anything I haven't told her. Could it be that she has plans on trading in her 2016 F250?!? For the record...