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When I bought my BX, the cutting edge was pretty well worn, so I bought a new one and a bolt on cutting edge too. I drilled holes in the new weld-on cutting edge to match those in the bolt-on edge, had the new weld-on edge installed and bolted up the other one. Had worked perfectly for a couple...

Starting fluid works best.

It just ain't Christmas until I see Hans Gruber get blasted out of the window in Nakatomi Tower by John McClane.

I bought an Eastwood press brake, and did some modifications to it, I drilled and tapped the guide posts and countersunk the base plate for flathead bolts instead of having the studs and nuts on the bottom of the base plate. Made a pair of rails to hold the die in positions and attached them as...

2005 BX2230, I'd be lost without it.

Here is the picture of the front prop shaft drive and the parts list. Looks like #40 is the seal. Part # 09500-20428 Hope this helps.

For quite a few years when I was running a few trucks, I would pump the drain oil into the fuel tanks of the trucks. Neither CATs, Cummins or Detroits seemed to be affected by it. I always made sure there was enough fuel in the tanks so that it was at least a 10:1 dilution.

Just a day ago, an 18 year old fellow ran off the Toll Road, went through a fence, went airborne, hit a tree and was ejected. As sad a tale as that is, fortunately his choice to not use a seat belt, drink and drive and use drugs won't be inherited by any children. When I was 18, I had a tire...

That picture reminded me of this one.

When I bought my F150, I told the salesman that if it had a dealer sticker on it when I came to pick it up, the deal was off. He said it already had one on it, and I told him it better be off when I came to pick it up. He had al kinds of excuses for it being on the truck, and I asked if he...

He has the box end on the wrong side of the open end and needs to rotate it axially 180°, it'll slip off the way he has it.

I have an older 9.6 volt Dewalt drill and the NiCad batteries only last a couple of years, so as an experiment I took the NiCads out of one of the cases and bought some odd size LiPos that let me fit six in the case in a 3S2P configuration. Added a charge controller and was able to get it to...

Actually, I had a little extra time late last night and I took the extra 2AH battery I have apart, and the latch is the same as the 5AH batter.y. I pulled the 5AH battery apart and swapped the good latch onto the 5AH battery which I use most of the time and used some JB Weld to glue the broken...

The muffler on my 2005 BX2230 with ~1600 hours still looks pretty good, I just had the bonnet off a couple of weeks ago for an oil change.

I bought a Dewalt 12 volt 3/8" impact a few months ago, and Saturday while I was working on my Nova it fell to the floor and broke the latch on the 5AH battery pack. I tried to fix it with epoxy, but it wouldn't adhere to the latch plastic. So this afternoon I tried to find a replacement latch...

When I was maintaining a fleet of trucks and construction equipment back in the 70s, we used Never-sieze by the case. Any threaded fasteners that were exposed to the outside environment and was removed for regular maintenance, were swabbed with Never-sieze before re-installation. On trucks with...

You'd have to disassemble the front knuckles to do that as there is no clearance to put them in from the rear.

The front tires on my BX seem to be magnets for anything that is sharp. In the five years I have had it, I think I've had six flat tires, the last one from a piece of random wire which I have no idea where it came from. And like I said, every time I had to take one of them off, profanity ensued.

Grade B7, 125,000 PSI according to McMaster-Carr. And I have no qualms that those four studs aren't strong enough to do the job.

Every time I have to remove and remount a tire/sheel on the front of my BX I curse them for using bolts instead of studs. So, I bought a 12" piece of 9/16" X18 threaded rod and lug nuts to replace them. I cut the rod into eight 1 1/2" long pieces and cleaned up the threads on the ends and made...