Recent content by Adam Smith 2

I am installing a battery-isolating contactor under my hood, which will connect my starting battery to the deep-cycle battery in the rear of my truck, which is there to help with my high-amperage 12V air compressor. I only want the batteries connected when the alternator is running, so I'd like...

In all fairness to Mr. Bush, your pictures of him are 8 years apart, not 4.

I'm not entirely sure that you want whatever the screw is screwed into to corrode sacrificially to the screw itself. If you're talking about screws that go into body sheet metal, this would be something to think about. If you are referring to screws that only contact plastic or replaceable...

Can anyone recommend a good and affordable cap for a 2002? I've never put a cap on any of my previous trucks, so I don't know what to expect as far a price, features, etc. Can I expect to find a color match for my truck's silver?

Thanks everyone! It is starting to sound like the bearings. It's not a tire sound, it's too much of a grinding noise. It definitely increases with loading. Turns at the bottom of a hill are the worst. Listening from the outside, it does not sound like a CV failure, there is no characteristic...

I'm starting to suspect the CV joint as well, as I can hear the noise faintly on right-hand turns this morning also. I'm fairly certain it's not a brake noise, it's not coincident with braking, and on one occasion the noise went from a grinding sound to more of a popping. I'll get under there...

Today, I just started getting a sound from my front right wheel area when making hard left turns. There does not appear to be any rubbing of the tire against anything in the wheel well, and the sound is a little too harsh for that. The sound is something like a muffled grinding noise, and it...

A couple days ago, my trac started idling rough and within minutes the CEL came on. I pulled the codes and got P0171 and P0174, O2 lean on both banks. A quick check in the archives of this board indicated that there was a particular hose "elbow" prone to failure that would give these codes. Sure...

Getting on I-91 in Greenfield, MA yesterday 7/4 around 6:15pm, there was an upside-down black ST in the ditch off the right side of the on-ramp at the I-91/Rt2 rotary. The position seemed unusual, and I'm curious as to how this came about. The roads were wet, so I'm guessing there was a failure...

Yes, that is correct. But you've already figured out what I was trying to type, so point not lost I hope. Had I actually graduated 22 years ago with a BSEE at age 10, I'd probably be famous. That would be pretty sweet, but alas, too late to try for that now.

Now try to imagine that as the rest of your working life, even after you're married with kids, not just something you had to sweat through a couple summers before going off to engineering school. Right, and their hard work ain't your hard work. Sounds like your parents and grandparents...

BillV: Your link to "Straw Man PROPOSAL" is referring to a business strategy, an entirely different animal from the rhetorical technique known as a straw man ARGUMENT. The Wikipedia link that is relevant is this one (link below). And my use was not flawed, your example of calling 911 for...

With no undo disrespect, if you're a middle-class white boy born in this country, you don't know what "busting your butt" is. Busting your butt is not sitting in an airconditioned room at your computer, deciding what accessory is next for your $24,000 truck. Busting your butt is losing half your...

The trouble with the U.S. right now is that the "haves" are just not content with all they have, often because of extremist religious beliefs in what is/isn't right, wrong, moral. So what we have are "haves" who make it their business to piss on the "have nots", as if they aren't bad enough off...

That's because without treating the person, they often can not discern what the illness is. To the average mom, a harmless cold can have the same symptoms as a life-threatening meningitis. Parents make the effort to go to the E.R. when they are genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of people...