Search results

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...

No, this attempt at analogy is grossly misleading, those situations are not at all analogous. Outside of normal hospital hours, the Emergency Room is usually the only entry point to a hospital for ALL conditions. Going into the ER with a cold is not a misuse of the service, because you will be...

On the contrary, I got the true message of quoted text loud and clear. That is to say, I saw the intent and motivation of the complaint through the literal wording. I know how emergency rooms triage people and prioritize severity of injuries. Don't be fooled into thinking this guy was standing...

I has to come to that. For every other emergency service we're already at that point. Can you imagine what would happen if we had fire departments that would only rescue people who had paid for "fire insurance" ahead of time? This is no different... no decent, moral person could in good...

There aren't a lot of times where I actually feel sickened by something I read on a message board, but this comment is one of those times. You have to be pretty high on your horse to openly state that your life is more important than someone else's (or their kids') simply because you have a good...

Michael Moore of course wants to get people thinking, but one thing that I've noticed in his critics is the use of the word "fiction" to describe his examples. I think "selective" and "spun" would be more accurate. If you compile a video showing worst-case scenarios, you can paint an awful...