Topic: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?

[Tracksnblades1]

Good job, I threw out my dad's old mower (that he gave me when he bought the rover) which had a perfect Victa engine, but the frame was falling apart. I should have kept the engine, but I've got too much crap that I'll never use, as it is. I just pushed it out onto my footpath and left it overnight, and in the morning the mower fairy had taken it away.

Terry,
You have anything like this down under?  You can spend less time mowing, more time riding.😎

[Terry in Australia]

Good job, I threw out my dad's old mower (that he gave me when he bought the rover) which had a perfect Victa engine, but the frame was falling apart. I should have kept the engine, but I've got too much crap that I'll never use, as it is. I just pushed it out onto my footpath and left it overnight, and in the morning the mower fairy had taken it away.

Terry,
You have anything like this down under?  You can spend less time mowing, more time riding.😎

Wow, that's impressive mate, is it yours? I don't really need a ride on mower at all, but I bought this one cheap 10 years ago and haven't managed to kill it with neglect yet. It did seize from sitting for over a year without being used, but I just used a metal bar and a hammer to "unstick" the piston, and it was good to go again!

Terry's Bolens ride on by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[dave500]

i want that big red thing!i got a toro xl440 hydrostatic,doesent make a very good getaway vehicle though look at the damage I got last bank job.

[Tracksnblades1]

Good job, I threw out my dad's old mower (that he gave me when he bought the rover) which had a perfect Victa engine, but the frame was falling apart. I should have kept the engine, but I've got too much crap that I'll never use, as it is. I just pushed it out onto my footpath and left it overnight, and in the morning the mower fairy had taken it away.

Terry,
You have anything like this down under?  You can spend less time mowing, more time riding.😎

Wow, that's impressive mate, is it yours? I don't really need a ride on mower at all, but I bought this one cheap 10 years ago and haven't managed to kill it with neglect yet. It did seize from sitting for over a year without being used, but I just used a metal bar and a hammer to "unstick" the piston, and it was good to go again!

Terry's Bolens ride on by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I bought 2 of these several years ago from a John Deere dealer. Original deal was for one with 1250hrs, that had severe electrical problems. When arriving to pick it up, he threw a second one with 780hrs in the deal. This one had a bent rops, broken rear spindle, and various cannibalized parts missing. Primarily three deck motors, gauge wheels, both expensive.

The severe electrical problem, tripped main breaker instantly, turned out to be a faulty diode trio in the alternator. Swapped alternator off 2nd unit and was running in a couple hours.

Best deal I've ever made. 2nd unit runs but is not needed. It still needs three deck motors. I keep thinking I'll find one DOA and pick it up cheap. I missed several of those now being a cheap skate.

Best deal I've ever made. Wife doesn't think so. She was, just ask her.😀

A lesson though. Take something bigger than K1500 Z71 and car trailer, when buying 2 large lawnmowers. 😩

[Don R]

 I traded my Dad's old Bolens/Onan combo for a Stainless Steel 45 semi auto. My brother thought he needed it. At the first sign of trouble he parked it in the yard. Refused to take a $300 dollar offer for it so it sat until he gave it away. The auto isn't a quality piece but surprisingly works as good or better than my nephew's high dollar paper puncher.
 I'm about due to punch some paper, it's been a while.

[Terry in Australia]

And that'll be handy if your 'hood is overrun with paper baddies Don!

[Tracksnblades1]

I traded my Dad's old Bolens/Onan combo for a Stainless Steel 45 semi auto. My brother thought he needed it. At the first sign of trouble he parked it in the yard. Refused to take a $300 dollar offer for it so it sat until he gave it away. The auto isn't a quality piece but surprisingly works as good or better than my nephew's high dollar paper puncher.
 I'm about due to punch some paper, it's been a while.

I like punching paper too.😀
First two shots @ 100 yards for reference.
Third shot was 1 click down on Leopold @100 yards.
Five dollars though the Rifle man's rifle Winchester M70 in 7mm Magnum.

My wife bought me a 1911 Colt 45 Gold Cup for Christmas present, best present to date.
I bought a Springfield XDS acp45 for CC. At the range @25 yards pretty much anyone can hit paper with the Colt. With some practice you can you can John Wayne the Colt accurately. The XDS, well initially, I could throw it more accurately than shoot it. Striker firing mechanism. With gobs of ammo$,practice, and patience, you can hit some paper at 25yards. Two different pistols though for 2 different uses.

[Terry in Australia]

Pffft, you guys with your modern guns, try hitting something with this old beast!

[Tracksnblades1]

Pffft, you guys with your modern guns, try hitting something with this old beast!

Come on Terry,
Update, Heck are billy clubs have evolved too.😂😂😂

[Don R]

 My nephew has an older friend that likes to go the pistol matches. One day the old boy asked Steve to exercise his Les Baer 45. Steve moved up a class and a half that day, immediately sold his Kimber and bought himself a Les Baer 45.
 I have my Dad's 1873 trap door Springfield that's a hoot. Newer serial numbers but modification wise, the same weapon removed from the little big horn battlefield. Rifle converted to carbine length. The Rock Island Arsenal Armory Museum has a crate of them that were recovered after the battle. They matched them to bullets removed from the field. It was previously believed our Springfield and others like it had been sporterized by civilian gunsmiths.

[Terry in Australia]

Nice! My Snyder Springfield carbine was used in the American Civil War, presumably by the Confederate Army, but I presume that it was confiscated by the Yankees, as it has "US" stamped on it. Its a lovely old piece, and shares cupboard space with my Great Great Grandfathers old double barrel hammer gun, from the same era.

[Tracksnblades1]

Yeh, both of them Springfields are Keepers. That your GrandDaddys' and Greats owned them makes for double good!

My GrandDaddy's favorite was a pre-1956 Browning SA 22 Grade lll, Belgium. No ser# just proof marks. It has the original leather strap, in used good condition.
It taught me and all the youngins to shoot.
Now lightly oiled in the safe

https://goo.gl/images/M2ZFwB

[Terry in Australia]

Nice! I learned to shoot on a little Browning pumpy .22 as well, I bought it from a schoolmate in 1972 (at school, imagine what would happen if you brought a rifle to school nowadays!) for $5.00, and had a ball potting rabbits with it, then gave it to another friend when I left my home town to join the Army. No idea where it is now, but it was a great little rifle!

[spotty]

Nice! I learned to shoot on a little Browning pumpy .22 as well, I bought it from a schoolmate in 1972 (at school, imagine what would happen if you brought a rifle to school nowadays!) for $5.00, and had a ball potting rabbits with it, then gave it to another friend when I left my home town to join the Army. No idea where it is now, but it was a great little rifle!

our grade 5 teacher was sort of a permanent fill in teacher for the year, in oz in the mid 70s there was a shortage of qualified teachers so you sort of got all sorts
terry o'sullivan was ( it seemed to us kids ) a bit of a soldier of fortune, he'd been in the army, worked the mines in papua new guinea, been a diver, all sorts of stuff
he used to bring stuff into class that he thought would be kind of cool for us to learn from, so ion the classroom we had his old army 303 rifle, a poisonous snake in its tank and his spearfishing gun......with spears
we were encouraged to learn about things that interested us even if they weren't actually on the curriculum
that year was one of the few times i didn't actively loath going to school every day...i got better though
can you imagine the outrage/court cases that would hit the newspapers today if a teacher did something like that

[Tracksnblades1]

Nice! I learned to shoot on a little Browning pumpy .22 as well, I bought it from a schoolmate in 1972 (at school, imagine what would happen if you brought a rifle to school nowadays!) for $5.00, and had a ball potting rabbits with it, then gave it to another friend when I left my home town to join the Army. No idea where it is now, but it was a great little rifle!

our grade 5 teacher was sort of a permanent fill in teacher for the year, in oz in the mid 70s there was a shortage of qualified teachers so you sort of got all sorts
terry o'sullivan was ( it seemed to us kids ) a bit of a soldier of fortune, he'd been in the army, worked the mines in papua new guinea, been a diver, all sorts of stuff
he used to bring stuff into class that he thought would be kind of cool for us to learn from, so ion the classroom we had his old army 303 rifle, a poisonous snake in its tank and his spearfishing gun......with spears
we were encouraged to learn about things that interested us even if they weren't actually on the curriculum
that year was one of the few times i didn't actively loath going to school every day...i got better though
can you imagine the outrage/court cases that would hit the newspapers today if a teacher did something like that

+1 on all of that.

We had a US Marine Corps drill Sargent for Phys Ed.
Refinished rifles in Industrial Arts (wood working) and they were displayed at
Awards and Recognition Banquets. You would be a felon today.
I miss that common sense we grew up with.
😩

[scottly]

I changed the oil and installed new front brake pads on my '01 Honda Civic, getting ready for a trip home to California. I'll be picking up a '14 Chevy Sonic from my mom, and leaving the Civic with my nephew for a daily driver to and from the oil patch. The Civic will save him about $100 a month in fuel over the Ford pickup he's driving now.

[Don R]

 I made a 12 volt dash port (lighter) to battery maintainer plug in jumper so I can keep the battery up on my crew cab duallie. It sits for months at a time in the winter and the computer drain kills the battery, it's so long it's difficult to open the hood once inside, so this should keep it ready to go.  The Optima battery is around 6 years old too and did at least two years in our dragster before being rotated to the truck. It may last through the summer. The original Optimas lasted over 10 years but they fixed that. I had one that was 13 years old before I killed it by leaving the key on in my hot rod.

[scottly]

I found out that before California will transfer the title to my nephew, I, as the "seller", have to provide a current CA smog certificate. In this part of AZ smog tests aren't required, so the car hasn't been tested in at least 10 years. If I drive the Civic over there and it won't pass the smog test, it puts me between a rock and a hard place, so I figured the safest thing would be to make sure the car will pass in Phoenix; if it won't pass there, it won't pass in CA.
The car has had an odd idling issue; when pulling up to a stop at a light, the RPM without any throttle first drops to 1300-1500 RPM, then drops to 400 RPM, then climbs up to a normal 600-650 RPM. It never stalls, but it feels like it's going to when the RPM drops that low and the engine shudders before it recovers. The check engine light never comes on.
I did a scan, and it showed a P1298 "electrical load detector circuit high voltage". WTF?? After much research, it turns out that Honda has a rather unique charging system, where the computer adjusts the charging voltage; a normal system, like on our bikes, tries to maintain 14.5V +/- all the time, the car system only outputs the higher voltage long enough to recharge the battery, then backs off to 13V or less. In theory, the lower voltage produces less drag on the engine, as well as not constantly overcharging the battery, especially on long duration drives without a lot of start cycles. A faulty ELD is a possible cause for the idle issue, and itself is suspect; there is a field service bulletin that mentions a bad solder joint.
I'll pick up a new one tomorrow from O'Reilly's. 

[jgger]

Scottly, if you clear the code after you fix your issue it will register a p1000 code and won't pass in Commiefornia until it goes through the proper drive cycles. I don't know if it is that way in Az. There is a laundry list of crap that has to happen to complete the drive cycles and even includes the amount of gas in the tank.

If the car is 2000 or newer it doesn't have to go on the dyno or have the sniffer in the tail pipe. It's visual and what they read off of the vehicles computer. The P1000 means ALL the codes have been erased so it won't pass.

Fix it, drive it, and let it clear itself.  If it self clears it won't affect the smog test.

Good luck!

[scottly]

Jgger, the code scanner shows which drive cycle monitors have yet to be reset; after clearing the ELD code and running the motor through the idle learn procedure, there were three monitors that hadn't reset. The ELD code came back on, and since that is the only one, I figure it's worth a $34 bill to replace it.

[jgger]

The monitors that have to pass is what will  cause it to fail. Some of them, like the evap are a bugger to clear. That is the one that is fuel level sensitive.  Anything between 3/4and full or 1/4 and empty during its self test and it won't clear. Plus not all code readers will pick up a P1000 code,  but it is there until most on the monitors have reset.

Sounds like you already erased the codes. Different manufacturer's have different criteria for their drive cycles. You can probably do a Google for that model's drive cycle. There are things you can do to speed it up, they all have their own special tricks.

[scottly]

Yeah, I erased the one code, but since it came back right away, next step is to replace the ELD. Some monitors take several cycles to re-set, and others do it when the key is switched on. By the time I drive the 600 miles to Santa Maria, all the monitors should be reset.

[strynboen]

more ford ..got veldet the panel inn...

[scottly]

I replaced the ELD today, and the code didn't return. Before I disconnected the battery after driving to the parts store, I did another scan and the only monitor that hadn't reset was the EGR.

[scottly]

The monitors that have to pass is what will  cause it to fail. Some of them, like the evap are a bugger to clear. That is the one that is fuel level sensitive.  Anything between 3/4and full or 1/4 and empty during its self test and it won't clear.

Thanks for the tip!! The evap is the only one now that hasn't cleared, but I had filled the tank several days before replacing the ELD, so the fuel gauge is still reading above the full mark after 70 miles.
If there are no codes, and all monitors are clear, would it be a valid assumption that the car would pass the CA OBDII test?