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I haven't had luck previously with a Have a Heart... chuck is pretty wary. Not sure what a Class 3 gun would do for me. An explosives license perhaps... but then I have enough Black Powder to relocate the coop to the back 40.

Point well taken... I might be better off with fewer high end lights. I honestly have not upgraded lights in a few years... still have a couple of my Police D cell mag lights in service. My KelLight is retired... MagLights more waterproof...

Appears to be living under an old chicken coop... Wife is renewing fencing around the vegie plot but I could be a hero if I could eliminate the pest (not to mention eating well). He's pretty shy and too far from the house... the few times I've seen him, he disappeared before I could deploy the .22 Hornet. There just isn't enough open space to hunt him... too many concealed ways for him to get to the garden.I'm thinking of gassing him. A flexi exhaust, a lawn tractor. (Carbon monoxide) As far as we can tell, all the holes are under the chicken coop or adjoining horse runout shed. I suppose I could set up a seat & wait with a scatter gun in case he has another exit. Ideas?

I've no personal experience with the tappet cover leaking. Top end & side leaks only leak when running... basically on the drain down side.

My tent with all the comforts of home... One thing I have learned... your tent is hopefully 'just' your bed room. You really need adequate covered space outside, protected with a 'fly'. My fly is wider than the tent, has drip edges and side curtains/sun shades which attach inside the drip edge flaps. Nothing worse that being trapped in a single tent. Back when I was modern camping... I had a number of flies. Current crop of pop-up gazibos are not wind / water rated. The wind / rain destroyed ours last trip. I gave my original "modern type" tent to a friend... I had all the long pole sections taped together for fast set up. Her kid used the tent & took all the tape off... 3 hours & she still didn't have it up!

Tappet cover is same place on all Cummins, behind the freakin IP on the driver's side. Hopefully you can inspect without removing the IP. Guys end up removing the injection pump if the gasket needs replacing.

Pass the marshmallows & chocolate! I get it!

After having store branded & off brand batteries leak (ruined my favorite mini-mag light), I have been using brand name disposeables in the big multi-packs from WM for flashlights. Honestly, I have had better luck (no leaks) with the brand name AAs, but still troublesome with the AAA size. I use a lot of rechargeables for other things, cameras & such. The 3 AAA flashlights I have... widely available here (discount stores & higher end seem to all carry the same type units)... have 9-12 LEDs. The 9s are like a tactical light, with base button (just counted the one on my desk). The others have an expanded head & a side button (silouette looks like the one shown earlier). I LIKE the lights... just can't stand the failure rate. It's not the electronics which fail either... it's the cussed mechanical parts... the cheap @ss plastic battery holder. BTW, vinager will dissolve alkaline battery corrosion... to a point... Perhaps fewer LEDs would draw less & have better battery life...

All engines have blow by (there has to be some clearance or the pistons wouldn't move). Excessive blow by could be caused by worn rings, cylinder wear, damaged pistons. Diesels don't have a throttle plate, don't make vacume. There is a vacume pump which mounts to the block behind the PS pump. A bad seal on the vacume pump could pressurize the crankcase. Later models have an electric powered vacume pump, off engine. Not sure when the change over occured. Consider the possibility of tappet cover leakage as well...

Initially I was taken by the LED flashlights... as a result of experience, I have come to HATE the ones that use 3 AAA batteries. Short battery life, leaking batteries (AAAs seem more prone even in brand names), too many connections to corrode. I have a bunch of these lights, but I'm not buying any more. As they die they are going away... I've switched to LED flashlights that have 2 AAs in a row. The one in my reach is 7 LEDs. Twist but on/off... I do wish it had a button switch. Decent battery life, trouble free. At least I know it's going to work when I pick it up. Both in the house & camper, I have a few inexpensive "touch lights"... domed LEDs, press the lens to turn on... 2 AA batteries side by side. I have yet to have one fail. I use them in several places... don't laugh now... upside down (lens down). Why? Because upside down, it doesn't wreck my night vision.

I wrap mine around the rachet assembly, secure with rubber band, store in tupperware under seat. (Rubber bands get dropping to tupperware while deploying.) Wifee leaves in a ball on the floor of truck...

I don't care where the straps come from... but I'm realizing that if I can't touch the webbing, I don't want to buy it. (The plastic display packaging keeps one from feeling & touching the strap itself.) This may be an over simplification but it's a working theory. I have never had a rachet mechanism fail, though some are easier to work than others.

We all use rachet straps... I confess I hated to go to them but they work... I bought the latest set of 4 (1" X 15') at Harbor Freight... (figures they are now on sale for even less.) The package completely enclosed the products. I used the straps last weekend to tie my scooter down on the landscaper's trailer... never gave it much thought. When I got home, one of the straps was almost severed where the THIN strap rubbed on the steel... the contact point was well rounded, I thought. I'm convinced that the straps are inferior, just too thin. I noticed that for the same money or nearly so, the Home Depot has rachet straps with heavier webbing... and the package is open so you can feel the webbing to know what you are getting. I'm not going to buy another strap where the package precludes touching the webbing. Sure, I can extend the life by altering how I tie down... and I will... but the quality does count for something. Lesson learned...

I use a solar "walkway" light as a outside light... has about 3 x 3" charging area. ($5.99 at bargain store) I have it sitting on a traffic cone for now to raise it but think a higher stick may be in order. My concept is to place the light some what away from the RV, to draw bugs away from the door rather than IN. It came with a single AA rechargeable battery installed.

I think a lot of folks are forced "home" to conserve funds... not necessarily a bad thing... but that is no excuse for not putting oneself out there. Just about every job adds to one's knowledge... if only that they don't like that kind of work. That should be an insiration to do better. In wealthier times, one might have been able to wait out poor prospects. I just don't think that applies now. In my view... there must be work that can be done to help the person they are living with... there are part time jobs... odd jobs... even volunteering (in such a way that it increases one's contacts, improves or updates skills)... It is all too easy to slide into nothingness.

One good thing is you're reporting you don't have excess crank case pressure... that's progress.

Part of the problem is that many students were misled to take on debt they will take their lifetime to pay off. I see women who worked their way through dental hygentist school as a waitress & in less than a year are back waitressing (or some never comletely left) because the waitressing pays better.College is not for everyone. Skilled trades... for the bright & industrious... can be a better path.I have a college degree in business but was happier as a hands on manager... getting my own hands dirty... A young realitive floundered in college... came home & got into HVAC, employer sent to tech college. He's showed real tallent & has gone out to partner with another estabished realitive in the business. With so many experienced workers still out of work, my state is 11.1%, only exceptional grads will get jobs and the economy has not turned around. Many store fronts... whole strip malls, one store occupied, some being torn down to avoid taxes. Rhode Island is known as "The Ocean State". What I see is a bunch of houses with boats on trailers or boats that where paid boat movers brought them home 3 years ago to avoid fees... and they are still here. The's a 28' sloop (Auxillary sail boat) on my street and we're 40 miles from the coast. Sorry to sound pessimistic... we have sunk so low that IF this is a turn around...

I miss those days, for sure.It was interesting driving when you couldn't see the other side... like rolling out on the narrow piers. The operator's station was on the other box beam about mid way. All powered by a slant 6 through hydraulics! Those massive tires were commercial aircraft rubber.

I thought you were talking about something BIG! My Acme Marine Hoist c1980

I bought wifee's Dell with Vista (at the time). I hate Vista. Later, forced to upgrade my XP machines, I bought 7 on a laptop & a desktop. Any change requires some adjustment but I didn't at first but have come to like 7. & also seems to run older devises & programs that Vista would not. From what I'm hearing 8 is having features removed to better run mobile apps on a compact devise. I'm not upgrading to 8. I'm not expert here just an every day user.

check least invasive first: oil sheen in coolant? (would lead to oil cooler in rad) oil residue in turbo hose? leaks in filter housing?

Since liquid transfers heat better than gas... I wonder if a cooling collar could be built around the coupling between the block & the VP44... although it would not affect the radient heat from the side of the block... would have to coupled to it's own radiator & a cooling pump... OK, not practical but I'zzz thinkin. Maybe more practical... the aftermarket electric cooling fans for the whole engine... wired on their own thermostat... run after shut down. They'd only be air cooling but would continue to blow outside air over the whole engine compartment.

96 yesterday... 94 today I think. 2 attic fans were supposed to be more than adequate... all 3 are trying to lift the roof off. Need AC in the living spaces like bedroom. I can retreat to the half burried lower level. I wonder if removing some of the rubber seal cowel to hood would increase the exhaust air flow... though it doesn't make full contact.

No secret I used to be a boat mechanic... I'd lay cadboards over the sharp nuts & bolts, throttle brackets for the push/pull cables from the flying bridge, wing nut on the flame arrestor. The stiff hat brim on my ball cap... I still managed to go home with indents on my body from laying over the engines. Legs on one side, lay over the engine, arms & head over the other. There was just no other way. And too often no skin on the knuckles.

I believe there are hard to reach grounds behind the VP44 on the block. Also check not only battery terminal but also the connections a few inches away. I could have saved some money if I'd checked them all myself.