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mowerman

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  1. while your messing around i would pull that alternater apart and blow it out and grease the bearings also check waterpump bearing wear....bob
  2. Personally I don’t mind paying a little more if they’re ready and available kind of trouble free …. Bob
  3. Now that we find out what it really is I am sure there’s probably lots of interesting stories behind it I am sitting here laughing my ass off just thinking about it ….. 1 stinkin letter can change the entire meaning . But now all I can think of is Abbott and Costello trying to run a fire house … lol… Bob
  4. I have been doing the same thing. Bob
  5. I don’t know if you guys have big R or a good size hardware store you might be able to find something close I do like the valve spring idea though . Bob
  6. you know this is a little off the subject....but years ago i ran with a wonderbread driver everynight,,,and he was telling me when the company was in bankrupcy court the CEOs awarding themselves with unearned bonuses at the same time as the company was on its last legs....just goes to show one,,,some of these jokers dont miss a trick....world fall into hard times theres always somebody cleaning up....thats not even affected to begin with....like wow man...bob
  7. i really think these fools are trying to trick the public into thinking everybody is going electric......bob
  8. ok well the rig (IS) pretty old so....i guess none of us would be too surprized at normal wear....bob
  9. You know I ran down to Los Angeles for a number of years I don’t go there now but as far as one year ago I was still driving there and believe it or not and that area you hardly see any electric cars but apparently politicians don’t realize not that they realize anything but the people do not want electric cars And yes me and the wife are always disgussing that same issue electric plants cannot handle what they already have as soon as summer hits what do you hear on the news everybody needs to keep their air conditioners turned down we’re running out of juice
  10. Well now I am wondering if maybe it’s supposed to bounce up and down that way or do you think it’s bouncing way too much.:: Bob
  11. You know now that I put my thinking cap on I sold that U model in 1990 and I am really not sure now it might’ve had the Springs …… bob
  12. OK thanks for that I had a 87 U model years back I don’t remember any Springs and of course my 66 does not have them they are actually a pretty good idea… Bob
  13. Ten four on the trash trucks I grew up in New England and most of the trash trucks were way cool that’s what I broke in on 68 R model steel dash leach packer body aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh the good old days…. Bob
  14. Wow I have never seen springs on them… Bob
  15. I had one on so tight was back in 70s on a car had all the sheet metal completely gone I was banging the base plate around with a hammer and chisel I finally got it off I think somebody put it on with a wrench … Bob
  16. That looks like it to me… for that price I would grab it, unless that’s a pint can lol… Bob
  17. Also have a LNT ford box truck I can start on… Bob
  18. I told her I was going to fix it and use it she says oh for chrissakes what about the other 500 lawnmowers do you already have around here
  19. A buddy of mine sold me a 1960 craftsman reel mower a few years ago without the engine 20 bucks I was rolling it up the driveway when the old lady started yelling at me out the door what the hell is that thing and what are you going to do with it
  20. Are used to enjoy doing business with that all timer sometimes I would just stop in just to bullshit I don’t know what I’m going to do now I’ll probably have to just start doing business over the Internet find a decent supplier and A Reno we had three decent mower shops we’re all gone all we have is one crook left and I won’t deal with him
  21. Three more engines that would give me wife more excuses to bitch at me that I already have too much shit as it is ha ha
  22. Are used to buy all my parts from a old timer here in town he has since retired and sold the shop but he had one of those and it ran….Bob
  23. Yes I was trying to do the same thing as I did here
  24. Everybody knows he doesn’t care about us or the gas prices… Bob
  25. I think this guy meant everybody knows United States is not going to do anything tell him another word for dumb dumb is not going to do anything
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