Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tires

2009-03-01 Thread Agent86b
Hi Ray and all, the car is front wheal drive and I have 5 mag weals. We drive mainly on sealed roads and I check tyer pressures about every 2 weeks. Mostly there is only my wife and I travelling in the car. The only reason I thought I might rotate the wheels is to make sure they are done about eve

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread NLG
Max might be thinking about a dirrectional tire. Like some of the 4x4 off roaders run. - Original Message - From: Bob Kennedy To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres Since the radial tire, front to

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread Bob Kennedy
Since the radial tire, front to back is the recommended way unless the start to cup or you are correcting for a bad alignment. Radials recommend figure 8 for those problems. - Original Message - From: Max Robinson To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 01, 200

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread Max Robinson
There are some kind of tires that have to always stay on the same side of the car. You can't figure 8 those tires. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: m...@maxsmusicplace.com Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.ma

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread cheetah
hi it should say that in the owners manual Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tires

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Boyce
Hi Max You said about rotating 5 tires well there can be a problem there. If you have mag or alloy wheels some come with 5 mags or alloys and others come with 4. In other words the spare is an ordinary steel rimed wheel and is only used to get you out of trouble. I had a Falcon with 5 alloy wh

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread Lee A. Stone
we do that r J and at the same time we take out a house hold iron and plug in and release a few times. so it daws down a little. learned that a few years back.Lee On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:59:05PM -0500, RJ wrote: > A good rule of thumb is to run the generator once a month for 5 to 10 min

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2009-03-01 Thread blindhandyman
List guidelines. The topics that can be discussed on the Blind Handy Man list are as follows. Here is a direct quote from the beginning of every show, "building repairing or maintaining, all designed with the blind in mind". That can be your house, car, or swimming pool ETC. No matter if it

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Boyce
Hi Max I would not worry too much about rotating tires for all of that will be covered under your maintenance scheduling. If you want to find out more find out what brand type and tread type of tires you have on your new vehicle and see what the tire manufacturer has to say or tire rotation. It

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread Lee A. Stone
thanks Bob, for now and for another month I keep the gs tank at near 5 gallons . our refill cans I keep 4.5 gallons so when I run this machine and at about 13 hours I shut it down and wait a few minutes then I can safely add the 4.5 gallons without over filling the tank. . thaks for the e

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread Bob Kennedy
Not sure what you mean by 5 new ones... Here in the states the way to rotate 4 tires is to keep them on the same side. So it's front to back and back to front. If you develop problems with the tires such as cupping, which you can pick up the slapping sound the tire makes, then you figure ei

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread David W Wood
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[BlindHandyMan] Rotating Tyres

2009-03-01 Thread Agent86b
Hi all, we have just purchased a new car. I wish to rotate the tyres from time - to - time. As there are five new ones, what is the rotation order? Please if anybody answers this can you say what country you are from so I can change it to a right-hand drive car if necessary. Thanks for any advice

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread Trouble
here is a web site about this stuff. it says you can use it in a tank of fuel that sets for up to a year. http://www.goldeagle.com/brands/stabil/default.aspx At 12:12 PM 3/1/2009, you wrote: >I think many of you have used a product called Stabil. I use it in my >5 gallon fuel tank for the gene

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread RJ
A good rule of thumb is to run the generator once a month for 5 to 10 minutes. RJ - Original Message - From: Bob Kennedy To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 13:51 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil Basically all tha

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread Bob Kennedy
Basically all that is in it is isopropyl alcohol. But if they told you that you could put a table spoon of that in your tank for about a nichol. As long as you don't go way overboard poring it in the tank you should be fine. What will do you more good is to fire it up every so often and get

[BlindHandyMan] Tell me about a product called Stabil

2009-03-01 Thread Lee A. Stone
I think many of you have used a product called Stabil. I use it in my 5 gallon fuel tank for the generator and in a gas tank for a pickup truck that sets idel for a few months. a question I have is there such a thing as using to much stabil? what is in the product Stabil that will keep gas