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My Craftsman has a Kohler engine and does the same thing. On mine it IS a fuel delivery problem. Keep the tank over half full and it never acts up.

Try finding a beekeeper in your area. Most will come remove a colony for free. Bees are extremely important to our survival and there have been mass colony collapses in the last few years.

When my mother was alive she had trouble with mold growing in the closets of her house. She bought a product at the Dollar Store that was some sort of dessicant in a large plastic bag. You hung it up and it would absorb water from the air. When the bag was full of water you replaced it. It would...

I would have to look tomorrow to see what brand it is, but I bought a worklight at my local NAPA recently that I really like. It's about the size of a large magic marker, has a magnet on one end ( a good one) so you can stick it on the fender, hood, etc. and it has a clip so you can clip it to...

Being that you live in central Florida, the sea container option should be very cost effective. A good used one would probably cost you a bit over two grand, a really nice one-tripper would be around three. You can always sell it later and get most, if not all, of your money back.

A neighbor of mine has the foil-backed bubble insulation in his shop. The first couple of years he really liked it, but last year it started degrading. Small pieces of it rain down from the ceiling daily now. He has to sweep the shop continually and blow it off his work tables and vehicles. He...

Yes, sand CAN cause silicosis, but all you need to keep that from happening is a dust mask. It isn't a toxin, it is simply getting the sharp dust grains into the lungs that does the damage. I live where they mine a large portion of the sand used for blasting and fraking, so I do know what I'm...

I've never used the automatic lock on a Mighty Mule. The way I see it, either you can open the gate, in which case the auto-lock can be opened too, or you can't open the gate, and the lock isn't really needed anyway.

Fill-rite makes a decent pump. If you ever replace it with another manual pump, I'd go with a Gasboy. I worked for a Texaco fuel jobber for ten years. I would NOT recommend the Goldenrod filter because the plastic gets brittle with a couple of years exposure to sun. We always used a spin-on...

Do you have a portable welder or generator? I've got my well set up so that I can run a 220 volt cord from my welder to my pump in the event it's needed. You need a disconnect installed at the breaker box so you don't back-feed power into the distribution line.

Just make sure you measure your container. Containers come in TWO outside widths: 8 foot and 8 feet 6 inches. They also come in two heights; standard and high-cube. The corner up-right beams and the upper and lower beams that run the length of the container joining the roof and floor to the...

My local NAPA handles Carlyle and a line called 'Evercraft'. Evercraft is a low-priced line of tools, but still has a life-time warranty. I've got some of both, and the Evercraft tools hold up just as well as any other top-name tools I have. I've got a flex-head 3/8 drive ratchet from Snap-on...

One guy I sold a container to welded a four inch purlin along the top and bottom edge and covered the side with R-panel. From the side it looks like a small metal building.

Have you considered a sea container? You can probably get a really nice used 8x20 shipping box delivered cheaper than that. I would imagine St. Louis has several container yards. Check on local ordinances if you are in a city to make sure they don't prohibit containers. I have a side-business...

I got a dial indicator for doing just what you are. I got mine at Harbor Freight, and it reads perfectly. If I was doing high-precision machining for a living, I would buy an expensive one. For 'shade-tree mechanics', there isn't anything wrong with the HF dial indicator.

Here's a link to NAPA's entire tool catalog. This includes ALL tools, not just the Evercraft. http://tools-equipment.napaecatalog.com/app.php?RelId=6.2.3.2 I live in a fairly isolated area. It's 100 miles to the nearest Lowe's or Sears. The nice thing about buying my tools at NAPA is, when...

NAPA sells a line of tools called Evercraft. They are moderately priced, but of very good quality and they have a lifetime warranty. I've got a Snap-on 3/8 drive flex-head ratchet and the one NAPA sells as Evercraft is IDENTICAL. For someone just getting into wrenching, Evercraft is pretty hard...

If you want a really great deal and you're not in a hurry, wait for your local NAPA to have their annual tool sale. I saved $800 on my compressor a few years ago.

I don't know about unplugging it, but when you do get it cleared put two elbows on top to make an up-side down 'U' and you won't have that problem again.

I took a load of scrap metal to town a few weeks ago and came home with the tub, frame, and front axle of a '76 IH Scout. It's even got a tilt-wheel steering column.