Mech

Yup that's a mirror mount. I don't know the oil or an alternative but look into it well. There are a lot of specialist tractor oils now, for wet brakes for instance, and they have anti-squawk and anti-grab, and anti-slip, and combinations of those. The rear diff might very likely be a limited slip diff and need a light but limited-slip oil or something. If you look up Mobil they should have the specs and a description.

If you say so Randy... Our perceptions make our world.. Good luck with yours.

Finding ourselves always feeling the need to justify ourselves, should give cause for thought..

"(Mech even explicit stated facts don't matter)".. Really ? Is it cognitive dissidence, or the human condition that's the problem... Either way you should address it. Ever tried meditation Randy ? Transcendental meditation .. I'd highly recommend it. In case it's a new concept to you... "The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. ... This inconsistency between what people believe and how they behave motivates people to engage in actions that will help minimize feelings of discomfort.". The last sentence there is the give away..

Angry man....

I've never been to USA, but I suspect we are far less regulated(from what I hear), than Americans are.. I know that poms(english people) that come here, reckon we are all ferals, and they run home with their tails between their legs.

Ha. Good onya Dave. I was just going to say "the people".. he's obviously ill informed about what we are really like. I guess we all judge others according to our own experiences.. If you've always had to fight, I guess fight is what you think everyone has to do to survive. If you live in a rat race, I guess you think the whole worlds a cage and rat race. If you've never known kindness or generosity, you think "hard" is the only sensible thing to be. Kiwis know better. Perhaps he'd come, judge us by his expectations, and find fault in our way of life anyway..

I think the thermostats behind a side cover, but it's definitely worth doing. Anti freeze has a sort of sticky property to it, and when it gets old it gets worse, then if it dries out, like twenty-four hours of the cooling being drained, it can make the thermostat seize.. Thermostats have a limited life anyway.. They are sort of a wearing/deteriorating part. Hypoid is the shape of the gears, cut on a spiral, and they subject the oil to a lot of shearing stress..All gear oils are hypoid. And yeah, multigrades are all really the second figure, so 90. In the manuals it says that in low temperatures you can use 80 grade too. Yeah I'd be surprised to hear the fan come on. A good test for the cooling system is to leave it idling till the fan comes on, then time how long it's on for, then how long it's off for before it comes back on again. It might come on once a minute for twenty seconds, or once every four minutes for a minute.. for instance. The thing to look for is that it's not on for more than half the time, preferably one third of the time. Good cooling systems come on about a third of the time. Crook cooling systems come on for near full time..

I've read a bit about those things before. The tilt switch has a variable voltage, but I don't think it changes the voltage o the pump. It's either on or off as far as I know. It sounds like you are on to it. One slightly counter-intuative thing to watch for is that a bad connection, which in theory would lower the current, can blow fuses..

Yeah I didn't think so.. It's not really like you think you know. You'll have to come and have a look some time.. We haven't all had our balls cut off.

Yeah well as long as you're all happy eh.. Have you ever been to N.Z. Randy ?

Yeah we agree about whisky too.. I'm sipping a bourbon lemon and water.. with brown sugar.. I'm suggesting that everything is just how we perceive it to be.. And I half heard that some country in Europe is clamping right down on people without jabs.. So if your dear Govt does it it won't be the first. And for the record Randy.. we have almost full freedom here.. Our "go hard and go early", was for one month, then our biggest city was locked down a few times temporarily. We cant have rock concerts is about the worst of it. Inflation's the worst in years, theirs a housing shortage, but the economy is doing fine. The people are for the most part fairly satisfied with our covid response.

Could the injector wires be crossed ? Or ignition ? Even though the valve timing is right, it may not be phased with either ignition or injectors.. Seen it on cars.

Here's to the best America has to offer... Jim Beam ! Cheers.. Just kidding just kidding.. American people are fine people in the main.. even if your governments have been bloody war mongers ! And Randy, it's not the Kiwis that are being threatened with lock up if we don't get the jab.. We were asked nicely and most of us have got it now. What I've found here is that those of us that have willingly got the jab, don't feel threatened at all by any curtailing of our right to attend large gatherings. Those that have refused on the basis that they don't like being told what to do(none of them were ever told what to do), are the ones now that are digging their feet in and saying it's not fair and they shouldn't be discriminated against.. There's a certain "catch twenty-two", in that I think.. It's all about free will, and who has it, and who doesn't.. No religion implied. Some people forfeit their will, free or otherwise, to that human condition I was talking about.

See above... Yup well you are the land of the free..

Have you heard about N.Z.s peace making/keeping work.. We send female soldiers out with the boys on night maneuvers, armed with guitars..haha. They visit villages for the night, sit around a fire and play guitar and sing, and hear what's bugging that side, then the next night they go to the village on the other side and hear them out and explain what the other side of the conflict thinks.. And back and forwards they go till it's all sorted.. No weapons needed.

People are jealous of North Korea ? Who ? I know America would like to take them out, but I didn't think it was because they were jealous.. Then.. America would like to take China out, and Iran, and Afghanistan, and Russia.. And get rid of Moslem.. Get rid of anything that "threatens" American freedom huh.. Perhaps they can drum up some more non-existent weapons of mass destruction.. Better for you all to start another foreign war than have a civil war/revolution I guess.. Bring back Chump.. Me though.. I'm glad to be a Kiwi.. We don't have all those threats to our "rights".

Actually.. A quicker test might be to disconnect the pump, and put jumpers to it and to earth and see if it goes at all.. 8 volts should make it make some sound.. Perhaps it's seized.

Ha.. futile study about nothing huh.. N.Z. is doing well.. Your comment sounds like sour grapes.. We get a bit of that.

Well it's probably a bad connection somewhere.. Do you know how to search for a voltage drop.. You put your voltage gauge across connections and/or wires, and look for a voltage being shown where there shouldn't be any because the power's meant to be flowing freely through the wire or connector. So if you put your gauge from the battery positive to the pump, there should be no voltage shown if all the wires and connectors are good. If there is a voltage shown then you have a bad connection somewhere and so some of the power's going through the gauge. You measure across one length of wire, or across one connector or relay at a time till you find the bad connection. All that said, I think you will find if you check the wiring diagram, that the power possibly comes from the computer, so you need to check from where it comes out of there, to the pump. It's also possible the power comes from a fuse or relay to the pump, then gets earthed by the computer.. You need the wiring diagram and check for voltage drop all along the power's flow path till you find the place the voltage is dropping. It's a good idea if the power is coming out of the computer, to check it is at full voltage there before you start looking for the drop of voltage along the wires etc. Understand the basic concept of voltage drop, and then go looking for where that is happening..

Yeah bummer about living in America.. And yeah I am amusing myself.. I said straight off that I found the strawman arguments and the attempts at hard sell amusing.(paraphrasing)... and interesting. Not the "arguments", I don't find them interesting, or the hard sell, but that you would bother trying to do that.. that you would continue doing that even after I'd suggested it was futile and that the almighty facts were irrelevant to me.. But you really are determined... And I don't really think we've heard the real reason for that yet... I'm not sure you even know yourself.. I think your intellect and it's friend the Ego gets the better of you Randy. You do know what the human condition is don't you ? That conflict between what we know could be, how we could be, how we could behave, and our inability to be those things. That internal conflict is the folly that the human condition is. But keep on trying.. I'm sure there will be someone that needs to hear why the vaccine is the greater of two evils.. About how it doesn't even stop us getting the virus, or stop it's transmission, and how we have to fight for our freedoms.. Too bad there isn't somebody we could just bomb to get rid of this problem.. Perhaps those evil Chinese people.

Your concerns and fear of being conned, or pressured into accepting things, and personal welfare, are not things that concern me. I'm interested in the human condition, and people. Forums are a good place to study these things.

There can be more truth in a heart-felt opinion, that's completely devoid of facts, than some other detailed explanation of a heap of facts being offered through insincere or unrealised motives. I prefer truth to facts, and candor to intelligence. You asked earlier whether I was religious. I'm not. I'm a philosopher. I live my life on philosophical principles.

By substance you mean facts ? I look for truth, and when we look for truth, we see it even where there are no facts often, and we see the absence of truth even in a torrent of facts..

I live rural and I'd agree that we rurals feel less urgency to get vaccinated, for fairly obvious reasons. I think though that the eventual uptake is probably about the same between my city associates and locals. The educational, (and possibly socio-economic) relationships though I do think are as you suggest Dave. Just my personal observations though. If you say so Randy.