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Even with top scrap prices, he'll get less than $500/deuce crushed. He's using the threat of the crusher to increase your anxiety level so that you will offer him more money. -Chuck

I have always restrained the steering wheel of the towed vehicle. You really confuse things if you allow it to spin freely. A rope between the brake pedal and the steering wheel has worked nicely for me when towing other vehicles 4 wheel down... -Chuck

I haven't tried towing with a singled out deuce, but with PU trucks, duals make towing easy, and singles make towing squirrelly. The reason is sidewall flex. When the rear tire's sidewalls flex from side to side, they steer both the trailer, and the towing truck. I would suspect your tires...

Super comes from exactly the same point in the cracking tower as regular. It is additives that make the octane difference, nothing more. The mid grade is a mix, made at the pump, of super and regular. -Chuck

It doesn't matter. They still have to pull equally hard. One object may have the capability of pulling harder, but it can't tension the rope any harder than the object on the other end pulls back. Change the direction of the problem to lifting. Assuming everything is steady state (eg. you...

The question was if the truck is pulling on the tree with 2 x Thing1 force, how hard is the tree pulling on the truck? And the answer is exactly as hard as the truck is pulling on the tree. If that isn't true, then there isn't a taut rope between the truck and the tree. -Chuck

Gasoline won't attract water, and is not affected by water in the least, so if you are worried about the ethanol attracting water (and you should be), wash it out of the gasoline before you put it in your antique vehicle/generator/mower... I had a terrible problem with one of my mowers. The...

I think that either way, the truck pulls on the tree with the same force that the tree pulls on the truck. It's a characteristic of rope. If the tree has a better grip on the ground than the truck, the truck may be moving towards the tree.... or vice versa. -Chuck

I was guessing it was the GVW you were talking about, but I didn't know whether it just came "overweight", or whether you told them to put 25,000 GVW on the title. I find that being nice to people helps in the long run. I always try to thank those that help smooth out life's ripples. It might...

Let's see, January 15th to February 5th, 3 weeks.... I would have hoped for a little faster turn-around, given it was their mistake, but I guess they still had to push it through all of the different parties. I'm not sure what you mean by "They don't always read!" -Chuck

The key concept is 10% of all automotive gasoline sold in the US must be comprised of one or more of the following: Ethanol, MTBE, or ETBE. Due to legislation in 2005, EPA allowed the substitution of ethanol for the MTBE/ETBE oxygenation component. They also eliminated the requirement for...

Some time back, the EPA mandated that 10% MTBE/ETBE be added to gasoline year round to oxygenate the gasoline. In 2005, EPA adjusted the mandate to allow up to 10% ethanol be substituted for MTBE/ETBE in the fuel. -Chuck

Ok, we need some basic physics learning here! Rope has little stiffness, so for our purposes, you can only have tension in it, and let's forget about the winch for a minute. Let's assume our friends Thing 1 and Thing 2 are playing tug-a-war. Each is holding his side of the rope, and is...

You sure about that? It is a federal requirement that all gasoline contain 10% ethanol. And, it is also a federal law that gas stations no longer have to label gasoline as containing ethanol. But fear not, you can easily remove the ethanol by washing it out with water. -Chuck

At the risk of repeating myself, I will repeat myself. Assuming that your snatch blocks have pulleys in them with little friction, the tension in the winch cable is the same from one end to the other. This is something you must remember. If you hook a snatch block to a tree, and run the cable...

Pay??? I thought all I had to do was be my usual overbearing self, and people would abandon the thread in disgust. -Chuck

If you don't like the ethanol in your gasoline, you can wash it out with water. Seriously. If you add a cup of water to a gallon of gasoline, and shake it up, the ethanol and water will all drop to the bottom of the can, and you can separate it out. If someone was really determined, they...

Uhmmm, that is only half true ;-) . Think of it this way: If your snatch blocks are frictionless, the cable has a tension "T" in it, no matter how many times it passes through the blocks. If you pass the cable from the winch, to a fixed block on a tree, and back to the bumper anchor, you have...

At idle, the fuel is turned down so low that small variations in the injectors can make for sounds like that. How does it sound when the engine is doing work? -Chuck

At $3 per gallon, I was rather surprised that my deuce came from GL with a topped off tank. Maybe they have finally figured out that the fluids are worth money? -Chuck