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Adjusting your headlight beam Tricks of the trade

Adjusting your headlight beam TROUBLE: Your headlight beam reaches too far down the road although you have already wound down the adjustment screw as far as possible, making it difficult…
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Camchain tensioner lock Tricks of the trade

Camchain tensioner lock TROUBLE: Camchain tensioners can often be in hard-to-reach places that prevent you from easily reaching the tensioner and setting the tension correctly with a flat-blade screwdriver. There…
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Oiling your filter Tricks of the trade

Oiling your filter TROUBLE: Having had several engines brought to me that have been seriously dusted, I noticed that on all of them, the air filters had little or no…
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Removing a difficult broken bolt Tricks of the trade

Removing a difficult broken bolt The trick is to grind away the bolt and Ezy-out bolt remover using a small ‘pencil die’ grinder. The Ezy-out cannot be drilled as it…
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Emergency gasket Tricks of the trade

HOW TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY GASKET Cost: $15.00 Time: 20 minutes Tools: Gasket material, Stanley knife, oil, drill bit Difficulty: 3 TROUBLE Half way through rebuilding the…