KZ305 Carburetor Removal and Inspection

First, a question and an answer. Is it safe to use red Permatex to seal a carburetor? NO IT IS NOT. This tutorial details the removal and inspection of carburetors from a 1982 Kawasaki KZ305b LTD. This is the carburetor. Remove the seat. Remove the air box and tool...

Ideas

A business making custom bushings for cars. It’s possible to get bushings that aren’t quite right for 12 bucks, so why not sell bushings that are perfect for 24? A site that sells women’s jeans. Most women’s jeans on the market have unusuable...

Sell me this

Solution: A metal board, similar to a whiteboard. Strongly magnetized so that nuts and bolts stick to it. Grease pen to label nuts according to where they came from. Problem: While doing an engine swap on a 1984 Corolla hatchback this weekend, I kept misplacing bolts....

Look, I made a thing!

Racing cars is a lot of fun. What’s less fun is doing arithmetic by hand for an hour to find out how well people did. Fortunately, we now have the technology to ease this pain. This guy I go out with, Quinn, is into drift racing. When he doesn’t have a car...

Getting Started With CakePHP

Here’s a couple of things I did wrong when trying to use CakePHP, for your benefit. Several months ago I applied at a company called Radar Hill, which uses Cake as their main framework. Naturally I set about learning how to use it as soon as possible. I...