Vintage Race Wheels
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Do You Really Need Round Wheels? You need to clean and inspect your wheels before you go to the track. Every time. You normally have the wheels off to bleed the brakes so clean the wheels and look for problems. Check the stud holes for wear, and pay particular attention to the lug nut …

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Trailer Lug Nuts
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You don't want a wheel falling off your trailer. That could be one very bad day. Besides a wheel bearing failure you could easily have the lug nuts loosen. The next thing you know the trailer wheel passes you as you go down the road.  The torque setting for your trailers wheels is generally gre…

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Battery Types
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Battery Types As long as the battery starts the car we just ignore it. When it finally stops working we think that buying a bigger, and better, battery can solve the problem. How about just taking care of the battery you currently have in the car? Novel as this idea might be it’s worth some c…

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I am sitting in the summer sun outside the barn that has been converted to create a schoolroom for twenty children, inside there is a high-ceilinged schoolroom, two toilets and at one end, a kitchen.  A redwood tree towers over the building, one of the landmark trees of the area, and there is a sti…

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Ten years ago I used to take our dog walking these country lanes.  His large, shaggy soulful frame is long gone and I am reminded, as I take the same walk, of his beautiful friendship.  This time through the heavy silent mist of a mid-November afternoon I am walking with an Indian friend from Canad…

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This is the draft beginning of a book I am working on.  Any comments gratefully received. Educating the Spirit: changing the way we think. Chapter One:     Young Leaves In the evening we are taken on a boat ride along the River Ganges into the city of Varanasi. This majestic river is soiled by the …

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