Fix It and keep it

On push mowers with the spring loaded height adjusters the attached axle usually needs to be replaced annually due to the metal shaft wearing down. It usually starts with a slight wobble of the rear wheels and then turns into an outright lean of the wheels as the wheel mounting hole and the shaft [...]

If you have a problem with your Toyota Matrix where the check engine light comes on and goes off look for one of the evaporator system trouble codes to be set. I have had that happen to me three times so far this year and it turned out to be caused by the gas cap, [...]

My two year old Troy Built, self-propelled Tuf-Cut 210 had a front wheel that started wobbling badly. Since I really don’t use the mower much I didn’t know why the wheel should have gone bad so soon. I removed the wheel and noticed that the inner metal bushing had frozen itself to the [...]

I have a 1995 Toyota Corolla that normally averages 38 miles per gallon. I usually keep track of the mileage at each fill-up and noticed the mileage dropping slightly every week. I really didn’t think anything of it at first I thought it could be the weather or possibly the gas itself.
It didn’t seem to [...]

Had a problem with my two tear old lawn mower where it wouldn’t stay running. I was just mowing the lawn and it abruptly stopped. There was plenty of gas in it and everything else looked OK, I just couldn’t figure out why it stopped.
After checking the spark plug and oil, all of the [...]

During this hot summer that we are having here in Florida, I thought my air conditioner was unable to handle the load.  Even though it seemed to be working right and the compressor had plenty of freon it just seemed to run forever to just keep the house at eighty degrees.  I had called a [...]

There are several types of faucets, some are single lever, and others have both hot and cold knobs.
If you have a faucet leak it is necessary to know if you have a washer and seat type or a cartridge type. A washer and seat type of faucet is designed to have the washer attached [...]

Last spring I had a problem with my swimming pool that stumped both my pool supply company and myself. It was during early Florida spring when all of that yellow dust or pollen is in the air. My pool began to get cloudier and cloudier and the filter could not seem to keep [...]

A problem with my 1995 Ford Taurus LX wagon caused the blower motor to operate at high speed with no way to slow it down. It just happened one day when i went to drive the car that the climate control fan ran out of control. The day before it had been fine so [...]

Most toilets are constructed to have two joints where a leak may occur during a flush. After a toilet talk fills the only thing preventing the water from flowing out is a rubber flapper covering the water exit in the bottom of the toilet tank. The water is released when the flush lever [...]