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Don't do what I did! Today, I was trying to see if I could plane some wood cookies that I cut the other day. But I wanted to try something else besides using a planer (duh). So I put a carbide cutters disk on an angle grinder, rigged up a Unistrut frame with rolling bearings, and bolted the...

Long story short, always check parts pricing across several sources. I currently having the crank but no start issue. I determined quickly that the fusible link is bad. Contacted the local dealers and only one out of four had the link in stock but wanted $34 plus tax for it. I spoke with the...

Just thought I'd post this up since there are always posts regarding treating rust and with some are paying top dollar for "rust free" 100's, or anyone looking to preserve their's. I recently acquired a "rust free" southern '99 LX. I have been going thru it to clean it up and pulled the...

I guess I’d understood from all the great info here that fusible links failed for mechanical reasons, etc., but hadn’t really understood they could fail in an intermittent way that would make them darn hard to troubleshoot. Short story is my LX450 developed an issue where the engine bay got...

and one final bit of trivia, the front caliper mounting bolt torque is higher than the rear (I don't know if I remembered that, I may have been using the same value for both, all this time):