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    My mom wants an electric lawn mower. Any reccomendations?

    I bought my dad a Roybi combo unit, push mower, weed eater, leaf blower a few years ago, they are still going strong. His yard is tiny, postage-stamp sized, but it was getting too hard for him to pull the strings on the gas stuff.
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    New(er) Dodge aka Ram trucks.

    I have never had any issues with running out of power with the 6.4, it just fit my needs better. It sits most of its life, I bought it new, just turned over 25K miles in 7 years, so I most likely will never wear it out. Heck I only put 1500 miles on it last year. It just gets used for truck...
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    New(er) Dodge aka Ram trucks.

    70's carb mileage was better than that.
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    New(er) Dodge aka Ram trucks.

    I went out of my way to find a heavy truck, with a gas engine. I am just not a diesel fanatic in a pickup truck, drove too many of them at my previous job.
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    Project Cheap & Nasty Updated With Back Story

    I have the same problem, I will build and engine, and let it sit for years before installing it in something. Or build a different engine for the same car.
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    New(er) Dodge aka Ram trucks.

    Good to know on the original battery, I keep a solar tender on mine, knock on wood its still surviving at 7 years old. I do try to use the truck every few weeks to keep everything moving, but sometimes in the winter it will sit for a few months when there is salt on the road.
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    Project Cheap & Nasty Updated With Back Story

    You have compulsive-slant-building-disease.
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    New(er) Dodge aka Ram trucks.

    I would be looking at re-doing your old truck. Newer ones the mileage is just horrid. Just got back from a 1500 mile trip, pulling a car trailer. 2017 3500 6.4 10 mpg. The truck gets the same mpg empty or pulling a load, must be the 4.10 gears.
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    Prebuilt portable garage shed?

    I would also insulate it when you do the inside.
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    CHEAP people....let's see your stories about those frugal folks that were smart or really annoying!

    My dad is so cheap, he re-sharpens razor blades. He is 82 years old now. He gets if from his depression-era parents.
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    Would you reuse it?

    I picked up the sweetest old lady owned, garage kept 5th ave once for $200. She parked it in her garage and would not start, so she bought a new car. Yup timing chain went out, it had about 85K miles on it. We used it for a family car for years, kids called it "the old comphy couch"
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    Raced my 3.6 V6 '13 Ram

    It will pull fine, I used mine to tow my dump trailer.
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    Paint gun for hobbiest?

    Nice shine, I bought a black widow just to spray primer 1.7 tip. Thinking about buying one with the smaller tip to spay base/clear
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    checking rear end housing straightness

    Had the same problem with Dr. Diff axles, took a triangle file to splines to remove any burrs, then they slid right in.
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