And more junk.

Tried a different route using the torque and engine rpm. Mine is rated at 11.5 ft lbs. of torque at 2600 rpm which came up with 5.6 hp. Now that sounds more like it. B&S is not branding generators anymore. They are building them for Oregon. Same machine but Orange instead of red and Labeled Oregon. Dealer showed me one yesterday when I dropped mine off for him to get running.
 
<<Your 3500 watt generator has an 11.5 HP engine, Roger? I think we determined mine is a 10 HP.

Has a 1150 series engine, 250 cc. Formula I jkust found was HP = cc/15. If that is right then 250cc = 16.6 but that don't sound right at all. Nee to do some more checking on that.
This one says 342cc, Roger. I got numbers all over the board from 8hp to 16hp when I tried to google it. I posted on this thread a couple months ago asking opinions I if I remember right the general consensus was 10hp. I will have to go back through the thread to find the info.
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Pain doc scheduled me for an "epidural" for next Tuesday. Sounds like it's a shot. I think he is pi$$ing in the wind hoping something will help while pulling in insurance money doing it.

Got home and did some inside chores then got to the shop. Started building a board for those parts containers to hang on. Cleared that table of all the stuff that was still on it and took down a few old signs I collected through the years. I do have another hole to put them back up in the shop. When I took the signs down, this "weapon" was laying behind one of them.
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When I got the '55 GMC in 2009 I had to get an abandon vehicle title for it. It was going to be scrapped and a co worker told me about it. Anyway, while taking the interior apart for cleaning before the title search was finished by the state, I found items including business cards and baby toys under the seat along with this chunk of #6 rebar! Led me to believe a woman had owned it last before it got abandon. I even knew who she was. She raced at the speedway for a number of years. Loree worked the pit gate for a long time and she said this woman would pull her racecar into the track with that old truck! I remember her cars but not her tow vehicle. When the state finally sent me a registration and a title history, sure enough she was the last person to register the truck in 1997, before I finally got official ownership in 2011. She didn't respond to state inquires about title transfers. Looks like she was prepared to fight for life if someone messed with her! I just barely got the title transferred to my name before the state changed the law making it impossible for a private citizen to apply for an abandon vehicle title. Have to go through a towing company or salvage yard now and that costs a lot of money.

Long story, sorry! This is the space I'm going to make a board to hang those parts containers on. You can see the rebar laying behind the No Smoking sign.
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The old signs gone.
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I found an old 2'x4' piece of 3/4" particle board shelf material and could use it without cutting anything. Only needed 3' but there's room behind the cabinet on the right for the exess to go behind it. Marked it out and drilled in some screws. I should have time to hang it tomorrow. DSCN6054.JPG

No doctor appointment tomorrow for once! Do have to make a run to Walmart to get 3 O copay prescriptions but that should only take about an hour.

DAC
 
Some times the insurance company wants to try the cheapest thing first, even it if ends up cost twice as much in the long run. I am still hoping for the pain stimulator that I was scheduled for last July. PT is helping if I don't do anything. Imagine that.
 
A suggestion for the particle board before you hang the trays up would be to put a shelf with a slight lip just underneath the lowest plastic tray so that it extends to catch a tray if it gets tired of defying gravity. My experience has been that the plastic in some of the trays gets brittle with age - especially if they are hanging in cold areas below freezing. That way if the plastic end tab that holds a tray breaks the tray won't fall very far and break the bottom part of the tray as bad when it stops falling - might save a future game of 152 pick up.
 
Some times the insurance company wants to try the cheapest thing first, even it if ends up cost twice as much in the long run. I am still hoping for the pain stimulator that I was scheduled for last July. PT is helping if I don't do anything. Imagine that.
I already did 12 weeks of PT Roger. At most I got a few hours relief and that may have been me trying to be positive about it.

A suggestion for the particle board before you hang the trays up would be to put a shelf with a slight lip just underneath the lowest plastic tray so that it extends to catch a tray if it gets tired of defying gravity. My experience has been that the plastic in some of the trays gets brittle with age - especially if they are hanging in cold areas below freezing. That way if the plastic end tab that holds a tray breaks the tray won't fall very far and break the bottom part of the tray as bad when it stops falling - might save a future game of 152 pick up.
This will sound pretty crazy but last night I had a dream about dropping one of them and saw making the cabinet top go back against the wall so nothing could fall behind it. I looked on here this morning on the phone and saw your idea Stew! I don't try to answer posts on the phone. I don't need the stress of all the mistakes I make with touch screens. Anyway I liked your idea much better! Not as far to fall. I try to keep my shop above 45*F but occasionally the gas bill spooks me and I shut it off until I feel better about it. Here is what I came up with using your idea. Used a 6" strip of 1/2 mdo signboard screwed to the bottom of the particle board. Then I screwed 1/8" lathe to the front of the mdo for a lip at the front of it.
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Hung the lightest boxes on the top screws.
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I put the small drawer cabinets back and slid them tight against the lath lip. Hopefully that should contain some of the stuff if one falls.
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I spoke of stress above and had some happen today on the way to Walmart to pick up prescriptions. Pulled up behind a diesel pickup at a stop light to turn into the store and smelled something weird. First I figured the truck in front was stinking, but then I looked at the Denali's gauges and saw this on the voltmeter! Figured the battery was burning up!
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Soon as I got into the Walmart parking lot I shut it off and the voltmeter stayed around 19V! Popped the hood and felt the battery. It was cool! So was the alternator. Went in and got my stuff and figured I better haul a$$ home anyway to work on the truck before the battery blew up. Loree had that happen with a 2011 Dodge Journey she had one time. We traded down for this '06 Denali in 2015.
Got stuck behind a 2 trailer log truck on the back road I can take to get into town, and when I finally go by him, some person doing 30 in a 55 slowed me for awhile until we got to a passing zone!

Got home and brought the voltmeter out and hooked to the battery. Didn't get a pic before I started the engine but the battery voltage was 12.6V and the gauge said 19V. Started the engine and the truck voltmeter went up just like the first pic but at the battery it was 14.38V
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Seems like the gauge has taken a crap. I might live with it and check it periodically as if I remember correctly the entire gauge cluster is a sealed unit and then the odometer problems are massive to get that right again. I didn't google anything yet but at least I know the battery isn't boiling over!

DAC
 
If the voltage still reads 19 volts with the ignition in the on position, engine not running and the head lights on then odds are the stepper motor has failed. If I remember correctly the gauges (stepper motors) on the older GM's do not full sweep each time the vehicle is started the way the newer ones do so the gauges that move the least and remain at the same position while running usually fail first. There are you tube videos that show how the instrument cluster can be removed, taken apart and the stepper motors replaced with new ones if you are steady handed and handy with a soldering iron. Another option would be to get an exchange or used instrument cluster as companies do repair and / or exchange them or might be able to locate a good used one at an auto wreckers. I think the mileage is stored in the ECM rather than a separate chip in the instrument panel but I may be wrong. Also, as suggested, just install a separate voltmeter gauge and drive on until another gauge stops working. Always something to ruin a persons day - hope this information helps.
 
The oil light came on and stayed on the Pontiac she was driving. Had our mechanic check it and found good oil pressure, sending unit failed. Was a Friday afternoon and could not get one till Tuesday. Her and her daughter were leaving for Ok the next morning. I asked Scott (Mechanic) if he could put a mechanical gauge on. Said he could if I had the gauge. Hour later he had a line run out the AC duct on the driver side and gauge attached. Drove the car that way for another 2 years and traded it off that way. Rarity those mechanical gauges fail. If one is running interstate speed and the oil light comes on, good chance the engine is toast before you can get pulled over and shut down.
 
A few years ago the tach and speedo on my 05 Denali started acting up so I took it to a mechanic and he changed the instrument cluster left garage and looked at mileage and it said 490,000 so I went back and told him it only had 49k sohe had to send it back but I forgot about engine hours from 390 to 1600. If I would ever trade it in they might think I had altered the speedo. Only have 79k on it now and been setting as it needs brakes.
 
A few years ago the tach and speedo on my 05 Denali started acting up so I took it to a mechanic and he changed the instrument cluster left garage and looked at mileage and it said 490,000 so I went back and told him it only had 49k sohe had to send it back but I forgot about engine hours from 390 to 1600. If I would ever trade it in they might think I had altered the speedo. Only have 79k on it now and been setting as it needs brakes.
That would suggest that I am wrong and that the mileage information is stored in the instrument cluster rather than the ECM
 
I have heard both places. Was trading for a truck one that had oversized mudder noisy tires. Want to go back to stock. Dealer said no problem, but they would have to program the OEM to the smaller size tires to get the speed right. This happened to be a Ford. They swapped the wheels & tires with another Ford they had on the lot and made the change, then I bought the truck.
 
Any idea what the smell was?
I think it was the diesel truck in front of me, Chris. Smelled like a F350 flatbed we had at work. DEF additive smell maybe?
Black tape over the OEM gauge and add a new gauge.
If I go with an aftermarket gauge, I still won't mess with blocking out the old one, Roger. I will know what to look at.

If the voltage still reads 19 volts with the ignition in the on position, engine not running and the head lights on then odds are the stepper motor has failed. If I remember correctly the gauges (stepper motors) on the older GM's do not full sweep each time the vehicle is started the way the newer ones do so the gauges that move the least and remain at the same position while running usually fail first. There are you tube videos that show how the instrument cluster can be removed, taken apart and the stepper motors replaced with new ones if you are steady handed and handy with a soldering iron. Another option would be to get an exchange or used instrument cluster as companies do repair and / or exchange them or might be able to locate a good used one at an auto wreckers. I think the mileage is stored in the ECM rather than a separate chip in the instrument panel but I may be wrong. Also, as suggested, just install a separate voltmeter gauge and drive on until another gauge stops working. Always something to ruin a persons day - hope this information helps.
Good advice, Stew. I had the heaters running full blast, but didn't cover the headlight sensor. The switch turned to headlights on still didn't turn them on then. The test I did still convinced me the gauge is the problem, not the alternator.
A few years ago the tach and speedo on my 05 Denali started acting up so I took it to a mechanic and he changed the instrument cluster left garage and looked at mileage and it said 490,000 so I went back and told him it only had 49k sohe had to send it back but I forgot about engine hours from 390 to 1600. If I would ever trade it in they might think I had altered the speedo. Only have 79k on it now and been setting as it needs brakes.
Man, Rad, that's a low milage truck! Hope you can get some brakes put on it to drive it again!

DAC
 
My thoughts too Doug you just can’t leave us hanging with no explanation. We could make assumptions lol
Guess I thought I would be over explaining talking about that truck in front of me again. Sorry. Should have said the smell went away when I wasn't behind that pickup. I write such long winded crap anyway I leave out details, Jim.

Doug I have a lot of those parts with trays also but I’m thinking more of a cabinet with pullout trays like you use in the hardware stores. I usually grab 1or 2 most every time I go to HF. So far they have been good products.
I have 2 of those steel shelves that hold the trays you are talking about, Came from the scrap trailer at my former job where a lot of my junk has come from. No where to put them yet.

I cut the Ins down to comprehensive to save a few $ and as soon as I can save enough money I will get it fixed as I want to drive this summer. I only have 79k on it no, I bought it with 46k back in 2014 and it is a 05.
Sounds like a great truck, Rad! I put rotors and pads on our '06 not long after we got it. Had 92,000 when we brought it home. About 160,000 now.

I'm wondering if he'd recently been to Taco Bell!
Taco John's is better. I know, you probably never heard of them, Daniel.

Cut and installed some stickers today.
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DAC
 
Had a lot of running around to do today after a doc appointment, got home and did some medical online stuff I needed to get done then cut one more sticker to go with the ones I did yesterday.

The computer layout.
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The finished sticker.
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DAC
 
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