Wow...impressive...But no cigar? I don't mean that the way its sounds you know one cannot say that ever since Bill Clinton. I did 8 laps around the track. I was trying to keep close to my pace car but brain said push the right foot down but my butt said NO WAY!

Steel belted tires would make it more difficult to plug. A tire shop could have fixed it, dealers can get weird on what they will fix. Some newer cars don't come with spare tire. My one vehicle doesn't have a spare, they give you an air compressor with fix a flat. I added a plug kit to the car.

I am trying to rebuild an engine for a '97 Kawasaki Prairie that I recently picked up. There is one head bold that just won't let go. Nothing I do seems to make a difference. I have been putting penetrating lube on it for two days straight and I am afraid it is going to break on me. What is your best advice for getting the sucker out? I have tried a rechargeable impact, a pneumatic impact and penetrating lube.

A nice late fall ride before this trail closes for the season. Took the older quad for a good last run for the season which also gave me a chance to try out the mount I made for the GPS unit. There is no stock mount for this model machine since it is too old. So I made one, not pretty, but it works. The backing plastic also provides protection.

The seat shaft (steel) is stuck in Fuji's aluminum frame. Heating the Fuji seat tube will destroy the paint. But WTH! I was planning on heating aluminum tube and pipe wrench twist the seat shaft and or hammer the shaft to break it loose. I opened up about 1.5 inch slot in aluminum tube and soaked with penetrating oil.

I am going to try heating the aluminum seat tube shaft like they suggested when I take it back to FLa so someone can help me. Thanksgiving project.

Foreman is a little jumpy in first gear,,, 518 cc 5 speed. very torquey . He has been fun to ride even though he likes to throw my butt around.

I thought that was Michelle's . Your ATV is always clean. I had to hose off deer poo off mine yesterday.

great pictures...His machines alway look clean and new?

HaHa...My 2006 Crossfire convertible ...I can't tell you what I call him...S.D will do.....six speed man. tranny...has a compressor and fix a flat! That's why I have Pirellis runflats. We were doing 120 mph when he turned over 120 K miles on the odometer!

Thank you both. I have been at it for a few days now and it doesn't seem to want to budge. I don't think my penetrating lube is getting down to where the actual threads are. As tough as it is, I am being very patient. I would love to get this sucker out without breaking it. I can feel a slight movement but it feels more like twisting of the bolt as opposed to a loosening of the treads. I am going to stick with it and see what I can do. I really don't want to have a broken bolt but in the back of my mind I feel like this is where this is headed.

Im a little surprized the impact didnt break the bolt, at this point you need to be very careful as tight as it is if your break the bolt probably wont be able to get it out without drilling. I suspect the head got so hot looking at the wear on your rocker arms that the bolt has welded itself to the cylinder, lets hope that is not what happened. The problem with penetrating oil on the head bolt is that you cant get the oil down where it needs to be where it goes into the cylinder to hold the head on. If you spray it down where the head meets the cylinder abundantly some may get in there and also put some heat on it. Start turning the bolt back and forth tighten and loosen tighten and loosen until you get some movement keep doing that sparingly dont try to gorilla it out or the bolt will break. Been there done that! Hopefully it will eventually let go. The heat will expand the metal and let penetrating oil seep down into the threads.