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Home  Shop Kinks & Tech Tips  Shop Kinks Shop Kinks This new series of Shop Kinks are designed as an adjunct to our popular and more detailed Tech Tip series. While we usually schedule a new Tech Tip every month or so (we are currently working on a Tech Tip of suggested on-board spares), this new series will appear more frequently. Dr. Diesel's Shop Kinks won't be as elaborately illustrated or comprehensive, but we hope that they will be as valuable. It is designed to help people who perhaps don't have a mechanical background or who just want to determine a better way to service their engine. As with the original series, we welcome your feedback and appreciate your comments.   Marine Transmission Fluid  Shop Kink #1 Metric to Fractional Conversion  Shop Kink #2 Perkins and Deutz Gasket Paper; What to Use in a Pinch  Shop Kink #3 Continental Tappett Settings  Shop Kink #4 How to Install a Continental or Perkins Water Pump Pulley  Shop Kink #5 Twist Wrenches Not Your Career  Shop Kink #6 Leaking Deutz, Deere, Perkins or Ford Industrial Exhaust Manifolds?  Shop Kink #7 Pulling an Engine  Shop Kink #8 Saving Perkins and Deutz Gaskets: Using Grease  Shop Kink #9 Engine Diagnostics for Dummies  Shop Kink #10 Identifying Wisconsin Engines  Shop Kink #11 Oil filters: Capacity counts  Shop Kink #12 Break-in Oil: Not Synthetic  Shop Kink #13 Improving Oil Drain-back Time on your Perkins, Deutz, or Deere Industrial Engine  Shop Kink #14 Frozen Distributor?  Shop Kink #15 Extending Valve Spring Life on your Deutz, Deere, or Perkins engine  Shop Kink #16 Disposing of used Lube Oil  Shop Kink #17 Balky Fastener?  Shop Kink #18 Perkins Fuel System Seal Kits  Shop Kink #19 How to Install a Wisconsin, Continental, Perkins or Ford Ignition Coil  Shop Kink #20 SAE Bell Housings Made Easy!  Shop Kink #21 GM 4.3 V6 Industrial Engine Identification Made Easy  Shop Kink #22 Alternators, Batteries, Regulators, Solar Panels, Revisited  Shop Kink #23 Avoiding Idle Gears  Shop Kink #24 Working on a John Deere engine without a manual?  Shop Kink #25 Souping up the Series 72 Borg Warner  Shop Kink #26 Header Wraps and Tailpipe Blankets  Shop Kink #27 Cummins B Series Tachometers  Shop Kink #28 How to Ship an Industrial Engine  Shop Kink #29 ZF/Hurth Marine Coupler and Damper Plate 101  Shop Kink #30 Coming Soon, A Fable By Dr. Diesel!  Shop Kink #31 GM 5.7 Litre Industrial Engine Identification Made Easy (Part 1)  Shop Kink #32 The Nuts, Belts, and Bolts of Alternator Maintenance  Shop Kink #33 How to Remove A Troublesome Pilot Bearing (Part 1)  Shop Kink #34 How To Wake Up The Hibernating Engine--Gently  Shop Kink #35 How Often Should I Change My Lube Oils?  Shop Kink #36 How to Make Your Twin Disc or Rockford Power Takeoff Last Longer  Shop Kink #37 Overcoming Cam Problems in GM 4.3 V6 Vortec Industrial Engine  Shop Kink #38 Identifying your Kubota Four Cylinder Diesel  Shop Kink #39 Kubota 2203 Identification: A Field Guide  Shop Kink #40 Identifying the GM 8.1 Liter Industrial Engine  Shop Kink #41 Deutz Diesel Crankshafts: A Cautionary Note  Shop Kink #42 Identifying and Maintaining the Ford C6 Transmission as Used in Industrial Applications  Shop Kink #43 Perkins, Ford, White-Hercules, Continental and Chrysler Water Pumps  Shop Kink #44 Important information for engine rebuilders, construction garages, DPW garages, marine repair facilities, and backyard motor heads working on Deutz, Deere and Perkins Industrial engines  Shop Kink #45 Alternators for Perkins Engine Models 4108, 4203, 4236 and 6354  Shop Kink #46 Twin Disc and Rockford Power Take Offs  Shop Kink #47 Removing a Troublesome Pilot Bearing (Part 2)  Shop Kink #48 GM 5.7 Industrial Engine Identification Made Easy (Part 2)  Shop Kink #49 Chrysler LH318 Industrial Engines; An Alternative Oil Filter  Shop Kink #50 Hurth Gear Shift Position: A Warning  Shop Kink #51 How To Order an Exhaust Scrubber  Shop Kink #52 Hurth and ZF/Hurth Marine Transmissions: Old Wine in New Bottles?  Shop Kink #53 What To Do With Your Money? Dr Diesel Comes Up With a Solution That Mrs. Robinson Would Approve  Shop Kink #54 Cummins B Series Reman Exchange Engines  Shop Kink #55 Powertakeoff Clutches for Wood Chippers  Shop Kink #56 Prolonging the Life of Your Twin Disc or Rockford PTO  Shop Kink #57 Cummins A/Onan L Series Water Pumps  Shop Kink #58 Ford 172 and Ford 192 Distributors and Drive Rods  Shop Kink #59 Identifying the Ford 460 Industrial Engine  Shop Kink #60 How To Order Parts For The Ford VSG Series Engine  Shop Kink #61 Chrysler LH318 and LH360 Industrial Engines: How to Identify Them  Shop Kink #62 Deutz Diesel and Ford Industrial Engine Timing Belts: How to Avoid a Big Problem  Shop Kink #63 Chrysler Industrial Engines: How to Identify the IND30, IND31, IND32 and IND33 Chrysler Flatheads  Shop Kink #64 Ford 172 and Ford 192 Industrial Engine Distributor Drive Rod  Shop Kink #65 Perkins 4236 Diesel and Ford 300 Industrial Pilot Bearing Holders  Shop Kink #66 Twin Disc and Rockford Power Take Off Clutches; a Dab or Two of Grease and a Six Pack of Beer: A Precautionary Tale  Shop Kink #67 Perkins and Deutz Gaskets: How to Make Them in a Pinch  Shop Kink #68 Ford BSD444T: How to Tell the Difference between Early and Late Models  Shop Kink #69 Diesel Particulate Filter Maintenance  Shop Kink #70  Email this page  Print this page