Q:i have this valve and its really stiff i was wondering if there's a way to loosen it up a little its a KBI Ball Valve baught at Ace hardware and it looks like their might be a way of adjusting it i just dont know how

If what you have is a KBI plastic valve used commonly in PVC water pipe systems, you are stuck with a stiff valve. The best and only medicine for them is to open and close them frequently. Hard water deposits will cause them to work harder as well. If, and when you replace, useing a little petroleum jelly on the ball portion before installation might help, but I’m sure the manufacturer would frown on this. They can operate so hard that the handle will break off, so if you can turn it on and off, just keep working it.

Q:ok, after lots of exploring around online and from some great answers from this site I have found the problem to my explorer. The torque converter solenoid mounting clip broke. thats it!! new question, do i have to take off the valve body to remove the solenoid. If so any tips? its way new territory for me. I hate automatics!!

What are you? 9 years?

Q:I have an 07 mazda 3, I-4 with 16 Valve. Anyone know what 16 valve means?

This Site Might Help You. RE: What does 16 Valve mean? Mazda 3? I have an 07 mazda 3, I-4 with 16 Valve. Anyone know what 16 valve means?

Q:What are better valve cover gaskets for a car? Cork kind? Or the rubber kind? Or either rubber/cork kind?

For the inexperienced I would choose rubber it is harder to mess up by overtightening and if you clean the surface it will seal good

Q:my Hunter SVC VALVE will not work with my Lawn Genie Valve. Is this becaous the voltage is not matched? Hunter says it operates solenoids at 6-9 v DC // Lawn Genie says it is an 18 v DC solenoid. :-( my original Hunter Valve broke and I replaced it with the Lawn Genie. Should I get a Hunter Valve , or a Lawn Genie Controller at this point/ or is there something I have overlooked?.

Your Hunter transformer only provides about half the voltage needed to operate the Lawn Genie solenoid. You might find a weaker spring for the LG solenoid, but the long term fix is to stay consistent. Either use all Lawn Genie, all Hunter, all Rain Bird, etc.

Q:I am 16, and i have a leaky heart valve. What makes it worse so i can try to prevent from it getting worse? please help.

It would be very helpful to know which valve is involved. At your age a bicuspid aortic valve would be the most common congenital heart lesion. Regurgitation tends to increase over time no matter what is done. There is nothing that you will be able to do to prevent this from getting worse if that is the nature of the valvular abnormality. If you provide me with additional information I may be able to offer a more thorough and thoughtful response. I wish you the very best of health and in all things may God bless. JR

Q:This is my first tranny install and there is one thing that i really think i f'd up on. I'v been installing a junk yard 700r4 and transfer case into this beater 1990 k1500. Everything is in i'm just waiting on a new throttle valve cable (detent cable) to put it. But me, being my first tranny install, thought that the piece inside of the transmission that the detent cable attatches too.....came out. which i later found out that it doesn't, and that the TV cable just connects to it. I yanked on it pretty good with some pliers, and it never came out, and it still moves up and down. My question is could i have done some serious damage to that peice and the throttle valve itself???? let me know what u think.... thanks!

The only thing i can think you could have done i bent the peice that comes out of the trans. If the throttle valve still returns like a spring when you pull it with your fingers and you can still hook the tv cable to it it should be fine. unhook the tv cable at the carb or throttle body to hook it to the valve then hook it back to the carb or throttle body.

Q:Ok. i just got my trumpet and i barely know anything about it. my trumpet book says, oil your valves but i cant even get them unscrewed, its like theyre glued in there...or maybe im just doing something wrong. Helppp

Well on the valves you will see there are caps on the bottom and top of the valve. The top cap (it is located at the top of the valve itself, not the button you press - it is the cap that the button lands on when pressed) you unscrew that and take the valve out to oil it. Just make sure you put it in back correctly, if you put it in incorrectly it will not play properly. Also don't drop or dent the valves as they are very delicate and the smallest dent can damage it. Make sure that when you unscrew it that you only use your fingers. DO NOT use any tools to get it unstuck otherwise you can damage the instrument. It would be best for you (because you're new at the trumpet) to take it to the local music store and ask them how to take care of a trumpet. I am sure they will be happy to show you. Hope that helps

Q:I have a 04 Ford Ranger 4.0L . some people are saying that headers may affect the EGR valves and might put up the check engine light on. is this true or not.

the okorder so the headers stay tight and wont leak..

Q:I have checked this and ensured that the flow control is turned on. I have also found that:1. Valve works in manual mode2. Solenoid is getting electricity and water seems to be flowing in automatic mode but nothing is coming out of the sprinkler.I am not sure what could be broken as manual operation works and solenoid sems to be working. Any ideas?Thanks.

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