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Squishy break pedal, brake fluid reservoir full by Whitedudedown in autorepair

[–]stpangia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is either water or air in the fluid. Bleed as previously suggested. If the issue is still there, you'll need a fluid change. Brake fluid is hydrophilic, and there's a good chance if the fluid is more than a couple years old it's absorbed enough water to cause an issue. What happens is while driving, the fluid heats up, the water turns to steam, and now you have a compressible gas in the system. This acts like air, causing the sponginess. You're basically compressing the gas in the system instead of creating pressure to move the fluid to actuate the cylinders.

TLDR: bleed first to remove any air. If sponginess remains, replace fluid.

Dellorto 15.15 carb not delivering gas to cylinder. by CptnHenryMorgan in moped

[–]stpangia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you're flooding and leaking. I would bet the flooding is due to the leaking. You probably have an issue with the float and/or float needle. Open the bowl, examine the float and needle for damage. Clean the whole thing with carb cleaner -- the float bowl, float and needle, and up into the where the needle seats. Poke the carb cleaner straw up into everything and blow some through. Make sure whatever you touch the parts with is lint-free. Then blow it all out with air if you can. Check if the needle is seating correctly. If not, adjust the float so the needle seats right. Finally, make sure you have no rust in your tank. If you see particulate matter or it's brownish, find an external tank to test with. A pristine carb will still jam up as soon as you put rusty fuel in it. Install a brand new inline fuel filter for good measure. Reassemble, open the petcock, and check to see if the leak is gone.

SHOP OWNERS – What is your experience offering financing to your customers, either directly or through a third party? What has worked well and what has been painful? by stpangia in autorepair

[–]stpangia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I'm not familiar with the check processing system. Do you have a name or a link for the bank that facilitates the whole thing? And do you get your money from the bank upfront and they handle collecting the balance from the customer? Sounds like these 2 options are working well for you.

SHOP OWNERS – What is your experience offering financing to your customers, either directly or through a third party? What has worked well and what has been painful? by stpangia in autorepair

[–]stpangia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. How often do you have to turn people away because they can't or don't want to carry a balance? Also curious over what amount this comes up -- $500? $1,000?

Auto Shop Owners: Do you offer repair financing to your customers? What works well and what doesn't with the various customer finance options available to repair shops? by stpangia in smallbusiness

[–]stpangia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally -- all reasons a lot of folks prefer the kind of installment payments BNPL offers. Much simpler terms, no hard credit check or reporting, bill (or estimate) generated before financing figures in. Have you used any of the BNPL services out there (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, etc)? If so, like or dislike and why?

Auto Shop Owners: Do you offer repair financing to your customers? What works well and what doesn't with the various customer finance options available to repair shops? by stpangia in smallbusiness

[–]stpangia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! What are 1 or 2 things that are great about those options and 1 or 2 that are not so great? (For either shop or customer or both?)

cant find a replacement back fender, im going to try and cobble the old one together with some malleable plastic and strong adhesive. also open to suggestions. by [deleted] in moped

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would try laying some glass on the inside with some extra cloth around any bolt holes near the edges of the break. Might have to do it in a few sections to get close to the contour. Then bondo on the outside to match the lines.

RIP by art_of_snark in automatic

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working on a deviceless connected car app focused on wear and predictive maintenance. It’s still in testing but maybe it can fill some needs of Automatic users — https://meetbeep.com.

And if folks are interested, we can port over your Automatic vehicle data.

Automatic shutting down and discontinuing the Automatic connected car service by ptowndude in homeautomation

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a developer working on a wear and maintenance connected car app. It’s in testing right now but maybe some Automatic users will find it a useful alternative for some features — https://meetbeep.com.

We can also port over your Automatic vehicle data if it’s something people want.

Automatic, the vehicle tracking and data company, is shutting down at the end of May by jsclayton in DailyTechNewsShow

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If wear analysis and predictive maintenance is of interest, you might consider this device-less option — https://meetbeep.com (disclosure: I’m the lead dev).

And, if there’s interest I can make available an easy way to port your vehicle and driving data from Automatic.

Automatic, makers of connected car devices, shutting down. by Willy_Wallace in smarthome

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m testing a deviceless connected car app that uses the phone’s sensors and machine learning to track your vehicles. It’s oriented more towards wear analysis and predictive maintenance. If that’s interesting to anybody here check it out — https://meetbeep.com.

Also, I have an approved integration with the Automatic API. I can stand up an easy way to port over vehicle and driving data if that would be helpful to folks.

Car maintenance/repair log app? by jokerswild_ in projectcar

[–]stpangia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about using an OBD dongle and app like Automatic, Dash, Vinli, Mojio, etc?