Category Archive: Vehicle Maintenance

All post related to maintaining your vehicle

Jun 14

How to Change a Flat Tire – A Visual Guide

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Primer magazine shares a visual guide on how to fix a flat tire. This step by step guide will walk you through process. Having a spare tire, jack, 4 way lug wrench and emergency road safety reflective triangles.

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Jun 08

How To Jump Start A Car

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Art Of Manliness is an excellent website that brings back old fashion upstanding knowledge that men and women can benefit from reading. This website is for people who wish to live their lives with more honor, courage, and chivalry. The articles are like the advice a father would give a grown son on the verge …

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May 20

How To Back Up A Trailer Like A Pro

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The Prepper Journal website shares suggestions on how to successfully back up a trailer. Some people are natural gifted and can back a trailer with almost their eyes closed… like my husband. On the other hand, there are people like myself that can use all the help we can get…. like myself. It really helped …

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Mar 27

How to Clean a Generator Carburetor

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Prep For Shtf shares how to clean a generator carburetor as part of general maintenance. Purchasing a generator is a good tool in part of an emergency preparedness plan for you home in a short term disaster. It can temporarily power the essential appliances and lights in your home.

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Mar 16

How to Sharpen Lawn Mower Blades

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This Old House website shares 2 informative articles – ” How to Sharpen Lawn Mower Blades ” and  ” How to Maintain Your Lawn Mower “.

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Mar 04

How to Clean Corroded Car Battery Terminals

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Wiki How has a lot of educational articles with matching pictures to help people either refresh or learn how to do everyday things. I appreciate the website immensely and probably refer to it once every two weeks just to double check my facts before tackling a project….. in this case it was dealing with a …

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Jan 18

Stuck In Your Car – Being Prepared With The Right Supplies Can Make All The Difference

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I was traveling with my friend Dana to a small town 40 miles from my home. As we came around a corner, I had to swerve to avoid hitting another car that had just been in a roll over single car accident due to icy roads. There was one adult woman waving her arms and …

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Jan 16

Arc Welding with 3 Car 12v Batteries Video & Demo

Shared with permission from PrepForSHTF.Com

Our friends over on ” Prepforshtf ” blog shared a very cool post about  How to Arc Welding with 3 Car Batteries in a emergency disaster situation. This is the kind of knowledge you want to know – being self sufficient comes in all forms and skill building is my favorite. To view the video …

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Oct 25

Spray Pure Vinegar On Windshield To Avoid Frost

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photo credit Spray pure vinegar on windshield before a winter storm & car windows will not frost over. Homestead Survival Blog wants to take a moment to say ” Thank You ” for your support, time and energy for being an interactive member of this community on this journey of learning. Please understand that you …

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