Homemade cars. Page 11

If a tubeless tire punctures, you can quickly repair the wheel without installing a spare tire. For this purpose, special aerosol emergency sealants in the form of foam are used. If the tire is punctured in the tread area, but does not have a side cut or has not come off

If you need to charge a car battery, but the charger is not at hand, then a laptop power supply can easily replace it. Typically, such units produce 18-19 Volts with a maximum load of 3-4 Amperes. This will be enough for us

There are three-electrode spark plugs on the market. They are not cheap and are not sold for all engine models. Many who have used multi-electrode spark plugs in their practice note more stable engine operation at both low and high speeds.

When your car wheels slip in mud or snow, it is extremely difficult to get out of off-road conditions.In such cases, a winch comes to the rescue, but there is also a cheaper homemade device. The cost of its production is almost negligible, and its practical benefits

Self-discharge is a painfully familiar thing to most car owners, especially in the winter. If the battery is more than 3 years old, then if you do not start the car for a couple of days in a row, then it becomes impossible to start it, the battery is discharged and

After repairing the vehicle's chassis, it is necessary to adjust the toe-in of the rear wheels. This is one of those tasks that you don't need to be a professional auto mechanic to perform. You can make alignments with your own hands without specialized equipment.

Imagine, you came to the village to visit your relatives and accidentally your battery ran out. What should I do? We ran around the neighboring neighborhoods, no one had a charger. And this is just one example when you need to charge a battery, and a charger for it

Condensation on the windows of a car, impairing visibility, can lead to troubles on the road, even an accident. Most often this problem occurs to drivers in the winter and much less often in the summer when the air conditioner is running. Mostly car glass

This is the smallest generator that can be made from a trimmer (mower) engine.Extremely small dimensions are achieved through the use of a permanent magnet generator without field windings. This installation can power

When restoring cars and motorcycles, the problem arises in finding original lenses for headlights. If you can’t buy them, you can cast the lens yourself. It's not cheap, but it's the only way out of the situation. This method

To quickly identify faulty spark plugs, you can make a device that is very simple and inexpensive to manufacture. With its help, used and defective spark plugs are calculated, which do not produce a spark and must be replaced.

To prevent raindrops from rolling off the windshield and not interfering with your view, it must be degreased or an anti-rain product must be applied. The first method is labor-intensive, and the second is expensive. The most profitable and simple solution is to make an anti-rain

Curbs pose a serious danger to car rims. Light alloy products suffer especially badly from them. If a crack or crease occurs, you must contact a specialist. Defects such as scratches, abrasions and

Various gasoline tools, such as a chain saw, brush cutter or garden vacuum cleaner, are equipped with a fuel line that wears out quickly. The gasoline supply tube used in it becomes rigid over time and cracks appear on it.So as not to

Driving a car in winter is complicated by the presence of snow and frost. To reduce the danger of driving at this time of year and ensure the safety of your car, you need to follow the advice of experienced drivers.

If by chance you have a large dent on your body that does not require painting, then it is quite possible to straighten it yourself. Moreover, this can be done with things that are intended for completely different purposes. Specific example: side

Let's imagine you decided to save money on repairs and decided to do it yourself. Everything is clear with painting and priming the damaged coating, but what to do with dents? Of course, you don’t have a specialized tool. Here to help you

Absolutely every motorist is faced with the problem of glass fogging. To solve it once and for all, we suggest you familiarize yourself with a simple method, a life hack that will eliminate this very unpleasant “disease” in your car.

Any straightener knows how important a professional tool is for pulling out dents on car bodies, and how much it costs. However, it can be completely replaced with a homemade one made from an old speaker. The operating principle is the same, but the savings

Changing the oil in a motorcycle, moped, chainsaw, or lawn mower quickly and without unscrewing the nuts is quite possible using this simple device. Simply unscrew the filler cap, insert the tube and pump out the oil.

A super simple magnetic-mechanical thickness gauge that absolutely anyone can assemble in about 15 minutes. Incredibly, with this simplicity the device has amazing sensitivity and can detect changes in the thickness of paint coatings of the order

For some unknown reason, you slammed the car door, but the keys remained inside. It doesn’t matter whether the central locking alarm system or human error worked incorrectly. What should we do now? Ideally, you should go home for spare keys, but what?

All motorists know how difficult it is to find a good anti-freeze product that does not smell, does not freeze, and is also affordable. I'll show you how to make anti-freeze that has excellent cleaning properties and doesn't harden in 20 minutes.

Let's imagine a case: you are about to start your car. Turn the ignition key and the starter makes a couple of sluggish turns. After which you realize that you definitely won’t start the car now. The reasons may be different: the car has been sitting idle for a long time,