Great suggestion Adam.  We have a leak down tester - a useful tool for sure.  In this case, we would have learned a bunch if we had done that but quite frankly forgot!  One thing to note - when engines have been sitting for a long time, sometimes the rings stick and you have low compression until you run the engine long enough to heat up the pistons.  You can get low compression or a bad leak down test but it is premature to conclude you need to rebuild the engine.  Next week's episode will have more diagnostics - we have a little work to do on the engine, but I am thinking at this point that we will get away with some version of a "shop" rebuild rather than any expensive machine shop work.Thank you for your comment!

Indeed!  My wife should know after 27 years that leaving me alone totally unsupervised is a questionable action!  As for more parts - indeed - working on it.

We just applied for the Drone Lottery...hoping for a tag!

Dana Smith That is interested Dana - this is on your TUG I am assuming?  6v or 12v?

HA!  You telling me the wind blows them tumbleweeds out in the Panhandle of the Great State of Texas?

I know where some are...getting the owner to part with them is another story...but he has piles of them.....

Uncle Dennis makes us smile too!😍

Appreciate it Steven!  They are super cool little devices and it is fun to understand how they work.

Thank you Pierre - glad you enjoyed it.  They are cool devices!

Greetings Don!  Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well.  The final drive is good fun...and getting more so the better it works!