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I’m replacing the fuel tank on a 6500w Coleman generator and I got one of the universal 7 gallon tanks on Amazon. Obviously these are never truly universal and this one is no different. I need to raise it a little for clearance and also drill new holes in the frame. I wanted to use these double male isolators but the tank holes aren’t quite wide enough and I don’t want to drill holes that close to the edge . I’m envisioning some kind of z shaped isolators or something with some offset. Any ideas? I suppose a Z shaped bracket might work as well but I’m trying to avoid needing so many nuts and bolts

I recently came into a free HP Z600 workstation. I have been wanting to build a PC for a few years but time and money have always been in short supply, so I’ve never gotten around to it.

Anyway, I’ve always wanted to do a sleeper type build and the free Z600 seems like a good place to start.

I understand that HP uses a proprietary motherboard and power supply, but I’m not afraid of chopping or modding the case. I would like to use a modern set up inside but I’m not ready to buy all the parts at the moment, as I know I will need to do the case work and that might take me some time.

Which reminds me of a thing that race car builders often do, which is use a broken or fake engine block to build the chassis of the car around instead of using the very expensive real thing in the middle of the fabrication space.

On that note, what would be a good place to find a cheap or junk standard (ATX I would assume) motherboard to be the template for the case work I know will need to be done?

Has anyone else ever used a Z600 case for an atx build? There is scant little information on the google concerning this case.

Installed a brand new OEM rack in my 03 Prerunner. New OEM out tie rods, new 555 upper and lower ball joints. After an alignment I can still feel a dead area when the steering wheel is at rest, like a couple degrees of rotation where the wheels aren’t moving.

I went underneath and I can move the steering shaft a little by hand. Is this what I feel? Normal? Loose gear lash or something?