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    first day scouting and found a pressure washer!!!!!

    around 12pm last night i went out to get some cash from the atm it was the day before trash day. so i drove around just glancing at the trash hopeing to see something. but no luck i didnt see anything but grass. so i went back home. spent 5 minutes crusing around that night.

    woke up to day to go to work i took a left at the end of my block just to see if anything special laying out side. i saw a pressure washer on the curb near their trash and their truck. so i took a you turn and stopped.

    im not a theif but when i look at my self from a different point of view i look like one to me. so i tried to put the pressure washer in my trunk but my trunk was way to small.

    since i lived around the block i parked my car at my house and walked back a few steps and i heard a door close so i turned around to explain my self. i notice the owner of the truck and asked her if this was trash? she looked towards the house and an older guy came into my view i asked him if this was trash? he said yeah.:eek: i asked him if i could keep it he said yeah i told him thanks and walked away.

    wondering the whole day what do i have waiting at the house. since it was in the trash i was thinking it wasnt working so i was looking it up on youtube.com just to see if theirs a common problem or something i should take a look at. of course a few videos... it it was to much to fix i was going to scrap it or somthing:confused:

    got home at the end of the day. looked at it closer at eye level and with a flash light. no major damage no leaks only in the air filter some oil but in cars they have some oil in the air filter tube near the val cover my uncle said it was fine in the cars so it must be fine in the pressure washer. i could hear some gasoline in the gas tank not so much. i looked at the knobs to make sure it was all in the right direction. then i pulled the cable slowly to make sure it felt strong.



    then i yanked on the cable and nothing happend then i pulled a something on the motor that openned the throttle body ( i either opend it or closed it ) and pulled the cable again and it worked like it was brand new no hesitating at all. heres some pictures of my find. if you look at the bottom picture all i did was move the chrome handle with my finger the red knob is pointing at it. the red knob is when you want to turn it on and off.




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    When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it
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    That's great sars. Congratulations on your first score. What are you going to do ? Keep or sell ?

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    im going to have to buy and make sure the bottom part works it should but then again it was in the trash. if everything works we are going to keep it cause we dirty up the back proch with staining crap for the pergola
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...w=1366&bih=606
    and clean the drive way and side walk from time to time. plus we have a few family members near by its cheaper to lend it then tell them to rent one. sharing is caring

    hey anyway i can stop from getting in trouble if the guy notice i have it working this weekend and he calls the cops saying i stole it?:confused:

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    You and your Dad make pergola's ? Cool

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    We payed for someone to build it. I haven't seen dad in a few years(^_^

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    Oh, sorry sars.


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