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My car came with dual batteries, not something I would have installed myself but it’s actually really fun for tailgating. Car has started cranking slow so it’s time to replace. I have a few questions:

1. Only one battery is used for starting but they are wired in parallel for charging. Do I need to replace both since only one starts the car? Both are active when running and driving, but the connection breaks when starting.

2. I only use the deep cycle function like once or twice a year, do I really need to shell out $400 x2 for deep cycle AGM or will I be ok with regular agm for $180x2? At worst I need to use my jumpstarter box but most of the time it starts, just cranks slow at first. Me

I (bka) went camping and my leg got pretty dirty, so when I got home I hosed it down while wearing it. Some water got in my foot shell, and when I finally took my leg off and poured out the water, it was BLACK!! So gross, I realized I’ve never really cleaned my foot shell before. So I disassembled everything and took it in the shower with me, the water coming out of that rubber foot was black for several pours before it started to clear up.

Clean out your foot shell!!

I need ideas on how to safely get my car around ~3ft off the ground. I can’t snake my headers in with my current jack stands, and I have to fit the transmission+trans jack under there at some point. There’s a rent-a-lift place like 50 miles away but the car doesn’t run, I don’t have a trailer and I won’t get this done in a day. The “high jack stands” I’m finding are like $600 for 4 of them, and I honestly can’t think of anything else to do. Do i just need to bite the bullet and spend a boatload of money on this??

I had a pool day about a week ago, and since my skin was soft from the water, when I kneeled on the edge of the pool I got a small cut on the front of my knee. It’s very shallow and didn’t even bleed, but is really bothering me when I wear my leg, it feels like a big bruise and it won’t heal if I keep wearing my leg. This has happened before and it takes forever to heal, I’m guessing due to the poor circulation in my stump. I’ve been taking my leg off as often as possible and went a day and a half on crutches, any tips on helping it heal faster? Not being able to wear my leg puts me in a funk :(

Drinking a lot of water is cool and all, but nobody talks about the dark side which is constantly needing to piss. I swear I pee like 10+ times per day, and wake up more than once per night to go. I love being hydrated, but at what cost?