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What type of gauge set are you using? If you don't have the style that you can back off to not engage the valve, then it's possible that you're bending them slightly when working on the car.

Some of you are encountering crappy stores and/or employees if it's taking an inordinate amount of time to swap out a battery that's actually bad. Take it to the Auto center cashier to exchange it. Most, if not all WM stores, should be testing the battery with a conductance style...

https://www.motor.com/magazine-summary/alternator-ripple-effect/ Here's another article from that engineer cited in the above article showing that more than .5v ac "can" be ok: https://www.scannerdanner.com/media/kunena/attachments/4419/updatingyourripplevoltagetutorial.pdf

Years ago, I had a thermistor(temperature sensor) fail causing my evaporator to freeze up on my side-by-side 'fridge. https://diy.repairclinic.com/a-faulty-thermistor-can-cause-a-refrigerator-to-run-constantly/

Non-crush copper washers last a VERY long time so long as you're pretty consistent with torque on the plug. I've ran original ones to about a quarter million miles before changing them for example.

;) https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/odd-battery-test.360816/

I believe Hyper Tough's dongle from Walmart has been the cheapest option all system code scanner for the last few years now. They used to be a clone of the Autel AP200(and still might be, but in a different package now. Walmart changed the appearance of it about 1-1.5 years ago to square shaped...

Most competitive eaters "purge" the contents after training and competitions. According to past competition info, that 62 hot dogs would be about 16,740 calories. Some of them do supposedly keep certain foods down, but they eat very little for the next several days(you would have to do this if...

Shorts are caused when switches mechanically fail in the microwave. This is extremely common. https://mastersamuraitech.com/how-does-the-monitor-switch-in-a-microwave-work/

If you were struggling with a spring using those, get some brake spring pliers.

Since it went out right when your wife opened the door: It might be worth checking the door switches. My microwave went out a few years ago and I found a shorted door switch(which caused a thermal fuse inside to pop). No breaker tripped when this happened though.

Throw your original starter in the freezer for a few hours or overnight depending on how cold the freezer is, then retest it.

His vent temperature is warm, but so are those on the chart. Those are minimums your ac system should hit.

Does that Ridgeline have an AGM battery? A lot of those cheap testers will not give accurate readings on those or will read inconsistently. I have one tester that consistently puts AGM batteries about 250-300cca higher than other testers for example. I posted this in another recent thread that...

Conductance testers will almost always test over the rating on the label rating on a new battery, but yours does seem optimistic on that particular battery and programming is likely to blame. I've had a tester before that optimistically rated AGM batteries in particular due to what I assume is a...

The advice from the Bosch rep doesn't really mean anything at all. When purchasing parts from "Rockauto," you're really purchasing automotive parts from various warehouses that are typically authorized resellers. Parts Authority and United Auto Supply are the ones I most often receive parts...

Your dye is defective if you can't see any trace of it under your uv light. No matter what size uv light you have, a bit of residual dye in that bottle should fluoresce like crazy even in broad daylight.

Test the pump body, fittings, adapter cap, etc. with some soapy water while you have the system pumped up.

$6.47/each at Rockauto and there's a current AC Delco rebate for $3 per Iridium plug. https://www.rockauto.com/Images/CurrPromoFiles/parts_3.1_consumer_rebate_form_e-version_filters_fillable.pdf

Raise the idle and see if it's charging. If so, clean the throttle body, relearn idle, then recheck voltage. It's super common to have to relearn the idle and/or clean the throttle body when unhooking a battery on that era Toyota vehicle.