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Weather was so nice I washed both trucks and some minor maintenance, noticed one of my reverse lights partly filled with water, time for a mod!
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Denali n DOO
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In the shed trying Christmas gifts again, keurig machine, Marley blue mountain coffee and Kahlua....
Sib
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Just working a little today. Wife ain't feelin' so hot today so gonna have to go home and play doctor. Also, was checkin status on a few orders I placed. My vanity mirror LEDs were supposed to be delivered yesterday and nothing came in 
, and I just saw that my HIDs from TRS are on backorder 
. Hopefully not for long. WTF??
, and I just saw that my HIDs from TRS are on backorder . Hopefully not for long. WTF??
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Blckshdw
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Went out and saw Top 5 with a couple of friends. 
TTF 
Made a run to Lowes for some little things. Took the roommie over to the park to see how rusty his bball skills were. Good workout, and a got a good sweat in. Time for a shower, some grub, and maybe see what movies are on the HTPC to watch.
TTF Made a run to Lowes for some little things. Took the roommie over to the park to see how rusty his bball skills were. Good workout, and a got a good sweat in. Time for a shower, some grub, and maybe see what movies are on the HTPC to watch.
They usually restock pretty quickly.Im Blazed said:I just saw that my HIDs from TRS are on backorder
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BlazingTrails
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Relaxing and helping the wife recover for her alcohol overdose last night 
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Random brewery tasks today. Pear cider needs to be transferred to a carboy and todays the day the brown porter gets mixed with a vanilla bean and rum tincture that I've been macerating for 3 weeks. Really can't wait to taste that one!
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Sulking.....lol.
This JD 212 I just finished up started knocking a little so I checked the point gap and was still .020. Motor has about an hour on it and I heard that .012 on the points would reduce the knocking. The knocking went away but that's too retarded for the timing. I was told to pull the head and check the piston...sure enough, it was rocking back and forth at TDC.
With the piston rocked to one side, I have .021 gap at the top of the piston. Now this motor has to come back out and I will have to get with the machine shop and see what to do with a $180 piston/rod ass'y plus the machine work. Looks like the bore was cut to the skirt and the top of the piston is too small for that.
This JD 212 I just finished up started knocking a little so I checked the point gap and was still .020. Motor has about an hour on it and I heard that .012 on the points would reduce the knocking. The knocking went away but that's too retarded for the timing. I was told to pull the head and check the piston...sure enough, it was rocking back and forth at TDC.
With the piston rocked to one side, I have .021 gap at the top of the piston. Now this motor has to come back out and I will have to get with the machine shop and see what to do with a $180 piston/rod ass'y plus the machine work. Looks like the bore was cut to the skirt and the top of the piston is too small for that.
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Beers at Tilted Kilt. 2 cheers for boobies.
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Drank a little too Much after work this morning... slept for 10 hrs. Woops
Tilted Kilt is awesome. Love the waitresses uniformCaptainKD said:
Drinking a beer getting ready for kickoff.
IllogicTC
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Did this yesterday, my little weekend project.
The problem on my roomie's 07 Pontiac:
Headlight harness burnt out on the low bulb. It uses some H-number bulb, so it's a little problematic finding replacements for cheap because nobody around here stocks them regularly like with the 9000-series bulb sockets.
So, I take the whole headlamp assembly down to my..... "state-of-the-art" workbench.
That wire down on the front next to the wire tool is part of the old wire. See how it has a crimp on each end!? Yeah, I thought the same thing. Stock wiring in the headlamp is AWG16, it had the necessary wires leading up to a crimp, then a 2" run of AWG12 (the yellow wire in between the crimps), then another set of crimps up on the butt-end of the harness itself, which tells me this isn't the first time this happened either. The harness was missing its waterproofing ring, I'm not sure if it burnt up or didn't exist (saw no evidence of it either way) the new harness has it.
So, a bit of wire cutting, stripping, soldering, and heatshrinking.... bam!
The problem on my roomie's 07 Pontiac:
Headlight harness burnt out on the low bulb. It uses some H-number bulb, so it's a little problematic finding replacements for cheap because nobody around here stocks them regularly like with the 9000-series bulb sockets.
So, I take the whole headlamp assembly down to my..... "state-of-the-art" workbench.
That wire down on the front next to the wire tool is part of the old wire. See how it has a crimp on each end!? Yeah, I thought the same thing. Stock wiring in the headlamp is AWG16, it had the necessary wires leading up to a crimp, then a 2" run of AWG12 (the yellow wire in between the crimps), then another set of crimps up on the butt-end of the harness itself, which tells me this isn't the first time this happened either. The harness was missing its waterproofing ring, I'm not sure if it burnt up or didn't exist (saw no evidence of it either way) the new harness has it.
So, a bit of wire cutting, stripping, soldering, and heatshrinking.... bam!
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I love that place toodmanns67 said:Tilted Kilt is awesome. Love the waitresses uniform
Drinking a beer getting ready for kickoff.
Working 12 hours and off tomorrow
Sparky
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No rest for this IT guy. Main virtual server at work is throwing fits. Randomly starts dropping system services but they never fully stop, and the whole thing gradually grinds to a halt 
Don't think it is a hardware issue since all the other virtual servers on the same hardware are perfectly fine. Weird one, this is.
Don't think it is a hardware issue since all the other virtual servers on the same hardware are perfectly fine. Weird one, this is.
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Ran some errands this morning. Got groceries, and hit up the liquor store for NYE preparations. 
Arguing with an Ebay seller about how the switchbacks they sent me do not match their listed description (AO, but I got AW) and one of the bulbs has its internal contacts reversed, so it flashes WA
So I want to send them back for a refund. They asked me to send them pics using Ebay's message system... Well static pics don't show you flash patterns, and you can't upload video, so I ended up shooting a short vid with my cell, and doing some Photochopping to convert it to a GIF. Let's see if THIS gets my point across.
no bueno
Arguing with an Ebay seller about how the switchbacks they sent me do not match their listed description (AO, but I got AW) and one of the bulbs has its internal contacts reversed, so it flashes WA
So I want to send them back for a refund. They asked me to send them pics using Ebay's message system... Well static pics don't show you flash patterns, and you can't upload video, so I ended up shooting a short vid with my cell, and doing some Photochopping to convert it to a GIF. Let's see if THIS gets my point across.no bueno
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wehowardjr
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Decided to clean the throttle body. My first reaction when I removed the resonator and opened the butterfly was WTF!!!! The TB has 148,555 miles and I believe the last time the inside of the throttle body saw daylight was when installed at the factory. There was so much crap built up behind the butterfly it literally looked like a miniature mountain range. I ran my finger over it and could feel the ridges. There is no need for neglect like that, totally stupid. I cleaned it up, reinstalled and pulled the two PCM fuses. It was running good before the cleaning, it should now run fantastic.
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We just got a tilted kilt here, been pondering checking it out some timedmanns67 said:Tilted Kilt is awesome. Love the waitresses uniform
Drinking a beer getting ready for kickoff.
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