Whatever!!!!!!!!! Gearhead-EFI Edition

[RobertISaar]

borrowing the concept from W-Body.com, since it has been INCREDIBLY successful there, with the original thread reaching 149,993 posts(page number 10,000) from 5-4-2005 to 4-7-2010, we since have made a V2 of the thread and from 4-7-2010 to current, we're up to 29,074 posts...

essentially, this thread can be used for nearly anything: venting about your day, posting a pic of something interesting you saw, jokes, etc...

because sometimes, a forum needs to not be so incredibly specific about who or what it caters to.

also: unless Mark says otherwise, anything that could be considered NSFW? don't post it directly, if at all. be CERTAIN to clearly label it as such.

have fun!



I LOVE Futurama.... i don't watch much TV at all, but that is something i rarely miss.

[Lucky]

Ah bite my shiny metal ass. :lol:

[EagleMark]

What's NSFW?

I am an open kinf of guy and like discussion on many things. EFI is my favorite and on another site I started with a guy 10 years ago he would have a bloddy fit if someone interfered or asked a question or shown him another way. So here I am with a gtreat group. If you want to do something then go for it.

My only concerns is we keep this gentemenly, some call that PG13 nowadays.

[EagleMark]

I also do not watch mutch TV but I do record PowerBlock every saturday morning so when I want to set down and let my mind relaxt they entertain me!

EDIT: OK there's also Gears, some Speedvision, paris tom Dakar or wherever they go know and Top Gear.

[RobertISaar]

NSFW = not safe for work. PG13 is a good/similar description, i think.

BTW, the movie Idiocracy? GREAT film.... scary though, since i know people who wouldn't have much trouble fitting into the society of 2505...

[EagleMark]

OK I'll try to watch Idocracy! But I;m not sure about futurama...

[RobertISaar]

<-- about to go get a steering rack for the wife's GP....

it's gonna be all kinds of fun to install.

[RobertISaar]

my math feels good today:

A*B*C*D*E*F*G=H

a=BPW in mS
b=(1/3,600,000)
c=injector flowrate in lb/hr
d=(# of cylinders / 2)
e=RPM
f=60
g=injector pulses per 4 stroke cycle

h=lb/hr of fuel flowing through injectors.



A/B=C

a=lb/hr of fuel flowing through injectors
b=6.073 (lbs of gasoline per gallon)

c=gallons/hr of fuel flowing through injectors



A/B=C

a=MPH
b=gal/hr

c= Miles per gallon (derived from miles per hour and gallons per hour)

[EagleMark]

Man you so far ahead of me in math! I don't even know what * means?

[RobertISaar]

* = multiply.

BTW, that equation should work with nearly any MPFI/SFI motor, so long as it's not a 2 stroke. it would need modified slightly for any engine that has more or less injectors than it does cylinders.

[Six_Shooter]

I need to get some homework done....

Meh

[EagleMark]

That math wasn't enough for one day? :lol:

What are you studying?

Or homework like raking leaves...

[Six_Shooter]

High S'kool...

I have Science, Math, English and "Peer helping" credit this semester. This will be it, so that I can finally get my High School diploma, then I's be edumakated. lol

In other news, I just spent $129 on gas. :x :|

[RobertISaar]

ouch... and i thought throwing in $50 a few days ago was bad.

[EagleMark]

My Suburban has a 40 gallon tank! I have not filled up in awhile...

[RobertISaar]

and it seems my grandfather died on thursday.....

[Six_Shooter]

That's not cool.

[EagleMark]

and it seems my grandfather died on thursday.....
Oh bummer dude! :sad: Condolances to you and family!

What was his name? I will put him on our prayer list...

[RobertISaar]

Dave Yeates... Toledo Blade ran his obituary today actually...

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledo ... =150306572 (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=david-g-yeates&pid=150306572)

[Six_Shooter]

Such a nice day, about to head out for a drive in the Datsun.....
:jfj:

[EagleMark]

Such a nice day, about to head out for a drive in the Datsun.....
:jfj:
What a life! :wtg:

You must be close to me in Canada. Ay! I'm in Coeur d'Alene Idaho near Spokane Washington.

Do they still say Ay up there? Canadians I have met used "ay" like a period when they talked.

[Six_Shooter]

About 2000 miles from you, in Southern Ontario.

My Datsun came from Richland Washington though. :)

We don't say "Ay", we say "Eh." :P

[EagleMark]

Thought you were going for a drive? Eh!

:scare:

[Six_Shooter]

I did, I'm now back. Going to work on some stuff, then go out for some laps tonight with some friends. ;)

[Six_Shooter]

Crab cap, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2011/02/m21/33.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

Why is it that grey hairs are the toughest to pull out?

[Six_Shooter]

If a farmer is an expert, is he outstanding in his field?

[EagleMark]

Have you been drinking?

[Six_Shooter]

Not at all.

[Six_Shooter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1U79UA8 ... ture=share (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1U79UA8gU4&feature=share)

[RobertISaar]

GP steering rack = done.

had to replace pump as well. total cost = ~$130.

[Six_Shooter]

I had a dream last night that I was a muffler, I woke up exhausted.

[RobertISaar]

did Confucious give you any advice?

[Six_Shooter]

It's Friday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

[RobertISaar]

WHY?!

i honestly prefer a rickroll compared to that!

[EagleMark]

WHY?!

i honestly prefer a rickroll compared to that!
I remember rickrolled... guys got banned from Pirate for that... pretty hard to get banned from Pirate...

[EagleMark]

I had a dream last night that I was a muffler, I woke up exhausted.
Well that was a gas...

[Six_Shooter]

I can see the new meme being Black Bombed. :D

[RobertISaar]

hmm....

start normal video, abrubt rickroll, back to normal video for a few seconds, have "friday" repeat in infinite loop?

[Six_Shooter]

This is it, I'm doing something about the Dakota.

I just, for the first time ever, spent 3 digits on fuel in one vehicle. It cost me $102.50 to fill the Dakota.

So I'm going to modify the exhaust, which I'm told helps, probably switch it to manual, and likely MS3 it or put a Delco ECM on it.

[EagleMark]

Tuesday is payday and I am going to fill up my 2WD Suburban with a 40 gallon tank! :scare:

[Six_Shooter]

Tuesday is payday and I am going to fill up my 2WD Suburban with a 40 gallon tank! :scare:

Good luck with the bank loan. :doh:

[Six_Shooter]

So....


Lack of posts over the last week is eerie...

[RobertISaar]

hmm....... i'm still alive, just busy lately.

[EagleMark]

So....


Lack of posts over the last week is eerie...
I think everybody got hit with life!

Man I have had a terrable week, my doctor starting acting like a lawyer when I asked him some questions of his plan of action.
:confused1:

The Mobile home park I have lived in for 12 years gave me a 3 day eviction notice for running an automotive repair shop.... since I have a herniated disk in my back I have not even opened the door to the garage in a month, which is 16 by 70 long and I don't have one single part outside, never did. It's a nice place and they would not allow it. But I have written permission to work on my own vehicles inside. Made sure that was clear before I bought the place and built the garage along side the house. We got a new manager awhile back, couple years and I never even saw her or said hi. Just pay the rent and enjoy my home! WHAM!!!! She sure bitch slapped me...
:confused1:
SoI had a doctors appointment the next day and asked my doctor if he could handle this as he is now acting like a lawyer? He discharged me from his office! WHAM! Another bitch slap...
:confused1:

so luckily I have an old freind who is an attorney and he wrote the park manager a letter... the owner of the park came to my house and apoligized for her RUDE behavior and thanked me for being a good neighbor...

Then the assisted living place calls and wants to know when my mom is coming back????
:confused1:


When did she leave I asked and they told me about three days ago as far as they can tell and thought she was here visiting me.....
:confused1:



So anyway we found her at her freinds house DRUNK and not taking her medication for dementia and alshiemers the whole time gone and she and her freinds apartment was a wreak..... WHAM! Apartment manger gave her freind a three day eviction notice and she wanted to know if she could stay with me!!!
:confused1:



Needless to say she is not here and I don't know where she is and don't care. But my mother is coming back to reality in her new room in the assited living LOCKED security wing....

Now that I have had one day without any disasters UPS shows up with all the nice new shiny parts to rebuild my sons 345 IH motor in his tow rig for his rock crawler and I can go back to having a life. I hope!
:scare:

[EagleMark]

Now that Friday the 13th is over maybe, just maybe life will calm down to just a flood or a tornado or earthquake.... oh I know they were talking about Mount Saint Helens warming up again...

[Six_Shooter]

http://i.imgur.com/ltIfG.jpg

[RobertISaar]

LOL, today is gonna be a fun day...

[EagleMark]

WHY? Is that a picture aabout the Judgement day thing? Looks like an albulm cover with a rock star climbing stirs. Not Highway to heaven cover...

EDIT: Or Hank ? country music dude!

[EagleMark]

Robert, what is the flag you have as an avatar?

[RobertISaar]

Robert, what is the flag you have as an avatar?

'tis the flag of Saarland, Germany.

[Six_Shooter]

It's Macho Man Randy Savage on his way to heaven yesterday. ;)

[EagleMark]

Robert, what is the flag you have as an avatar?

'tis the flag of Saarland, Germany.
Very Cool! So is it coenceidence or are your familys roots from Sarrland?

[RobertISaar]

certainly not coincidence, though i have yet to determine why there are so many objects with the word "Saar" in their name... river, state, city, etc....

[Six_Shooter]

The reason the Rapture didn't happen:
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/226650_1702038520700_1530078020_31315898_7071578_n .jpg

[EagleMark]

The reason the Rapture didn't happen:

The reason judgement day did not happen was because it was presented by a false prophet. Anyone who has had any bible reading would be able to argue that guy into a sewer hole. My ten year old neice knew enough to quote why she was not worried about the false coming of Jesus.
Even the koran can show this was a false prophet proclaiming a false date.

I can't beleive it even made the news... :roll:

[RobertISaar]

the guy has an almost ~100 million dollar bank account, that's probably why.

[RobertISaar]

<-- finally making lots of progress on the 93-95 3100 flash modules...

[Six_Shooter]

<-- finally making lots of progress on the 93-95 3100 flash modules...

*like* :rockon:

[RobertISaar]

they're actually quite similar to the way A1 is setup...

well, except for the whole 2 processors inside of one PCM that communicate with each other on a regular basis thing. :rofl:

[RobertISaar]

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/20101_dnf.jpg

penis reference? related to Duke Nukem? NEVER!

[Six_Shooter]

I was hoping to go paintballing this weekend, until I got gas for my truck last night. :sad:

[EagleMark]

I had some extra bills this month and didn't get to fill my tank, get my fishing license and use gas daily to fish! :sad:

Last year I did not fish at all...

Year before I broke a record and fished 23 days in a row. Mostly evenings, BBQ dinner and watch sun set. Fish and hour into dark for cats then head home to hit the hey.

[EagleMark]

So with all the time at home I'm getting a few things done but bored and found all my music on the computer.

Broad spectrum of people here but I'll ask.... what music do you like? What bands?

I have gotten older and have started liking even country as forced on me by my son. But before that old favorites are of course the best band in the history of Rock and Roll (NOT RICK ROLLED :laugh: ) Led Zeplin, Pink Floyd. Newer stuff Enigma, Evenscence. Solos Lenny Kravitz...

One song by Mindy Smith "come to Jesus" really hits the spot.

[RobertISaar]

i'm a big fan of industrial rock and concept albums, but for the most part, i listen to almost everything my father does. probably not a coincidence.

quick list would be:

NIN
the smashing pumpkins
queensryche
zepplin
pink floyd
metallica(although ever since St Anger was poo'd out, i can't bring myself to like anything)
megadeth
bush
queen
rage against the machine
rammstein
tool
and recently, i started liking Daft Punk due to their work on the Tron:legacy soundtrack.

those would be the ones that i associate myself with the most.

[EagleMark]

i'll have to try some of them I never heard of... should have had Queen on my list. Liked them a lot more before I found out lead singer dude was a Queen...

[gregs78cam]

HHMMMM..... any thing by AC/DC, 80's-90's Metallica, Scorpions, MegaDeath, Van Halen(w/ and w/o Sammy Hagar), Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie, Def Leppard, Lynard Skynyrd, and more similar.

[RobertISaar]

when i was younger (LOL), it bothered me that freddie mercury was clearly not a heterosexual person, but i eventually came to the conclusion that i would rather enjoy his contribution to the world rather than be hung up on the fact that somehow his choice in sexual partners made his work less amazing.

[EagleMark]

when i was younger (LOL), it bothered me that freddie mercury was clearly not a heterosexual person, but i eventually came to the conclusion that i would rather enjoy his contribution to the world rather than be hung up on the fact that somehow his choice in sexual partners made his work less amazing.
Yeah me too! Never was just a plain song from them, they were all amazing.


HHMMMM..... any thing by AC/DC, 80's-90's Metallica, Scorpions, MegaDeath, Van Halen(w/ and w/o Sammy Hagar), Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie, Def Leppard, Lynard Skynyrd, and more similar.
That's a pretty hard core line up there Greg... :thumbsup:

[EagleMark]

It's been about a year since I was downloading music, house is networked so I keep up on new music from my sons (18) computer. He actually got me back to listening to music when he was about 14 I kept hearing decent (SWEET) music. I had lost intrest for years and couldn't afford buying music.

So is Lime Wire still the go to place?

[RobertISaar]

limewire is full of viruses and people looking to fine you thousands of dollars for the equivalent of a $15 CD.

torrents are the way to go these days.

[EagleMark]

Information on torrents to a torrent naive person please! I need more tunes!

I have never thought of it as theft because if I did not get the music for free, I would never buy the album... opps do they still make them? I meant CD. As a matter of facts I still have about 100 cassetes, last one I bought before I was married 25 years ago. I have never bought a CD for music. I listen to music on the radio for free or what I get of internet for free.

EDIT: Well I guess I have stolen music... when my kids freinds come over with CDs I say, "Can I listen to that for a little bit?" and I quickly copy it... or I did a few years ago. Can you still copy music CDs? I know movie DVDs don't anymore...

[RobertISaar]

quick explanation of torrents(though wikipedia may have a much more thorough explanation):

VERY similar to the classic P2P stuff like limewire, except with MUCH better security. essentially, you'll need a torrent program(i use the normal bittorrent.com one), then you'll need to find some torrent files for whatever your looking for. i constantly use thepiratebay.org or sometimes demonoid.me

then search for whatever you might want, or check the "top 100" sections, find something you like, make sure it has "seeders"(people who have at least one full copy of the entire torrent), check the comments to see how people have been liking it, though there may be people who have no idea what they're talking about, so take it with a grain of salt.

if you like what you see, download/open the .torrent file, and then your bittorrent client should start downloading all of the files described in the torrent.



also, copying CDs/DVDs is as easy as it's ever been.

[Six_Shooter]

LMAO... Lime wire....

NEVER use a P2P program, they are full of viruses. Not saying all files are infected, but many are.

I listen to a lot of different genres.

(new) Country, like Brad Paisely (Puts on a great concert), Faith Hill, Toby Keith, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebelum, Darius Rucker, etc.
Metal, like Metallica (Pre "Re-Load"), Megadeth, Guns 'N' Roses, Ozzy, Ramstein, etc.
House/Electronic, like Deadmau5, D-devils, Becky, Lucky Princess, etc.
Classical, like Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, etc.
Musicals, like Phantom of the Opera, Mama Mia.
Rock, like AC/DC, Led Zepplin, Queen, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, etc.
Dance/Hip Hop, mostly older stuff from the early to mid '90s.
Anything else that catches my ear, like William Shatner, Organized Rhyme, etc.
Basically anything but Gangster Rap, and old time whiny country.

[EagleMark]

It has been years since I used Lime Wire, I have had this laptop over a year and it was never installed. But I had no problems with virus back then.

William Shattner?
:confused1:

You mean Captain Kirk sings? :laugh:

[Six_Shooter]

Yep, well.... not really singing, but spoken word. He has two albums out, his first album The Transformed Man was released in 1968. I don't have that one, but I do like his rendition of Rocket Man from that album. I do have his second album, Has Been which has a rendition of Common People and a few guest stars, like Henry Rollins in the song I Can't Get Behind That. It looks like he has a third album coming out this year. :D

Rocket Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I

Common People:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

It's an acquired thing, but there's definitely some humour to it as well.

[Six_Shooter]

So I installed a supercharger on my buddy's 8th gen Civic yesterday.

I am impressed with the short ride I had in it before he drove home, next time I drive. :evilgrin:

From this:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/251250_10150266997193245_509083244_8928846_4975944 _n.jpg

To this: (Also changed the cam cover in the process... red = Mad toyt JDM yo! http://imgs.pbnation.com/smilies/dodgy.gif )
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/260056_10150266997898245_509083244_8928859_8145184 _n.jpg

[gregs78cam]

Speaking of superchargers and imports, a few years ago I put a Procharger P1-SC on a good friend's '92 300ZX. It was a lot of custom work, but that's what I like to do so it was fun. I think I will go ahead and post a few of the pics in the photo gallery. You can also see some of the stats on Procharger's website.

http://owners.procharger.com/supercharged/149

[gregs78cam]

well, with my slow internet, I will have to wait until next weekend to upload all the pics from that project, using my work internet should be must easier/faster. Here is the best teaser I could find with low enough resolution.

[EagleMark]

Wow! That doesn't even look like a motor? :innocent2:

[Six_Shooter]

So much win! http://www.collegehumor.com/video/58244 ... nfused-rap (http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5824443/the-dark-knight-is-confused-rap)

[Six_Shooter]

http://208.116.9.205/10/content/9034/1.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

http://208.116.9.205/10/content/13788/1.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3460/sqhzotwkzj8bscaexwzdougsk7.png

[Six_Shooter]

Epic fail!

http://data.tumblr.com/O5dig2ziemn5py0xPpdkmZ7ro1_500.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

Dragging cage...

http://jonsibal.com/bpimages/baggg.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

I straight up LOL'd!!

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5752/4568.jpg

[RobertISaar]

prediction from 1985? LOLOL

[Six_Shooter]

http://www.entropicorder.net/img/kanye-xzibit.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

http://i.imgur.com/oFGXa.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

http://media.fukung.net/images/25870/377be87f33fd2f52b81ec5a65d15119e.jpg

[EagleMark]

Neither!

The wife will have the dog trained to kill the first person nwho opens the trunk! :laugh:

My wife is very good with dogs...

[Six_Shooter]

http://i.imgur.com/fpXjT.jpg

[RobertISaar]

i do miss the 90s....

[RobertISaar]

topic of the week: PID control/tuning?

i'm actually rather new to the concept, but it seems like it can be demystified easily enough.

[gregs78cam]

topic of the week: PID control/tuning?

i'm actually rather new to the concept, but it seems like it can be demystified easily enough.

sounds good. I would like to know more. I think it could help fix the lean spike in closed loop cruise that I am having. I'll do some reading.

[EagleMark]

topic of the week: PID control/tuning?

i'm actually rather new to the concept, but it seems like it can be demystified easily enough.Did you start a thread? All these topics of week are great to fall back on and add into to later.

[RobertISaar]

not yet, i was wondering if anyone actually cared about PID control/theory.

[EagleMark]

I'm interested in learning anything in the new systems since I've done nothing with them other than read codes and fix problems.

Sorry I have been absnt around here, weather turned to almost 70-80s and I have SOOOO much out side house work to take care of. Been trying to presure wash the deck and recoat it, have some water damage along side the garage from the last 2 winters piling up snow on the wood, blahh, blah, blah... I hate working on houses...

[RobertISaar]

i know the problem, i've been spending most of my free time trying to make sense of the 93-95 GM V6 flash PCMs. GM sure did make use of the advantages of having dual processors.

[gregs78cam]

My long weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjvYmUsqw60

It took 9 of us to set it up in about 10 hours, and I shot it all in 20 minutes.

[EagleMark]

Nice! What happened to the one that went off next to the ground? Couple feet lower and the barge would have gone too...

[gregs78cam]

Well we're not sure, I think what happened was the lift charge may have fractured the cardboard sphere holding the display charge and caused it to ignite early. That 8" shell should have displayed at about 800 feet. It was a little bit of excitement. It's always fun though.

[EagleMark]

We were on a freinds boat on Lake Coeur d'Alene for the forth about 6 years ago. Torwards the final finally something went wrong? I don't know how many people noticed but we had achored there early and were as close as possible. Don't think I will do that again. Only way to describe is a bad LAD trip that wasn't going to stop. They just kept getting closer and something failed but the last few big booms with huge sparks, several hit the water and I was looking for cover. and there was none. it was an open 20 foot boat.

I think only 100 people in that area we were in would have noticed and when they stopped we heard several women screaming in the area. Not happy screams.

Fianlly ended and we lived. Then several hundred boats (probably thousands) started up and took off. 20 foot open boat again, not good. We got swamped once and I stood next to Larry our Captain and was truely concered... he was only taking a couple of my directions before I told him I'll Drive. Imediatlu floore it through same huge wakes from a yoo yoo in a 40 foot boat who decided to go a slow speed which was making the biggest wake possible. and got it op plane with a couple 90 degree slow turns and full throttle took about 15 seconds and didn't intrude on anyone. Then stayed with a pack of boats all straight and on plane at same speed and all good captains and made it back to other end of the lake at night, pitch dark. I knew eactly where we were at all times and am capable of not only driving the lake in the dark but fish it too! I had no idea Larry did not know what he was doing.

Other than that yeah we had fun. Haven't left the house on forth of July Weekend since...

[RobertISaar]

looks like we're getting rid of the wife's 90 grand prix LE...... and getting a 91 grand prix SE.

LOL

[EagleMark]

Why?

[RobertISaar]

because the 90 is more rust than metal at this point.

[Six_Shooter]

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200552_10150417695960051_651865050_17576615_177097 8_n.jpg

[EagleMark]

That would be a very popular bumper sticker in the IH community... :laugh:

[Six_Shooter]

LOL!

http://2.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/79/53/272832d6af2633f612bbe15f4e54bbec.jpg

[Six_Shooter]

Click on this link: http://blackacrebrewing.com/home/

Then click on "I am under 21."

[EagleMark]

Sure screwed up a good Four Non Blonds song.... but it was funny...

[EagleMark]

Isaiah 40:29-31
New International Version (NIV)

29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

This waa on a coin my wife gave me in the hospital during my first back surgery when I thought all I had in my future was a wheelchair. Well three back surgeries later on four disks after the rear ended car accident I am still not in a wheel chair.

And know you know where the Eagle in EagleMark comes from. :rockon:

[Six_Shooter]

When you just can't get an engine to idle down, and you can't find any vacuum leaks at the manifold to head, or plenum to base, etc, make sure all of the vaccum ports on the throttle body(ies) are capped. :innocent2: :rolleye: :mad1:

[EagleMark]

I hate when that happens! :sad:

When you test your LC-1 on the bench, learn how to use it, calibrate it and it works perfectly why won't it work preperly on a rig? Three hours gone today on that, went back to logging data the old way...

[EagleMark]

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in NJ where the right to bear arms means you can wear a slevless shirt! :laugh:
So the only few guns I had were illeagal small pocket guns for protection, never fired. When I left NJ at 21 with a cab over camper for a year road trip I was only gone 2 weeks and knew I was never going home. Found that in the rest of the country you could own guns, buy guns, shoot guns and some states like my favorite AZ wear a sidearm in full view. Legally!

2 of my three small pocket guns from NJ: One was an auto and fired once and jambed everytime. Had a gunsmith fix it. One was a revolver that jammed on first bullet then fire, then jam then fire... Had a shop smith fix it. Glad I never needed them!

[Six_Shooter]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/392275_10150433110739321_517584320_8220716_1358861 458_n.jpg

[EagleMark]

Occupy Wall street Lego version?

[Six_Shooter]

Yeah, specifically the pepper spray incident on a campus some where in the states.

[Six_Shooter]

Spent about 7 hours working on a Volvo audio system today.

I removed a bunch of previous wiring that was for amps and a computer.

[EagleMark]

I had toe surgery and can't walk more then the bathroom for five days. Also have insomnia so I have now completed reading the internet in it's entirty! :laugh:

[JeepsAndGuns]

I cant win from losing.
I bought that grand cherokee (read thread good deal is not so good) with the PO telling me the engine is the only problem.
I spend $400 fixing the engine, only to test drive it and find out the trans wont shift and is making a whining noise.
I spend another $400 putting in a good used trans, and now it shifts and works just fine (for now:rolleye:) only to find out the whining noise is the rear axle. :mad1:
Other things I have found wrong:
Heater blower motor doesnt work, there is a module that controlls it, and its anywhere from $100-150.
The blower motor modules usally go out because the blower motors get age and wear on them and start pulling too many amps. And the new blower motors are around $60-70.
The hot/cold blend doors in the hvac system do not work. Research online shows its a weak factory design. It can be fixed by removing the glovebox and cutting a hole in the hvac box, removing the doors and replaceing them with new aftermarket ones.
I pull the glove box to take a peek, only to find out someone has already been in there ****** rigging the doors, and left ta big hole in the box with nothing but tape covering it.
The list goes on....

Ok, rant over.

[1project2many]

Also have insomnia so I have now completed reading the internet in it's entirty!
So... have you found Al Gore's first post? From the day he invented the internet? I think it says "Is it just me, or does it seem warm in here?"


IHeater blower motor doesnt work, there is a module that controlls it, and its anywhere from $100-150.
The blower motor modules usally go out because the blower motors get age and wear on them and start pulling too many amps. And the new blower motors are around $60-70
If it only works on high then it's a very easy fix. We have a bazillion Chrysler products in the fleet and I have done this many times. They call it a "module" but it's really just a cheap resistor block in ceramic substrate. There's a small bullet shaped piece that's a chemical fuse. They can be replaced but I just install a 25A fuse there and put it back together. In 4-5 years with 8-10 hr per day usage you'll probably find the connector at the resistor block has gotten distorted from the extra heat, or maybe it will be the switch on the dash. Both of those parts together are usually less than the resistor block so it's a good fix all around. And if you can't fix the module and end up buying a new one you can get a big ceramic resistor like the old Chrysler and Jeep ignition resistors and put that in line with the blower motor to limit total current usage and save the extra money you'd spend on the blower. If you have access to air it doesn't hurt if you can remove the motor and blow out all the carbon and dust that accumulated inside the motor housing.

I'm a packrat in the worst way. I dug out my first PC, a P200 stuffed into a 486DX100 case, and it fired up right away. It even had correct date and time, and it hasn't run since '04. I had to remember a few old tricks to get Winnows 98 to talk with my network but overall it was a trouble free startup. The sad part is it's quicker to use and more responsive than my machine that's 5X faster in processor speed with 10X more memory, dual processors, and a heirarchy dedicated to moving data. I _hate_ forced Winnows upgrades. There's sooo much unnecessary junk that gets added to each new version of Gatesware it's ridiculous. I've tried moving to Linux more than once but the world is geared toward Microsoft and the switch is never permanent. Maybe I just need to buy a new machine with the latest version of Winnows and everything will get better.

[EagleMark]

I really liked XP! Finally a version that worked!

Then the coffee through keyboard insident forced me to buy a new laptop, was very reluctant to get winnows 7 but it has been good!

Still hate the FORCED douments, shared documents, my documents, admin only to change this and that, change user? What user? Me? FUDGE!!! I was so careful at first to be a machine for one person, with no password or switch user crap! yet still sometimes I go to find a file in my documents only to find I am in shared documents and there's nothing there?

Why can't I just have a computer? You know like with C drive and your folders there?

[JeepsAndGuns]

If it only works on high then it's a very easy fix. We have a bazillion Chrysler products in the fleet and I have done this many times. They call it a "module" but it's really just a cheap resistor block in ceramic substrate. There's a small bullet shaped piece that's a chemical fuse. They can be replaced but I just install a 25A fuse there and put it back together. In 4-5 years with 8-10 hr per day usage you'll probably find the connector at the resistor block has gotten distorted from the extra heat, or maybe it will be the switch on the dash. Both of those parts together are usually less than the resistor block so it's a good fix all around. And if you can't fix the module and end up buying a new one you can get a big ceramic resistor like the old Chrysler and Jeep ignition resistors and put that in line with the blower motor to limit total current usage and save the extra money you'd spend on the blower. If you have access to air it doesn't hurt if you can remove the motor and blow out all the carbon and dust that accumulated inside the motor housing.


No, it doesnt work at all. The switch on the dash, or the controlls, send a 0-5 volt signal to this module to controll the fan speed. When I first noticed it didnt work, I looked under the dash and found the wires had been cut and the module had been bypassed, and then the wires cut again. I tried hooking the module back up and I got a poof of smoke and a blown 40 amp fuseable link under the hood. I replaced the fuse then hooked the wires up straight to the motor just to see if it worked, and the wires (pretty decent sized) started getting warm. So the motor works, its just pulling to many amps. It appears most of the time the connector melts, but mine the whole module went out too.
http://www.wjjeeps.com/blower_motor.htm

[1project2many]

Devil's in the details. Auto climate control systems are definitely different. There's always toggle switches and an old fashioned blower resistor. :)

[Six_Shooter]

The Dakota is officially a 5 seater now.

Got rid of that useless center seat in favour of a bonefied console. :D

[Six_Shooter]

Drove the Datsun around today.

http://www.smiley-faces.org/wallpaper/smiley-face-wallpaper-widescreen-001.jpg

[EagleMark]

Nice weather in canada ay... must have been dry salt on the roads?

I spent 12 hours working on th TunerPro look up and adding information to every $ECM info thread we have. They each have vehicles that the ECM and mask came with... I have 105 xdf files and only 45 ECM threads?

[93V8S10]

105 and counting, I left you a few more. :)

[Six_Shooter]

I'm debating on whether I should spend $1100 (sale price, regular over $2200), for a tool box from a national chain, that would likely do for me, or spend more, and do payments on a larger box, from a tool company, that I can also get in the colour of my choice...

ARG!!

[EagleMark]

I have a craftsman top box my mom gave me when I was 17 and it's still in good shape 35 years later... I got a new top of the line roller drawers craftsman bottom and top box about 5 foot tall 26 inch wide, 18 inch deep 13 years ago and still like new, was under $800 back then, just looked and man you could get their biggest bottom box, biggest top box and side box's for the $1100... lots of sales! In red, black or yellow...

If you have to have Snap on and have cash just watch Craig's list... but even used for box alone, could be craftman full of tools for less...

Lowes has a huge Kobalt, stainless steel with stereo and a refrigerator for $1200ish...

[Six_Shooter]

That Kobalt box around here is about $2000. If it didn't have a fridge I'd probably like it, I want my tool box to be a tool box, not a deli. ;) The radio, while also unnecessary, is kinda neat. I'm pretty sure it would still be tool small though...

I have a LOT of tools...

Currently overflowing 3 24" wide tool boxes, that are both bottom and top chests, one with an additional middle cabinet. Many different tool box makes in there though.

I'm looking at a Mastercraft (Canadian Tire store brand) "Euro" 47" wide tool box top and bottom combo:
Top:http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/6/Tools/ToolStorage/MastercraftMechanicsToolChests/PRDOVR~0581009P/Euro+Style+8-Drawer+Chest.jsp?locale=en
Bottom:http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/6/Tools/ToolStorage/MastercraftMechanicsToolChests/PRDOVR~0581010P/Euro+Style+10-Drawer+Cabinet.jsp?locale=en
I have rain cheques for the last sale price, which is about half of the price listed.

The other box I'm looking at is the Matco 4s.
This one I would have to make payments on. It's a $7500 or so box, that I can get for about $4500, and in my colour. :D
Top: I can't find a link to the top P/N 4225TC
Bottom:http://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/4225R-DBC/4S-2BAY-25-ROLLAWAY-DBL-CHM/
(http://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/4225R-DBC/4S-2BAY-25-ROLLAWAY-DBL-CHM/)The colour would be sublime green, with black trim. You can "build it" on the Matco site.
Though I would really want the 6s, since it has more customizing options....
The smaller 4s roller cab, in the green:
http://r3.cygnuspub.com/files/cygnus/image/PTEN/2008/MAY/600x400/4sseries41f22rand4222rtoolboxes_10101430.png

I may just get the Mastercraft for now and when I out grow it, get a larger box, like the Matco, but maybe get the 6s instead.

Arg, decisions, decisions...

[EagleMark]

I have another couple roller box's too. Works great! Do you really need one box for everything?

The Matco price is ridicules. Here's one from Craftsman that is bigger at half the money.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00928211000P?mv=rr

As for the Mastercraft... well here's a craftman that is bigger at half the money.
http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_10155_12602_00982495000P?vName=Storage+%26+Garag e&cName=Tool+Storage&sName=Chests&prdNo=7&blockNo=7&blockType=L7

or top and bottom for cost of just top Mastercraft.
http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_10155_12602_009CO47210401B?vName=Storage+%26+Gar age&cName=Tool+Storage&sName=Chest+%26+Cabinet+Combos&prdNo=15&blockNo=15&blockType=L15

Pretty sure ones I linked to are the better grade with roller drawers etc... they have cheaper ones with slide drawers. Like the one I got 35 years ago the slides are wearing out...

Sometimes you can buy them online cheaper then store even with shipping. But my friend works in tool department at Sears so he lets me know when things will be on sale! For Christmas I got my kid a 299 piece 1/4, 3/8/ 1/2 inch drive set for $99. Normally $299.

[Six_Shooter]

All of those boxes have less storage than the Mastercraft box, the only exception might be the 75" box, which isn't an option anyway, I don't have that much width.

This box is for work, so the sliders NEED to be high quality and last through hard use.

I've nevere really been impressed with Craftsman boxes either.

Even after getting a larger box, I'll stil not have enough space for all of my tools, but yes, I need one large box.

[EagleMark]

You've probably never seen the Craftsman quality boxes with roller drawers, I've never seen them in stores, just the low quality and mid quality... there are many more options on sizes, there's one just like that Matco but I gave an example of one bigger at half the price. Same size was less. But they do have several qualities. Their best is same as Matco or Snap on but still half the money.

Just an option to your dilemma.. not a cure...

[RobertISaar]

post.

[EagleMark]

Dude! Your back! :rockon:

[RobertISaar]

fingers crossed.

[EagleMark]

Me too!

I'm sick as a dog with flu, barely been out of bed. But seeing you back made my day!

[1project2many]

Talent?? I thought we had a bunch of hacks here!:laugh:

[EagleMark]

With the talent pool we have here it's good to check in on a regular basis.EFI conversion and tuning development, training, discussion, without restrictions!


Talent?? I thought we had a bunch of hacks here!:laugh:White hats! I hope...

[Six_Shooter]

EFI conversion and tuning development, training, discussion, without restrictions!

White hats! I hope...

Uh oh, my hats are all black...

[Six_Shooter]

So I decided to by a Mastercraft box, but not the one I was looking at, and had a rain cheque for, the bigger version went on sale this week, so I bought it. :D It's big and heavy.

Pics later.

:D

[RobertISaar]

changed the thread title to match the new forum name/address.

i feel special.

[EagleMark]

i feel special.Group hug? :laugh:

You know this thread has continued through 2 websites and 9 months? And I still don't know what NSFW means?

[also: unless Mark says otherwise, anything that could be considered NSFW?
EDIT: Never mind...
NSFW = not safe for work. PG13 is a good/similar description, i think.



Fever is down, I feel like I want to live again... moved grandma to nursing home today, she has lived with us for 2 years since papa passed away... everyone is sad...

[EagleMark]

All my jackets have hoods?

[JeepsAndGuns]

The cursed white is still around and kicking. I have been driving it all week. I actually like driving the dang thing, raides smooth, quiet, and sets good. Plus I am getting spoiled by the heated seat. But the factory muffler had somehow shifted and was hitting the lower controll arm bolt and rattleing/clunking every time I hit a bump, and was driving me bonkers.
I had a couple used flowmasters in storage, cant remember when, where, or why I got them. But I grabbed one and stopped by the muffler shop on the way home last night. The factory muffler is HUGE, its almost as big as the engine itself! Its a wonder that little 4.0 could even breathe. Figured I would open her up a bit.
Its got a nice sound to it now. Nice low rumble, and can just barely hear it inside it. Still nice and quiet (still has the factory cat) I know it has to be helping it. Seems to be running a little better and smoother.

Still has the whining in the rear axle. :mad1:
And I just kinda did some jerry rigging for the bower motor. I put it through a 30 amp relay, and found a old cell phone charger and wired up the leads to when I plug it into the cig lighter, it turns on the relay and powers the blower motor.....redneck engineering at its best :laugh: It is only temporay. Just cant afford $150 to fix it right now.

[Six_Shooter]

Well, here's a picture of the new tool box next to my old tool box. I was transferring tools between, when I took this picture.

The sad part is, the old box has already almost filled the new tool box, I'm amazed at how much crap I had stuffed into the old tool box!

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/406340_10151190955020051_651865050_22639353_538332 149_n.jpg

[EagleMark]

That's pretty sweet! :thumbsup:

[Six_Shooter]

Uhg...
Spent two hours tonight screwing around with two Linksys routers.


The one has been running for a few years now, and this morning decided to not connect to the intarweeb, at all. Apparently, I forgot the password to access the router settings, so I tried to reset the router, several times, to no avail. The other router, that I got from a friend of mine a while ago, for a planned expanded network, also had issues resetting, but eventually did. Good thing I had the spare router, so that I could get the WiFi connected through the house again.


I will NEVER buy another linksys product again, not because this router has seemed to fail, electronics do that, but I tried to use the Linksys "Live Chat," which seems to require the product to be within a certain time period to get any support, otherwise they will charge $29.99 for a one time support session, or $39.99 for a 6 month support period, or 6 support sessions, which ever comes first.
Thanks Linksys, you have now lost a customer that used to use almost exclusively Linksys products.


The new network will use routers and switches from a different company, leaning towards D-link, since my D-link modem seems to be a good product, so far.

It turns out the router I have been using is not bricked, I have been able to connect to it, change the name and IP address, so it may just be time to take it to a pawn shop and get rid of it.

[EagleMark]

I've always had good luck with NetGear... although the house is wired with cable all the computers now are wireless so it's just the one wireless router.

[1project2many]

All my jackets have hoods?

I once lost my shirt in the hood. Got out before I lost anything else.

[EagleMark]

I once lost my shirt in the hood. Got out before I lost anything else.I grew up in New Jersey, not far from NY city. Twice my bicycle was stolen.... WHILE I WAS ON IT!!!

Dam, I just learned how to hack! Now I need a black hat...

[Six_Shooter]

Just got back from Underworld Awakening 3D. :D

Much better than Rise of the Lycans, and the 3D was pretty neat.

*must resist urge to buy 3D TV*

[EagleMark]

By the looks of that toolbox a few posts up I think a 3D TV is not in the budget...

[EagleMark]

Is it possible to get the flu twice? I was barely getting better and feel like it's starting all over again...

[Six_Shooter]

Have I mentioned lately that I HATE small block Chevys?

[JeepsAndGuns]

I hate any engine that has a rear mounted distributor...lol. Just helped a co worker do a tune up on his 01 dodge 1500 with a 360, what a PITA.
Also hate front wheel drive cars with V6's where you cant get to the back 3 plugs.

[EagleMark]

Have I mentioned lately that I HATE small block Chevys?Troll! :yikes:

[Six_Shooter]

LOL, no, I just always have the same problems with them, starters and not wanting to actually fire, when being started for the first time or after long periods of sitting.

[JeepsAndGuns]

Just spent all day sunday instaling a new water heater in the house. :mad1:

Its in a small box/cubby hole in my closet. Went in ther to get a shirt and smelled a musty smell, felt the floor around the heater box and carpet is soaking wet. I mean squishy wet. :mad1:
Long story short, thing rusted out from the inside. Old one had in/out on the side, new one is on top. Had to do some plumbing, but I did install valves on both the inlet and outlet of the new pipes I ran. Just thinking ahead.

Now I am just trying to dry out the carpet. I vaccumed out as much as I possiably could. I have a fan in there now and just bought some moisture absorber things to hang in there to try and soak up the moisture in the air as it comes out of the carpet.

[1project2many]

I just found out that the guy who "accidentally" stole my Chevelle engine then offered me a good race engine in trade screwed me over twice. I pulled the Bowtie heads off the race engine to sell them and found one head has an external crack that was fiberglassed closed and painted, and the other head had a bent exhaust valve and water damage from a failed head gasket. The block isn't the high nickel block most of the race guys are looking for and I don't recognize the rods, either. And the oil pump has been removed for a dry sump app which may mean modifications have been made to the oil galleys. Now I'm wondering if my plan to use the shortblock with a set of Vortec heads is worth any more than the scrap value of the block. So much for the guys on the race team sticking together after the car owner died.

Oh, I feel the pain of a failed water heater. We once came home after a 3 day weekend to find the cold water line had split and destroyed flooring and sheetrock in several rooms. Glad you were able to catch yours before major damage and expense. Tip: Calcium Chloride, sometimes sold as "Ice Melter," poured into a plastic bowl will draw moisture out of the air.

[EagleMark]

Just spent all day sunday instaling a new water heater in the house. :mad1:

Its in a small box/cubby hole in my closet. Went in ther to get a shirt and smelled a musty smell, felt the floor around the heater box and carpet is soaking wet. I mean squishy wet. :mad1:
Long story short, thing rusted out from the inside. Old one had in/out on the side, new one is on top. Had to do some plumbing, but I did install valves on both the inlet and outlet of the new pipes I ran. Just thinking ahead.

Now I am just trying to dry out the carpet. I vaccumed out as much as I possiably could. I have a fan in there now and just bought some moisture absorber things to hang in there to try and soak up the moisture in the air as it comes out of the carpet.I hate when that happens... :mad1:

[93V8S10]

I repair homes for a living and I've seen enough that I never leave on a trip without shutting down the hot water heater and water supply to the house.

[EagleMark]

I just found out that the guy who "accidentally" stole my Chevelle engine then offered me a good race engine in trade screwed me over twice. I pulled the Bowtie heads off the race engine to sell them and found one head has an external crack that was fiberglassed closed and painted, and the other head had a bent exhaust valve and water damage from a failed head gasket. The block isn't the high nickel block most of the race guys are looking for and I don't recognize the rods, either. And the oil pump has been removed for a dry sump app which may mean modifications have been made to the oil galleys. Now I'm wondering if my plan to use the shortblock with a set of Vortec heads is worth any more than the scrap value of the block. So much for the guys on the race team sticking together after the car owner died.

I really hate when that happens...:nono:

Hard to find righteous friends anymore... worse in todays economy... forget strangers... I have gone to look at some things for sale that people just lie right to your face even after you point out they are full of poop to begin with and just wasted my time. People are desperate, times are hard. We just had two burgleries in our neiborhood. First ones since I've been here in 15 years...

[EagleMark]

I repair homes for a living and I've seen enough that I never leave on a trip without shutting down the hot water heater and water supply to the house.I've been waiting to get up one morning and walk by the water heater and get wet feet for years, water heater was 21 years old! Just got an on demand water heater installed, 98% efficient new heater 95% efficeint, now I have a $6000 mortgage on my paid for house.... Old water heater was so full of sediment I had to air up tires on my hand truck and took three guys to get it out of house it was so heavy...

[JeepsAndGuns]

I think this one was about 12 years old, according to a hand written date on the wall inside the box in the closet.
Things are slowly starting to dry out, but now the pipe feeding water into the toilet in the small bathroom is leaking and has soaked the carpet in there!!!!
IS IT EVER GONNA END :mad1:

[93V8S10]

21 years! Thats an old heater, amassing that some of them last so long. The average is 10 to 15 years. Your gonna like the new on demand system.

[EagleMark]

I think this one was about 12 years old, according to a hand written date on the wall inside the box in the closet.
Things are slowly starting to dry out, but now the pipe feeding water into the toilet in the small bathroom is leaking and has soaked the carpet in there!!!!
IS IT EVER GONNA END :mad1:Yeah you'll catch up, lifes a bitch sometimes. Then get some linoleom or anything other than carpet for a bathroom...


21 years! Thats an old heater, amassing that some of them last so long. The average is 10 to 15 years. Your gonna like the new on demand system.Got good water up here! Replaced the heater units about 6 years ago and tried clearing the corrosion around them but I think it was full of sediment then.

On demand is a little slower to get hot water but after that it never ends! No more quick showers! Waiting to see what the utility bills do when we get a full month in. Nice thing about this new heater is the drop in filter, no more cleaning a foam pad. Wife said she already noticed way less dust in house. One side of the AC coil in cabinet had a 1/4 inch layer of dust on it almost like a felt pad and peeled off. Spent a good amount of time cleaning the entire coil. Man the wind blows around the house now with that free flowing. That alone has got to help AC in summer...

[EagleMark]

Is there anything for music downloads like the old Napster or limwire anymore?

[EagleMark]

Nevermind, my kid showed me how to use U torrent...

[EagleMark]

Holy crap Batman!!! Don't install Windows Media Player update to 11. Or if you do disable media sharing! Then it just reinstalls itself on next startup? 2 days I've been chasing what I thought was a virus as my CPU usgae with nothing running was using 50 to 70% of my power? Found the exe in task manager and did a search thinking it would be a virus and it's Microsoft Windows Media player. What the heck were they thinking when they designed this to be able to use 1/2 to 3/4 of a 2.2 GHz processor?

[JeepsAndGuns]

So what is it doing? Just not shutting down or something?

[EagleMark]

Just slowed my computer to a stand still. I usually have several programs open all day and never an issue. Have Winnows update set to auto so didn't notice the update from Windows Media Player 10 to 11 at first.

But when I started using my image software doing some big graphis for print, not web my computer was at a complete stand still, not locked up or fail. Looked at my gauges I have on desktop for CPU and RAM and CPU was at 100% ram was at 81% for several minutes! Usually never hit 50 to 80% for a few seconds.

It's a CPU HOG! And I only had it set to share on my home network, not with internet, and no other computers were on? So I don't know what is was doing. Found the exe command all over online, virtually shuts down slower computers and worse on XP. Disabled it and all is well!

[Six_Shooter]

So how do you get it to stop doing that?

I think this might be why my RAM usage is always 40%+. I just opened WMP and noticed that it is updating the library.

WMP V12 BTW.

[EagleMark]

12?

Man it's a CPU and RAM HOG!!!

Start button and search for services.msc then look for "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service" file name is " wmpnetwk.exe " right click, properties, startup type DISABLE, tab on top to Recovery and set all three to "Take No Action" restart computer. Wow fast again!

Also try TweakNow PowerPack 2011 It does registry cleanup, registry defrag, all sorts of cool maintenance stuff, has RAM optimizer that dumps the 68MB windows saves from startup settings to free up RAM, easy way to turn off programs that are in startup menu. Very cool, free software!

[1project2many]

I have reaffirmed today that I cannot stand working on the GM V660 family of engines. 2 days to replace an intake manifold gasket on an '02 Malibu thanks in part to clips, brackets, and supports that all seem designed with no thought for servicing the vehicle. I can do the same job on a V8 van in 1/2 the time including flushing out the crankcase, and that application requires laying down to access everything inside the van thanks to the school bus door linkage and repeated trips from inside to outside and back because the front of the engine can only be reached from under the hood. No matter what I do with these engines it always turns into a PITA.

And thanks again GM for Death-Cool. None of this would have been necessary if you geniuses hadn't tried to corner the market on coolant additives.

[gregs78cam]

I have reaffirmed today that I cannot stand working on the GM V660 family of engines. 2 days to replace an intake manifold gasket on an '02 Malibu thanks in part to clips, brackets, and supports that all seem designed with no thought for servicing the vehicle. I can do the same job on a V8 van in 1/2 the time including flushing out the crankcase, and that application requires laying down to access everything inside the van thanks to the school bus door linkage and repeated trips from inside to outside and back because the front of the engine can only be reached from under the hood. No matter what I do with these engines it always turns into a PITA.

And thanks again GM for Death-Cool. None of this would have been necessary if you geniuses hadn't tried to corner the market on coolant additives.

I feel your pain, we have a '99 Grand Am, 3.4L, original engine crapped out, broke the camshaft ,learned later from tear down was due to rusty cam journal (intake gasket failure previously I'm guessing), I went to PullandSave to get an engine, pulled a '02 brought it home put it in lasted 3 weeks for $140 - combustion gases in coolant.:mad1: Then spent $700 on Ebay to get a used '04 one from a salvage place in WI. I googled the VIN, and found a police report in Wisconsin from when it had been totaled in a low speed front/side impact, so I new it was running when it was hit. So far we have about 4K miles on it and it seems to be doing real well. I have gotten to the point where I can go from empty engine bay to running in about 3 hours though.:rolleye:
But yes the salvage engine had Death-Cool in it on arrival. Needles to say it got flushed and regular coolant put in.

[EagleMark]

OK what's Death Cool? Is this that specail antifreeze some cars are said to require?

[gregs78cam]

yea the orange stuff.

[1project2many]

Dex-Cool was an orange colored coolant invented by Texaco with GM and introduced into GM vehicles around 94 or 95. It was promoted as a long life, silicate free antifreeze which wouldn't require replacement for up to 100,000 miles. Unfortunately real world results showed that Dex-Cool tended to form sludge if air were allowed to enter the cooling system, and that it would attack the rubber inserts in the gaskets GM was using.

The main reason Dex-Cool exists is because Texaco and GM decided they didn't want to pay Prestone's licensing fees to use traditional coolant. Prestone held the patent on the additive package and in order to avoid patent infringement Dex-Cool used Organic Acid Technology. It seems to have worked best in vehicles designed to use Dex-Cool but OEM retrofitted vehicles had a bunch of problems. Heater cores and radiators got plugged, coolant reservoirs developed a dirty scum which fooled owners into thinking the reservoir was full, and radiator caps and filler necks got plugged so they couldn't relieve pressure or wouldn't draw antifreeze from the overflow. The most common problem today is that intake manifold gaskets split and leak. If you're lucky they leak outside the engine but we've lost several that had been slowly leaking into the crankcase. The engine I just fixed had been leaking externally for a while but had just started to leak into the crankcase.

Dex-Cool today is supposed to be reformulated. It's a different color, has a different smell, and does seem to stay cleaner. But I'm more than happy to stay with traditional coolant. I use virgin coolant and mix it with distilled water which ensures there are no extra minerals and the PH is right where it needs to be. I can test with "coolant test strips" and do every couple of years but in direct contrast to GM's marketing, the antifreeze seems to last more that 3 years or 30,000 miles. If I do see that the additive package is being depleted I'll buy a can of coolant additive that's used in the heavy truck industry and add enough to my coolant to restore the protection levels.

Do some searches about OAT and Blazer/Jimmy/Bravada heater cores with DEX Cool. Lotsa bad stories. GM had multiple bulletins all implying the customer was at fault before they bit the bullet and introduced a six hour check and flush designed to clean the core (IMO it was about 30% effective). The splitting intake gasket is a huge PITA for the V660 community. In fact, there's a class action settlement over Dex-Cool, sludge, and six cylinder engines. Dex Cool? It's been Death Cool to me since 98!

[EagleMark]

That probably explains why 1994-95-96-97 LT1 engines are always loaded with crap in cooling system? Have to remove knock sensors to flush bottom of block of the crud. Did mine and couldn't beleive the crap that came out of heater core, then I had heat for a week, then it all settled in there again, flushed the heater core and went 2 weeks, flushed more crud out, lasted about a month, pulled knock sensoors and flushed entire system agin, had to use a wire to open holes of crud where knocks went, loads of flushing. Finally have heat all winter now. But I do have that sludge stain in overflow coolant tank.

[Six_Shooter]

New tools. I love 'em. :D

(not the trailer)

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/418737_10151264201060051_651865050_22870702_172843 2927_n.jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/397932_10151264201410051_651865050_22870704_133816 786_n.jpg

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/419314_10151264201800051_651865050_22870706_341341 717_n.jpg

Should make working on the cars a little easier. :D

[1project2many]

Nice!

I made up some plans to build one once using 1 ton truck rear hubs and spindles but I never got any further than that. Someday...

[JeepsAndGuns]

Ok, I'm stumpped. What is it?

It looks kinda like a stand a shop I used to work for had. Was used to bolt a bare car body to it without a frame or anything else. We used it when we (well I) would sandblast them, it could flip the body up on its side so you could blast the underside.

[Six_Shooter]

That's exactly what it is, a rotisserie. This one is currently set up for a '67 (or so) Ford Galaxy, but will be changed for a '65 Mustang and a '73 Datsun 240Z. :)

[Six_Shooter]

So I ordered one of these these last night: http://www.hpiracing.com/kitinfo/100594/

Model number 100594. :D

[EagleMark]

Sweet!

1663

My son and I did RC rock crawlers before they came in kits by building frames and useing other RC Parts.

[EagleMark]

And the real one I copied to RC...

http://www.gearhead-efi.com/Fuel-Injection/attachment.php?attachmentid=1669&stc=1&d=1329584988

[gregs78cam]

It seems that hotrodding and RC really do go together. I have a Revo, T-Maxx, BladeCX2, and various fixed wing aircraft. Wish I had more time to enjoy that hobby too.

[EagleMark]

A long time ago I did RC aircraft, three times, three crashes and three repairs before the guy at hobby shop told me about the duel controller with a teacher! It over rides your controller (master and slave) for take off landing or anything until you get the hang of it... I went back to cars...

[woody80z28]

This would make a cool 300mph RC car...haha

http://assets.speedtv.com/images/article_assets/109/1097303/1097303_article_img_large1.jpg

[PJG1173]

yeah too bad its a ford... my daughter wants to get a new body for our TMAXX because its a ford...

[woody80z28]

Well, the only thing Ford is the body. haha I'm a diehard Chevy guy, but those nitro Hemis do make some serious horsepower!

[PJG1173]

Well, the only thing Ford is the body. haha I'm a diehard Chevy guy,

Yep and they circled the problem right in the front for ya. looking at your sig, I would have never guessed your a chevy guy.:cool:

[woody80z28]

Here's the full history of all the cars I've owned....
81 Camaro
90 Beretta GTZ
95 Beretta Z26
80 Camaro Z28
81 Camaro Z28 parts car
91 Beretta "SS"
94 Silverado Z71
94 K3500 parts truck

And helped my old man build his 66 Chevelle and 63 Impala. He's into that Mopar stuff mostly though...

[RobertISaar]

90 GTZ = WANT.

i have a soft spot for the HO Q4.

[woody80z28]

That car was a lot of fun...but not even close to my new setup with the 3400/5spd. You really had to RPM the Q4 to get any power out of it, and the torque curve on the 3400 is awesome. Plus the high-RPM power is better too. I went from Q4 to 60* and will never look back!

[RobertISaar]

you need to pick up a 3500. :)

sometimes i just like something i wind the piss out of, VTAK style, without the honda of course.

[woody80z28]

you need to pick up a 3500. :)

sometimes i just like something i wind the piss out of, VTAK style, without the honda of course.

I almost went 3500 when the SPEC Stg2 smoked, but my 3400 is low miles and a "factory freak" compared to times I've seen other runs with them, so I kept it. My last Beretta went 14.9@93 with this same 3400 with just air intake, exhaust & UDP with the stock 4t60e when the other Beretta guys were in the 15.2-15.5 range with similar mods. This fall I went 14.4@92 with 4th gear trouble when I broke my 5spd. I think it will be knocking on the door of 13s with a clean run.

I was 16 when I bought my GTZ, so you can imagine how much time it spent under 4000rpm...not much!

[PJG1173]

I never listed out all the vehicles I've owned didn't realize I went through that many... I'm a GM and Mopar fan.
77 Chevy camaro
82 pontiac starfire
79 Buick regal
83 ford escort (first and last ford)
89 dodge shadow
92 dodge dakota
95 pontiac grand am
97 chevy s10 blazer
77 chevy k5 blazer
84 Olds cutlass
99 dodge durango
96 pontiac grand am
84 toyota pickup (chevy 350)
00 dodge ram
03 dodge durango
04 dodge ram 2500
06 gmc yukon
05 chevy silverado 2500 - current
87 toyota 4runner (chevy 355) - current
93 chevy s10 pickup - current
08 pontiac torent - current
88 jeep wrangler - current

[EagleMark]

I lost track 20 years ago and had over 50... 4 1969 GTO, 1 1968 GTO, 3 1969 Road Runners, 1 1968 Road Runner, 1967 Nova, VW bugs, 5 harleys, bought a almost new 1987 Chevy TBI shortbed truck in 1988 6 Scouts, 2006 Jeep Rubicon blah blah blah...

[Six_Shooter]

So I got a new (to me) vehicle today...

For free...

The parents-in-law of a friend of mine had trouble with their truck today in my neighbourhood, literally. They live about an hour away and were down here for an auction sale, when the tranny line developed a leak, causing the fluid to evacuate the truck. They pulled over at a highway exit near my place, then limped it down the street until they were at the gas station that is two blocks away. So my friend called me, asking if I could go take a look and see if it's something that could be fixed. It is, just didn't want to do it on the ground in the rain today, they were going to leave the truck to get fixed, then come back for it. They already had their daughter with their new truck on the way down to get the trailer home.

I had to leave in the mean time to take care of a few things, and told them to call me when their daughter got there. When they called, they already had the trucks swapped and asked me if I wanted the truck for parts, I was like "What?" So I went back, and they signed the ownership over to me. :yikes:

So I need to see what it needs, and decide what to do from there.

Pictures tomorrow, when there's sun light.

BTW, it's a 2000 Chevy Yukon, seems to be quite loaded. Decent shape too. :confused:

[EagleMark]

Guess it was your turn for a good day ay!

[Six_Shooter]

Yeah, just seems odd, that's all. Definitely didn't expect that, when I woke up this morning. LOL

[1project2many]

That's a nice deal. 5.3? They seem to hold up well and they make decent power for the size. Are you likely to keep it? I've had to work on a few of those rigs. Check all the tubing for rust and watch the frame behind the crossmember.

[Six_Shooter]

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it.

I need to get it to work and on the hoist before anything.

I haven't checked the specifics of it just yet.

Here are a couple pictures:

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549234_10151433984895051_651865050_23497819_965362 11_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/554117_10151433984540051_651865050_23497817_141262 3473_n.jpg

[EagleMark]

Nice looking rig! Let me know what you want if you sell it. My kid just totalled out my Buick LT1 Roadmaster...

[Six_Shooter]

Nice looking rig! Let me know what you want if you sell it. My kid just totalled out my Buick LT1 Roadmaster...

That sucks, how bad?

[1project2many]

Nice looking rig! Let me know what you want if you sell it. My kid just totalled out my Buick LT1 Roadmaster...

Ahh... He's ok, yes? Other than needing new jeans with a boot shaped seat? You know, I think about the damage I did to cars over the years and I wonder if it's even possible to give my boy a head start on a nice vehicle without having it come back as a basket case in short order. Come to think of it, a tired horse and an old farm wagon might be a good starting point for anyone sharing my dna.

[Lucky]

I'll give you $500 for it right now ! :P (for Chris's Chevy that is)

[EagleMark]

T boned driver door, he's OK, part of front fender, rear door and center pillar damage. More than I am going to repair.

Going to pull the LT1 and 4L60e with everything needed to swap to maybe an S10 or? Then part it out, has lots of good to excellent desirable parts.

http://www.gearhead-efi.com/Fuel-Injection/attachment.php?attachmentid=2047&stc=1&d=1332698168

[EagleMark]

Ahh... He's ok, yes? Other than needing new jeans with a boot shaped seat? You know, I think about the damage I did to cars over the years and I wonder if it's even possible to give my boy a head start on a nice vehicle without having it come back as a basket case in short order. Come to think of it, a tired horse and an old farm wagon might be a good starting point for anyone sharing my dna.Yeah he's fine. Been driving 4 years now and this is his first, had my gaurd down and let him use it while we finished the TBI conversion on his IH tow rig daily driver.

[Six_Shooter]

That sucks, at least it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

What would it take to fix the car? Might be easier or cheaper than getting a new vehicle.

Sorry Lucky, the more I look at what this Yukon has, the more I'm thinking about keeping it and selling the Dakota. I just wish this was a bonefied truck, and not one with a heated cargo space.

[RobertISaar]

at the very least, it looks like you found out that the B-bodies are excellent vehicles to be in if you get nailed directly at the driver's door.

took it like a champ.

[EagleMark]

That sucks, at least it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

What would it take to fix the car? Might be easier or cheaper than getting a new vehicle.

Sorry Lucky, the more I look at what this Yukon has, the more I'm thinking about keeping it and selling the Dakota. I just wish this was a bonefied truck, and not one with a heated cargo space.I have the Suburban you can see in background (Picture Above) so I have a vehicle. Just more work then I am willing to do, would rather have the motor and trans for little project car...


at the very least, it looks like you found out that the B-bodies are excellent vehicles to be in if you get nailed directly at the driver's door.

took it like a champ.Yeah the outcome could have been much worse in a little POS... neither air bag went off, but I guess they should'nt unless it's a front collision...

If he were in his Toyota in background it probably would not have hurt it or went under and flipped it...

http://www.gearhead-efi.com/Fuel-Injection/attachment.php?attachmentid=2048&stc=1&d=1332699141

[gregs78cam]

I guess I am on someone's $__t list today as well. Driving to work this morning in the Grand Am, and my steering gets stiff, then temp starts creeping up and battery light turns on. Pulled over to let it cool.........alternator mount broken. Started it up and coasted in to the parking lot. Took out the alternator and mount, Tig welded it back togther with lots of extra material, and put it back on. It works fine now. Need a new belt though.

[RobertISaar]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2119343/King-Wasps-Indonesia-Two-half-inch-monster-jaws-longer-legs.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/23/article-2119343-124D45CD000005DC-859_634x497.jpg





DO NOT WANT.

[Six_Shooter]

What else did I pick up tonight?

Ohhh yeeeeaaah...

Another complete (less harness and ECM), Corvette Crossfire set-up. :D

I now have my spare TBs to swap onto the truck, to get a pair bushed. :D

[1project2many]

Hah! I didn't think anyone was interested in those anymore. If you'd mentioned wanting a couple of TB's I would have offered a set. I'm considering pulling mine off and switching to a 454 TB and Smoke Ram manifold. The Xfire makes nice torque but I'm interested in the challenge of making the original 60's design intake work as well with better flow. The crossfire's been on my truck since '93 so I have to laugh when guys at car shows call it "cease-fire injection."

[EagleMark]

Looks like I lucked out today! Guy that wanted to buy my wrecked Roadmaster said he wasn't going to, and sadi to come look at his 1995 White Woddy Chevy Caprice with a blown LT1 engine! So I did and except for the motor... the body and interior is as good or better then mine!

So I bought it for $500. :jfj:

Kid is going to do all the motor and trans swap then I will have a left over LT1 4L60e trans harness PCM and the Roadmaster wagon to part out...

[Six_Shooter]

Nice!

[JeepsAndGuns]

Nice score!

Got me a nice score myself, mower came into the shop, wasnt running right, the other tech was working on it, found it blew a head gasket, pulled the head and a little water had got in the cyl and gave it a light coat of surface rust. Customer comes and looks at it and doesnt want to fix it. Asks if anyone wants to buy it, I overhear it and walk over, ask if hes selling it, he says yep, I ask how mutch and say $100. I pause for a second letting it sink in, thinking hes kidding. I reach in my wallet, pull out a $100 bill, hand it to him, he puts up his hands and say "she's your problem now" I kinda stood there for a second stunned. I had just so happened to have the money in my pocket as I had just sold another mower I bought and fixed. But I have never had one like this.
John deere X585, 2 cyl kawasaki fuel injected, liquid cooled engine, power steering and deck lift, shaft driven 62 inch deck, FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. New these things were somewhere between 8-10K. I see used ones online for sale for 5-7k :yikes: These are the largest "lawn mowers" JD makes before you go to a actual compact tractor.
Gonna rebuild the engine for a couple hundred bucks, clean it up, and make a few bucks. :jfj:

[Six_Shooter]

nice score!

[EagleMark]

Geez a few bucks? Did you clean your boots of whatever you stepped in for good luck?

I thought I was lucky to find a replacement for my wagon, you made a killin...

[Xenon]

that's one hell of a lawn mower...

[RobertISaar]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Ideal-stoichiometry.jpg

theory.... i have to wonder though. wikipedia sometimes has the strangest things.

[Six_Shooter]

Looks like a pretty typical result/average.

[RobertISaar]

i think i'll test these values on a test to town and back.... i'm used to 12:1 and 16.2:1 for PE and lean cruise.

[EagleMark]

12.5 to 12.8 to 1 for power is all I've ever read or heard from engine builders for power. So their 12.6 to 1 seems logical. But where did they come up with 15.4 to 1 for economy? May be a safe economy without to much lean heat...

[RobertISaar]

and i now belong to the 500+ posts club. :D

[EagleMark]

Bout time... :thumbsup:

[RobertISaar]

my couple month hiatus didn't help at all!

[EagleMark]

See I knew you were on vacation!!! How is hiatus at that time of year? :laugh:

[RobertISaar]

at least as boring as any other part of the year.

[RobertISaar]

http://www.bradbarnhill.com/projects/VirtualDyno/

(http://www.bradbarnhill.com/projects/VirtualDyno/)chatting with the author to see if we can get tunerpro logs supported, from the sounds of it, it won't take much.

[EagleMark]

With all the other data loggers mentioned I'm surprised it is not already supported?

DataMaster has this built in, maybe we could get it on the feature requst list for TunerPro?

[JeepsAndGuns]

http://www.bradbarnhill.com/projects/VirtualDyno/

(http://www.bradbarnhill.com/projects/VirtualDyno/)chatting with the author to see if we can get tunerpro logs supported, from the sounds of it, it won't take much.

Verry interesting. How exactly does it work, what data do you enter in and how does it calculate hp.

[EagleMark]

In DataMaster there are several requirments to fill out, now that I think of it, it may be for 1/4 mile time not dyno....

Hope he get's TunerPro in the lineup!

[RobertISaar]

shot a few emails back and forth last night, what it does is use known vehicle weight, known gearing, known tire size and then from this it extrapolates torque(and generates HP from torque) based off of how quickly the engine revs up under load. it also uses TPS to signal when the vehicle is at WOT and that's basically all of the info it uses. time is based off of a timestamp in the datastream as well.

it's actually very similar to how the dynojet dynos work, and comes to VERY close numbers to a real dynojet dyno.

so while it may not be a 100% accurate representation of wheel HP/TQ, it will at the very least give you a basis for what your changes did(increased or decreased power). there is also an option for SAE correction due to air temps and possibly baro pressure.



for increased resolution, personally, i will be making mode 3(maybe it's mode 2?) commands to grab ONLY necessary items from the datastream, so that i can bump up my sampling rate into the 40Hz range. :)

[JeepsAndGuns]

Sounds really interesting. I would be curious to try it out if it gets hooked up with TP. Only thing I dont know is my cherokee's weight. I'm thinking its somewhere around 2.5 tons. I know its not light.

[EagleMark]

I downloaded it and only got as far as choosing the car and mine was not there? Mostly import stuff. But maybe we could get more data in if TP gets in too...

[JeepsAndGuns]

The local machine shop has been super busy, but finally got my mower engine back from them late friday afternoon. They cleaned and checked the block, said the cylinders were almost perfect, less than half a thousands wear, even on the side that got some rust on it. Rust was super light, left no pitting, and they were able to do a super light hone and call it good! Cleaned, checked the heads, valve job and resurface, all done for a whopping $73.

Went in to work yesterday off the clock and worked from 7-12 reassembleing the engine. New rings, rebuilt the waterpump, all new gaskets and seals, and new head bolts. Pressure washed all the dirt/grass out of the radiator, oil cooler, and frame of the mower. Gonna drop it back in monday.

:jfj:

[EagleMark]

So what are you going to do with the thousands of dollars made from this venture?

Hey, since your a lawn mower tech, what oil would you recomend for briggs and stratton or Honda OHV engine? Honda is on a new pressure washer I have and Briggs is in a new lawn mower I got. My last lawn mower only lasted 16 years and died last summer, started puking oil out head I think but still ran... should I try and put a head gasket on it? Craftsman Eager 1?

[JeepsAndGuns]

If there is no listing in the owners manual for the above mentioned engines, then just run a good quality 10W-30.
All JD gas engines use 10W-30, and they have used brigs, kawasaki, and kohler. Even some onan back in the day. Even seen a yanmar gas burner in a pro gator.

Not sure on the oil leak, kinda hard to know without seeing it and knowing what engine it has, and what the condition of the engine is, and where its leaking from, also not knowing the condition of the rest of the mower. Sometimes repairs can cost more than a mower is worth.


Hoping to get a good penny for this mower, I will take the money I get from it and buy the parts I need to finish my build on my cherokee. I have front and rear dana 60's that need rebuilt and lockers, plus lots of other various parts to install them, like steering, shocks, driveshafts. Plus the parts I need to install my NV4500 and NP 205. But I have already rebuilt those and have made my adapter to bolt them together, and have the conversion bellhousing to bolt it to my 401.
Mower should be worth $5000-7000 when done.

[JeepsAndGuns]

The X585 lives again! Fired it up this morning. Had to drain the tank as I found some water in the fuel when I changed the fuel filter. I definately didnt want that going through my new engine! Gotta love fuel injection, she fired right up and purrs like a kitten. Ran full throttle for a bit to break everything back in and open the t-stat and burp the cooling system.
Next is the deck, cleaned it up real good, couple of the spindles need bearings, needs blades, and the deck wheels are all shot, the idiot PO let them ride on the ground and wore them out. Hope to mabey have it ready to be for sale by the end of the week.
:jfj:

[1project2many]

Next is the deck, cleaned it up real good, couple of the spindles need bearings, needs blades, and the deck wheels are all shot, the idiot PO let them ride on the ground and wore them out.

Ok, I'll bite. How do you mow without the deck wheels touching the ground? On most of the mowers I own the wheels are designed to support the deck.

[RobertISaar]

i'm also drawing a blank there... unless you don't want the grass cut very short, the wheels will pretty much need to be on contact.

[Six_Shooter]

AFAIK, The wheels are only there for uneven ground, to support the deck for short distances.

In other news, I bought a MINT 1972 240Z dash for my car. :D