I was thinking that a few weekends ago when I swapped the studs for
street tires. Then I realized I'd just covered my next gym day and could
skip it.
1. 40 yard farmer's walk with 2 tires -- 4 reps
2. Breaker bar curls -- 40 reps
3. Squats -- 8 reps
4. Pushups -- 4 reps
5. various cardio maneuvers
6. Probably did some crunches or situps along the way
My Toyota has a spin on filter that I can reach down from the top and
spin off. If I'm lucky I don't drop it in the pan.
Disclaimer: that's after the first change. The first time around I need
a filter wrench to break the OEM filter loose.
When I'm looking at cars I open the hood and take inventory to make sure
it's maintainable. I'll admit the first Yaris fooled me. I thought the ignition wires were hiding under the plastic panel but it doesn't have any.
A diner catering to truckers in Utah has a sign 'You kill them, we grill them.' I've wondered what they would do if you dragged in a fresh deer carcass.
They look like they are connected to transisors, but they have the 3
vertical lines, one of which in each set has a left-point arrow.
https://byjus.com/physics/mosfet/
Too bad you have me blocked, but so it goes.
I had an old Dodge pickup that was a real beater. I left it in the
On 12/13/2021 02:14 AM, Thomas wrote:
Which works best overall given the 10 gallon tanks are huge (so they need to >> be stored in the garage and they'll take up more room) but they also
(obviously) hold a more compressed air than the smaller 2.5 gallon tanks
(if the tanks are used as a portable compressed air supply for other use)?
Looking at some of the Amazon reviews some that bought the 5 gallon
version wish they had gotten the 10 gallon. They were doing stuff like
F-350 tires.
Interesting. I mount the tube type tires on one bike but I've shied away
from tubeless. Years ago I bought tires for the Harley from an indie.
The sun was sinking in the west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy
I've got a copy of that for light reading. It's over 100 years old but calculus hasn't changed much :) He uses a lot of visuals like the last
video, except they're ink on paper. That's my favorite medium; my mind wanders during spoken presentations.
The high school I went to had
Car repair is a difficult question.
Those are those things that lead to burning the house down when you
slither into the crawl space with a propane torch.
SoCal isn't exempt. I forget which year it was but driving east from LA
I saw all the irrigation pipes at Rancho Cucamonga had turned into ice sculpture. Even at Vegas the fountains were frozen.
The Toyota manual is pretty boring.
I've never broken an open end but
Debugging is more complex. My first go around was
Famous last words... Unless there's a specific scan code, is it the MAP,
the TPS, or the IAP
While I mostly agree
Calculators?
Walmart is my store of last resort
left handed? Oddly for a person of my generation I never owned a VW
I stand corrected.
I won't say
Multiple microcontrollers on a CAN bus? A modern car is a textbook
example of distributed processing.
My Toyota has a spin on. I can reach down from the top to unscrew it. (because when I put a new one on I don't bust a vein tightening it). Sometimes I can get the new one started from the top too. I like Swix
filters because the threads are innies, so to speak.
Changing the fuel pump in my '86 F150 was easy :)
Takes all the fun out of it. I keep the old pickup around to have
something to fiddle with. I've even thought about converting it back to points.
The Toyota is roomier than a Lincoln I had. The car was a huge beast,
but so was the 430 ci V-8. To make it really fun, the hood swung
forward. It also had suicide read doors. I guess they were trying to be different. Most of the systems were vacuum controlled with servos
shoehorned into the damnedest places. It was a pleasure as it got long
in the tooth.
I'll admit when I'm looking at a new car I pop the hood to make sure it
isn't ridiculous to work on.
Again it comes down to essentials and accidentals. An internal
combustion engine needs a fuel delivery system. In that sense nothing
has changed between carburetors and fuel injection.
.7071. That does double duty as a sine and cosine. 0.0000 and 1.0000
are also useful. As for the rest
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.1415926
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
double degrees;
degrees = atof(argv[1]);
printf("the sine of %f degrees is %f\n", degrees, degrees * PI/180.0);
return 0;
}
~ $gcc sin.c -lm -o sin
~ $./sin 45
the sine of 45.000000 degrees is 0.707107
When all you have is a hammer...
K&E slide rule with the magnifying cursor for
I don't know. I don't think
That should start a religious war...
iirc the Audi had bolts. That apple didn't fall far from the tree. I
have to assume Audi has improved a lot since 1971.
The '55 was a two brush 6V generator.
Outside afaik.
https://www.amazon.com/ElectroSport-08-12-Suzuki-DL650-Stator/dp/B008PAKS72
I've got a dead one out in the shed if you need a paper weight.
Lifetime on the handtools, 90 days on everything else supposedly. I did return a drill press vise
iirc toward the end Sears had a line of cheaper tools with a very
limited warranty. Black & Decker did the same thing before they
completely turned to crap.
Years ago a guy I worked with
You lucked out. Long before a lot of the counter help was recruited from
the local sheltered workshop I went in to buy some Packard 440
Anything you want to, apparently. The bold print says 'Dorman AutoGrade M12-1.50 Thread Wheel Lug Bolt' and the fine print says 'M12-1.50
Serrated Wheel Stud;'
I've got a slow leak in one of the studs.
The ultralight people tend towards 2 strokes because of the weight requirements. 2 strokes need more maintenance and are more finicky in general, plus they often have a very narrow power band. What works on a
KTM dirt bike may not be the greatest thing at 1000' AGL.
Raven is a company that offered conversion kits for the Geo engines
which drove their popularity. The engines are getting harder to find so
Raven has moved on to the Honda Jazz/Fit engine.
Rotax makes purpose built aircraft engines but they're pricier. BMW used
a Rotax single in their F650 but went to a 800cc parallel twin but
confused everybody by still calling it a F650. Last I knew they were
back to the original Rotax design but it's built in China now rather
than Austria.
It's a 4 stroke, water cooled engine. A lot of bikes have gone to water cooled or at least liquid cooled. It adds complexity but is more
reliable for cooling. For example my DR650 has a radiator but it's oil
cooled and doesn't require an additional water pump. The V-Strom is
straight water cooled.
The new Harley engine uses both oil and water. Another plus for Harley
is the cooling jacket reduces engine noise. Being a federal agency the regulations are complex but a motorcycle has to be 80dB or below, but
that's total noise, engine, drive train, and exhaust. Reduce the engine
noise with water cooling and the drive train noise with belt drive and
you have a little more room for allowing the exhaust to sound like a
Harley.
And sometimes it's an informed decision... Pull the Keihin jug or pour
a slug of SeaFoam
I still use my feelers at rare intervals.
https://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/baker-electric-car.html
The Bakers weren't the first or only EVs but have the distinction of
being driven by Edison and both Taft's and Wilson's wives. The early
1900's were the perfect time for electric cars. They were a lot faster
than a horse and carriage and range wasn't too important considering
there wasn't much in the way of passable roads outside the city. Unlike
the Stanley Steamer and hand cranked gasoline cars they were plug and play.
http://www.hybrid-vehicle.org/hybrid-vehicle-porsche.html
I think 2018 was the first year for the Porsche Cayenne hybrid as they circled back to the beginning. It is a plugin rather than a straight hybrid.
Even some of the battery technology isn't ground breaking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Jungner
Junger had problems with the nickle-iron batteries but Edison perfected
it and some of the Bakers used his batteries. Compared to lead acid,
they last forever. They're still around:
https://ironedison.com/shop/batteries/nickel-iron/nickel-iron-ni-fe-battery/
They certainly won't replace lithium-ion batteries because of the power density, but the jury is still out on lithium battery effective lifetime.
One big difference is in the early 1900's the switch to IC power came
about when it made more sense not because of governmental mandates and subsidization.
It's somebody's problem.
I worked for a start up and when we started making money the president decided to treat himself to a Cadillac. That lasted about six months
before he traded it for a Lincoln Town Car.
In his words, 'If I'm going to be n----r rich I'm going to do it right.'
The cat adopted me;
Luckily, no.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:27:30 -0700, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling, troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
My Toyota has a spin on. I can reach down from the top to unscrew it.
(because when I put a new one on I don't bust a vein tightening it).
Sometimes I can get the new one started from the top too. I like Swix
filters because the threads are innies, so to speak.
So to speak, it's obvious that you simply LOVE to hear yourself talking, senile blabbermouth.
I've got beam type torque wrenches from 1/4 to 1/2 but no crowfeet.
Hint: stay out of CA when it snows.
Direct injection is getting more popular
So to speak, it's obvious that you simply LOVE to hear yourself talking,
senile blabbermouth.
Do you ever shut up? I assume that most people have you kill-filed.
You literally add nothing of value.
On 12/29/2021 4:30, Peeler wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:27:30 -0700, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly
driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
My Toyota has a spin on. I can reach down from the top to unscrew it.
(because when I put a new one on I don't bust a vein tightening it).
Sometimes I can get the new one started from the top too. I like Swix
filters because the threads are innies, so to speak.
So to speak, it's obvious that you simply LOVE to hear yourself talking,
senile blabbermouth.
Do you ever shut up?
I assume that most people have you kill-filed. You literally add nothing
of value.
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:08:24 -0500, Michael Trew, another senile smartass, blabbered:
So to speak, it's obvious that you simply LOVE to hear yourself talking, >>> senile blabbermouth.
Do you ever shut up? I assume that most people have you kill-filed.
You literally add nothing of value.
I literally keep posting the TRUTH about some of you senile full-time idiots on Usenet!
On 12/30/2021 16:30, Peeler wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:08:24 -0500, Michael Trew, another senile
smartass,
blabbered:
So to speak, it's obvious that you simply LOVE to hear yourself
talking,
senile blabbermouth.
Do you ever shut up? I assume that most people have you kill-filed.
You literally add nothing of value.
I literally keep posting the TRUTH about some of you senile full-time
idiots
on Usenet!
Lol who's "senile"...? I'm in my 20's, dude...
I literally keep posting the TRUTH about some of you senile full-time idiots >> on Usenet!
Lol who's "senile"...? I'm in my 20's, dude...
No experience but
Pittsburgh is their hand tools. Chicago is the corded stuff. Chicago is pretty close to Milwaukee, right?
Disclaimer: I'm left handed
That's confusing two of you said harbor freight had lifetime warranties.
I thought you couldn't return anything based on what friends have said.
hand tools === stuff without a cord. Stuff with cords is 90 days.
Modern automotive construction has really messed things up.
I don't know if there is a cure for 'lug'. Besides the whole fork of luggage, lugging stuff including engines, there is the mechanical branch
that seems to mean 'that thing sticking out' except of course for pad
eyes, aka lifting lugs, which is the thing you stick a clevis pin
through. I suppose boot soles and dirt bike tires fit in someplace.
http://www.padeye.com/
It is shorter than thing-a-ma-jig.
What's a little smoke? A friend had a '59 chevy and thought a dose of
I think 2022 will be a shambles for the Democrats. I hope to hell
somebody can come up with a candidate in 2024 that doesn't trigger my
gag reflex.
I had a 4 cylinder.
I don't remember
This was a Giulietta Sprint. Like Sophia Loren, beautiful to look at but
The Suzuki/Yamaha dealer
Yup. I had a Lincoln where most of the devices, including the climate control, was vacuum actuated. It worked great until it didn't.
I don't know about modern cars but they used to be machined into the
head. For a light cleanup you lapped the valves manually. One video is
1000 words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-edFt6TuU
The next step down the road to destruction is if the seat is too rough
to clean up. Then you took it to a machine shop for a regrind.
Yeah, I've in LA when it rained. I was driving a truck at the time so
Bring on the castor oil...
Back when a Saab 96 doubled as a mosquito fogger a little smoke wasn't
high drama.
Yes, the cord does get warm.
Ultimately but the motors are also transferring electrical energy to
kinetic energy in moving the air mass.
On 23 Dec 2022 19:44:33 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling, troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Yes, the cord does get warm.
Like your mouth gets warm from all your blathering, gossip girl? LOL
A lot of ductwork is not within the living space. True, the crawl space
may be cozy. Stray cats will be pleased.
They've been around a long time although you might not realize it. The old tube type car radios had a vibrator, a transformer, and a rectifier to get the 6 or 12 volts up to a level required by the tubes.
On 5 Jan 2023 03:58:12 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling, troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
They've been around a long time although you might not realize it. The old >> tube type car radios had a vibrator, a transformer, and a rectifier to get >> the 6 or 12 volts up to a level required by the tubes.
Are you perhaps, unawares, talking about a vibrator up your rectum, you
weird gossiping gay washerwoman?
On 1/5/2023 3:02 AM, Peeler wrote:
On 5 Jan 2023 03:58:12 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
They've been around a long time although you might not realize it.
The old
tube type car radios had a vibrator, a transformer, and a rectifier
to get
the 6 or 12 volts up to a level required by the tubes.
Are you perhaps, unawares, talking about a vibrator up your rectum, you
weird gossiping gay washerwoman?
Mr Bowman's right: https://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-craft/images3/motorola-model-100-service-data-radio-craft-june-1935.jpg
I had tube radios in Nash Ramblers and MGs.
If you connect the negative first and inadvertently touch any grounded surface you'll get a spark.
It's a little different situation but the battery on a Harley Sportster is
a pain in the butt.
You're just a font of wisdom, aren't you?
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Petroleum refining is a bit more complex than adding a quart of motor oil to kerosene.
A friend had a
Absolutely the truth. I had a '62 Continental. 5500 lbs curb weight with a 430 ci engine you could drive over Volkswagens and not notice.
As long as it is surface rust, no problem.
Had you used hydrochloric acid it would have also removed the rust but
after you washed it off an left the shears to dry they would almost immediately been covered with rust.
I have a bike with tube tires that I change and that can be a royal pain
in the ass to get the bead to seat even with a tube. I don't do tubeless. Life is too short.
Anyone repair your own tires at home when you get a flat?
Is it worth the money if you can save a few tires?
As others have said I've used plugs in car and motorcycle tires with no problem. One bike tire had an ugly gash and I was hoping for the plug to
hold long enough to get home. It seemed to be holding so I continued to
ride. It did start leaking a little when the tread was almost gone and I replaced the tire.
They'll love you the next time you buy a tire.
I've repaired my own vehicles for the last 60 years, including rebuilding engines and transmissions. When it comes to tubeless tires, I let someone else do it. I'll do tube types.
Very few of the videos show when the project turns to shit. You know, when your entire vocabulary has been pruned down to 'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' as you beat on the tire with a 5lb hammer trying to get the fucking bead to seat.
I've noticed the people who have never done something tend to be over optimistic.
https://www.lesschwab.com/tires/free-tire-repair
I realize Les Schwab is not nationwide.
I carry a breaker bar
And then they invented donuts... The space for the donut in my Toyota
isn't large enough for a real spare tire.
That's the nice thing about putting knobbies on my DR650. How would you
know if it was balanced or not?
And don't forget to add the $90 bazooka to your home tire changing
station. It's that 1 in 10 where you need a sledge hammer to break the
bead and a bazooka to seat it that turns it into a 5 hour pain in the ass.
+1 on that. My F150's spare is in sort of a cradle under the bed. I'm no
90 pound weakling but it's a royal pain in the ass to get it out and even worse to get back in.
Be sort of amusing if it wasn't. Of course that assumes you have a floor
to bolt it to, or space in the garage.
One 16g CO2 cartridge may not be enough to fill a flat car or truck
tire. Topping up, maybe.
The 12g version won't fully inflate a mountain bike tire. otoh, 12g Daisy cartridges are a lot easier to find and cheaper than the 16g version.
The action is simple. It doesn't change. You just repeat it over & over.
Until it works.
Or you get out the sledge hammer.
No. Years ago I build a pad out of pavers for a motorcycle center stand
but that's long gone.
https://slime.com/products/core-remover-valve-cap
I tend to use these, particularly on the dirt bike. No hunting for the
core remover tool and like it says it can be cumbersome to get some of the screwdriver types in between the spokes.
Or if you like bling
https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/tires-and-wheels/tusk-billet-aluminum- valve-stem-caps-w-core-remover-p
Okay, I'll spell it out.
Make an appointment, drive out of my way, and hang around waiting? No
thanks. I drive in, pull the plug, and go do something else while it
drains. Go back when it's cooled a little and change the filter. Put the
plug back in, fill with oil, start the engine, check for leaks, and I'm
done.
As for excuses, at my age I no longer crawl under cars.
75 and still crawling under cars...
I definitely wasn't going to buy what was on the car. Toyota used LRR
tires to get the mileage up. I don't have a problem with that except they were worn out in a little over 20,000 miles which I consider unacceptable
on a 2300 pound car. The current one came with Goodyear Assurance tires so I'll see how that goes. The CS5s had good reviews both for tread life and traction.
I'm used to tire buying.
otoh, on a bike where the engine oil also fills the gear box, Rotella is
just the thing.
I run studs in the winter on 14" wheels. It helps if I jack up the front passenger side to get the body a little higher. It isn't a problem with
the 15" summer tires.
I figure Kirkland is about the same stuff. The 5 quart bottles are a bit
of a pain for a car that takes 3.75 quarts.
That's why you look under the hood before you buy it.
I knew a guy was very good at changing big truck tires and that was his
tool of choice. Of course if you're a klutz you might destroy the rim.
Yes, and it's gravel...
Wolf's Head was a decent brand of oil. Then there was Fox Head, which you bought when you were getting 100 miles per quart. I think it was recycled.
I haven't seen dubious crap like that in a long time.
No, and they are close mouthed about their house brands.
At one time I thought about buying one of the old independent gas stations that had went out of business. A couple of bays, a real lift or maybe a
pit, an office and storage area that could be made into living quarters...
In Montana :) You've really got to go out of your way to find an
interesting road. It was a mix of driving, probably the major portion on interstates, some gravel roads,
The one I have is similar. You can save a little space by putting the cartridge in but not tightening it down enough to puncture the seal. As
you say, you're not dealing with a frost covered cartridge frozen to your fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbPfXAdfCYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjQMDYvzQVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRYukrRGHo
I'll say this very slowly.
I've never seen the gas at CostCo to be more than a few cents cheaper than the other stations in town. If I'm at CostCo I'll fill up there if I'm
down to a quarter tank or less but I don't make a special trip even though it's 4 blocks from where I work.
https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/montana/missoula
I just filled up tonight
How do you know? Thanks for the reminder though. A guy down the road has goats and has put up a sign offering goat milk. I've been meaning to stop
and get some on my way home.
Don't laugh... I've thought about setting up the reloading press in the living room rather than out in the shed. Nice and warm in the winter and I could watch Tin Star on amazon.
You just ain't got those redneck genetics. I went out to my brother's in
CA one year for Thanksgiving. It was getting a little nippy
I couldn't get 100 gallons if I rolled the window down and stuck the
nozzle in :) At 5 cents a gallon less than the other stations, that 40
cents is my savings for the entire fill up.
Yeah, 5 gallons is enough for me.
Not that I can recall. They seem to expect a little wear and tear. The
only time I recall them being miffed was one time when I was in Canada for their Thanksgiving and everything was closed. I dumped the car at the
airport and told them where it was. Canadian Thanksgiving falls on a different date than the US version so it was just another day for me.
I had a rear tire blowout on a rental on the way to Madison GA from
Atlanta. It was rather drunk out that night and the jack wasn't apparent
to my passenger or myself. I continued considerably faster than 15 mph.
The next morning showed the rubber was mostly gone, the wire from the bead was wrapped around the axle, and the steel wheel was ground down to a nub. Oh, and there was a groove machined into the motel parking lot. The owner said, laconically, "I heard you boys come in last night."
I've been leery about buying used rentals since I always drove them like I stole it.
I have never had a passenger in my current car
I either back in or if in a parking lot find an empty slot where I can
pull through to the other side. The problem is when you drive a Toyota
Yaris you need xray vision to see through the two massive pickups flanking you. I very gingerly ease the nose out. That's better than having to pull most of the car out to see anything.
I won't go into finding the car in a sea of pickups and SUVs. Putting a
flag on the stubby little antenna wouldn't buy me anything.
Nope. The rear seats were folded down the day I picked the car up at the dealer's and that limits how far the passenger seat will recline. it's a hatchback that I treat like a very small pickup.
Mine doesn't but it's not a bad idea. When backing a semi into a tight
spot I learned to turn off the CB. The idiot chatter can be distracting.
I have fond memories of Jamestown Settlement. The persimmons were ripe.
I have done that when I'm out hiking, particularly in the desert where I
park randomly and go off cross country. I had
We has a '65 Dodge with vent windows. Later designs had a locking button
on the lever but you could easily open the vent with a pocket knife and
reach the door handle. After a radio was stolen from the car I
demonstrated to the insurance man but he was not impressed. "You must have left it unlocked." I haven't had to deal with insurance in years but at
that time there always was a reason why whatever it was wasn't covered.
On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:06:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
My mother had a Corvair. Two of them, in fact. I can't remember if the
white one replaced the blue one or vice versa.
A white one, '61 I think, appeared in a neighbor's driveway. I was able to confirm a vague memory of the shift being a little vertical lever on the dash. My brother had a rental and that was what I mostly remember about
the car. He liked to rent Hertz's stranger selections.
I went to a car auction in the '80s. The sales for fat fender coupes and
so forth moved along rapidly until they rolled out a beautifully restored Corvair. The bidding got up to $2000 and lagged. Finally the auctioneer
told the owner that he could withdraw the car since it hadn't reached the reserve but that was was all the car was worth. Classic/antique car values are fickle.
My first definition of poser would be a difficult question like 'why is
there something rather than nothing?'
When the Montana daytime speed limit was 'reasonable and prudent' many thought somewhere between 90 and 100 was reasonable. I can't say I was all that comfortable navigating a pack of soccer moms at 100. The Harley
didn't have much left at that speed.
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