Piss & Moan Table
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Yikes. We were 90 today, which is about as hot as I've seen here. Low on Tuesday is 24 and they're calling for 3-6" of snow. Guess I better disconnect the water hoses.
Our last snow accumulation was June 8th, so it'll 3 months to the day.
Our last snow accumulation was June 8th, so it'll 3 months to the day.
White. Typical suburban parents have money kid.Just out of curiosity, what color is he?
Our car officially totaled!!!
I tried the gas auger 1 time, my ground used to be an old river bed. Second hole I hooked a big rock, digger spun around, thru me to the ground, broke 2 ribs. I guess I gave it too much gas. I hired a guy to finish the holes.
Well crap, just sitting at home back from the beach thinking of how I have to go back to work day after tomorrow. Makes me wanna piss and moan!!!!
Working from home the past three years has meant I usually took vacation to see scattered family, bicycle or motorcycle camping, or just hopping on a plane to go somewhere different. This year, phhhtttt! Since moving to the new place, my time off has been honey-do around the house and setting up my garage(didn’t mind that one).
This week, we were planning a couple days of motorcycle camping. During a summer of drought in NE Illannoy, I picked a week of steady rain.
This week, we were planning a couple days of motorcycle camping. During a summer of drought in NE Illannoy, I picked a week of steady rain.
In my continuing shock saga, I bought new stainless bolts to get everything installed. I touched up the paint on the shock. The first bolt went in smoothly, where the bolt head had broken off on the right side in my photos. On the other side, it when half way in then promptly snapped off. So I know the left side must have gotten cross threaded at some point and didn't tighten all the way down. That's what started this whole mess.
Of course, the stainless bolt broke off further up and I couldn't get a grip on it. I eventually got a pilot hole started and drilled a big enough hole to try an extractor, gave up rather than break it off in there, and drilled the whole thing out threads and all. Then I dropped a larger bolt, with a 1/2 inch smooth shank, in from the top and put the shock on with a nut and washer on the bottom side.
The tighten down 2 bolts in 5 minutes job, ended up finished in about 2 hours total. I spent less time then that on it, because I needed to step away for a moment or two and vent rather then break something else.
Luckily the temperature had dropped from hell's fireplace to a reasonable 75 F with a breeze.
I'll inspect the setup a couple of times to make sure everything is still doing it's job, then find a rubber cap to put on the threads sticking down so they don't rust shut if I decide to take the shock off in the future. If it does rust, a sawzall will remove the bar pin to allow access to the bolt head and I'll add bar pin eliminators rather than mess with these little bolts.
My initial assessment is the Jeep handles/corners better and rides nicer with all 4 shocks installed.
Of course, the stainless bolt broke off further up and I couldn't get a grip on it. I eventually got a pilot hole started and drilled a big enough hole to try an extractor, gave up rather than break it off in there, and drilled the whole thing out threads and all. Then I dropped a larger bolt, with a 1/2 inch smooth shank, in from the top and put the shock on with a nut and washer on the bottom side.
The tighten down 2 bolts in 5 minutes job, ended up finished in about 2 hours total. I spent less time then that on it, because I needed to step away for a moment or two and vent rather then break something else.
Luckily the temperature had dropped from hell's fireplace to a reasonable 75 F with a breeze.
I'll inspect the setup a couple of times to make sure everything is still doing it's job, then find a rubber cap to put on the threads sticking down so they don't rust shut if I decide to take the shock off in the future. If it does rust, a sawzall will remove the bar pin to allow access to the bolt head and I'll add bar pin eliminators rather than mess with these little bolts.
My initial assessment is the Jeep handles/corners better and rides nicer with all 4 shocks installed.
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It’s been a real pain in the ass to put a 6v positive ground GM alternator into the 1948 DeSoto.
That is all.
That is all.
I did something right because the alternator is working. On the other hand, I found the oil leak I could never find before.
I'm confused. A 6 v *ALTERNATOR*? I'd have thunk it would be a generator - what's the story?
Miserable gauling cheap azz SS bolts!
I feel your pain, used them on the semi mud flaps thinking I was saving myself grief.....but instead caused more. Now just never seize.
The 72 year old generator system took a dump. At best, it was good for 35 amp output, and wouldn’t charge at an idle. Couldn’t see squat at a stop sign on a rainy cool evening when signaling a turn. Radio would quit playing, too.
I converted a GM-Delco10si alternator from 12v negative ground to 6v positive ground. Output is now 63 amps and everything works like it should at an idle.
Before anyone asks why I just didn’t go 12v negative ground, I have a working five tube radio and the electrically shifted semi auto transmission on the car. If not for those, it would have been done years ago. I could probably do a work around with the radio but there isn’t anything I can do about the relay, solenoid, or governor on the transmission.
Farming on a state highway has its perils. Being passed while turning left has happened countless times and normally we catch it before completing the turn. Not today. Nobody hurt!
Too bad, being stupid should hurt, it drives home the lesson better........
That is what Charlie Brown said a few pages back and I think he had that right.
Hell, I had a similar situation making a left turn in my CAR! Nothing got hit, but horns were blown - idiot making a left behind me ignored my turn signal and cut the corner by 100 feet or so, then was shocked when I turned in front of him...
A Hooter's waitress running late for work once tried to pass my wife while turning left. Her clapped out Buick hit the step tube on my 6" lifted full size Bronco, bounced off, entered the ditch, and was stopped abruptly by a utility line pole. Everybody was ok and the damage to the Bronco consisted of a streak of white paint that I rubbed off with my thumb, but the weak-minded officer responding to the incident ticketed the driver that wasn't in a Hooters uniform shamelessly flirting with him...for not using her turn signal, solely based on the waitress' word. Being that, turn signal or not, it's illegal to pass within an intersection, she was clearly at fault so it only took a quick visit with the DA and a call to our insurance agent to clear it all right up.
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