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Posted on 11/16/2011 6:06:30 PM PST by glock rocks
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Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.
And thank you sir for the assist!
Keokuk29fan is ready to go. I hope I come out of Daytona better than the 6th percentile like i did last year. Never could dig out of that hole.
Texas2step back for a 3rd straight year... Changed my team name to Got My Groove On. Hoping that changes my luck. Had the absolute worse season last year. Spent the whole first half of the season with drivers that had great years, but if I picked them for my fantasy team (or started them), the wrecked out early or had engine trouble...
You know, I just may be Thundersturck.
And I misspelled it!
Thunderstruck, sheesh.
Dinger’s out front and pulling away with the clock running down.
Rimes with Smuck?
Thought it pretty neat that he was driving, a 64 year old singer in a rock and roll band.
That was quite a drive for AJ. I used to go to that race and 12 hours of Sebring every year when I lived in FL. I had a Porsche Turbo that would just die sometimes. As an electrical engineer I took apart the Digital Motor Electronics box and found a crack in the solder joint at a high-power voltage regulator. The design sucked from an aerospace design standpoint, but was easily corrected. Simply bending the wide, flat pins over so they touched the pads on the printed wiring board and resoldering would make the problem go away. The shop that diagnosed my problem said “he fixed his brain!!!” I had constant referrals fixing Porsche electronics after that. It was so easy I only charged $100 instead of the $1,400 (20 years ago)that a rebuild costed. This shop was also involved in Porsche 911 racing and for a while I was doing preventative maintenance on 911 IMSA race car electronics since they just used remapped factory boxes and these boxes were the weak point in the car. None of my modified motor electronic boxes ever failed. :)
Did Porsche ever fix it or do you still get referrals? :)
I really wonder sometimes about those that design our world. Without constant input from those that actually live in it, we’d still be riding horses.
I think Porsche must have fixed it. I have not seen cars pulling off the road, just dead recently. I am sure the older prduction cars still have this problem. I quit fixing them when I moved to Colorado from Florida. I currently do Satellite systems engineering and travel too much to fix cars. But, I am looking for the next sports car after selling the Porsche. Currently like the Audi S4, S5 or BMW M3. The Audi R8 would be nice, but has the wife veto. Others are possibly Shelby Mustang. Do not want Gubermint Motors or a Corvette ZR-06, ZR01 or Cadillac CTSV would be of interest.
Neat story. :)
Had to go assist one of our guys yesterday who lost the tensioner on his truck. “On my way home” was 40 miles in the other direction.
Got greasy hands and lost a little blood, had fun. LOL
Was that a tensioner for one of those serpentine belts?
Yep. The kid actually did pretty good at explaining the part. Almost as good as son when he was stationed on the east coast. That was a challenge.
Tensioner was easy, belt was a b*tch.
Happy ground rat day!
Still recovering from a night out. We snuck off to dinner at a old Italian Restaurant (est 1926) for our 55th. No kids, no friends, just the two of us and didn’t get home until 7:10. We did the big event for our 50th.
I need to have all the belts, pulleys and tensioners on my 99 Silverado replaced. Are you free this weekend?
Well congratulations!
Supposed to rain here this weekend (fat chance) but that’s what the forecast is. May as well come over and work on your truck.
Hope yours was good too!
sorry so slow to see the post, been staying off to hot here and I’m still a Santorum fan, for now.
Been hot for my shipper since the Humane society put them in their sites, so been helping with damage control but anyway hope you’re doing well
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/seaboard-corporation-pig-video_n_1244229.html
WalMart pisses down the food chain, and Seaboard, who goes through 180 million pigs per year, pisses down the food chain, so Daley who goes through 1.6 million pounds of pork per week, owned by Seaboard, doing damage control, pisses down the food chain...
So, you take a local story, God bless the internet, discover what it means to us regular folk... and it goes around the planet...
So...
go deliver your bacon, and quit your whining.
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