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motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Fri May 30, 2014 1:23 pm

Typing this instead of doing what I'm sposed to be doing....

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat May 31, 2014 8:20 am

Replacing the fuel pump on my Jeep.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Sat May 31, 2014 6:01 pm

Recovering from an arduous 225 mile round trip to get cheese curds and a tag. Oh, and 'Hi', Cal.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Sat May 31, 2014 8:06 pm

Good answer Zim!!!

I'm sweating the details of a bachelor party I'm running as a favor to the best man, with copious breaks to plan my route for Rag15.

-Rench

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:07 am

Humidity is in the low 40s, despite a nice and cozy 63°F. So I'm spending half my time drenching my right eye with damn eye-drops and, on occasion, a spot of vaseline (no, seeing the world through a vaseline-covered lens is not romantic). Like it's the damn middle of winter. Grrr.

EDIT:
I just realized, it's fucking relative humidity, 41% of what's possible with that temperature. 41% of what's possible with 63°F (outside, it's 73°F in here) is pretty fucking dry, though.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:41 am

Oil change and general goofing off in the garage.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:45 am

Damn, how do you do it? Don't say diet and exercise!

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:52 am

When did you get that SOHC?

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:07 pm

guitargeek wrote:When did you get that SOHC?

Sunday, July 22, 2007.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:07 pm

Whoa, time flies!

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:13 pm

I just finished refretting a Telecaster neck. Next up is a Strat neck for the same customer.

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Zim · Post by **Zim** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:45 pm

That's artistry.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:05 pm

Thanks!

Another day, another neck. I'm going to try and finish this one tonight, so I can ship it back to him tomorrow, since I have chemo on Wednesday and will be worthless for the rest of the week.

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Zim · Post by **Zim** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:34 pm

Straining a relationship, changing tires, wearing blue nitrile gloves and realizing I'm covered in grime everywhere except for my hands.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:47 pm

AND!

Changing rear brake reservoir from OEM to WTF.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:01 pm

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:52 pm

Stay gold, Ponyboy.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:37 pm

Have to be up in 6 hours, yet I'm typing this instead.....

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:46 am

Getting ready to take Renchlette to her last day of Kindergarten, in the sidehack!!! It's very possible I'm more excited than her.

-Rench

(PS: not true, she's bouncing off the walls, I'm still trying to wake up)

wyckedsin · Post by **wyckedsin** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:01 pm

Dragging my ass up from the porn chair to ride down to the Bike Night at Westgate...

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:57 pm

Had the worst fucking day at work, only to learn when I got home that my uncle had a probable heart attack. So my day was not so bad after all, despite having gotten much worse with that news.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:20 pm

It was a nice, sunny, warm day.
Too hot to wear regular clothes like sweaters and jackets, the sky some weird, freakish color (some sort of blue, I don't know ...).
Uncle thermometer declared 28°C in the shade, that's 82°F.
And I saw something here, in the street outside my house, that I only knew from stories. From strange, bewildering tales, from stranger, bewilderingerer lands.
A man crossed the street, evidently finding it a bit hot for his comfort, so he had adopted what, apparently, is the custom in some parts of South Central and South East Asia. I'm no good at judging ethnicity, and from all I know, this gentleman was born and brought up in Norway, but by the looks of him, his family may once have come from that corner of the world. There is a reasonably sized Tamil community in this city (they seem to run most of the pizza-delivery joints. Don't ask.)
Anyway, the sight that surprised my and utterly bewildered and astonished my friend, whom I was walking to the train station, was the Airing of the Belly.
You know, t-shirt pulled up to let it all hang out in the heat. He seemed entirely comfortable and not a bit self-conscious as he crossed the street.
If you don't know what I mean, go hence and look in the bottom right corner: http://www.thepaincomics.com/Why%20We%2 ... hinese.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The gentleman I saw doing it here today, though, didn't do it in as quite a subtle way as the man portrayed in that drawing.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:10 pm

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Strat neck is finished. The guy I did these two necks for tells me that if he likes these, he's got at least one more for me to refret. Huzzah, bidness!

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:06 pm

DerGolgo wrote:was the Airing of the Belly.

85* F and sunny here. Took the day for manual labor. After doing some woodwork at a friends house, I decided the double-layer dungaree carhartts were way too thick (t shirt was gone by 9:39). Went home, time for the cutoff shorts! Then out to the (new) deck where I still needed to attach the cross bars on the under-construction pergola. I gotta tell you, after climbing around a wood frame 8' in the air with the sun coming down and the cold beers from this morning a distant memory, I was thinking of the stylish ventilation only a kilt can provide. No side pockets though for screws and tools. But wait!!!

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-Rench

calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:14 pm

Knockoffs!!! Get the original, made in Seattle!
http://www.utilikilts.com/company/produ ... /workmans/

Post by **DerGolgo** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:44 pm

Enjoying the weather on a nice, warm, summer's eve.
To quote the cops who drove by about an hour minutes ago: "STAY INDOORS! KEEP YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS CLOSED! IT'S RAINING!"
This must be the first time I've heard a cop use their cop-car's PA to moan about the weather.

Seriously though, the last hour was a mother and her gentle lover of a quick and hearty little thunderstorm. I closed my windows when I saw an actual whirlwind forming in the middle of the intersection my window is overlooking, made nicely visible by the rain. Somebody's furniture was flying in the street. First the cable went dead, so no internet or phone or even decent radio (no TV so no loss there), then the entire damn mobile network went wonky for a while. For maybe an hour, no phone calls, and short messages would only get through every couple of minutes, at most.
But now, all is well again. That weather pimped out as quick as it pimped in, and it reduced the temperature slightly, which I welcome. I would have welcomed 'significantly' a lot more, but slightly is better than nothing.
According to the weather man who was just on the radio, this happened because the very warm air over Europe was struck by a wall of cold air from somewhere else.
From where else you ask? No, not Russia, silly. Cold air. From the obvious place - the Sahara. Yeah, I know, but we're Germans. Even our confluences of events are thoroughly unusualled out!

EDIT:
I know this isn't noteworthy weather for many of you 'mericans, it's more like "another Monday ...". But over here, any weather severe enough to affect the utilities is a bit on the oh dear side. Seeing horizontal rain is nothing special here, but seeing rain going upward, now, that's exciting!

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:08 pm

Troubleshooting a no-start condition on my Jeep TJ. Been at it for a few days now. It ran fine, the the other day it just wouldn't start. I could turn the key a few times and prime the fuel pump and it would run for a few minutes, then shut off unexpectedly. Tested fuel pressure which indicated a bad pump. Dropped the tank, replaced the pump and seal, reinstalled tank. No start. Checked and pressure is restored to tolerable levels. Still no start. Been checking various fuse and relay related possibilities which have been brought up by the gurus on a Jeep forum.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:32 pm

Did you change the fuel filter?

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:24 pm

Yes, new in-tank filter came with the pump assembly.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:38 pm

Hmmm... did you burp the fuel system? Is that even a thing on that model?

EDITed like nine times: I'm assuming this thing is injected, because I don't know what a Jeep TJ is and I'm too drunk and lazy to look it up.
I'm also assuming you already have a good service manual for this Jeep TJ.
You say fuel pressure levels are good, so I'm assuming you checked this at the fuel rail.
You can check to make sure that your injectors are getting signal, and that the sparkplugs are sparking.
I got a probe stethescope, but before that I used a piece of plastic tubing to listen to individual injectors for their distinctive "click".
Your service manual should tell you how to check for voltage at the injector connectors.

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