congochris

My wife already knows, if she's going to ask if something makes her look fat, or makes her ass look big, the answer is always yes. I don't even bother to look.

same here.. so many questions to search.. tach dying, speaker replacement.. weee!

well, it's being odd now, the other day when I was trying to merge onto a local highway (50 mph speed) the RPM's went nuts and started bouncing up and down the RPM range through first and second, making the truck surge and buck. I'm thinking that's a clutch issue more than anything else, but also it's 200K worth of unknown driving styles. I know how I abuse my engine, but I have no idea how it's been treated up to the 194K I bought it at. I'd rather spend the cash to either rebuild, or build a replaceemtn motor before it explodes, since it's my main form of transportation now. is there any info on what motors will bolt into ours? heh, a V8 from a titan would be fun, but I'm sure the bolt patterns have changed just a tad. sadly, I'm 5 years short of being able to put collector plates on it. in my state, once you put collector plates on something, it never gets smogged again... and then options are wide open. (all that computer controlled junk would be buh-bye, and it'd be getting an edelbrock) but that's for the future.. for now, I just want to know what's been done to it. mostly I'd probably just need gaskets, bearings and rings. piston and connecting rods are probably fine. and lastly.. a JY engine would be? like I said, usually I'm into older pontiacs.. throw me a block code from one of them, and I'd be able to tell you the year and displacement..

why do I get the feeling I'm the only one who recognizes that as a quote from a movie?

ok, I just went through this ntire section looking, but what I'm looking for is an engine rebuild kit for my 87 (V6) engine. just rolled over 200K, and it's been acting extremely strange. One of my favorite yet more expensive hobbies is ripping a motor completely apart and rebuilding it. generally older pontiac blocks, but the principles are really the same. I've been looking for what I generally buy for my pontiacs, a master rebuild kit, includes pistons, connecting rods, gaskets out the wazoo, and generally other misc things, like the oil pump, water pump, junk like that... yet I haven't found squat so far. I figured I may be looking in the wrong place. and no, I'd rather not buy a whole new motor. parts are generally cheaper... and they're fun, too. that, and I'll probably hit the heads a tiny bit and polish the ports and whatnot. may have to bore it out a tiny bit to get parts to fit, but that remains to be seen, until I tear into it. (which will most likely be summer, while I drive my current project, once the motor in it is rebuilt, but that's another story entirely.)

Good thing she doesn't watch mythbusters.. you'd be sweating your balls off, since they showed that windows down is more fuel efficient than running the AC.

The beta copies we had were direct, and often daily builds... I was supporting the MS internal contract.. so when an MS geek (or way more often, the "support" staff, finance and HR goons) had troubles, they called me. poor bastards. :X stopped working there 9 weeks ago though, so that's why the gap. never bothered to grab a beta key.. figured I'd hang out until release and get myself a few keys then, but alas, it was not to be.

you talking about the IPv6 junk? supposedly the next great leap forward.. or it will be once the world actually starts using it. until then, it's completely redundant, and confuses older networks. or rather, the ocmputers get confused, and network latency goes way up as the systems try to utilize addresses that don't exist, until you shut it off, or change your preferences... been there, fixed that. in all, it makes sense from a tech-geek stance, in that it'll give the world more IP addresses, for future expandability (big word among tech geeks, "future expandability") and it's good that they're finally trying.. sadly, they need to make it a backup protocol. last I heard, they still came on loadup with it enabled. I may be wrong, it's been a few months since I TSed Vista.

To answer a previous question: some of MS's tech support (end user) is in india, some is in canada, some is in the U.S. can't recall where in the US, though.. midwestish, I think. Hard to recall. Vista (from what I recall from my training) uses a few new "internal" doodads that are supposed to make processing faster.. if you have a brand spanking new fully built computer. for everyone else, it'll probably be noticably slower than XP. The machines they had at my job loaded with Vista had more RAM (a gig or so) and better processors than the machines we used for our jobs.. and ran like snot. without opening any programs. From the standard end-user standpoint, it'll be mostly cosmetic, especially if you get the super neat and kean-o version with "transparency" built into the desktop interface. I'm not going to bother at all.. I'm running XP Pro x64, and it works pretty sweet for me.

well, crap. Westy is up in the denver area (60 or so miles away) and I'm working twelves until wednesday.. so, no go for me. :furious:

smart remarks? okie dokie.. rig up a spring loaded hammer to a string, so when you need to, you can whack the relay box from the comfort of your seat. real suggestion? chek your grounds, sounds like one might be loose, or have bad contact.

more fuel on the fire for my continental rant.. They're on the way home today, started boarding at 1:55 local for a 2:30 take-off, landing in houston with a one hour, 55 minute layover until her next flight... well, she called me at 3:20 local time... still on the ground in Nashville. :furious: Hopefully she makes the connector, or she'll be later than her original 7:20 arrival. and I get t pick them up, so if they're later getting in, I'm later getting to bed.. for a 5:30 wakeup time to get to work (12 hour shift)...

I'd say, if they fit your pathy, keep em. it's always nice to have an extra set, in case of damage, or if your truck needs to change roles (off-road vs daily driver, for instance) but off-hand, those look like the same things I pu on my ranger once upon a time, except mine were five lugs, and no vent-holes, so they were solid rims. I can't recall paying too mch for them, I think they're AR (american racing) rims. like so. or I'm wrong. it's been known to happen a time or two.

can I boycott my allergies? :furious:

the UN. oh yeah, screw your diplomatic immunity, gtfo. So.. if they can't be prosecuted for anything they do, why are we prosecuted for anything we do to them? new rule: diplomatic immunity works both ways!