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!

AAMCO.. took a 72 le-mans there for a free estimate, ended up being way way more than I could afford. later on, I'm parked downtown, and when I pop it into gear, it goes nowhere. Now, recently it had been leaking like a sieve, so I figured it was low on tranny fluid. my fault, I didn't check, and walked home (7 or 8 miles from where I was) since it was pretty damn late, and all the parts stores were closed. Sister in law gives me a ride back, and I start dumping in tranny fluid. it starts pissing out the overflow onto the ground. I crawl under the car, and find out they neglected to put the cotterpin back in to hold on my shifter linkage. not only irresponsible, but dangerous as well. what if it had been stuck in drive and not park? yeah, bad times. Sprint: I canceled my account (no contract at that time, so no recurring billing.) they send me my final bill and I pay it. they then continue to send me my final bill, repeated calls show it's not arrived yet (after three motnhs, and one debited payment over the phone. They then straighten themselves back out (6 months after not hearing from them), and send me a partial refund.. made out to "#ris boyd" yeah, the bank wouldn't cash it. and my most recent, Continental airlines. this is a long one. ok, bought advance tickets for my wife to go visit her mother in TN. afterwards, we then found out she needed her gall bladder removed. well, they put her in for surgery, and there were later complications that kept her in the hospital until the day of the flight, so we had to move the flight. call one: told I can move them, but there's a $100 fee per ticket. I'm aghast, and he then offers to waive it, since we didn't change our mind, circumstances popped up, and we only have to pay the difference in ticket prices. Ok, 70 bucks a piece.. well, since the surgery, funds are a little low, so I told him I'd call back as soon as I know what I'm doing. (this was wednesday while she was in the hospital. and we thought she might be out friday or so) call two: friday after finding out she wouldn't be out until saturday. I'm then told they're not waiving crap, because there's no clause covering medical emergencies, and didn't I read the four page 8 pt type contract? and if I want to move both ends of the ticket, it's $100 per ticket, per move ($400 total, two tickets, two moves) I tell themt hank you kindly, refund my money, I'll buy her a beater for what I've already spent plus what they want, and she can drive there. No refunds, but we'll hang onto your money for when you can get a 6 figure job and can fly with us again. Call three: month or more later, money saved up, and tickets found online cheaper than what we originally paid by enough to soak up 200 of the fee. wife tells them what flight she's looking at, and is told it'll be 300. Wife says ok, gives card number and payment information.. then suddenly asks what the total is. Is then informed it'll be $800, total. incidentally, this is what we'd already paid for the tickets, so basically buying the tikcets again. wife then says oh, no thank you, don't process that, I've got a ticket price listed here that's half of that. Lady on the phone didn't see it.. so I getont he phone, and being a cmputer tech, and computer savvy, ask if there's any other way, such as us processing it online and applying the money we already spent ont hat reservation. She says yes, and away we go, happy as clams. She tells us we'll be getting money back, thanks o the price difference, have a nice day. we then go to check our bank account, and find ourselves $200 int he hole. she processed the first payment, and bent us over. call four: don't worry, the money wil be back in your account in 24-72 hours. call five: 6 days later. no money. ur "refund" was never processed in any way, shape or form. I get ahold of refund department, who then finally refund my money back, which ends up taking three days to process to the bank. Wife gets back this saturday, and we won't ever be flying continental again, that's for sure. I love how they can take your money in a keystroke, but that it then takes 3 days to give it back. no, of course they're not earning interest on your money, that would be wrong. :furious:

I'm sure they can find paths fairly well..... actually using them?

I'm going to get blasted for this, but... any KIA. me = army brat... KIA in my language stands for "killed in action".. and calling one a spectra, which is one letter off from being "spectre" (a ghost-like entity) just bothers me on levels I can't explain.

I have to chime in.. I'm actually listening to it now.. "Baby one more time" course, this is the version by the zappa boys, dweezil and ahmed. Used to get so many funny looks blasting this in a convertible...

Ialways love the excuses we get here in CO for gas price raises.. in the winter, it's the additives to keep it from freezing, or to burn right at this altitude or s0mesuch BS, and in the summer, it's to keep the gas form evaporating, and higher transportation costs.. so every season, we get a change.

http://www.arbusa.com/safari_snorkels.htm heh.. leftover from a previous thread...

Not sure if you'd consider it an intake, but there's always this route

I seriously want to make a bumper sticker.. "Hummers are for the bedroom, not off-road".. wonder if it would sell...

Well, the AC already doesn't work.. blows nothing but hot air.. probably have a leak somewhere, and they charged up the system right before I test drove it so it wouldn't be apparent.. Luckily I just got a refund from a company that owed me some cash, so I'll have the money to replace even that one, now... probably next week sometime, gotta take the wife to the airport tomorrow.

So.. had my pathy for months or so, and late last week I lost my fan/ alternator belt. Was more than a little broke, so I could only replace that belt, and the other two looked in pretty good shape, could still read the manufactuerer's brand name and part number, good flex, and looked essentially brand new. Today, belt number two bit the big one.. the AC belt. when that happened, it flipped the other belt over, and hence that one was then missing teeth, and was starting to get cut on the edges. Well, the AC's been toast since the day after I got it, so I decided to leave that belt off, and just replace the PS belt (still being in a broke situation) Now, all three of the belts in question were labeled "Carquest" and looked brand spanking new the day I got the pathy.. and still the outside looks new, even though inside the PS belt teeth are missing, among other things. Anyone else have this experience with that brand of belts? I do have to say that swapping belts on this is a heck of a lot easier than changing and tightening belts on my 70 firebird.