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Happy birthday, Drew dude!

Manuals or automatics? Mine's an auto, lasted about 135k before going the way of the dodo and making plenty of noise while it did.

Yes, it's inside the tank. There's an access hole in the cargo area under your carpet to get to it. So either the injectors quit, wiring FOR the injectors quit, or there's not enough pressure to provide enough gas for it to run on. Check the vacuum line for the fuel pressure regulator at both ends just in case. If the vacuum was off I think it'd simply run full pressure all the time instead of no pressure, but weirder things have happened. You can test the injectors with a voltmeter using the resistance (ohm) function to see if any of them are simply out of spec. Should be 10-14 ohms between the two terminals on the end of the injector. Do you have a factory service manual for the 94 yet? Most of the testing procedures should be the same (engine wise) for your 92.

Holy crap, Dan. That is impressive. Thank you so much! Beautiful.

Could be a power transistor problem. Those damn things have been known to fail suddenly. That's the little black box wired to the coil. The power transistor is basically a high-speed electrical switch that the ECU turns on and off to fire the coil. No transistor, no spark. I really doubt you'll be able to measure spark voltage with a voltmeter, it turns on and off so fast.

Allright, that didn't last long. RCI bid too low on this job and my pay was largely dependent on doing as much work as possible. My best wasn't enough to make the company any money, then the bucket truck broke down repeatedly and that was it. I would have had to do easily two or three times the amount of work as I was doing to make it pay, which really was impossible for me. RCI kept me on for another week as a substitute flagger for the line crew and then sent me on my way. I worked for 4 weeks for them and still have yet to see 2 paychecks. Grrrr.... One of the guys from Country Cablevision told me to check back with him if RCI didn't work out. I got a call this last Thursday telling me to come in Friday morning. I signed paperwork and now I work FOR Country Cablevision. I'm kind of excited. I've never worked FOR a cable company before, just for contractor companies. Whenever I was working on a project the actual cableco employees were a step above my position usually, know what I mean? Now I get to be that guy, even if it's only a perceived position of status to me. Anywhoo, I got a different bucket truck which is another real POS...worked on that yesterday, cleaning it out, loading it up with the proper supplies, rewiring the bucket control switches (you shoulda seen what they had wired up in there!) and getting mentally prepared for my new job. New job: going door to door trying to sell CATV internet, digital cable or standard cable subscriptions on the spot by offering a free install and one month free. There are 4000 homes in the Country system with only 1000 subscribers. They need more customers. Wish me luck, I've never been a salesman but I'm going to give it a shot.

I've hand-written a few notes for people and two of them actually came and joined up. We had a thread about making a NPORA flyer a while back, business cards sound cool too. Since we're not selling anything technically it's not spam to leave 'em on Pathy windshields...

Hey Grant! It's good to see someone that does their own work and uses their own ideas to make their Pathy into something formidable. Good job man!

I went from Salem, Oregon to Merced, California. *looks on Google Maps* 652 miles. Just over 10 hours. 1050 kilometers. Or: 1,147,520 yards. 3,442,560 feet. 41,310,720 inches. 1,050,000 meters. 105,000,000 centimeters. 1,050,000,000 millimeters. Heh.

Why isn't it a good idea to take Pokemons into the bathtub with you? Because they Pikachu! (peek at you)

Greg: that's the one I have with a broken band. B: Squirrels are evil incarnate. I've seen ten feet of unjacketed .500 CATV cable chewed bare through a tree with the center conductor open to the weather and broadcasting CATV signal into the atmosphere. I've had to repair hundreds of squirrel-chewed lines. Squirrels cause more power outages across the US than lightning does. I've had squirrels run at me when I'm trying to hang on to a ladder on a pole. My brother got attacked by one when he was up a ladder, it ran under his arms and down the ladder between his legs! Story time: One day I was working on some cable and I felt a vibration from the line I was resting my arm on. I looked over and lo and behold here comes a squirrel, running towards me! I quickly moved the bucket over a few feet from the pole and grabbed the line, shaking the CRAP out of it. The squirrel did his damndest to hang on but I put up more of a fight than he could handle. His hind legs slipped off and that squirrel did three loop-de-loops around that cable with his tail streaming behind him before sailing off high into the air! It landed on a lawn and ran away. I laughed my ass off while some lady in her driveway up the street glared at me.

I don't think I can buy insurance that would cover more than the minimums on my Pathy. Last time I asked they said it was too old for complete coverage. I said, "Well, I had it when I was making payments on it, why is it any different now?" Now it's not a piece of collateral against a loan for a big company...that's all. We don't have any inspections for anything vehicle-related here in Oregon. To register they have to see the car and verify that there's a VIN number that matches the title, that's it. 'Course, I'm sure if wheels were falling off and there was no windshield they'd stop me and make me fix it first but otherwise nobody cares.

I was just standing outside my front door watching squirrels run up and down the fence and trees...wishing my slingshot didn't have a broken band. Then I started thinking, why doesn't anyone make a bad-ass slingshot you can actually aim and have a hope of killing something with? I've bounced 1/4" and 3/8" steel shot OFF OF squirrels from close range with my old $8 "wrist rocket" slingshot before and they run away! DAMMIT! So I did a little searching and found this. The PS55M laser slingshot with magnum power band. I WANT ONE!! http://www.catsdomain.com/

And to think, I have a CTX EZBook 700G from 1999-2000 that will still boot up Windows 98 with it's 10 GB HD and 128MB of RAM...heh My little brother's used RCA projection HDTV recently took a crap too. Press the button, the little green light comes on, goes off, comes on, goes off...then nothing. No power, no TV. I looked it up and lo and behold RCA apparently makes the crappiest HDTV money can buy at Wal-Mart. Hundreds of complaints have been filed at consumer review websites across the net. Nearly all the projection TV's have the same power supply or color wheel or coolant or lamp problem. The parts don't last more than a year. And do you think RCA will be doing a costly recall to fix their sh1t-tastic TV's? Nope. Don't buy an RCA TV!! That really sucks about the Acer netbook. I'd at least research similar problems and fixes by other people and then maybe have it looked at. My GF's nice newer Dell Inspiron laptop recently quit working too and it was out of warranty completely. She's been through three different power adapters since the OEM one died last year and recently the power plug quit passing power through. The screen would flicker bright-dim-bright-dim all the time as it made intermittent contact inside, then it finally quit making contact at all and the battery started to drain. A local shop desoldered the power plug, put a new one in and fixed it. Cost about $110 for the repair and $39 for a new OEM-style power adapter. The universal power adapters she'd been using weren't made with a tip long enough to work with the new power plug.

Hurry up and complain to AC. Those idiots need a kick in the ass from time to time to keep them straight.

I've broken a set of those before. I think they're just a step below Warn hubs, actually. Warns always fully engaged, always worked first time. I completely stripped an OEM manual hub and got stuck 'cuz of it. Ask Slick if breaking a front diff is possible without it being locked or welded...

Topic un-pinned and relegated to the hall of shame in General Forums...

I think you'd have to try really hard to ding your gas tank under normal wheeling, even abnormal wheeling. It's already got a skidplate...

And from the beginning preview, one of the boats will need a full Coast Guard rescue this season. Not good...not good at all, my friends. *paces back and forth nervously*

That's right, catch your first dose of Deadliest Catch on Discovery tonight! Anyone else like the show?

Does the fuse still blow with both of those relays unplugged?

'Bout $430. I do believe we'll have enough to do an initial run of decals.

THANK YOU, JAYA! 27 people have donated so far. I purchased a lifetime license for vBulletin yesterday and I'm working on correcting the stupid DB and SQL errors that keep popping up so it can be tested on the new host.

Exactly. I hate forums full of stupid ads, I hate pay-per-use websites and I hate not being able to get info I need because it costs money. No monetary requirements are going to be made for anyone that wants to participate in NPORA in any way as long as I'm in charge.

I'd lay money on it being an SE mainly due to the leather seats. I've never seen an XE with factory leather seats. 88 XE: Auto, 4.6, no LSD, disc/drum, no tire carrier, non-adjustable shocks, roof rack, base model seats, no fog lights, manual windows and door locks. 89 SE: Auto, 4.6, no LSD, disc/disc, tire carrier, side steps, adjustable shocks, sun roof, roof rack, patterned cloth seats with side supports, no fog lights, PW, PDL.