josh817

It's so nice I wouldn't want to drive it.

I find the lack of common courtesy to leave the car jacked up rather than dumping it atrocious.

Anyone with a teacher in the family knows the dirty details. My mom use to teach highschool 20 years ago, she went to 6th grade for the past... I don't know at least 15 years. I thought maybe it was just our location, Keller, kind of prissy. Absolutely not. She literally cannot fail students. Knowing her, she probably tries her best to get you down to a C if you're an idiot. Students can fail assignments but failing the class is not allowed.... Yah, NOT ALLOWED. The focus is on the state test compared to actual material. Teachers USE to be able to make their own lesson plans, now they have to follow district guidelines on discussion topics and scheduling. Then the emails she gets from parents... Holy smokes guys. "My child is making a B. She always made A's before this class." LOL not this class, buddy! The good ones are when the parents infer they want the grade to be handed to their child. My mom replies with "What grade would you like me to enter into the grade book?" Usually shuts them up. This "new system" is what brought my mom to quitting or retiring depending on how you look at it. As for getting a degree. I don't like the status quo. Dad always says "When I was in school, having a degree was a big deal." Like you guys already noted, now you just pay your dues, buy yourself a degree. I've contemplated doing a trade or "working my way up" without a degree but I'm half way through, I'm not just going to stop now. A decision like that, for me, would have to be made before I even started. I've heard from several people that did great things without a degree but ehhhhh I wouldn't want to test my luck. I've been lucky enough to have money set aside for my education, little by little since the day I was born; I haven't broken the $5000 debt mark yet. I'll probably finish with $10k-$15k if everything goes swell. A necessary evil to buying my degree, but not my success. Heard this story too many times, your book smarts will only get you so far, your experience takes you the rest of the way and fortunately no one is buying that! That rage moment when you find out she's from Luxembourg and she's destroying you on your English paper.

Hahahaha. What is your major? is it one of those "Engineer goes to hell; he has to attend a liberal arts course" moments? I had to take an intro to architecture course... I never raged so hard in my life, looking at these houses built in the early 20th century that were ugly as hell and completely unusable. Built and preserved solely to.... look at? Beats me.

I see you waving that can of worms around waiting for someone to bait! Not doing it! So tempted to though.

Ahhh I had to play with webassign. It did the same thing to me. Don't be blown away when people try to make a pretty penny off of every last thing you do. Tuition here bumped up, financial aid cut back, and they stop giving you $100 worth of prints on your student account. They announce in the school paper that they are making new parking spaces but reality is that they built one or two more parking garages, which are about 5 times the price of a regular parking pass ($130/year). Then you start getting in some sophomore/junior level classes and you get to hear things like "lets admit it, we hate lecture, we'd rather do our research" from the professors. Which is unfortunately true. Then you wind up with some guy who doesn't speak English well, at all, not even close to Engrish, and you have to wonder what was the School Board thinking when they hired him. Hmmm research, the fact that he may have lots of impressive credentials, can't speak English? No problem! The school wants professors with publications and research capabilities, not teaching skills. The school gets its grants for the research, the professor gets his publications, everyone wins except the students; unless in the rare chance the professor cares about the students as much as his research. When you and 60% of the class drop because you don't want to fail, he just got 60% of that grading load off his plate, and more time to research or do whatever. Sometimes, even that isn't true. I'm currently in a Measurements and Methods class. The professor teaches a 50 minute lecture, and that's it. You don't email him with questions, you don't turn your homework into him, he doesn't grade it, he doesn't do the labs; his TA's do all this for him. Yah, he gets paid to come in and lecture you in what might as well be a different language, with no text book for the class and the kicker is... you're the one paying him for it! My favorite part is when teachers talk about their college experience, back in the 60's and 70's and like to make comparisons between then and now; because you know, things are just like how they were 50 years ago. I doubt the mindset and business skills are anywhere near where they are today. You're a customer, and customer satisfaction isn't part of the business. Like a really bad infomercial "You need a college education to get somewhere in this world, we're helping you achieve that goal for a low low payment of $380/credit hour. BUT WAIT, there's more! Call now and you get free gym membership and access to study groups for math, science, and electrical. Parking pass, cost of books, cost of homework, cost of labs, cost of supplies, not included.COLLEGEEEEEEE WOOHOO" By comparison, my time at the community college was a lot less gloomy. The price is $60/credit hour compared to UTA $360-$380/credit hour, you don't pay for parking pass because it's supplied since you're enrolled (imagine that), and they tried to keep using the same book for multiple semesters and courses! Physics 1 and 2, same book, Calc 1-3, same book. Different teachers but why the hell use another book right? Wow it all seems logical! The education quality, hell... UTA is 6 times more expensive and I can easily say 6 times worse quality. Granted, their standards are lower and it's an easy grade for most classes... but the fact is that if I didn't know the material, I wouldn't have passed the class. The proof lies in most of the courses I took there, lets say Calc. 3. Went into the first test like an idiot, made a 50. That **** won't fly bro. I had to LEARN that stuff to get out of the hole I made so when people say "well sure you got the grade you were looking for but did you actually learn something or did they just hand it to you [snide remark about community college]." Here's the concept. At community college, the teachers are putting in more hours, and getting paid less, while not having research opportunities. Connect the dots, they're working here... for less pay... and have nothing else "better" to do except... Hey imagine that! Teach! Unless if you get someone who hates their job and their situation, they are there for you to learn. The free parking... Parking was packed, no worse than UTA was. "Well we have to charge money to pay for security." That's a load of **** and BLOZ UP can vouch for that... stolen car yah? The "security" is there to distribute parking violations so they can make more money and I do have to agree, so they can keep retards from side swiping you because they parked facing the wrong direction. Weirdly, the community college has "security" too and weirdly, they do the same job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the bright side, I'm in a pretty low spot of my college career too! We can be gloomy together. It'll be over soon enough if you keep pushing and damnit don't change to Women's Studies. Make friends (I'm bad at that), form groups, do your work together, and as my friend always lectures me "do what you have to do to make the grade". No, that doesn't mean be a butthole and cheat, it means if your professor is a retard and his phone coincidentally rings when you try to talk about that bad test grade, or he is never in his office during his hours, whatever reason... be there, outside his door, waiting for him. Hold those scaly conniving reptilian feet of his to the fire and get some answer. Or just brown nose your way through, that works too. Lastly, perhaps it would help to get into this mindset: College is all about playing a game and people want to see that you know how to play. They want to see...: -that you brought yourself up from failing those classes -that you can manage your time -that you can keep up with a horrible schedule and get work completed -that you can hunker down and get **** done under stress -that when you have a problem you can either pull through or seek the necessary help to complete the task >>> It's all about being able to live through pulling your hair out. Think of this game as if they're trying to screw you up, and you're keeping focused, jumping those hurdles like a pro. You are now Rambo, and Rambo doesn't make terrible movies about pus'ing out.

Was reading some older posts and $6900 AUS is quite a deal for all that stuff... Thing I'm focusing on more though is Honda rods. Year/make/model, journal size specs; in the rare chance that Honda rods fit nicely on stock journal sizes. I'd imagine you just cut the journals to whatever you want in the process of stroking. Ehhhh nevermind. Some posts on AusZCar inferring you just cut the journals to whatever you want. Jealous of the prices though.

This thread needs more pictures and annotations; he's mucked up the water a bit with the twin cam head that doesn't need to be chopped into thirds. I'm curious about the oiling system and the oil return thing you mentioned.

:[ Makes me want to forget my N/A plans and go turbo L6... again... And for reference... My truck barely makes it up that hill on pleasant ridge with my fat ass in it. We chug up it in 4th gear, mind you 4th gear at 2500 RPM is like 10mph... haha

I never shot with the wood stock. Forgot it at my dads shop so I can't tear it down real fast. I didn't have to trim mine at all. It was a tight fit, had to tighten the bolts to pull the receiver into the stock so I could see how some may want to trim it. The reason why it cycles the first two rounds fine is because the first two rounds sit above the interrupter. I could take two rounds only, and load them in, if I push them down deep enough to pop under the interrupter, then the same thing will happen. If you have a Mosin pull it out and take a look at it. You will see when you push a round in, it snaps in once, and then push it further into the mag and it snaps in below the interrupter. When this happens on a properly working MN, all you need to do is close the bolt. The bolt won't pick up the round but the way the action works, when you close the bolt it should depress the interrupter and the round will pop up so that when you cycle the bolt again it grabs the round. Refer to the youtube video I linked.

Searched around all this morning for the problem but I can't find much about it... I have a '36 Mosin Nagant, put the ATI stock on it, found that the interrupter was preventing the bottom 3 rounds from loading. I went back online and remembered people saying they needed to grind a little on the inside of the stock next to the receiver because the stock didn't allow any room for the interrupter to push out. So I went ahead and did that but still have the same problem. Symptoms I'm getting; when you load 5 rounds into the magazine, the top two rounds sit above the interrupter and they cycle fine. After the second round is fired, you look in, and see that the last three are being held back by the interrupter. I go in with a flat head screw driver and push the interrupter back, and they pop up, so I have good spring pressure. I originally thought the spent shell, when pulling back on the bolt, pushes down the ejector/interrupter, thus allowing the next round to come up. I was wrong, apparently when you push the bolt forward, it depresses the interrupter and the next round pops up.... So do I have a messed up bolt? To make sure we're on the same page, this little guy is what I'm talking about: Don't really mind the problem, it's a cheap gun, but it's just a little annoying.

Curious how pissed Tony was when this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3WKTwHpIU

From what I remember when I use to play paintball. CO2 tanks were rather low pressure and Nitrogen tanks were high pressure, lasted longer, etc. They were also nice because they didn't freeze up your gun when you were shooting. CO2 would literally freeze the bolt solid and have ice falling off of the gun if you kept shooting at a high rate. In any case, using a nitrogen tank, I don't see why not; except even the biggest tanks may be too small for a car application, then you may not find someone who will fill it, lastly they usually come with regulators on them which may not regulate to where you want it. Typical tank sizes off the top of my head, for a big tank, is 90 cubic inches @ 4500PSI. Things have gotten cheap since I have played. Would have been nice when I was barely making any money to play! http://www.actionvillage.com/paintball/tanks-tank-acc/compressed-air-hpa/ninja-paintball-tanks/ninja-carbon-fiber-air-tank-w-ultralite-regulator-90-4500.html

Worked beautifully in safe mode, thanks Nick. Found out Mom has been holding back on me with pictures... So many funny family photo-bombs.

Ahhhh safe mode. I will try that out.It makes sense, what you're saying, just have to figure out how to pull up the right things! I'm surprised I could even use this hard drive. This computer was from 2003 and it had SATA plugs on the motherboard... For some reason I thought SATA was a new thing...

Duuuuuuude are we still talking about XP lol Tried dragging it to the shared folder and said I can't copy the file.

Not showing anything about file sharing... I don't understand why that would be under the View Tab either but that's beside the point. Tried unchecking that third box, the only one that has "simple" in it, and that didn't do anything....

Ehhhh there isn't a security tab. Three tabs on top when I right click on user >>> properties >>> tabs: "General" "Sharing" "Customize" There is an "advance" button in the bottom right but this doesn't lead to any access controls.

Ahhh perfect Nick... I was going to say... all the stuff I am reading is showing ways to figure out how to bruteforce the binary format that XP uses in its password file but... we already know the password since it's Mom's old PC... I will try what you said real fast, Nick.

That's good news. Poor Mom... this old beast is slower than the computer she was using, just by a little bit. Everything was working fine until I installed windows update SP3 on it. Thing went to hell after that. I had to call it the night and stop working on it because it's so frustrating to go from my desktop, back in time, to that desktop. I wonder how I ever played games on it. Anyway, I will try that. It has all the system files still on it. I remember sometime last year I had burned a CD with an image program or something and you pop it in on boot up. Type a few things in the command prompt and it would remove the password on whatever account. However, this would require the computer to successfully boot up and won't work in my scenario.

It's winter, we get some cold! Well maybe not you, further down south, so I guess 180º. I think it's spring down... I can't remember. Also make sure it has a little hole in it somewhere to get air out of the system and allow some bypass when it's closed. There is a separate hose that should run just before the thermostat to the water pump inlet which also serves as a bypass when the thermostat is closed.

Well while we were sleeping apparently my mothers computer took a dump. It lost power on the back connections and the front connections. No mouse, no keyboard, no display. Tried rebooting, tried reseating the RAM and all connections, put in a known good power supply; nothing worked. This is an older computer so we don't really mind we just want to get her up and running again. I pulled out our other desktop that is around the same age and reformatted it and I also installed the the SATA hard drive from the dead computer into this one. She can use the SATA drive for whatever she wants while Windows runs off of the old drive. Alright so here is my problem. I tried booting the computer with the SATA drive as it has Windows XP on it too, but it wouldn't boot successfully. Now I just have it plugged in the computer runs off of it's normal hard drive. My mom has a lot of pictures on the SATA drive though as well as a ton of documents that were on her Desktop. I go into the SATA drive >>> Documents and Settings >>> see the users >>> open "Mom" or "Courtney" (my sister) but because these users were password protected before, I can't get into them. Is there any way for me to get into these accounts to get the documents from her desktop?

190º for the winter, make sure it's facing the right way.

I never tried to put everything back together without snipping the nubs. Didn't think the pan would seal up properly with them poking out.

Could just be overfilled I guess... I would imagine it would take a lot of oil to reach the rear seal level, but then again it could also fling the oil around that area more so than if it were filled with the right amount... No leaks out the front cover with the pulley? The thing that screwed up on mine were those tap in strips at the back with the rear seal. The ones that you are suppose to tap in after you install the rear main cap. Not only did I not fill those holes with sealant and then tap the strips in, but I don't think I tapped them in deep enough either! I remember on the Z I trimmed a lot of the strip off the top so the oil pan could seal up but on the truck I only had a nub to trim off. There is an error in my last post. I forgot the big ring seal, seals around the flywheel flange, not the journal. This would mean oil pressure has nothing to do with it and also means a speedy sleeve can be made if you need one. Oil has to get past those two strips before it gets to the big ring seal.