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Oh Mag... you are on course to be called a "Bitter Old Man" by your contemporary youth some day!
LOL
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if cost of repairs exceed 50% or so of the vehicle's worth, you get a payout and the car is totalled.
'copious ammounts of cash' would not be how I catagorize what you get left with, though...
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7 times in 6 weeks, pulled over and had guns drawn, driving home from call-outs at work in a remote area of Brea known for drug dealing.
Long haired, bearded white guy driving a 62 Microbus...
Last time I was stopped it got into a full to-doo with me demanding the watch commander come to the site and lodging a formal complaint with the police the following morning.
One time, (6th stop, less than 300 ft from the 5th stop!) my reply to 'what are you doing going down this road?' was 'because I can, it's a free country!' (prepare for total strip of the car searching it...)
7th stop put me over the top, after stops 5 and 6 and the searching...
Any contention of distance and 'not stopping you' is urban myth. It's like saying you can't get pregnant if you do it standing up.
It's all about safety, though. The farther they follow you, the safer you are! Why would someone not want a cop following them? You would never get rear-ended, right? (some arguments seem silly when in one context, yet seem proper in another context...shouldn't they be considered silly in both contexts?)
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Agreed. That thread would have went to the tool shed here, which is the way it should be.
Agreed!
After having posted the answers to that guys questions at LEAST three times previously (in detail) I was just shocked that anybody could, in good concience, post that question.
It showed me there was not any searching involved.
And the gist of the 'beat down' was this: If you aren't willing to expend effort, why should anybody take time to answer you---it will never happen so our time would be wasted.
The gist of any answer was: Give me what I want! You are an a$$ for not posting exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it, in what format I wanted!
I mean, the guy called me an a$$ for posting 'wow, shocked...'
With salutations to Mag58 for kindling this next jewel from his post phrasing, to paraphrase the words of the old TV setup: "This is a test, for the next 5 posts this experienced forum member will be conducting a test of your mental reasoning and congnitive abilities. Remember, this is only a test."
"FAIL!"
The first answer set the tone for the rest. There are plenty of situations where I have given detailed answers to noobs after posting the stuff countless times before. There are people who come to LEARN, and genuinely need that first little nudge to get started. Then there are guys like this, who aren't interesting in learning...they want it spooned to them.
I resent that:fmad:
Now, to get these damn expense reports submitted so I can pay my cc bill before leaving for Spa.
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But don't you feel safer with all that scrutiny?
Wouldn't you feel better knowing a law enforcement person was that close with your kids in your car?
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After buying a 1990 7.4L TBI engined dually, I rue the day I didn't get an OBD2 compliant (read newer) GM EFI system.
The Newer stuff (say an LT out of a 94 Camaro) is programmable through the OBD Port using a program called "Tunercat". I have toyed with it on my buds conversion, and IMO with the OEM fuel trim component and ability to change just about anything you want...I'd spend the $$$ on a newere drivetrain and use it for the swap.
Tommy (my bud) got his driveline complete for $1800. That car went 18 miles from the dealer to a telephone pole! Killer deal, and now resides in his 74 Camaro. The tunercat allows you to alter all those pesky things that might throw a code and get you in Dutch with the CAL SMOG people. (Always important)...
As for the HEI----with a later engine like the 94...you go "HEI? We don't need no stinkin' HEI!" LOL There are a lot of sites out there devoted to HEI and it's maladies, no need for me to parrot their research here. My main jist was is I was considering a drivettrain or EFI system to go into a car...I'd use the later stuff simply because it's lightyears ahead of the TBI stuff.
Not anything against TBI. I have it on the Dually, it's great. It's relatively versatile as I have seen the same system on VW's and Corvairs...if you have a way to burn the chips. The newer systems don't need a prommer to make mods, and you can essentially work them just like a standalone with a cheap software package and a $40 cable to make the OBD2 interface.
Good Luck.
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Eric, PM sent, you have mail.
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You got me beat!
I've been in the office 8 days since 2 January 2009.
How can I get on this cushy two-month home schedule that you got, man? LOL
I should be back in time for JCCS. My plan is to return the Tuesday before JCCS, and then the evening of the 4th, I'm back out on a Flight to Kuala Lumpur. That will give me days 9, 10, & 11 in the office this year. If I go into the office. I think I got "honey do's" stacked up at home for the past few months...
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I did -6 (3/8" NPT taps) on mine with no problem. Here is a link to my project post for this mod. I don't think people were noticing without a link or the pics popping up right in their face.
http://forums.hybridz.org/showpost.php?p=1025069&postcount=13
WOAH!
That looper aroudn the back of the head to the water pump inlet is not doing you any favors, as a matter of fact you'r putting the hottest water in the head back into the inlet of the pump---terrible! That needs to go to a COOLER before being recirculated to the inlet of the pump!
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Welding saves many things...
And a photo would be nice.
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WOO HOO another dumb kid just found out the hard way the 'anonomity of the internet' is really a myth when someone is determined to get you!
I hope he drops the soap.
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He's involved in carbonated beverage industry?
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Yes, bummer.
Or you just can consider that I'm a unquantifiable genius and it may take years for people to understand the depths at which I use language.
Naw............
Soon, we will both undoubtedly spontaneously evolve into self-levitating brain sacs with tendrils in which I can ensnare beautiful girls... you can do what you want with your tendrils. I'm ensnaring girls!
I most assuredly DO NOT have an MBA. Nor a Masters of any kind.
My father was a public school administrator who had educational requsites comparable to a doctoral degree, but never pursued the title like so many of his friends did because he was not out for a title, and knew with it he would be excluded from some of the more interesting small districts in the state. As it was, due to his qualifications school districts were not offering positions, and when he asked they said "we can't pay you what you're worth"---it's kind of a compliment, but it really upset my dad because there were places he really thought he could help, and really would have taken those jobs for whatever they could pay just to DO that job.
I have taken a job for HALF what I previously was making at a 'lower title, higher pay' situation because I thought the job would 1) Enrich My Knowledge Base, 2) was an area where I didn't know what I thought I should, 3) was 'interesting'...
I can't say I've made top dollar anywhere I went, but that was not my concern. If I wanted to be rich, I'd start my own business. That's a fact, you won't get rich working for someone else. But what I have done is take positions where I was interested in what they were doing and thought they could give me something to work my brain. Like I said, I had fantasies about design work at one time. I ended up landing a job Drafting brackets for MJ1A Bomblifts (something I worked on while in the USAF) and after 6 months I was through with that...forever. Not day in day out. An occasional bracket. An occasional tool. Overhung load calculations... sure fine... But sitting in a cubie all day at a workstation (then again, this was before internet availability and desktop surfing...hmmmmmmmmmmm) I'd take the axe and do 'Jack Nicholson' on the cubie walls. By the end of October this year likely I will have spent 12 days in my office in Diamond Bar. WOO HOO! I hate going to the office.
But I digress.
Learning is not something that is quantified by the paper you present to them and validate your CV. Learning is something you do continuously and in every facet of your life. Curiousity is contagious. The best time in my life was when I was going to technical school in the USAF---I got PAID to go to school, and had a fully outfitted gym at my disposal. Right, I knew about automotive mechanics at the time, ended up going into support equipment with the logic "I already know about jeeps and cars, this looks interesting"... That got me on the flightline, where F15C's and D's were, and guys who were 'mechanics' because the USAF told them they were...not because they did anything more than score about a 25 on the ASVAB to qualify for the spot. When a guy with support equipment training walks out and troubleshoots your weapons release problem without ever having seen the schematic before.... that was the time I started figuring maybe I should spend time at U of Md classes after work.
Believe it or not, 'Asian Studies'... And even then, no matriculation formally. Close, but no cigar. Some upper level composition and history credits were lacking and I wasn't there long enough to wait for them to open up and complete the coursework. Minor in Business Admin since that's about all they offered overseas. Sucked.
Then, when on the road with Atlas Copco I found 2000 hours a year in hotel rooms in such senic places as Keokuk Iowa, and Worland Wyoming. So there was this outfit associated with Penn State called "ICS" a correspondence school that had done work with the Military. I started the associates program in ME Technology, and completed it. Except for that three weeks you needed to do at Penn State in the lab. Meh, I was too busy. I just paid for the next course (Industrial Eng) and did the same thing... After a couple o five years I had done four of their programs, all associates degrees, but never the three week program to complete and officially matriculate for any of them. I asked for time off once and my dentally challenged supervisor made gruff commentary about not wasting the company's time...and since I only was entitled to TWO weeks vacation at any given time what was the use? Hell, as long as my GPA was above a 3.5 they paid 100% of the course cost anyway---wether I matriculated officially or not. Knowedge for knowledge's sake I suppose. Didn't cost me anything but time in a hotel room that I would have spend reading history books anyway (this trip from Australia got me over $175 worth of books on Aussie History, making me overweight on baggage for British Air!) Hey, I got time to read. Starting to make sense now?
I am reminded of Blutarski in "Animal House" as he exclaims 'Eight Years of College Shot to Hell'...
Basically I've been learning continuously since I started to read. I have taken applied classes here and there, technical courses and seminars, and probably another 2000 hours of vendor-specific training...and likely some diploma mill someplace would complie all the stuff and give me some sort of "Life Experience Bachelors" that I could hang on my wall. I considered it when I realized that my compatriot at the company in our controls group confessed to me he had a double associates out of Penn State (ASEE, ASME) which was combined for a bachelors somehow. I started going to myself "hey, I got four of those, plus 20 years in the business..."
I guess if I totaled it all up maybe it's more than a simple bachelors. I haven't really run across anything I couldn't figure out yet. One of the things I've always ended up gravitating towards at work is the training aspect, I ended up being selected for training because I could pass on what I learned. Many times I was picked to be a trainer. Much of what I do now for Distributor Support can be defined broadly as training. It really was all I wanted to do...but remember my father was a school administrator, and former teacher and he said at a really young age: "You don't want to be a teacher..." Well I did...and curiously now he's sending me articles from Michigan where retirees in hands-on trades are now being accredited as teachers by the state (like they formerly wre allowed to do before the NEA Union was entrenched, you could apprentice to be a teacher in Mighigan at one time!) because the skills they have from 30+ years on the job just can not be taught by someone who is 24 and just out of university with a teaching credential. From the martial arts, you couldn't progress beyond shodan unless you spent time teaching younger students. It was a lesson learned well, because I saw in teaching others I learned more---or more importantly I questioned what I thought I knew more---and until you do that, you are merely regirgutating something you read in a book, or had thrown at you in some lecture. There are PLENTY of people out there who can recite stuff from rote, or reading...but what insight do they have beyond what they speak?
One of my favorite shows on TV at one time was 'The Pretender'---the last scene of the opening credits where the old lady in the bed looks up at Jared and says 'are you a doctor?' His answer is what I've said to customers ever since: "I am today!"
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who is kanye west?
bouncy is the girl in the dancing-lizard pepsi commercial, right?
whats the tie-in between them?
what am i missing here...seriously!
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valve stems need to be longer to acconodate different cam height and still use a decent thickness valve lash pad...
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Nissan now uses stamped steel impellers on many of their water pumps.
I have had both versions of nissan water pumps. Can't say I saw a difference though, but I'm sure the design does do something to flow for sure.
Be VERY careful about comparing what is in a NEW DESIGN and one that is over 40 years old...
I have NEVER seen a cast impeller eaten away to a nub after only 6 months in coolant that has gone acidic. "Oh hey, it's a new water pump, I just installed it last fall before I put it up for the winter---can't be that!"
Pull pump, stamped impeller was rotted to nothing but vestigial nubs on the bearing shaft.
This has happened more than once to cars I've worked on (L-Engines).
I will not run a stamped impeller any longer because I feel I can't trust their reliability. I test my Ph 2X annually, and have seen corrosion on stamped impellers that scares me in my own cars, so they are a definate NO NO for my list of things to never use unless absolutely necessary!
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BMW wants line working wrench turners. And from UTI you just might qualify for that...which is a backbreaking tedious existence of slapping on parts and moving on to the next job. Yep, you can make $100K+ at a busy shop. Until it slows down and your flatrate jobs dry up. Or they decide to stop paying you commission on the parts you sell. Remember that those 'starting salaries' are just that...
As a line worker, you will be hammering away on your body until Carpal Tunnel takes over, or you can't do it any more. Without further education to fall back upon, you end up the next broken down line mechanic working the service writers desk lamenting your cut in pay. I've seen it all too many times.
Many of my friends are now in their mid 40's and mid 50's trying to do jobs like they did when they were 24. It wears you down. They ask me what openings we have where I work, but unfortunately none of them have the educational background to do the engineering analysis. They are great wrench turners, but it really limits their opportunities. If we had purely hands-on supervision of overhaul work, I might be able to get them on...but unfortunately they don't have that engineering background and they lament their broken bodies and back pains...worrying about wether they will be able to keep the pace up till their kids are out of the house.
And education makes for a great fall-back when your older. I could not go from school to design work. It drove me nuts. I had to go out and work with my hands. Curiously I found that overseas I work in hands-on jobs with plenty of Masters and Bachelors of ME. Some have advanced degrees in Finance (The Engineer I was doing this last Stud Exchange/Retrofit was ME with an Executive MBA from the former parent company for the place where I work now!)
When was the last time you saw ANY MBA in America with a pair of coveralls twisting a ringspanner and torquing the splitline bolts on a piece of rotating equipment?
For me, working line work when I was young, I decided the inbred malice towards formal education from my co-workers was a sign of the times. Those who didn't wish to learn have a hard life now. But the resistance to education on an advanced level persists in many professions (especially in America where there really is no apprenticeship system). Even where an apprenticeship system exists, "Technical Colleges" (Like UTI, Basically) are getting people advanced journeyman tickets without any supervised work experience. They are coming into the workforce with a certificate of competency but without any practical application knowledge and have to work with guys who took the 'old route' of being an apprentice for five years, while going to college concurrently and then working under the supervision of a master tradesman for anotehr 18 months before being certified.
Question is who do you think is 'more qualified' to do the work---and which kind of person do you want to be?
For myself, the only thing I ever wanted was to be thought of as 'competent'---and in many cases didn't put any educational information on my resumes at all, just what I'd worked on. It's totally backwards from the 'fast track' route of getting far more money up front...but to be honest if I looked at one more bracket for an MJ-1A bomblift I was going to take an axe to work and start smashing cubicles.
I liked the fresh air. I learned a lot that I wouldn't have being stuck in a cubie, or being straight salaried engineer away from the productin or field problems.
I loved cars, and thought I wanted to be there, I had friends who went to GMI while I went directly to work on the line (had my SASE Certificates in Brakes, Tune Up, Overhaul, etc... by the time I was a Junior in High School). I decided I liked working on cars too much to 'make a living at it' and decided to go into other areas of mechanical endeavour, keeping automobile mechanics as my 'getaway'...
And you need a getaway. You can PM me if you want, I got more to say but it's late and I got to be up in the AM for the drive down to Rayong to see some customers about some electrical controller problems.
As an aside, after being in Australia for the past month...I called my brother and told him he was AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT for wavering on the opportunity to take a position in the I.T. Department of GM Holden in Australia. 3 Week Flyback every 6 Months, killer salary, and secure position on one of the only profitable segments of GM in the world...what a fool! The only thing I can add from that is if you are offered international assignments, TAKE THEM! The rewards in your career will be many because of it. You won't have that expansion opportunity at a local distributor, generally. That's OEM Level Stuff.
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"A little bit of detonation from 4K on up" can blow a head gasket to the coolant side just as quick as you read this sentence...
DO NOT recirculate the #5 & #6 clyinder head vents to the inlet of the pump, that is NOT where they are supposed to go! They go to either the radiator, or the lower theromstat housing. Ideally.... well, there is another thread dedicated to all that stuff, so I'll skip repeating it here.
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That 'style one' catch all by '240z Master' is misleading as well.
My 72 and 73 240Z's have the fore-aft pin attachment like my 260/280/280ZX. Maybe the early 'screws into the bottom up' is just for the earlier cars, and automatics, but by 1973, the mount is pretty much standardized till the end of the S130 run. For Standard Shift cars, that is...the Automatics ceased getting a different style mount at some point as well. Which I think is where he's getting the '70-73 Type 1' designation.
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I gotta go with AK-Z on this one, swapping of the L28 bellhousing to make it sit correctly is what people going the other way do.
The engine mounts determine the attitude of the engine, and the transmission is set from there. Since the oil pan on the engine is usually not changed...you are stuck making the transmission line up to the bolt pattern of the engine, not the other way around.
To get a gearshift in the center of the hole with a KA sitting in the proper angle relative the the stock oil sump, you need a KA housing on an L28 Tranny (and that swap is covered in detail elsewhere, in reverse as mentioned above.)
Or use a KA Tranny instead with all that entails, subject to fore-aft positioning of the whole assembly.
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If the money is what drives you, you will be miserable no matter where you go.
Usually it works the other way around, UTI certification, job, then night school to get the degree and take on more responsibility and more challenging projects.
It would likely be an asset to be in the training department, actually being able to do the work you devlop training criteria and lesson plans for with an OEM. But then again, that's the 'teacher's salary' job in the OEM world.
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Anyone ever watch the Red Green show? It's in re-runs now but for some reason it just cracks me up. In case you've never heard of the show, it's kind of like a televised version of Patrick McManus outdoor humor books but in Canada and on public television.
For some of us, it's nostalgia weeked from Grandpa's Cabin...or a visit to your neighbors house at the end of the road...
Excuse my, ahem, 'Rural Northern Roots'...
You know you've been civilized when you realize you live in L.A. but think 'Oh, I did that' when catching Red Green Reruns...
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Cheating is such a hateful word...
Then again, has he been sanctioned for what is alleged?
If not, was it really cheating?
It's like a bear in the woods that knocks over a tree. Two questions there that people have been debating for the ages...
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Baby Snakes?
Or is it BAY-beee SNA-AAA-kes?
(Sounds like the title to a movie...)
Cop rant
in Non Tech Board
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John Coffee can confirm where this occurred: Lambert Road as it enters Carbon Canyon, with the light at Valencia.
Stop #5 I was heading towards the canyon, the cop was coming out of the canyon. 2AM on a sunday morning, cop has his light on 100 yds in FRONT of me coming the other way.
Tells me he stopped me because I didn't have a back bumper on (it was in the back) and I told him I did an engine change earlier in the day, and didn't want to put it back on before I made sure it was all good and I had a couple of miles on it. I was planning on putting it on at work on Monday, anway. Showed him the bumper in the back of the van. Takes about 15 minutes. He releases me. (How they saw I had no bumper on in back while they were 100 yds in front of me is still up to interpretation, I call BS myself...)
I pull from the shoulder, to the left turn lane as the left turn light to Northbound Valencia comes on, and I start up the road to the dump (which is were my Generating Station was located).
Cop lights me up, and SCREAMS through the intersection against the light.
I'm like "WTF?" as I wait for the SAME COP that JUST STOPPED ME 100 FEET BEFORE come up and ask: "Why are you going down this road?"
I mean, at that point...'my cup was full' and I didn't think I owed him ANY damn explanation. ESPECIALLY if he thought I was so stupid to be pulling down a drug corridor with him there WATCHING ME.
He ends up tearing everything apart in my van looking for crap. After abour 45 minutes, I hear the noise of the generators coming through the canyon making the cyclic noises they make just before shutdown. At which point I kind of suggested to him "I hope to hell you TICKET ME OR SOMETHING QUICKLY! Hear that noise? That's the sound of 5.5 Megawatts getting ready to go offline because of your paranoia. I'm going to have to explain this to my A-H boss in the morning, thanks to you!"
He let me go shortly thereafter (plant now totally shut down).
I get to the dump main gate, and there's four or five cars parked around a station wagon and a bunch of teenagers. They are all nervous, until they realize I'm not a cop, and just a guy going to work. "Hey, we're running a train on my buddys sister, you want to join?"
Er, no thanks guys, but you might want to post some lookouts, the cops just stopped me TWICE at the entry to this street, and they probably will be coming down here in a couple of minutes to check up on me!
Yeah, I'm a real menace to society. That had to be '93, just after a couple of Brea Cops were shot. Definately after the Rodney Riots for sure (reason below).
The NEXT weekend on stop #7, I voiced the opinion that the reason Brea Cops were being shot was because they were making BS Traffic Stops on citizens doing nothing but going to or from work. I refused to give them my I.D. and insisted the field supervisor report to the scene, and suggested strongly that if they didn't want litigation, that the rookie over my right shoulder with his service weapon unholstered and pointed at my head from a quartering view of the van (guy who came to the door had his service weapon's holster strap unsnapped as well) should holster his weapon, that the guy making the interview put his safety strap back on his holster, and that they simply go back to the car and call in supervision and whatever backup they thought they needed.
When the supervisor arrived (sgt) I asked him if all of Brea's Night Shift Cops were responding to my traffic stop, because I want to make sure THEY ALL KNEW that I WORK ON THE DUMP, that I'm subject to call out at odd hours, and that this was the 7th time in 6 weeks they hassled me over being on the street between midnight and 3AM. And that I was making a formal complaint with the police watch commander, as well as someone on dayshift over the incident. I was not speeding, I didn't have lights out. I was simply a guy with long hair, a beard, an old Fatigue Jacket, and was driving a VW Microbus at 2AM on a Sunday Morning...
Yeah, only some 'minorities' are profiled, right?
After that, I wasn't stopped again.
Funny thing was during that last stop, they uncovered a whole LAPD Training Text on PPCT and various control and cuffing (speedcuffing) procedures. They were very interested in why I was in posession of them. I told them the truth, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I worked at the LAPD Los Felix Location (Academy) training new and requalifying officers in these techniques.
The look on their faces was 'Oh, man, I'm glad I didn't try to take this guy out of the car and cuff him...'
And they're right. It would not have been pretty. Especially with their poor approach and panic control. Hell, LAPD wanted someone that wasn't 'like all the other cops' (meaning different body profile) to instruct because they were all about the same and weren't taking training seriously and it was going to get them killed on the job. My exact instructions were 'kick these guys a$$es and show them why they need to take this training seriously'...yeah, give me carte blanche to whomp on Cops? He he he, a dream come true! "Thank you sir, may I have another" was what came to mind as they got chucked around. Mind you, I was probably 60# lighter and continually training then, but I was literally sending guys flying. My cup was full, and if they had made the mistake of pulling me out of the car on that stop #7...well...I probably wouldn't be here typing this right now.