It’s to old and no computer so the school doesn’t deal with it. Most schools dropped auto classes. My brother has/had ( think it’s still there) a poster with all the transmission pan shapes to ID them. The customer should know his car better!
What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]
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The bad thing is when a 12 year old knows more than a 40 something bragging about his ride.
And that's what you get when the school board is composed of new age environmentalists, helicopter mommies and nimby-ists, fear of law suits from angry parents who had a child actually get dirty, or even worse, learn something practical and useful!! coupled with abject and absolute compliance with the "every child must pass the curriculum/no child left behind edict from on high so the curriculum is dumbed down to a watery form of educatonal drivel that teaches nothing and delivers graduates with pablum for brains--good for the french fry line at the local choke and puke but not for much else. (And all in one sentence, go me!)
Seriously though, I don't think you will see much change until the beaver lovers finally get the message that EV's might be environmently chic but the toxic consequences of all those batteries requiring storage and disposal has yet to be calculated, or is known but being kept absolutely secret due to the outrage among the environmentalists that it would cause. Even though we might sacrifice gallon upon gallon of processed primordial fecal matter on the altar of combustion, at least we understand the concepts of reduce, re-use, and recycle, since we employ them every day as a defacto necessity due to our love/hate affair with the G-bodies we own.
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Seriously though, I don't think you will see much change until the beaver lovers finally get the message that EV's might be environmently chic but the toxic consequences of all those batteries requiring storage and disposal has yet to be calculated, or is known but being kept absolutely secret due to the outrage among the environmentalists that it would cause. Even though we might sacrifice gallon upon gallon of processed primordial fecal matter on the altar of combustion, at least we understand the concepts of reduce, re-use, and recycle, since we employ them every day as a defacto necessity due to our love/hate affair with the G-bodies we own.
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know what you mean. I took shop class in junior high in '80 and the instructor always wore a poopysuit (aka , boilersuit) for his daily workclothes. iirc, he even wore them for the annual schoolbook year picture 🤣
that's a different issue. it actually belongs to the wife/girlfriend and they left it sitting in the driveway for 8 yrs this time.
I blame the school more than the parents
Texas mom refuses to sign NDA to visit her child’s public school campus
In a highly unusual move, a public school in Texas tried to force a mother to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to be allowed at the middle school her child attends, the mom told The Post.
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we also had another kid working for us from the auto shop class of the high school. after breaking a few things, our District Manager actually directed that he could not step outside the store during his working hours to even pull OBD codes. that kid is now a car porter at the Acura dealership...god help them.
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Finally found a pic of this thing.
98 Yamaha Vmax 700SX. A little beat, 4 blown out shocks, loaded it up last Friday as ballast.
We're closing in on 3 feet total for this multi day storm. Today was the first day you could legally ride, so I threw gas down the plug holes, it ran on all 3, so I went up and down the alley. Seemed alright so I ate dinner and went for a rip. First one in 10 years. You'd never know the thing had sat in storage for all those years. 2 years ago I cleaned the carbs and fired it up every now and again since then. It was fat AF in CO since I never rejected, and I was never able to clear the crank case. I figured it was gonna be an absolute pig, but it was in fact a peach. I forgot what it felt like to rip on it, it pulls hard in the Twisties leaving a corner. The whole technique came back to me instantly and tickled a spot I'd forgot existed. Looking forward to more adventures on the greasy triple but first a little routine maintenance now that I've felt it out a bit.
98 Yamaha Vmax 700SX. A little beat, 4 blown out shocks, loaded it up last Friday as ballast.
We're closing in on 3 feet total for this multi day storm. Today was the first day you could legally ride, so I threw gas down the plug holes, it ran on all 3, so I went up and down the alley. Seemed alright so I ate dinner and went for a rip. First one in 10 years. You'd never know the thing had sat in storage for all those years. 2 years ago I cleaned the carbs and fired it up every now and again since then. It was fat AF in CO since I never rejected, and I was never able to clear the crank case. I figured it was gonna be an absolute pig, but it was in fact a peach. I forgot what it felt like to rip on it, it pulls hard in the Twisties leaving a corner. The whole technique came back to me instantly and tickled a spot I'd forgot existed. Looking forward to more adventures on the greasy triple but first a little routine maintenance now that I've felt it out a bit.
I figured out how to cut threads on a 7/16 x 20 grade 8 bolt without killing myself. I needed an 7/16 fully threaded bolt but couldn't find one locally and was also told good luck cutting extra threads on a grade 8. Using a 1" shallow 6 point socket to hold my die in place, a vise to then hold that socket in place, I then used a low power impact wrench to turn the bolt through the die after finger tightning the bolt into the die. The 1" socket was a 1/2" drive which allowed for the bolt's shaft to pass through as it passed through the die. This helped keep the bolt somewhat centered. Using the same techniques as if by hand, ran it in then backing it out of the die, and every once in a awhile use lubricant. I know this may not be much to anyone else but I thought i would share.
Why does it look like the upper threads are absolutely hammered? You'd think with the shank starting fatter it'd have enough meat to leave full threads.
Trust me they aren't. Might be that I didn't get all the oil off the threads. Not sure.
But you can see it in the pic, right?
In other news, my non-G plow truck decided to start reeking like raw gas again in the midst of a lake effect butt slamming.
This thing really needs to quit being a drama queen. Looks like I finally have a how and why for the leak I thought I fixed back in July.
Something about the fuel injector and clip combo is not jiving. I bent the clips down under 90 degrees to hopefully hold the injectors up in the rail. There's nothing to physically stop them from blowing out of the rail short of the injector body bottoming out into the lower intake manifold at which point certain injectors begin to weep gas and reek. I think what's really happening here is my freedom loving 454 is rejecting the dirty yellow Ford fuel injectors I tried putting in.
I grew up in Ohio so I know something about lake effect snow. The winter of 1978 was a doozy....and yes I do see it in the pic....
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