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LobsterboyX posted:oh, you wanna hear nitro cars cackle? Pro clicks. Thanks!
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I'm getting weird with the reverb stuff - I basically found all the chips that make up that little unit I have - a bluetooth receiver unit, a echo board (the one from the CB) and an amp - basically creating more - I was getting way too deep in to the chinese crap... even delving in to the temu world so much so that me and da bois spent most of cruise night talking about temu look at this junk - all of this crap for 30 bucks...  the winner of the junk roulette...  either way, the whole order was to get another $8 amp like the other ones I have in my cars already - I wanted a test unit and got lured by the rest of this crap. surprise runner up is this crazy LED photo light that has full RGB settings and "effects" - dont have a pic of the actual unit but I used it to take these pics in silly colors..    Speaking of colors... We had some rain a few weeks ago, and yay! roof leak! - it really made me sick because I had some damage, specifically to my 1937 Firestone console radio and a very very special painting from my moms collection. the leak in the roof was directly over the radio and it splashed up on to the painting - there was really bad water spots and they looked like the painting was completely ruined. My wife was super upset because my late mom gave it to us before she passed - the painter was pretty well known and this particular one was done in the late 30s a few years before his passing in 1940. I didn't take any photos of it in its damaged state, I could hardly look at it.. it really did make me sick to my stomach - my mom would always say "if the house is on fire, grab grandpas scrap book and the bullfighter painting" last weekend I was having a "dadurday" and I was knocking around with lobsterboy II -  after that we stopped in to one of my favorite art stores that itself is a relic from the 40s, its an amazing store https://www.cartersexton.com/ and they have possibly one of the best neon signs in LA.  I off the cuff mentioned to the gals behind the counter that I had an old painting that got damaged in the rain - they suggested I call "Sunny" So I get in touch with her and she has me come over to her home - Holy crap... amazing woman - 87 years old, restoring fine art - with degrees in sound engineering and art restoration, she was happy to show me photos of her restoring fuckin hieroglyphics in Egypt in the late 50s, her work at the Abbey Road studios... list goes on. She was sharp as a tack and really engauging. She took me to her studio and took my painting. She went to her shelf and pulled out a merky gray/green solution, when she opened the jar, the smell was overwhelming. With her bare finger she gently dabbed some of this stuff on there and with a linen rag she wiped the damage right off, she'd wipe a bit, and look at the cloth to make sure nothing was coming off, she did that over and over again and the transformation was in-loving-credible.  She told me to leave the painting with her for a few days for it to "develop" - she said "it will look even better in a few days" so I did - and holy poo poo did it ever look better this was it shortly after she put her magic mix on it -  here it is now with moody 9pm lighting - not a very accurate representation of it, but you can see the changes in the painting.  Overall - it looks like the difference from 1080p to 4k - when she first put her mix on there, it looked bright and shiny I was a bit nervous because it looked almost too good and too new - took the vintage patina off - but when i saw it again after it had "developed" - it looked right - her explanation to this was that it was like wiping something with a solvent - she explained it like cleaning class with windex - you can see the glossy clean after the initial wipe off and the streaks dissapear quickly - she said that the "streaks" in relation to the damage on my painting will disapear over a day or 2 - the most shocking transformation is on his chest and clothes - she did not touch the painting up, and theres some science behind it, but when pigments mix over time sometimes different compounds will overwhelm others - as in the chest, her magic mix shocks those pigments back to life. Super incredible - she kept saying "you can get similar results with a $14 bottle of painting cleaner" but she had tweaked the mixtures in to shocking old faded colors out of remission . Her cost for this service - less than 100 bucks. I had an amazing time with her, such a special woman. Back to cars!  The other night I was coming home I hit the freeway with a friend and the car started acting a bit weird more wobbly and loose than I'd like - I even caught a hint of a death wobble, like something was loose, brakes feeling a bit more squishy too - I've had a re-lined set of brake shoes on my bench fo the past year - I love Buicks because the same shoes that fit my 48 also fit my 54, so it was just a matter of which car was going to be up to bat first. so the 48 got the following services fill shocks with new fluid, namely power steering stop leak - I'll do a more in-depth write up on the horrors of buick shocks soon if anyone gives a hoot.. (I have to service the rears pretty soon here) top off all fluids and front brake service  this is before, and I didn't take any afters because i hate touching my phone with dirty hands. So I got it all back together and decided to clean the tires oh... cool...  these were bought new in July of 22. oh cool, a bulge too..  rant posted:So, when I first got in to this game in the early 2000's - bias ply tires for vintage cars cost $50 for a "blem" and $80 a good tire - the bigger ones like this were $90 - because they were antiquated tech and easier to build than modern performance radials - Coker was in its infancy and there were several stores that all carried different brands of vintage bias ply tires. now I'm no economics guy, but these kind of tires and lead acid car batteries haven't changed much... have they? at the risk of sounding like a grizzled younger old car guy - The tires of these days seemed to last forever - so much so by the time it was time to replace them, somehow magically it had become 12 years later... and the reason you replaced them is because the tread was worn off, not compromised sidewalls or cracking/seperating... Anyway, I have an email in to to the shop I got them from in 22 - we'll see what happens -  oh cool looks like my taillight lens is melting too! until next time! 
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LobsterboyX posted:... In the 60s we were fortunate enough to have "Miss Mole," who lived directly across the street from us, growing up. No idea what her past was, but she was a painter and sculptor, and could & would repair torn canvas as well as clean paintings. She was a neighborhood treasure. My dad brought home a carving from Japan - a bear with a fish in its mouth; the head was broken off of the fish, or chipped. Miss Mole re-carved it & stained it, so you'd never know. She passed when I was a teenager.
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Regarding the tires: "Enshittification" is a concept in technology and services where a thing is great, and popular, but in the speed run to appease the almighty dollar, things and services get shittier - content removed, corners cut - in the name of profit. Looks like that applies to vintage tires, too. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/enshittification-the-2023-word-of-the-year Twitter is probably the most stark example lately.
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LobsterboyX posted:truth! I don't get a long with most people I work with because they are clueless as to why I do the things I do! Edit again: Of course after I posted this, I found this: LobsterboyX posted:This is my grandfathers box - its from the late 30s (because of the squared top) ... Hell yeah. I've got one that was very ugly (repainted, and paint splashed on it, and dirty) when I got it (sorry for small image, it's the only one I saved from the original ad): Krakkles fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Kennedy boxes are a deep, slippery slope. I have about a half dozen from the late sixties and on from granddad and dad. Dad’s specifically is a time capsule because it came directly and unmolested from his last machinist gig and is still full of hand-made cutting tools and porn.
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Krakkles posted:This is quoting from way back, but I just wanted to say that you got me looking for and maybe hooked on Kennedys - I have three now! - and ask if you knew what era the square top (edit: 11!) I have to find the picture that was sent to me of a collection I wound up buying, it was comical. Don't quote a guy, but I believe the roundtops began like right before or right after ww2.. there's a whole nightmare associated with the signatures- sizes, line weights, and the dreaded switch to block letters. and goddamnit, as I was typing this reply I was back on marketplace and found 2x squaretops with the same douglas employee stickers... damnit... edit: getting one full of tools is pretty amazing - I found a treasure map hidden one once - it was taped to the inside back of it and only visible when you pulled the drawers out - I stapled it to my wall, but I haven't been up there to check on it yet.
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My square top had a Rainier Beer bottle opener hidden behind the drawers, and my round top has a Cessna Badge on the front and came with an Air National Guard keychain with the keys. Not exactly a treasure map but waiiiiit, did you go look for the treasure? I see those Douglas bestickered boxes, but I think I'm not supposed to buy any more until I figure out where these are going. But I might have a line on a bargain 526...
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Can you tell us the truth about the deep state rigging the game so Taylor Swift finally has a platform to talk about stuff?
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Well, poo poo. Now I feel a little guilty about not watching a single moment of the game. I forgot you were involved in the production. I mean, I don't think my lone viewership would have been noticeable, much less meaningful, but still...
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Sucks about the tire. Ive heard the same about those. Im running diamondback classics radials on my 51. Figured id take the better ride with my stock front end. Happy with them 4 years in, but i dont drive as much as you either haha.
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PainterofCrap posted:Any good souvenirs? Nothing really good this year - it was a hard year, Vegas is inherently difficult to operate in, the stadium is beautiful, but small and the company is "on a sick one" right now and budgets were very VERY tight meaning we couldn't do cool poo poo like we had in the past - stay tuned, I did come back with one souvenir that is pretty cool but not super bowl specific. Big Taint posted:Can you tell us the truth about the deep state rigging the game so Taylor Swift finally has a platform to talk about stuff? We do get a handful of assets and style guide elements that... kinda... tell the story of it being rigged - I mean, think about it, think about all the fans that Tyler Quick brings in... fans = dollars - gently caress, they even had odds on how many times the live feed cut to her, and wether her mouth was open or not... silly boy science. Funny aside on odds and betting - In the past I usually would wait until halftime and make my way back to the hotel to avoid the madness, this year having just come off a overnight load in, I made it to the stadium to catch my yearly flyover and eat some food then stumble to the shuttle to get home. https://i.imgur.com/W5E6f7h.mp4 as soon as I got back to the hotel, off came the pants and in to bed I got, I took a HARD power nap and woke up to my boss and some other colleagues blowing up my phone to come down, imbibe and then have a nice steak dinner - aka the "senior mens celebratory dinner" The hotel we were in was where the Chiefs friends and family was staying, in essence the official hotel of the Chiefs - everywhere was booked up so we snuck to a little cafe right off the casino, I showed up with like 5 mins left in the 4th and there were some guys in front of us who were diehards, it also quickly became obvious that one of these guys had some money on the game, and stood to make a considerable sum if the chiefs won. My tech director started talking him up and the guy started to become more comfy with us, even joking around - he knew we were involved somehow so he gentily asked about that and when we told him he became even more comfy - so in the last few minutes plus the OT he was getting more and more agitated, every play he was standing up and holding his head - with a few minutes left, he proclaimed "TOP SHELF poo poo FOR MY BOYS IF THE CHIEFS WIN" - he pointed to our table and 2 random hotties at the bar. One thing leads to the other and he gets his wish, he starts jumping up and down and going nuts, he comes back over to our table and goes to give the TD a roundhouse high five and the GIANT gold pinky ring he was wearing flies off his finger, whizzes past my head, and 3 or 4 other tables and "tink tink tink's" off in to the busy casino, which itself is going nuts. the entire restaurant stopped, then collectively burst out laughing as he scrambled out the door and in to the casino - literally 3-5 minutes of off the wall laughing from this whole restaurant - I was laughing so hard I was crying and if my body didn't hurt so bad I probably would have fallen out of the chair. as quickly as he burst out, he bursts back in and holds the ring high over his head and lets out a primal scream, which made everyone laugh even harder - he pointed to our table and the hotties and said "ON THE loving HOUSE" - so before we know it we all had doubles of 1942 sitting in front of us. Obviously I dont care about sports, but for a brief moment I was a fan for this guy - even typing this out I'm still laughing about it. Darchangel posted:Well, poo poo. Now I feel a little guilty about not watching a single moment of the game. I forgot you were involved in the production. I mean, I don't think my lone viewership would have been noticeable, much less meaningful, but still... Dont worry about it, they didn't miss you, and unless I do this again next year, I wont be watching it either. always be closing posted:Sucks about the tire. Ive heard the same about those. Im running diamondback classics radials on my 51. Figured id take the better ride with my stock front end. Happy with them 4 years in, but i dont drive as much as you either haha. EEEk I forgot about that until I just read this - the car is at the transmission shop now until monday - when it gets back I'll go handle it. Anyway! I got there Saturday night - my kid cousin picked me up and introudced me to his new girlfriend, I also conned them in to taking me to the market to stock up on provisions for the week - I did however treat them to one of my favorite places in vegas - The Peppermill - aka - the cocane fueled 80s strip club diner  https://i.imgur.com/MtkHQNi.mp4 We had a good night, but I was super tired and turned in early the next day was the first day at the stadium, which I can't show you, so I'll just skip to the kickoff gluttonous dinner we had   So here's the deal - this was the biggest and best lobster I've ever had - as my username suggests, at one point I really REALLY loved lobsters, and I still do - but never in my life have I had this much of it in one sitting. The mignon was pretty amazing too - me and dabois had the same thing we just got different sides to share - I have to say, this lobster was loving incredible - it was almost too much. for the next few days, every time I broke wind, it smelled like the ocean - it was epic and this dinner set me back over $200. on to more! This was my security advisors shirt  he was pretty funny Speaking of funny - this is DJ MalSki  he was the official DJ for the Rams and as it turns out we went to the same high school, and it took us both a bit of time to figure that out, but when we did it was just like old times again he's a pretty big deal and really knows how to do a fun interview  thats Marcus Allen and Charles Haley - 2 football legends - Haley was quite a character and right before he went on stage, he kissed our talent manager on the cheek, grabbed me in to a headlock and noogied me. it was pretty cool to see some elements I designed over 10 years ago still holding up so well   This activation is called SBX now, but at one time it was called The Super Bowl Experience - which is held every year at the host city's convention center, they typically have games, activations and other things for fans that may not be able to attend the game - Funny enough, I designed a lot of parts of this way back when I worked for the NFL the first time around. this year Toyota was the title sponsor of sbx so they had a pretty big display including this that I was drooling over  game day was pretty hectic - I made it to the stadium just in time to see lil' Billy  like all old rockers, he now talks too much and has more political opinions that never come off quite strong. nice day for a white wedding indeed. The monday after the super bowl is always weird - they want us to "work" but literally no one does, in the past its just a "show face" kinda thing to make sure that you didn't get too wasted or lost the night before - me and another gal got released by the big man because we did the overnight previously - so she asked me if there was anything I really needed to see, this girl reminds me heavily of my wife in her attitude, so I used the classic "what do you want to see" line and her first idea was the Punk Rock Museum  This place was pretty cool - It was opened by Fat Mike and a few others about a year ago - the idea is that you get a tour from an old punk that was actually there - our tour guide was in a ton of bands from the early 80s onward, at nearly 50 years old, this guy was legt pretty cool stuff in there     and quite possible the weirdest part..   I didn't care to sit in it. So we got done with that place and she wanted to go somewhere else so it was my turn to pick!  where I got to play this dream machine - I know most dont understand, but this is probably one of the rarest and most desirable pinball machine of the 90s.  So.. this place is pretty rad, they recently moved to this giant new buiding after years of being in.a much smaller, shittier place. one of their newest additions is...  it shot out a pluto statue that looks quite phallic, still amazing to see and the smell of it took me all the way back
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Thank you for putting these up! Understand that there's a great deal you can't shoot or show, but these are great! If I could get my hands on a couple machines, they'd be a Silverball Mania and a Xenon.
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Oh man that looks like such a good timr.time.. When I was living in Vegas I went to The Peppermill many times and it's aways a trip in there. It's such a colorful place. I'm actually planning a trip back out that way and I thunk ice got a few more places I need to check put now after seeing your tour there.
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ExplodingSims posted:Oh man that looks like such a good timr.time.. Also be sure to check out Frankies Tiki room - and the Golden Tiki -  I drug a few of my co-workers there and we got REAL messy a few nights - to contunue: I forgot this one - Nickelodeon had an activation at my party too - sadly they were closed, so I had to wait for just the right moment to shoot my shot https://i.imgur.com/6YbRQkw.mp4 So theres more - about a week before I left, I got another job - which is incredible and I start the week after next, so this week is going to be spent doing all the stuff I need to do before settling in to a very different position than I'm used to - the great part about this new job is that it is completely a different speed, and it is somehow related to what I did - so much so that in some conversations with the CEO, he downright encouraged me to take other freelance roles including the super bowl. - I need to start the job to make sure its actually real and I'm not just dreaming - this position is 100% remote... also a few weeks before I left - I caught wind that someone had made a painting of me!  So I bought it!  A day before I came back I got a few calls from a friend of mine that owed me something- he's completely crazy and has no sense of time. long story short, he came over to my house and dropped me off 2 model a engines... https://i.imgur.com/spPplXg.mp4 my wife was less than thrilled about this. but the other one was totally worth the price of admission  its a diamond block - meaning it was a replacment engine that was manufactured later.. these castings are typically thicker and sometimes even contained balanced cranks - fingers crossed thats the case.  see the small diamond above the edge of the timing cover? this one has some oddball speed stuff on it note the odd water pump block off plate and the wide set motor mounts - this was most likely in a 32+ car  the water pump block off is actually to run a higher efficiency v8 water pump - pretty cool if you ask me - this means more aluminum stuff to polish This haul came with a ton more stuff including 4 transmissions and bellhousings - I'm probably going to assemble another screamer motor pretty soon here using this block - I want to move slow and do every last stinking detail on this engine, and just have this beautiful thing sitting there on the stand waiting to go in. in sad news A friends grandfather passed away, he was a early car customizer and was very well known in the scene for a long time, this was his final ride  in other news, I'm really happy to be home, I have a few housekeeping things to do for the new job, but next week I plan on spending most of my time getting in to mischief I normally couldnt becuase of work! Stay tuned. https://i.imgur.com/UJF2NDz.mp4
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LobsterboyX posted:game day was pretty hectic - I made it to the stadium just in time to see lil' Billy
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A couple of museums in Chicago still have these operating, you love to see it. Great photos! Looks like you had a good time.
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Went over to my niece's house in Philadelphia today, to look at an issue with her '12 Focus. This was parked next door. According to her housemates it has been there at least four years without ever stirring. It was last registered in 2009. They think that their neighbor inherited it from an older relative.   That it hasn't dissolved into a pile of rust chips by now - doubly amazing since this is a '57 Plymouth Belvedere - I'm assuming that the late prior owner kept it in a heated garage for most of its life. There is very little rust on the exterior, and the original interior is disturbingly intact and unmolested. I have yet to crawl under it - there was no one home; I left a card - it just seemed weird to do that without talking to the owner, who had some interesting decor (check the door knocker). Aside from the "V" call-outs on the front fenders, I don't know if it's equipped with on the the three V8s available in 1957, or the flathead six (which would be awesome)
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Every time you post about Las Vegas I regret so much asking where I should go when I was there with my wife on our anniversary. Though, I didn't get to see/do half the stuff I wanted to as it was. Mostly food places I regret. :P I love that painting, and the little car with suspension I would never stop using as a fidget toy.
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bennyfactor posted:A couple of museums in Chicago still have these operating, you love to see it. Great photos! Looks like you had a good time. Apparently all those are maintained by a guy who I follow on FB, I guess there are only a handfull of them outside of his collection including this one... https://www.ebay.com/itm/235442387812 which just showed up ... GULP PainterofCrap posted:Went over to my niece's house in Philadelphia today, to look at an issue with her '12 Focus. that thing needs to be liberated! Those cars are sooooo hard to find in good shape which this one looks to be in - most of them rusted away long ago - IIRC Belvederes were like the top of the line car, so most likely it would have had the v8 - most people think fury was the top of the line, but, again IIRC, the fury was like the sport model - small body, big engine. My FIL had a 59 Plymouth suburban 2d wagon for years - it had the flathead 6, 3 on the tree.
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I just took my son to Volo Auto museum in Volo IL on Monday since it was kids free for presidents day. In the auto museum they have 3 restored moldaramas from Disneyland that have the original molds to make a Mickey, Donald and Goofy. Each statue costs $10 In the dinosaur "museum" they have 2 more moldaramas that make a brontosaurus and a Trex. The dino statues are only $5
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https://i.imgur.com/GthUaAN.mp4 ahhhh nothing like a rainy day drive with a "sealed and good to go" transmission   I had people hanging out the window to take a picture of this car in the rain, the wipers have never worked and if they did, they probably wouldn't do much. so we just kept going. This morning, I needed to run some errands, I pulled the car out and went to go retrieve the trashcans, and when I was walking back towards the car I saw a nice little oil slick under it https://i.imgur.com/zvFxSye.mp4 ahhh... yes... so this will be the 3rd time the car goes back to the transmission shop for leaks - this guy is on my last nerve, and I've been so patient... byeeeeee https://i.imgur.com/F19PXJt.mp4 he said "bring it back" and I finally broke and said "you know, I've spent no less than 20 hours dealing with this over nearly a year" I brought the car there last april... "oh I can come get it, I'll drive it back" - you know what... no, send a goddamn tow truck, because not only do they have to drain the coolant out of it to get the transmission out, but they put straight water in it, thus flushing down 2 bottles of water wetter - I'm still patient with these guys, but I'm wearing really fuckin thin. So next time, I'm going to pick it up, give it a hard drive up the canyon there, check it and if it does it again, drop it right back off. UGH
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Is there anybody else that can do that kind of work? That's incredibly frustrating to bring it back for a third time and I would never trust it especially if the guy doesn't even verify his own work. It's a shame because that's a beautiful car.
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a dingus posted:Is there anybody else that can do that kind of work? That's incredibly frustrating to bring it back for a third time and I would never trust it especially if the guy doesn't even verify his own work. It's a shame because that's a beautiful car. There are only a handful of people that will do it - but the key is, the money is already spent and I flat out refuse to pay $0.01 more for this transmission to be right. I'm not going to be so nice for much longer.
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True. I bet getting any money back from him would be next to impossible. Hopefully third time is the a charm.
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PainterofCrap posted:What. Is. Leaking. Juice. Transmission juice. Delicious transmission juice.
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Man, I think you were a lot nicer than I would have been. Is this guy installing the seals with a grapefruit spoon or something? There's only so many places that can leak. I feel for you, man. Fingers crossed.
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MrYenko posted:Juice. Transmission juice. Delicious transmission juice. I mean: is it an end seal, pan gasket, module O-ring? I mean. poo poo: I know next to nothing about transmissions & I changed all the case seals on my TH400 while the 389 was out for rebuild     e: love my trash-picked school cafeteria table 
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ok, so if its the front seal, hes an idiot, its not that hard to put it in - if its the torque converter - first off, if it was leaking, then I gave him one that was in better shape.. he did use parts from it because the other transmission was taken apart when I got there the last time - secondly, I feel like if that was leaking, I feel like a leak this heavy would be enough to have the car not move or be low on power, both of which is not true, the car has more power than its ever had. moreso, they do stuff without telling me - they drained the cooling system because its connected to the transmission (thanks buick) - they broke an exhaust flange, it just needs to be re-welded, no big deal - the last time I picked it up the fan was all tweaked out like it hit something... little stuff I wouldn't care about if it was fixed... EDIT: So a friend of mine has a bigger shop and has the same love of these big boats as I do - He's got a few oddball transmissions, as do I, so I think we're going to spend some time soon and get in to these things, read the book, learn the language and learn to do them ourselves - the lovely part is the tips and tricks that the old timers had that is not in the books, stuff like bend this slightly, or tweak this slightly, or put a smear of grease here - that kind of stuff - these aren't rocket science, and compared to modern stuff, they are dinosaurs. LobsterboyX fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Feb 24, 2024 00:08
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Yeah, well I don’t feel like the guy you got now is particularly good at applying any of those tweaks that come from experience. Source: your still-leaking transmission.
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Feb 24, 2024 00:42
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Its always the conundrum: Going through the whole process of learning to do it yourself vs. you already paid someone good American dollars, and who - it turns out - lacks the sensibility to fix it right I am asked on the regular, who I trust to do mechanical repairs. In this one area I lack, entirely, the expertise. I know no one. After 50-years it turns out that I am the expert Which is terrifying and depressing, as I feel I don't know poo poo, but I can handle FUBARing my own poo poo better than if someone else does.
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Feb 24, 2024 01:08
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I went through a similar process to this with the transmission in my Volvo S60R. Took the guy 4 tries to get it right. This was a transmission specialty shop too which had fantastic reviews and was specifically recommended on multiple forums for the exact valve body issue I was having.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:25
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I may need a handful of 37 Cadillac 322 parts if you know anyone in your circles. Carb, various brackets and bits.
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the spyder posted:I may need a handful of 37 Cadillac 322 parts if you know anyone in your circles. Carb, various brackets and bits. I know someone who has an entire engine he may want to part with - they're very tempting to build hot rods with because of the bad rear end top exhaust exits - I personally have a transmission and bellhousing for one. --- So I was having some serious heartburn, walked in to my library and this thing was glowing..  weird... speaking of lights - I went out last week for a night time run to a buddys place and between the LA rain and the dark nights... I realized I couldn't see poo poo out of my lexus Headed to the parts store and picked up a new set of wipers and a full set of SilverStar Ultras Someone along the line put bottom barrel bulbs in this thing, the corner lights were cool blue LED, the brights were some mad tyte tuner blue 9005's and the main headlights were just super dim so here's the after  I couldn't help myself and picked up some Hella ultra yellows for the fogs. Obviously not LED good, but probably the best OE setup I could think of at least - I didn't take any before shots but this is night and day  different. on sunday I went to the cars and coffee and for some reason got spotted and photo'd quite a bit   theres more, but you get the gist back to the old garage  I've been pretty wrapped up in staring this new gig, so not a lot of work, but I'm trying to do SOMETHING every day out there so I pulled off these rare parts from the new block I got...  a buddy of mine has access to a 3d scanner, he loves bangers so when I sent him these pics, I got a "I'm coming over" text So last night I was just chillin in my library, sitting there minding my own business when I get tagged in a pretty fun post  So this guy bought a sticker from me a few months ago, the name looked familiar at the time, but stuff was pretty nutty back then. he used it as inspiration to build a custom slot car... lets. loving. go Anyway, the guy who made this is pretty legendary because he was one of a small team that built the helmet and jetpack from the Rocketeer. like this one  anyway! more soon!
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