morning all. well the car beat me again this weekend. the calipers are still firmly attached to the car and have no intention of coming off. Rick has kindly pointed out I need to buy a 19mm wrench with a smaller handle. Me I think it need tnt.

What is that brightness outside, has there been a pockolips?

There is a very bright object in the sky. I even see shadows on the ground. Don't get used to it, rain is a coming again.

I'm working on the weather guys. If you want sun come help fix my brakes. Once the car can get back on the road it will rain...

I presume you have hosed down the bolts with a penetrating oil of some sort.

My 911 had never had the calipers off before but the bolts all came off with no issues. I just rebuilt them and put em right back on. The good news is they are large bolts so some torque is not hard to apply.

yep soaked. just to tight of a spot for the wrench I have. But when I opened up the garage and got started the clouds rolled in. I get them replaced then bleed the brakes the rain will hit.

I know your pain. I have been waiting for the temperature to warm up enough to test the pressures on the AC system on the 911. It is better to do it on a hot day. All we have had is cool and rainy. I want 90 degrees or hotter. I will be leaving on my vacation to French Lick in 3.5 weeks. I want to get it done soon.

I was a great lesson for my oldest the guitar player. go to school and don't turn wrenches if you want your hands to be in one piece. The dust shield got my palm pretty good.

They sell those things called mechanics gloves. I resisted them for years. I started wearing them anytime I had to high potential of busted knuckles or if working around sharp objects. They have saved me several times from the letting of blood and profanity.

http://www.amazon.com/Mechanix-Wear-MG-05-010-Original-Glove/dp/B0001VNZQY

I'll look into a pair.

Gloves keep my hands all soft and supple like. Used to be able to get some really thin split hide deerskin gloves. I really liked those. Wet them down then wear them till they dried out and they were like a second skin. Protected my hands, but like the old playtex glove commercial, could pick up a dime wearing them.

Wife took today off so we put up the pool. Water is colder than heck but we have hot days forecast for all week so it should warm up decently by the weekend.

If we had the $$$$ we would have an inground pool installed. I don't see that anytime soon, though.

I grew up lucky enough to have a nice pool and I would like my kids to have the same fun.

We used to get a free set of deer skin gloves every year from my uncle. The catch was you had to turn the old ones in.

We had decent weather for the weekend and even got some stuff around the house done even though my sister was in town. Raining pretty hard off and on today.

How hard is it to DIY a water heater replacement? Ours took to leaking and because of the stupid shower the PO put in when they did the basement bathroom we have a 119 gallon tank and of course no one has one in stock. The current one is an AO Smith and only had a 6 year warranty. The new one has a lifetime warranty on the tank. Since the water is heated 9 months out of the year by our geothermal unit the heating elements don't get used much and the softener keeps the scale off of them pretty well. We had been looking at whole house filters. Glad we didn't pull the trigger on that yet.

Rick, being able to do what you did with your truck would be a highlight for sure.

My in-laws live .6mi around the corner, they have a beautiful salt water inground pool, heated with waterfall from the hot-tub...

That's as close to owning a pool as I'd ever like to come :)

Hot water heaters are pretty easy to replace, depending on how easy it is to access and what connections were used.

My FIL replaced ours a couple of years ago and it only took a couple of hours. DRAIN the old one before trying to remove it. They weigh ALOT when loaded with water.

We had to run some new copper pipe to mate the new with the old lines but it was simple.

Inlet and outlet and the 220v for the elements. The geothermal it tied into it but it is T'ed in higher up so it looks like just tie it in on those two pipes.

I think it is going to drain itself wither way. :(

We had a solenoid stick on our old washer once and that was a bear to move full of water. We had to move it because it backed itself up to the shutoff valve and couldn't turn the water off. We ended up turning the whole house off so we could drain the stupid thing.

Our pool is in dire need of vacuuming after the winter. We should get a good winter cover for it to keep the dust out when they plant the fields around us.

Missed buying a house with a pool in a very nice neighborhood. The master bedroom, family room, kitchen, breakfast room, and a club room all had windows/french doors opening to back yard patio area with and unobstructed view of a very nicely done in-ground pool. They were asking $150K. My relator was an idiot. The house was being sold by the kids, they lived out of state and just wanted rid of it. Ended up selling for only $75K.

We replaced our water heater at home last year. It is a natural gas unit. Our house is just now 18 years old and the water heater was the original. We had to put it on an even taller pedestal since it is in the garage. The new unit does not have a pilot light, it has an electrical ignitor. The real pain was the new code for a drain pan. In case the heater has a leak now the pan that catches the leak has a drain that has to go outside, not down the sewer drain. So we had to punch a hole in the wall of the garage that comes out at the front of the house behind some bushes in the garden area.

If the water heater started leaking before it would only run down the concrete floor and out the garage door. No big deal, but inspector would not be happy. We decide to keep it legal.

Here at work today we had the gas company come out and check the meter for a leak. We could smell the natural gas outside so we reported it many months ago. They finally got here. He replaced the meter. He is supposed to relight the water heater. He said our heater is supplied by copper and that is out of code but we don't have to do anything until we replace the heater.

Several years ago a member of the 928 list pulled into his garage and went in the house. About an hour later his garage EXPLODED. He had developed a leak in his gas tank and even though the water heater was raised, the fumes from the gasoline leak ignited.

The only gasoline stored in my garage is in the tanks of the three cars. Over the years on a few occasions I have had gas leaks or even been working on the gas tanks or fuel pumps. I was always happy the water heater was elevated. I always made sure the doors were open and fans running if I had gasoline vapors. It is not something to ignore. My water heater and central heater&AC are in a little room each with a door behind with combustion ventilation from the roof.