Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

I went to FI long ago when I was still running the 305. I put over 100K on the 305 with the FI.

Without any doubt the best improvement ever to that car was getting rid of the POS Rochester computer controlled carb. It never ran "good" and hesitated and was hard to start. The FI was just an amazing improvement in drive-ability and I instantly went up 4 to 6 MPG depending on city or highway driving.

I am still running the very same water pump, and FI system as the 305 had. I did change out the chip program for the 350. And that water pump was attached to the 305 for many miles and is gong great on the 350.

[flipper35]

[flipper35]

Oops,

[RKDinOKC]

Does anyone else remember the first movie theater movie they went to?

My 81 GMC Jimmy had a 305. It sucked, got only 10mpg, and wouldn't go over 60mph on the highway. Put a small block 400 out of a 78 Monte Carlo in it. Had the 2.02 heads rebuilt for Unleaded gas, put an RV cam in, Edelbrock intake, headers, and had the Rochester carb from the 400 rebuilt at a place called Clyde's Carburetors. Went from the 10mpg to 19mpg.

[flipper35]

Platteville WI, saw one of the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers.

[GH85Carrera]

The first movie theater I remember was in downtown San Marcos, TX. In my mind it was a two mile bike ride but according to the current Google Earth view it was just 6 blocks. I am guessing they shrank the area with magic or something.

We used to ride our bikes down there on Saturday morning for the manatee. 25 cents for the ticket and 40 cents for a coke, popcorn and some sugar babies. We got to see a newsreel, cartoon, a serial, previews and then a movie.

We just parked our bikes along side the theater with no bike locks. We never ever locked the house either.

[flipper35]

Little know law of physics is everything gets smaller with age.

[RKDinOKC]

Was visiting my grandparents in Pryor, OK. It was in 1963, I was 3 years old. My Bro and soon to be SIL took me to see Flipper. Since it was such a small town, combined with taking me to an afternoon showing, we were almost the only ones there.

[Jim Richards]

Great pictures, Brent!

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. A pretty day here. It looks like another day of "helping the wife" do yard work and plan for spring.

That an I plan to finish my taxes.

[Jim Richards]

It's cooled off a bit today, but still will be pleasant to be outdoors.

[pete3799]

Cooled off here as well.
Currently 8* with a wind chill of somewhere around -20*

Went to a friend of mines funeral this morning. A long time trucking buddy. 57 massive heart attack.
We all went back to his garage after the service. Caught up with a lot of friends I haven't seen since I retired from trucking.

[GH85Carrera]

Sorry bout your young friend Pete. We went to Lowes and got a load of yard work. Lots of fun ahead.

[RKDinOKC]

Hope eryone is havin a great Saturdee.

Last week was a bad week for my nightwatch job. Usually it is just keeping track of a few computer processes from 6:30pm to 11:30pm. Last week there were some hardware failures that kept me up all night a couple of nights. The good thing is my bosses were impressed. The bad thing is spent the day napping to catch up on sleep instead of doing things I wanted.

Pete sounds like your friend was a good guy that will be missed. condolences.

Update, my right eye has developed some annoying spiderweb floaters, but the hemorrhage event has not effected my vision as much as I feared and the shot seems to have stopped it. Am glad I have the iPhone Plus with the bigger screen though.

[RKDinOKC]

Have dusk to dawn feature on my outdoor garage lights. Calculated putting a 24 hour timer switch in so they would turn on with their dusk to dawn sensor then turn the off with the 24 hour timer switch. If I programmed it to turn the lights off at midnite they would save about six hours a day in a year. It comes out to about $11 a year that it would save. A 24 hour programmable switch costs $20 including tax. It would be a little over 2 years for those switches to pay for themselves and according to the reviews the darn things only last about 2 years.

I also turn on my inside garage light to get in the car before I open the overhead door. It is a 9watt LED bulb. It stays on until I return and head back into the house. Thought about getting a countdown timer switch that i could turn on the light long enough to get in the car is $20. That way the light would turn off after I left. Then the light on the garage door opener would be plenty to get back in the house when I return. Problem is a cheap timer switch again is $20. The light can be on 24 hours a day for a year for about $12.

All this money saving timer switches would be great if I were still using 60 to 100 watt incandecent bulbs. But with these low wattage LED bulb things it just takes too long for them to pay for themselves.

Also wanted to note I got through the winter with my gas water heater in vacation mode. Still able to take warm showers no problems. Doesn't even seem to take any longer for hot water to reach the shower. Kinda weird how that works. It's like the vacation mode turned my 40 gal water heater into one of those in-line on-demand water heaters. Might be different if it were more than just me taking a shower.

[GH85Carrera]

My garage door opener has a motion detector fir the light. As soon as I got out the door into the garage the light pops on. It goes off in 5 minutes or I can push a button as I go inside and it goes off. If I am working out there with the real lights on that garage door light is just a waste so I can turn off the motion detector.

We have enough street lights on the corner that I don't turn on the outside lights unless someone is coming over.

[RKDinOKC]

Is that the light that comes on the garage door opener that has the motion detector?

At the old house the workbench was on the side of the garage. It was pretty much centered on where the windows come to on the garage door when it was open. I mounted florescent lights above those windows. So with the door open or closed the lights lit up the workbench area.

My current garage I had a florescent tube drop light. Put in some hooks to hang the droplight horizontally under the storage shelf over my workbench. The cord on the droplight was on a reel. I could just grab it and pull it to where ever I needed. I broke it. Replaced it with a battery powered LED drop light with the charger setup so it was over my workbench like florescent worklight. Somehow it has disappeared. Probably left it under the hood somewhere on that Range Rover so it left with the Range Rover.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the garage door opener light comes on just by walking into the garage. Push the button to open or close and it comes on as well. The button and sensor are on the wall by the door into the house. The light is on the ceiling of course.

[RKDinOKC]

I didn't know I could operate the light on my opener different than letting the opener operate it.

Read the emuanual, mine don't do that. Don't rememberize any of the openers having that particular feature when I got mine. Now, seems most all do that, and you can open them with an app an your phone as well. Not sure how secure that is though. The Internet Of Things isn't quite as secure as they make it out to be.

May get some occupancy switches and do most of my house. Bathrooms, laundry room, spare bedrooms, etc. Both of my spare bedrooms have light switches that are farther into the room than expected. Bet they would come one before you could reach the switch. The default is to go off after 5 minutes of not seeing any movement, but can be set to 1, 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes.

How long should those rubber seal things around garage doors last? After 5 years I can see light on the sides and especially the top. Not much good having an insulated door if there is a gap open around the sides and top. Especially since my ridge vent sucks air like crazy thru the gap under the heater closet doors.

Do any of you guys have some sort of protection to keep someone from fishing a coat hanger thru the gap at the top of your garage door, catching and pulling the opener trolly release? One youtube shows a guy screwing a board to the top of his door to keep them from fishing a hanger in. Others say to just use a zip tie. They say the zip tie can be broken with the pull rope from inside, but not with a hanger or if they are able to fish the pull rope out the top of the door. There is another that puts a plate on top of the door that hooks to a plate you mount on the wall so the top of the door can't be pushed open at all and you can't wriggle a hanger past the plates.

Was blissfully ignorant until I googled garage door stuff!

[GH85Carrera]

My new opener is bolted to the wall and is hooked to the shaft of the spring bar. It has a mechanical bolt that pops into the track and is securely locked and can't be raised without the bolt removed. It is servo with an electric connection that can be operated by hand if the power is off.