What a PITA...

[cowtown]

Thanks to the PP Search, I knew what I was in for ahead of time, but still, what a PITA.

Pulled the starter motor from my G50-equipped '88 today. I tried for 45 minutes without doing a partial drop, then bit the bullet and decided to lower the engine a bit. 20 minutes later it was out. Still, much tougher than doing it with a 915 car.

I don't know why I still think there will be shortcuts, but I still spend lots of time trying to find them.

[ChrisBennet]

There is a really ingenious solution to that problem but I don't have room to write it in the margin.
(Sorry, mathematics joke.)
-Chris

[Beethoven]

Fermat, ey?

[cowtown]

"It is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of two cube, or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers or, in general, for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers... I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."

I don't know how much space you need Chris, but here is some - please do tell me the secret!

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[ChrisBennet]

It is sooo nice to hang out with intelligent beings like yourselves.
-Chris

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Good, now maybe one of you brainiacs can explain to me how a conditionally convergent series can be made to converge on any desired value.

Yeah, yeah, Riemann series theorem etc. But this non-math major who hasn't done anything but write code in 10 years doesn't get it.

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
But this non-math major who hasn't done anything but write code in 10 years doesn't get it.

influencing such powers demands thinking in 6 dimensional space

[Early_S_Man]

"String Theory" requires thinking in terms of 11 dimensions ... which is no big deal ... when used to dealing with APL arrays which are limited to merely 128 dimensions!

[89911]

Originally posted by ChrisBennet
There is a really ingenious solution to that problem but I don't have room to write it in the margin.
(Sorry, mathematics joke.)
-Chris

Do what the previous owner or garage did with my brothers 87.....lift the carpeting over the tunnel between the rear seats, cut 3 sides of a square out of the sheet metal and bend back the tab to get a socket in there. Then when done, just bend the metal back and recover with carpeting. (It's always interesting finding out the mucked up work previous people have done on a used car!)

[Randy Webb]

So, from math to APL -- don't see APL much anymore. Anybody want my hp Series 80 ROM that enables APL commands on those machines?

Here's my best math quote:

"Georg Cantor went insane from thinking about the real line."

[cowtown]

Originally posted by 89911
Do what the previous owner or garage did with my brothers 87.....lift the carpeting over the tunnel between the rear seats, cut 3 sides of a square out of the sheet metal and bend back the tab to get a socket in there. Then when done, just bend the metal back and recover with carpeting. (It's always interesting finding out the mucked up work previous people have done on a used car!)

Um...wow.

That's an approach I must admit I didn't even consider. Hope you found a way to seal up that area

[Randy Webb]

Actually, most everything on these cars is a PITA compared iwth say a BMW sedan -- or at least my old 2002. These things are more or less exotic cars, rather than just sports cars. The starter is esp. nasty tho.

[Argo]

Outside of the pure butchery of it, putting in an access hole is sort of intriguing. Dremel a port, fabricate a cover, cut a rubber seal to fit, primer/paint, maybe spray with undercoating when done ....
Nah - probably quicker to do the partial drop and I like the challenge of prevailing over these engineering oversights the old fashioned (correct) way. Maybe I'll feel differently when my starter expires.

Argo
88 Targa

[Leland Pate]

Well, it looks like "someone slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night"...