Stijn, from what you've told us, you haven't had the bet experiences with women, and have you tried since you cleaned up? Find a nice calm girl perhaps?

Just keep looking someday you will meet a chick that likes scary.

Ya, I mean hell, I found a girl that likes tall, nerdy, broke, and redneck.....

OK, here's a technical question:

I've had an intermittent problem with a bouncing tach. The car runs fine, but the tach will bop around like it's not connected to anything. I had the engine pulled in January to fix some oil leaks. When the motor was reinstalled, the problem resolved...for a few weeks. It won't do it all the time, just intermittently. As the battery was 7 years old, I replaced it. Problem went away...for a couple weeks more. Then it returned. The charging system (measured at the battery with motor running/revving) seems to be working fine, but those measurements were taken while the tach was working fine. Headlights/instrument lights work fine and are at their baseline barely luminescent H5 glow. I even swapped in a loaner tach, which also worked fine ... for a bit. I was going to drop my old tach off at North Hollywood Speedometer for repair when, on the way to work today, I just caught out of the corner of my eye an erratic tach bounce. Couldn't reproduce it for the rest of the drive, though.

So am I just kidding myself and do I need to swap out the alternator & voltage regulator?

edit: I'm sorry. Am I interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on chicks, beer, and guns with a technical issue?

Plenty of girls for everyone.
YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN !

Howdy all! Just got back from a walk on the beach with the pup......Saw a gator.....more importantly, saw a very cute female taking a swing at said gator with a very big stick......I think I fell in love, then I remembered Stijn's advice, smacked myself in the nuts and kept on......if she'll fight a gator, she'll kick my ass......she was probably underage anyway....

Gotta call animal control and do my 'do I have to handle this' speech.....this bugger is way to acclimated to people and a lot of folks let their little kids and dogs run around unsupervised here....

Put 10 women in a lineup and i will pick out (blindfolded) the crazy impossible to get one, i can guarantee it. The others just plain bore me.
I was raised by a crazy mother, i am defective. My life has improved considerably when i realized that simple fact.

That could be a number of things.
Rather than driving yourself mad, take it to a good auto lec or a good porsche mech.
You can chase your tail with things like that. :)
You neen the tools, Noah.

You seem perfectly sane to me , Stijn. :D

sure, cause i opted out of the part that buggers things up.

Bouncing tach is usually a alternator problem. It was with my car. Pull the alternator and take it to a local alternator shop for a rebuild.

could be the wiring hardness or ground as well.. In fact on older cars, that's one of the first things i'de check before i'de check the alternator..

Didn't Noah already swap an alternator yet? or was that somebody else here?

Thats why he should take the whole car in for some tests.
Its a hard one to work out.

I think he tried a Tach.
But it did the same.

I just know that somebody some weeks ago discussed replacing the alternator on his car.

I just said, you seem sane to me! :D

Well, it's been a while since i ate some shrooms or acid, had a run in with mummum or allowed myself to follow the urge for crazyhotmentalgirls.

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I just bet the bouncing tach is a bad alternator.