Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

I like the looks of those 80's Mercs with the round headlights.

On Wheeler Dealers they took an 80's SL and put the newer rectangle lights and bumpers on to look more modern and I thought they ruined it.

My Dad liked the 300D wagon of that era. Instead he always bought the same make and model of the company car my brother had. I think he was afraid of the $200 a month maintenance everyone said the Mercedes required back then.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

You are more determined than me. Would have just put a charger on it and gone on to something else till it was up enough to fire it off.

It's a real conundrum figuring which to put the charge on first though.

Two chargers.

[Oh Haha]

So you're saying I SHOULDN'T buy the plane ticket?.......


My Mom and siblings are coming over today to meet the Hankman. Cooked up a big ol' batch of Sloppy Joes.

Enjoy your Sunday fellas!

[RKDinOKC]

Made some sloppy joes the other day and started by grilling the burger on the new smoker. That was way different. Pretty good though.

[pete3799]

And so it begins......snow.

[GH85Carrera]

Snow! Yuck. Now that Rick has abandoned us I guess we can use that word.

We are digging in the garden. Well the wife points and grunts and says hole there. And we have dug up several old plants so we can put in new shrubs. Does everyone else rearrange a garden?

[Jim Richards]

I vaguely remember that four letter word, Pete.

[HHI944]

It got down to 41 last night....2 days ago the heat index was 95...

[RKDinOKC]

Ah Seasons. Some people got em, some people don't.

[RKDinOKC]

Know it's been posted, but am really enjoying this Smoker Roaster Grill. Just putting a charcoal briquette and a few hickory chips in the smoker box and a grilled burger is fan freakin tastic!

Put just briquettes in the smoker box and it tastes just like cooking on a charcoaler. Only no hassle lighting and waiting for the charcoals to get going. Just smash a couple of briquettes and put them in the smoker box, light it up, by the time you got the patties made (3-5 minutes) it's smoking and ready to slap some meat on the grill. Same with just chips in the smoker box and it's got a great smoked flavor. I like the mix of charcoal and chips the best.

Gonna have to get me one of those bluetooth leave in temp probes and start playing with just the smoker part. Looks like you gotta buy meat and smoke pretty big chunks and is just a bit much for a boy and his dog. Need to do some chickens to learn how to smoke foul before I try a turkey for thanksgiving. It even has a tray that catches the juice to make gravy.

Just can't believe I got this thing for just $125.

[GH85Carrera]

Welp, the Elky is washed and cleaned up.
We watched the F1 race and relaxed after diging in the dirt.

[Oh Haha]

Our poor puppy. The visitors wore him out. He did very well with everybody with no jumping or biting of extremities.


My BIL brought along a code readout from AutoZone for their 08 GMC Acadia. Cam sensors, both banks, and crankshaft sensor. We cleaned the connections on the cam sensor connections but finding the frikkin crank sensor was nearly impossible without removing the starter and other components. They also had this loud ticking noise that started after the engine warmed up.
Traced it back to the Evap Purge Sensor. It's easy to replace so he will do that himself. They drove the 80 miles back home with no CE light coming on so they are good for now.

Didn't do much of anything else after they left except for scrape the week's worth of growth of my face. Wifey isn't a fan of it so, you know..........

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Ah Seasons. Some people got em, some people don't.

Hey, we got rain, today. Also some thunder. It's still drizzling here, and soaking in nicely.

[RKDinOKC]

Pepper doesn't really jump on people or bite them. She just gets really excited, wiggles around, turns circles and rubs against them, goes between their legs and goes belly up, and jumps up right next to them, but not actually on them. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to get it out of her system. She had stopped getting so excited she pees.

We've been working to try to sit calmly and say, "Hello" as the standard greeting humans procedure. She still gets pretty excited though.

She was real talkative this afternoon so we went thru her vocabulary. She Speaks (bark), Says; Hello, Good Morning, I love you, I want It, Another one, Drink of water, and I want out. She barks at the door when she want's out. When I go to the door she says "I want out." When I hear her bark at the door, I call her to me and have her sit and say "I want out." Wondering how long before she just comes to me and says I want out leaving the bark at the door part out. She now does it if I am asleep, but still does the bark at the door thing if I am up and around.

We have a convenient store/gas station with a drive up window. They know me well and I pay at the drive thru. They keep Beggin Strips to give her. 2 of the guys that work there give them to her. If she sees one of them she keeps say hello until they give her a treat. The other people that work there she just says it once when the come to the window. One of the guys really likes her and reaches out the window to pet her. The other is kind of funny. He's likes her but is afraid of dogs. He started just throwing treats at her. Now he kind of half hands them to her and half throws them. He jerks his hand back really fast and almost screams. Told him if he just slowly gives it to her she will be really easy with him and slowly take it, but as long as he is kind of throwing them she snaps because she is trying to catch it. He is still really proud of himself for not just throwing them at her.

Contrary to what some may think, even though some seasons have more of it than others, rain itself is NOT one of the seasons.

[RKDinOKC]

At the independent Porsche shop several years ago. They had an old PC sitting in the shop. The mechanics could pull up a Porsche, select what needed replaced, and it would give bolt by bolt instructions with illustrations for what to take off to get to it quickest and with the least work. Haven't seen it around the shop in a long time.

[Noah930]

^^Wish I had that computer for the alternator I swapped in Mrs. Noah's Odyssey yesterday. Though on second thought, that still may not have saved me any time.

[Noah930]

So, having repaired the minivan, I can now return the G35 we've been borrowing from my parents in the meantime. (Of course, that was the car that I had to replace a camshaft positioning sensor and front brakes on during the three weeks we had it.) I dropped off the Infiniti at my parents' today, and returned home in a BMW from one of their neighbors. The Bimmer is having trouble passing smog, and apparently either needs to be driven enough to reset the ECU, or needs a new O2 sensor. My neighbors must think they're now living next to a used car lot.

[RKDinOKC]

My next door neighbor used to buy a car at the dealer's auction, his Dad has a used car lot in Enid. Anyway, neighbor goes thru the car cleaning it and getting it running. Even takes out the interior and stroons it about his front yard. The car will sit for a week sometimes 2 with all the doors open. Then usually after 3 or 4 months of dinking with it sells it.

One time he came over and asked me if I knew how to get a gauge cluster apart. A bug had crawled in where the trip reset switch is and was too big to get back out the same hole. Last time he had a car fixin it up there was tape over the trip reset hole.

Another time he was cleaning up a full sized blazer. You could barely see where someone had painted over the Border Patrol sticker on the door. There was over an inch of sand under the carpet. I don't even know how you would do that.

The last car he got at the auction he brought a Suburban home late one evening. That night it was stolen. Before he even had a chance to get the title transferred or call an put it on his insurance. He was pissed as it was obviously and inside job at the car auction.

The longest project was a 2 horse horse trailer he brought home after the Suburban. It sat in his driveway with him working on it off and on for 4 years. It had a LOT of surface rust. He said he was going to repaint it when he got everything fixed. I didn't think there was that much to fix on your basic horse trailer?

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Noah930

So, having repaired the minivan, I can now return the G35 we've been borrowing from my parents in the meantime. (Of course, that was the car that I had to replace a camshaft positioning sensor and front brakes on during the three weeks we had it.) I dropped off the Infiniti at my parents' today, and returned home in a BMW from one of their neighbors. The Bimmer is having trouble passing smog, and apparently either needs to be driven enough to reset the ECU, or needs a new O2 sensor. My neighbors must think they're now living next to a used car lot.

Have you got a code reader? The readiness monitors should show you whats going on with emissions
If you don't have a code reader, get this and Dash Command app on your phone, allows you to read codes, see readiness monitors, view real time data, etc!

https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Industry-Wireless-OBD2-Reader/dp/B01C3HAHCS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477290198&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=wifi+obd2&psc=1

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dashcommand-obd-ii-gauge-dashboards/id321293183?mt=8

[GH85Carrera]

Good Monday morning folks.

I had to take a different route to work today so I could swing by the bank to deposit the funds from the car show. Instead of driving off into the virtual private road I went the way of heavy traffic. For some reason the bank decided a real busy intersection is a better location than miles from any other business. The bank is right next to the train tracks. And I do mean right next to, as in 40 feet. Once again, just as I drop the money in the deposit slot the train blows the LOUD horn. It was still full dark out so I did not see it, but I sure heard it. To be thinking don't drop the envelope, and looking around for some possible low life human skulking around I did not see a train.

I just want to know how the conductor knew I had just pulled the handle to close the slot on the deposit slot to blow the horn. It was perfect timing for him, not so much for me.