Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

We’re only up to 63 degrees, now. The day before Memorial Day, we were up to 59 degrees. It’s been a cool Spring this year. It’s fine weather for working on my Z in the garage.

Sid, I hope you guys are enjoying your stay on Oahu. We’re heading to the big island in December.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Aloha gents! Terrible view from our hotel balcony, but with enough coffee and malasadas I’ll find a way to get by.

Where's the black Audi wagon?

[GH85Carrera]

When I was mowing in a hurry I whacked my head more than once on the tree limbs hanging low out front. I got even today. Those limbs have been removed, cut up and ready for the trash man on Tuesday. There is more to cut, but I ran out of room.

[Jim Richards]

It’s great fun trying to modify the wiring harness to swap my ammeter/fuel gauge out for a latter model Z’s voltmeter/fuel gauge with a charge warning light. It’s especially fun when the wiring diagram for my ‘75 has an error in the ammeter/fuel gauge circuit.

[GH85Carrera]

Is there a Pelican forum equivalent for Z cars? Any question ever about aircooled 911s has be asked and answered several times on the 911 Tech forum.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh boy, get to drive Bro Tom and his wheelchair to Tulsa to take Bro Bob for lunch. Bob is turning 81 tomorrow. That's 23 years older than me. He was in the Air Force when I was borneded.

[RKDinOKC]

What the heck? When click on an email on a web page, it wants me to create a new account instead of send an email to that address. The email listing is even a mailto: link. Why would the default NOT be send an email with my current(default client) to that address?!!

[GH85Carrera]

Hey, good morning to all. Monday is back and that just means we are alive and above ground and up and at em.

I have an exciting day of balancing the bank statements to the checkbooks on my personal and business accounts. For the personal stuff it is usually super simple, open the reconcile tool, and agree that the zero difference is what I want. Mostly it is a way to triple check no extra charges have hit. Then I "get" to do that for the company credit card. My business partner is out of the state in Florida on a project. He loves to stop for coffee and coffee shops have some of the weirdest names on the planet. Then I get to figure out what was purchased and for what customer and why.

For the businesschecking accounts, every stinking entry has to have an category, account, and customer or vendor name and well as the class and description. With all of that, if the IRS ever gets snippy again, I can print reports out the wazoo and show them where and what was spent and for whom, and why, and what it was.

Golly bean counting is fun. At least the commute is easy. Just move the mouse to a different icon and click. So the commute to work is just a few inches movement for my hand.

[RKDinOKC]

Hope you just call your printer "The Wazoo" and it isn't the normal interpretation of "Wazoo"

Got a cheap detail on the Cayenne this morning. Now I can't find my cigarette lighter to USB plug. It was in the car the last time I took brother Tom to Tulsa to see brother Bob. It was not something I would take out of the vehicle

[Jim Richards]

Glen, just let your accountant handle all of that financial drudgery. Oh, wait...

Happy Saturday, y’all. I think I’ll work on the Z today. I’ll also need to draw up a nice wiring diagram and schematic of my modifications and insert it into my shop manual.

[GH85Carrera]

I pay our accountant a crazy amount of money. He is expensive! I could hear money flying out of out bank account when our attorney called our accountant. It was a large sucking sound and it sucks when both of them are billing me at the same time. Hopefully we will never need the attorney again.

The accountant is a buddy that I have know for over 30 years. We got a little "free" advice from him when were first thinking of going into business for ourselves bu taking him to lunch and picking his brain.

Since then he charges for everything. I guess we don't work for free, so why should he?

[flipper35]

Jim, since you have experience with the back side of a dash, when you get a chance swing over and look at mine . I wired it back in 1994 and don't remember everything. What a mess of wires. OK, not really a mess, but I don't remember what A and B are. At least the new gauges has a complete wiring harness, I just have to get the old "harness" out.

Oh, and removing the dash in a pain in the butt. Em prepped the steering column so it is painted at least. I should make a boot for the pedal box while the dash is out to keep the air that flows over the headers from hitting your legs. It can get a bit..warm.

[Jim Richards]

Be right over, Brent.

[GH85Carrera]

Brent, that dash has to be fairly simple. No AC duct work, no roof in the way of getting it out.

I know the feeling of wiring done long ago. What seems logical and the right thing to do long ago can be a real mystery 20 years later.

So your dash has the typical instrumentation, likely no stereo, no AC and not much else. How hard can it be?

[flipper35]

It actually does have a stereo with tweeters in the dash and it has defroster ductwork, which the mice got into. It isn't all that bad really. Other than trying to get the brights/blinker stalk out. The light switch comes out as a module as does the ignition switch. I need to replace the defrost fan switch and wiper switch while I am in there.

The rest is pulling the sensors from the oil pressure and oil temperature and water temperature senders. The oil temp is already up to the dash area and the old oil temp sender is out. I am 10% done!

[GH85Carrera]

Hey wake up folks.

The thread was 1/2 way down on the second page. I had to scroll a lot to find it.

We received an email from a guy that is the quintessential epitome of the stereotype "big hat no cattle" for a really nice project. It would be nice, but just don't expect much. He loves to get us to do price quotes on projects, and we never get them from him. In fact all we have ever done for him is make quotes. He is a "drone guy" in another city, and likely does OK on little projects with his UAVs. and he has so neat home built UAVs and he is not stupid. UAVs are wonderful for small projects, but to fly multiple square miles is a real challenge and to fly 50 square miles (legally) is just dang near impossible with today's limits. With a human piloted Cessna as a really big UAV, we can fly dang near anywhere and not break laws.

[Jim Richards]

I’m kind of slacking off. Retired, you know.

[flipper35]

Well get off your butt and get slacking!

[GH85Carrera]

I know I could never be a CPA. All the goesintos and carrying around the numbers in additions and subtraction and such make my head hurt.

[Jim Richards]

Jeff, Azzy...hide your beer, and your cows! :Eek:

https://ms.thebl.com/97460/pig-steals-18-beers-from-campers-gets-drunk-starts-a-fight-with-cow-2.html





How’s that, Brent?