Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

I’m freezing my butt off when it drops to 50. Doesn’t matter what time of year...I’m a wimp.

[GH85Carrera]

OUCH,

I have been over on Newegg building a wish list for the parts of my new computer. Grand total now is $5,651.79.

16 Core, 32 threads 4.4 GHz CPU, GeForce RTX 2070 video, Intel Optane 960 GB boot drive, 256 Gig of RAM, and of course a motherboard to put it on, 5 - 4TB spinning drives to be made into a RAID 5 drive, Win 10 and a big old box to put it all in. All assembly required.

[Jim Richards]

I've been spending my retirement dollars on my 5-speed transmission for the Z. I had to have the rear case welded to fix some hidden cracks. I just ordered a couple of bearings and shims for the main and counter shafts. Oh boy!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

I've been spending my retirement dollars on my 5-speed transmission for the Z. I had to have the rear case welded to fix some hidden cracks. I just ordered a couple of bearings and shims for the main and counter shafts. Oh boy!

That Japanese transmission has to be cheaper than a 915 transmission from a 911. I paid almost 800 for a couple of bearings in my 915 transmission. Plus a bit or remove and replace time needed.

What is insane expensive is a modern car's automatic transmission. One of my friend of a friend's car had a transmission quit, and fixing the transmission was going to be almost 3 grand, just the repair it, not replace it.

They just junked the car.

[Jim Richards]

I paid around $150 for two bearings and some shims, including shipping. From my limited experience with the Z’s 4-speed tranny, the Datsun gearboxes shift easier than the Porsche 915.

[RKDinOKC]

In 1976 got my first car, 68 Ford country squire wagon, for $1.00 because the title said one dollar plus valuables. Picked it up in Rolla, MO. Did not make it home. Had to stop at the Ford dealership by my house and have the transmission rebuilt. It costed $300. So guess that's what it really cost me.

[Noah930]

Very irritated at the semi-local America's Tire.

Wife has a screw in a tire on her minivan. So she went to the America's Tire by her work to get it patched. For the second time in a row, she's been told that the lug nut has seized, and they can't get the wheel off. This happened last time, too. The lug nut was on so tight, that the lug bolt was twisted and the threads buggered. I had to break off the lug nut, and then swap out the lug bolt.

Now, as the only guy who does any maintenance on that van, I know that the lug nuts are on properly. I just changed the oil and rotated the tires two weeks ago. Obviously, being a shadetree home mechanic, I do everything by hand as I don't have any power tools. In the last 20 years where I've been doing my own oil changes and tire rotations on all my vehicles, I have never had this happen...until this tire shop. Three times now.

Fortunately, I have an extra lug bolt at home, purchased just for this eventuality. I'll just pull the wheel myself, take it to some Mexican tire shop, and get it patched. And replace the lug bolt while I'm at it.

This is why I try to do as much work myself as possible. More often than not, when I leave it to "professionals," they fix one thing yet break another.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, for my 911, I take all 4 wheels off, and go to the Porsche repair shop that has a tire machine that can replace my tires with no scratches on the wheels.

For the El Camino, I just go to the tire store, but it is a decent shop. Not a Wal Mart, or Costco! I remove all the trim rings and the center caps before hand, and I put them in the bed, with strict instructions, do NOT let the tire guys put them back on. They are easy to tear up and break if not done right. As soon as I pay for the tires and they hand me my keys, I pull up front and loosen each lug nut, and use my torque wrench to tighten them to 95 foot pounds. Some of the lugs are under tightened, and some are on way too tight.

I had to replace the studs on both front hubs from some tire monkey messing up the threads. All of them, not one was right. Now after 300K+ miles the lug nuts will spin back on by fingers with no issues.

Like quick oil change places, I hear way too many horror stories to trust anyone else to do it.

[RKDinOKC]

Always use anti-seize on the stud before installing the tire/nuts. Put some where the wheel mates to the hub as well. Make sure they are torqued to 94 ftlb with my torque wrench as well. If I take a vehicle somewhere to get a flat fixes or new tires, always go home, recheck inflation and lug torque.

Before I started doing that when had to have a lug cut off my 944 Turbo.

Only once since have I had an issue. It was on one wheel on the range rover. The lugs came loose after working on the brakes and I had to retorque the lugs on that one wheel twice before they stayed tight. The other wheels were fine.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That Japanese transmission has to be cheaper than a 915 transmission from a 911. I paid almost 800 for a couple of bearings in my 915 transmission. Plus a bit or remove and replace time needed.

What is insane expensive is a modern car's automatic transmission. One of my friend of a friend's car had a transmission quit, and fixing the transmission was going to be almost 3 grand, just the repair it, not replace it.

They just junked the car.

I don't think I paid $800 for the a833 four speed with having it rebuild with new seals and synchronizers.

Jim, we hit those storms on the way from PHX to Holtville. They evidently dont use windshield wipers. The use rubber blades that smear the water around. You would think after 3 hours they would be clean enough to actually wipe. In case anyone is wondering, a Fusion hybrid has NO trunk space.

Oh, it has been 72 and sunny. It really sucks.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Morning folks.

We have another beautiful weekend on store, and on into Monday. I may well mow the yard for the last time this year mostly to mulch leaves and rake a lot a of leaves. The bosses wife wants to keep a lot of the leaves for her compost pile. Turn them leaves back into soil. Like a backwards tree. The tree makes leaves from dirt and water. We turn em back into moist dirt.

[Jim Richards]

iHola! It’s looking real nice outside here, too. Forecast is rain and at least 10 degrees cooler Wed-Fri. Looks like I can keep the irrigation system off for a while.

[GH85Carrera]

We have another nice day on day weather wise. So nice the boss is gonna make me mow his yard. Lotsa leaves mostly. Golly it is gonna be fun!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Bit warmer here at almost 50*. Sent the kid back to CA for a few days class and pick him up later for turkey day.

[GH85Carrera]

Way back in the stone ages of computers the place I worked at bought one of the first IBM AT 6 Mhz computers. It had 2 MB of RAM, and a HUGE 32 MB hard drive, and a monochrome monitor as the main display, and a color monitor that would display 256 colors at some decent resolution that I don't remember.

The boss spent right at 6 grand for that and I thought it was a ton of money. It had DOS 3 I think, dang it was 1985 or something.

I just ordered a computer that would be pure science fiction for that era. 16 core, 32 threads, 256 GIG of RAM, a pair of two M2 two TB drive, 5 - 4 TB drives to run as a RAID 5, fast video card with higher resolution and 32 bit color, and a case and power-supply and stuff to make it all work, for less money. Not much less. But so many orders of magnitude faster it is had to quantify.

34 years of advancement in computers is a lot.

Some assembly required.

[Porsche-poor]

assembly? So you are saying its sounds like a box of rocks at this point?

[GH85Carrera]

It will arrive in multiple boxes of components. I have to put all the parts on the motherboard like the CPU and memory, and the rest go in the big ol computer case along with that motherboard. Then I "get" to load Windows 10 and have that fun.

So a day of putting it all together. Then a few days of making it work. Then make it work like a broke and hungry, whore on a Friday night. Non stop, and no breaks to rest. Beat on it like a rented car.

Phew, I just got inside from raking, edging and mowing the yard. The mean boss made me do his wife's bidding and mow up and fill two large heavey drum liner bags of chopped up leaves in the bags over by the compost. Then I did get to dump a couple of just chopped up mulched leaves on the current compost pile, and then mulch a lot of leaves right into the lawn. three hours from going outside to sitting down in my office, done. I even drank on of his beers when I was putting the equipment away. All winterized, ready for next spring.

[RKDinOKC]

Your new computer build sounds a LOT better than the new PC they gave me that isn't as fast or powerful as the 4 year old Mac laptop it replaced.

Spent $46 bucks on Uber going to two different doc appointments today.
Still forgot to ask my medical doc some questions I was planning on.
Guess will have to do the email thing.
Lost 30 lbs. since the wreck.

[GH85Carrera]

My current "fast" computer is something I built in 2013, my second computer that I am using to type this is even older. It still works perfect even though it is just an i5 4 core computer. Of course I have the laptop, but it is not a screamer at all.

I will likely turn my current "fast" computer into a RAD5 box, and yank all the drives in it now out and make a RAID 5 system, that I access via the network.

The old Computer has some old software that is handy and impossible to buy now.

[RKDinOKC]

In the pictures look like the Cayenne's headlights are a bit foggy and a little yellowed. Looking on the internets you restore them by wet sanding, then polish or clear coat. The longevity is a month to 6 months. The clear coat is rattle can clear coat. Friend that works in a local body shop says they do it for $200 for both headlights. They wet sand and use real body shop clear coat that is oven cured and is guaranteed for the life of the car.