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that couldn't have been fun. i've got my 78 futura sitting on the rollback waiting for me to have time to put the new fuel tank in it...........

yaknow? for some odd reason i thought i was gonna see a thread about fuel tanks for cars. go figure, lolol

milankovitch cycles

it ran pretty well otw home tonight. little stumble, but bearable. i am gonna check fuel pressure now that @tony357 mentioned it.....'cause with asll the other shit going on, i overlooked that.

funny thing is they keep saying global warming........and we're probably gonna end up all snowpiercer n shit

that's the hard part. i don't have one anymore. i'll be chatting with another one that visits a shop close by

it pisses me off due to what the dam thing costs. i paid around $6k for it, and have kept it updated with every new release. for that kinda loot, i shouldn't be missing things with this.

i took it around the block, but didn't bring it home tonight, 'cause i need to be able to park the excursion inside if i'm gonna leave it there......felt nearly perfect. bringing it home tomorrow night

now it's getting weirder. was a little slow this am. so since the car was still in the bay, i screwed with it a little more. hooked up my launch scanner. it's chinese. in that, i found some codes in the bcm, and a couple canbus codes. all showed as being history. so i went through each module individually, and cleared memory. in the parking lot(ran outta time, can't test drive till later..prolly take it home tonight) it feels significantly better when i punch the throttle. it kinda pisses me off that my $6k snap on scanner didn't pick this shit up, but my $1k chinese knockoff scanner did

it's part of the throttle body, and passes all its tests

if she goes away from honda, then toyota is definitely the way to go. just stay away from any cvt tranny.

fast forward to 1:10 Airplane! (10/10) Movie CLIP - S**t Hits the Fan (1980) HD - YouTube i has augered my peeeee38, a spitfire, hurricane, airacobra, and a few others in aces high.

that's where i'm starting to go with my thoughts......

rogue has a cvt tranny. cvt trannys are shit. they're so bad that nissan and other manufacturers extended the warranty out to 120k. if it fails after that, they're over 3k to rebuild. anything vw/owdie is shit unless you lease it then dump it after the 3 year lease. the turbos are oil burners. cats go bad. flex pipes go bad...which requires replacement of the cat. i had 2 customers with tiguans that lost the engines.

hadn't worked on this in awhile. had it in the bay just now. found 2 ground issues. both of the ground straps to the cylinder heads from frame were fubar. replaced, no change. cleaned every ground i could find. tried the idle relearn....the battery disconnect way. nada. solus doesnt have the option. something i noticed. when i'm scrolling in data, everything's showing on. a/c signal, rear defogger, idle switch, etc. stuff that isn't turned on. never seen that before.

the oil bypass issue was corrected somewhere around 2012. i've seen some newer still lose number 1 or number 7 lifters. you gotta pull the head to replace the lifters. sometimes they'll still get a p0522(or is it p0520?) which is for the oil pressure sensor. that one can be either a bad o-ring on the oil pump pickup tube in the engine(gm test is to over fill the engine then lift the back end, and see if anything changes) but more often than not is a bad sensor behind the intake. always replace the pigtail and the little filter under that sensor.

only about 6" in cherry hill. it's nuts. i was watching people driving on brace rd as if it were sunny and dry. shocked i didn't see a nice multi-car,.

the only bad thing on that era gm suv is the oil system for the variable displacement. there was a checkvalve that is part of the oil pan that used to blow oil straight up onto the crankshaft and cause problems. they've updated and corrected that issue. i like their variable displacement though.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this times a million. you almost can't go wrong buying something just in off lease. the other possible option would be to buy from enterprise or one of the rental places. i've got a small fleet customer that's been doing these two things for awhile, and he's not had a bad deal yet. 'cept for the driver that totaled one of the vehicles that they'd onbly had for a week or so.....

wood stove. plenty of extra wood. plenty of food.....at least 3 months if we continue eating like a couiple 10 year olds. 1.5 months if we suddenly start eating normally. portable genny, plenty of extra gas for that. i can actually run most of my house on that thing. yes. my house really is that little.

so they are being given priority over the rest of us. once again 2 sets of rules. thanks man. i really thought he wasn't gonna answer ya......

the big question(which i'm fairly certain will go unanswered) is if or not the govt agencies from local pd's on up to federal level le agencies are feeling the same squeeze we are. i think i know the answer to that.

along with a leather neck gaitor, and a kevlar helmet. if yer plannin on comin back as a zombie, may as well defend the only part that will kill ya......which is loss of yer head

BINGO. I THOUGHT It was double.....that's what i was referencing in my sarcasm

no one needs more than about double the capacity of their firearm. <insert paranoid thing smiley here>