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there's a guy on mewe selling aquila .22lr for .73/round for a brick......

in theory everything with the valve timing's on the money.....i don't think i could be off on the timing belt without tripping a timing code. when i watch the oil control solenoids for the vvt they seem to be doing what they're told.........i may end up taking him up on that, but i don't have any primers.....

thanks man! i had the throttle body off last week, and it was filthy. i cleaned that pretty good. there was a passage i could see, but couldn't get into it that well, so i just sprayed the crap outta it with carb cleaner. what he meant by water in it, is that most cars like this have coolant passages going through the throttle body to warm them up a bit. i agree that quite a few "throttle by wire" vehicles have suck-ass throttle response, toyota is the worst. i've never had another subaru with this bad of a response. i took it home last night again. same thing. in tip-in from say 40-50mph to accelerate a little i get a helluva delay/shake. off idle? ferget it. i might just hafta put out the loot and take a shot on the throttle body. i hate replacing parts when i'm not 100% dammit.

yea. with normal o2 sensors, i can watch the upstream sensor, and get an idea of what it's doing. these use an air/fuel ratio sensor, and we can't read them through the scanner as we can a normal o2. so to see if there's any problem in the fuel system.....either too rich or too lean for whatever reason, i use propane to artificially enrichen the mixture.....and create a vacuum leak to artificially lean it out. so yes....."fatten it up" means to make it run richer. i added the fuel in through the air intake tube. if she was lean, this should've been enough to kill or change the problem.....so now i know i don't need to look in the fuel system. i'd cleaned the grounds this am before starting work on customers cars.....didn't change anything. shit....i typed open loop. it was in closed loop. what the hell was i thinking?

thanks for that! cleaned all the grounds, even though they were mostly off when i had the heads and intake off. didn't add any yet. couldn't get my friggin $5k scanner to tell me if it was in open or closed loop, but my 20 buck actron quick reader did show me to be in open loop. i used a propane tank with a looonnnngggg hose to the intake tube to fatten up the mixture...no change. yanked a vacuum hose to lean it out....no change.

exactly. except for when my dumb ass can't get the dam thing to ignite, lol

and nobody will do anything to stop it.

before the wood stove, oil was my only source of hot water and heating the house. it still is my only source of hot water. i cook on a gas stove....but that was also part of the reason for a wood stove, as if need be i can cook on top of that. and yes, she often laments that we don't have an electric stove. gas was off in some areas after sandy. and i think there was at least one other time in nj recently. i know it's not likely....

i used to have a gas stove in the same place........i loved it........2 things made me change it....mom's afraid of gas..or so she says......and my little bit of paranoia about gas getting shut off to neighborhoods in times of emergency..........they ain't shuttin my wood stove off.

this is a wood stove. it's an insert in my fireplace. i'd let it go out 2 days ago. thought i'd read on one of my neighboring towns pages that more may be otw on tuesday then on thursday......

oh shit! i never thought of that!! thanks man!

i just finished clearing my house of smoike....'cause even though half of the communist state of kalifornia burns down when some asshole decides he has to use a smoke grenade to tell the world that he just had a kid.........i apparently can't light my woodstove with all the proper firestarting shit in place. now i'm gonna go clear the sidewalks

looked wet and heavy earlier. when i took kylie out, it was slushy.......

i don't like using junkyard stuff for electronics. had bad experiences with them. o2's shouldn't be too bad.....the front one's an air/fuel ratio sensor, so it's probably right around 200 bucks..... i picked up a nozzle for a handheld propane tank tonight. gonna use that with a long section of vacuum hose to enrichen the mixture as i snap the throttle. if it smoothes the thing out, then i'll go looking in the fuel system. i shoulda checked fuel pressure today, but didn't. i dont think it's gonna be in the ignition system anywhere, 'cause i've never seen plugs/wires/coil pack work well at idle, then fail, then work well at high speed. and as previously mentioned, wires look new-ish. new plugs installed with cylinder head job. mileage is abour 125k

i'm hoping not, and thinking not. it's not very common for them go go bad anymore. i'm kinda leaning towards a bad throttle body assembly, but i'd like to be more sure before dropping the coin.....they're expensive

i didn't notice if it was open or closed loop. something that did strike me though was that when i was looking at the data, everything was on...fan relays(even though the fans were off), a/c compressor showed on even though it was off, light switch, rear defog switch, brakelight switch....all showed on. constantly.

so i acquired a 2009 outback. it came in with a blown timing belt. bent 15 of 16 valves. customer didn't want to repair, sold me the car. i pulled the heads, sent them out, all new valves guides, etc. put back together. new plugs. didn't touch the wires, as they look relatively recently replaced. car runs beautiful, 'cept for a pretty serious hesitation off idle. or from cruise if i hit the throttle hard. from idle, it's nasty. in park/neutral, i can floor the throttle, and count out almost 2 full seconds before the engine revs. in gear it's slightly quicker, but still not right. there are no codes, no pending codes and no history codes. with misfire monitors showing on the scanner, there's nothing coming up. no codes. maf was dirty, so i cleaned, then changed. air filter's good. no external fuel filter. can't get good reading on the air/fuel ratio sensor through the scanner....gonna hafta scope that and the o2. cat's not clogged, 'cause this puppy gets up and goes(for what they are) once it's past that initial bog. i can't test it by adding fuel as i snap the throttle, 'cause it's throttle by wire...so no way for me(working alone) to snap the throttle from under the hood as i add another fuel source. i didn't bother checking timing belt alignment, 'cause i did that before even trying to start the engine. plus even 1 tooth off it'd set a code. it's making me nuts that i can't figure out what should be a simple problem. i'm down to guessing now.....and the next guess is that throttle body, 'cause it also contains the iac....and in throttle by cable vehicles i've seen bad iac cause this type of problem. fun huh?

people are lining up at the pumps out front. he's prolly gonna pump around 3k gallons today

i heard from a friend.....i trust the guy.......he'd heard that most companies are about to cease production of .22lr in order to increase capacity of other calibers. anyone else hear this?

great deal? they were a fecking steal! i still like the hornet better. the other one's no slouch though. there was a guy at our field that had one of those, and it was goddam fast

someone's gonna have a blast with that hornet

we used to use zagis for air combat. full contact air combat. it was never pretty, but dam was it fun. we also at one point had built a aircraft carrier deck. used coat hangers for tail hooks. that wasn't pretty either. ate something like 8 airplanes in the first day, lol

i haven't flown anything since about 2010. i had/have everything from a little electric corsair up to a 97" p-38 lightning. sadly, even though i pickled my engines, they're all gonna need rebuilds or replacement before i can fly again.

rgr. i just finished clearing around some cars on the lot here. it's a very heavy wet snow.

who needs an excuse?