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haha i should! hes gonna end up a darker non metallic green with black top and black wheels. thats always been the color he will end up since i got him. he wants to go all stormtrooper and do white with black trim and stuff, or a grey all over. that was after wanting to do black semigloss. i told him black was ok, since im going to do a black undercoat anyway to set the green that i want up.

pulled the head on the forester finally, no wonder i had no compression. http://i66.tinypic.com/rhstie.jpg not sure what caused it, but there is definite signs that the rack had been redone recently, and the timing components and HG were all fairly new. ishould get the new valves from the dealer this morning, so i will take the head and the parts to a buddy that has a machine shop and let him replace and verify the valve seats and all. should be back together this weekend hopefully. my son decided that smokey needed to be painted, so he spent some time sanding and primering the car this past week. we seem to have a bit of troubel seeing eye-to-eye on the final color, buti keep reminding him that he is my car, so my choice lol. damn kids.

that happened like 2 miles from my office

cant see any of your pics, they all have a black circle with a bar in there.

i think you should do the steel wheels with turbine swirls like on jet engines. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/a380_13.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/335h548.jpg smokey looks better in the dark, really need to get on the paint and stuff soon. thats my son standing next to the car.

i think he is one of the most quotable people ever. that particular excerpt is good, but the rest of it is necessary for it to mean much to me “Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

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i think the people who get that are a dying breed

when i end up bagging my wagon im gonna put industrial level and angle meters on all 4 corners, but it wont be cheap since ill be using stuff i find at work. im also going to write my own controller with either a plc or an arduino controller to have multiple presets, limits and stuff.

that one is my fave. my kids will still say "but the trains ok, right?" randomly

forester: shoved my new borescope down the cylinder and verified there is no oil leakage or bad rings. pushed some compressed air in, turned the motor by hand and felt a breeze at the exhaust pipe the whole time. i think its safe to say the head needs to come off for repair. smokey: one of the kids (or one of their friends) ran over a curb, rock or something equally unforgiving, ruined the passenger side rocker panel under the doors almost the length of the car. i dont know if it is even worth trying to repair and keep building the car at that point, i may be looking for a new smokey. ive been keeping my eyes peeled for a flat roof (BK) legacy postal, but i doubt id ever find one i can get to or afford at this point. very disappointed, and very bummed. that car is my favorite car, and it really does run well. too bad he keeps getting beat up when my kids have him. hank: after the sensors got replaced, its been a pleasure to drive. of course, my buddy is borrowing him so he gets to drive him daily. but, it runs so smooth and with no codes that i am willing to invest in the new clutch, linkage parts and a set of new tires and keep him on the road. should be a good time up at the lake and camping. Lefty: oldest daughter is driving lefty right meow, her civic is parked for a while until i finish her forester. lefty is running great, but has developed a bit of an oil leak at the RH valve cover gasket. gotta fix that soon, its building up and burning on the exhaust. bonus! dodge truck: my son bought a dodge 5.9L engine for his dodge truck, felt motivated and pulled the 5.2L on friday. i ended up helping him, but it went way better than i thought it would. he is trading the intakes and will likely drop the motor in next week after a few more checks and new seals. best part of this update is i get smokey back and i can start the survey on whether i want to keep on fixing him or start over. http://www.doggifpage.com/gifs/125.gif

im a systems integrator that deals with that crap daily, and his voice sucked all the funny right out of that video.

sorry for the lack of response, was working in flagstaff all last week, surveying three plants for comms and hardware. fun stuff. ya, its just the spark plug bung spacers, i will get a pic of the spares when i get to the shop this afternoon. as for how i did the cats, i went all old school on them. pulled both off, sat down on an old milk crate with the cat between my feet, jammed a long wrecker bar in there and hammered it all out. wasnt much left in there worth a damn, it was almost solid in there. took about 1.5hrs to get both cleared out, the angled one was especially a pain in the ass to get finished. the length of extender i used was about the same length of the o2 sensor, it tightened up against the tip of it. no codes at all after the first blip, and it seems to run decently since then. also, while i was out of town my buddy that owns the shop threw some parts at it to see what would happen to that stutter issue ive been dealing with for a while. he put a new MAF, cpk and cam sensor in it and the issue went away. after looking at the parts he took out, my money is on the MAF sensor. i told him to do one at a time so i know which fixed it, but he wanted to drive the car so did all at the same time lol. now, on to the new forester. pulled the plugs, checked compression and timing. 3 cylinders are at 180psi, the #2 doesnt even tickle the needle on the gauge. took a peek into the cylinder, no oil at all. plug came out covered in fuel from driving it to the bay, but no oil at all. i will most likely pull that head in the next few weeks and either replace the head (or just a valve, hopefully) or end up getting a used motor for the car. my daughter (the one who will drive the forester) has named her Sally.

hank is a 2.2 with 5mt. when i first hollowed out the cats, it popped a code but it was already gone by the time i got the scanner hooked up to se which one it was. i put the spacer on the rear O2 sensor, no codes so far.

almost forgot the cat gif...

still havent worked out the issue with hank, but it happens much less now, since hollowing out the cats. i am letting my friend that owns a shop drive it while he figures out which of his trucks to fix first, so he is throwing parts at it on occasion to see if it clears up the issue. its really weird, it will run fine for 3 days, then die at an intersection and not start for like 10 or 12 minutes. during that time, you will smell fuel really strongly, then it runs fine until the next time. i picked up a 99 forester for the oldest daughter, she is done with the civic and i dont wanna put too much more cash into it if she isnt going to do anything with it. the forester is in decent shape, really needs a deep cleaning and the idle is a bit rough. i got a really good price because the PO thought he had busted a ring in cylinder 2. cold starts supposedly smoke a bunch, but yesterday after a pretty long wait there was very minimal smoke out the pipe. it does have a flashing ECU, and 301 and 302 codes. gonna start the diag this week i think, see if im rebuilding another 2.5l or not soon hehe

ya, i have two daughters that made me let them paint my nails on occasion when they were little.

tuna explanation: http://droolius.com/2013/12/tuna-on-white-no-crust-a-sandwich-in-honor-of-paul-walker/ and, the toy off the back signifies he will street race to other tools that hoon around.

i have a borla header on my 95 FWD legacy wagon. i think its funny. i didnt pay retail prices for that tho, i paid less than the knock off UELs on fleabay. but, the cost of the wheels and exhaust alone are worth more than the car. then theres the stereo, amps, and subs loaded in that sucker.

that sucks! i got pretty much the same story when i bought my parts outback. but the HG have lasted so far, just this new ignition blip is still there

it may make her too level. i know a few people that hate taking their anxiety meds because nothing changes when they are on it. always feel the same, no emotional spikes at all. i guess that weighs on you after a while.

i agree, one of my best friends daughters is going through this right now too. mebbe a doc visit to see if there are alternate meds that will take away some of the bad parts she doesnt like about them?

or he fell off his unicycle during a particularly difficult trick/maneuver while in a parade of others on unicycles and alternate human powered vehicles, and the idea came to him doc brown style...