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    5 year/100,000 miles.
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    Yea, and shortly after that there was a sensor device that is mounted on the front passenger side just above the alternator that went out and started leaking oil everywhere. Yea, that was a fix it now before it destroys the new alternator that costs how much? Yep, you guessed it…another $1600. What pissed me off was the oil sprayed everywhere aft of the leak, including the strut. Of course the dealership tried to take advantage of the moment (and me) and told me I needed new struts. Yea, right. And blinker fluid too? This car was built during covid if that tells you anything. But it went out right around 120,000 miles.
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    We had to have the alternator changed on our 2021 Pilot. There was no way I was reaching it with my back issues. $1600 at the dealership. Yea, big time ouch! From everything I read online, Honda genuine parts only since the cars computer is also plugged into it.
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    I swear, the post office must be advertising for new hires through a dyscalculia web forum. For the first two years of living in our new place the lady delivering the mail was always transposing 2356 with 2536. I got to know the guy up the street pretty good as we exchanged mail. One afternoon I actually had a serious discussion with her about this because I also have dyscalculia and didn’t figure it out until I was an adult running the video cameras at a conference for ADD, ADHD and Dyscalculia. It was a light bulb moment for me discovering why I struggled with numbers all my life. She went away about 6 months after that discussion. I’ve got a feeling she got diagnosed and went on disability.
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    My stay at home kids are worthless. They need to get out and get a job to help contribute somehow to the house.
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    Intake was fine. Apparently it was the one actuator that needed replacing. But I don’t care. The performance upgrade was worth the price of admission. 😁 When I nailed the throttle I squeezed like R2D2 when the Millennium Falcon went into hyperdrive.
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    Well, got ‘er done! My baby boy helping, err..doing it. The power now is incredible! Now the funny part. It wasn’t the shaft broken. 😁
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    Doesn’t work after the rod has been broken off. The rod snaps right where it comes out of the back of the intake. The other option was a Roush supercharger. Couldn’t convince the wife that $8500 was a better option than $1500. My son called me the day after I ordered everything to tell me he has a Roush supercharger for $400. Brand new. But it’s just the blower part. Still needs the intake and 87 other small parts. Told him I’m too old for those games. Besides, I have the 3:55 rear gear option. RPM’s wind up real fast with that gearing. Especially with a manual transmission.
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    I got the dreaded P2007 CEL code on my ‘15 Mustang. IMRC stuck closed on bank 2. Intake Manifold Runner Control. For those that aren’t in the know, the intake ports have “doors” that close to redirect airflow through different runners. Kind of like the old hot rod days where you put a tunnel Ram intake on for high RPM’s or a short runner intake for low end torque, but all in one. The design is a known failure since the rod that runs through the doors breaks off at the actuator. Three fix options. 1) Find an OEM ‘15-‘17 intake and swap it. Problem is, no longer available. 2)Try to Rube Goldberg the old intake with a new rod you made from bar stock. Seen it done on YouTube. No thanks 3) Or swap out the intake with a 2018 and put a tune on the ECM so it will run with the Gen II Coyote. Of course since I’m paying for a tune I might as well get an aftermarket cold air intake that flows better and have that rolled into the tune. So I’ve got $1500 of parts, tune and programmer sitting in the box now to install this coming weekend.
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    He’s kind of squirrelly like that. I bought it from the CMP probably 18-20 years ago. I actually bribed the ladies in the office with several lbs of chocolate and candy for a really nice specimen. Yea, got a sweet, 4 groove barrel, original date codes and never refinished with excellent parkerizing. I let him talk me out of it when I wanted to buy a couple of Danish woodless Garands to build for my son’s 18th birthdays. A couple months back he was talking about bringing it back and just having me write him a check for whatever I wanted to pay. I mentioned this a couple weeks ago and then he realized he has a carrot to dangle in front of me. I’ll eventually get it back.
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    John, that’s a good looking Mauser. Caliber? I'm still trying to get my 1903A3 back from my buddy.
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    Well it seems like one of my old hobbies has crept back into my life. One of my life’s regrets was giving up flying RC before becoming proficient at it. That was back in 1999. I told myself I was going to start slow with a small plane and small glow 4 cycle. What I couldn’t control was my hoarding tendencies. Since Feb. of this year I have picked up a lifetime supply of kits, about 6 and one of them is another 1/4 scale cub and 6 different 4 cycle engines. Some, pretty costly. Here’s my small “trainer” I’m dipping my toes back into the water with. Oh, and one of the kits is a smaller Cub with floats so I can fly in my back yard. That one will be electric.
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    Amazing!
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    You’ve just got to send 10% of the sale to each mod. 😇 I kid.
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    I picked this one up last month. The author was a well known RC model designer and produced many kit designs for companies. He personally met and sat down with the Granville family and got the real scoop on these early air racers and why they gained a bad reputation. Here’s a hint: Owners were replacing engines with much bigger and powerful ones the airframes weren’t designed for along with modifications without consulting with the brothers.
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    So, you getting the .45 Colt cylinder for it? Back when I was reloading (and shooting) I loaded a lot of cowboy loads for my Ruger Vaquero and my Uberti 1866 using Trailboss power. Then it mysteriously disappeared from the market. Hodgdon says it’s coming back by this fall though. I still have quite a few reloads in the ammo case though.
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    Ugh… Discovered one of the cylinder jackets has a stripped hole for the head bolts and it was missing the head gaskets. Another $145 spent…. It’s all boxed up and put away until parts arrive from Japan in a few weeks.
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    I pushed the Duck aside for a few days for a change of pace. Couple months back I bought another RC airplane engine. Plans were to just swap out known bad issues connecting rods with updated rods and a better carburetor. Got it opened up and discovered bad bearings. So it’s all torn apart now. Waiting on new bearings and a good aluminum cleaner I can use in my ultrasonic cleaner. Before All scattered about polishing the crankshaft The hard part about disassembling these old, well used engines is all the old castor oil that builds up and makes parts stick together.
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    No updates unfortunately. Spent the past week on vacation at the beach and now I’m going to spend the next week playing catch up on the yard and getting the place ready for next Saturday. All three grandkids have birthdays in June/July and our daughter throws a huge birthday party for them here. This year we’re renting one of those giant water slides for the event. Oh boy! Hold my beer….
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    Ernie, you’re a good man perusing a great cause! Kudos to you for taking this on, especially in the summer heat of Texas.
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    Back when I was a youte, somewhere around 1982-4 I almost traded my ‘65 Fairlane for a basket case ‘40’s or ‘50’s? Panhead that was a former police bike. The Ford was actually in my parents name, so I needed their blessings obviously. A friend of theirs had just lost a son on a motorcycle accident a few years earlier and it was a big “Hell NO!” From them. Wife’s a medical professional. She sees it all the time and calls then donorcycles. She won’t even let me get the new Honda DAX 125 to ride up and down my street. 😢
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    So I did a dry fit of the interior main structure inside the fuselage. If you follow the instructions it has you glue these individual parts into one side and then you button up the fuselage. Glad I did it this way. The inner structure is a little too wide, bottom too thick with some high spots and you couldn’t get the bottom of the fuselage to close. Took some sanding and fitting to get this gap closed. This is where it had a few high spots. Looking down into the cockpit area. This gap does close up easily, but I still have some upper bulkheads to add. Things might change then. Finished the day with some interior green. But I did notice I forgot to fill in some of the holes removing the print supports, so I’ve got to go back with some putty.
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    Okay, it helps to use tools to hold things to make it work. And of course I figured it would be easier to glue in place after the structure is assembled. Hmmm. Not sure about that decision. Took me 30 min. fiddling with getting them in place. Fine tip applicators and Zip Kicker is a must working on these microscopic parts.
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    Started looking at the instructions and was looking at these seat parts. At first I didn’t see the rods coming off them Then looking at the parts carefully, there they are! Holy craptastic! They look like print supports Gotta be extremely careful separating these parts! But I managed not to destroy them.
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