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Raided my parts stash to watch fireworks in style.

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Waiting for it to get dark now.
 


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I love Craigslist!

On my list for nationals was to fix the AC in the Road Ranger. I already bought the bad hose, drier, o ring set and expansion tube. Today I got a used but brand new vacuum pump, the $130 ones for $30.

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I was going to get adapters for my ancient R12 gauge set (about &25), but I found a new complete kit in a case for $33 delivered, so I ordered that.

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I worked on the RR air tank set up, finally put something together I like. Of course totally different idea and a different tank. I got it 90% together, then had to paint the tank. I’ll write it up in the build thread when I get it all together.

And say a puppy prayer for little Lincoln. He had a rough week. Couple of months ago I got some guys to cut down some trees and clean stuff out for a couple thousand dollars and I’ve been hitting the low stuff with the lawnmower in a Weedwhacker. Where is the close in suburbs, but there are a lot of deer around here. Really don’t see many by me though because it’s a very busy street. But there were a couple that would occasionally hang out in the dark corner of my backyard.

Lincoln and I went out a couple days ago, and he ran straight into the dark corner, barking, and then before I could even get my seat he came out like a lightning bolt going the other way. I figured he was going after a different critter.

I got looking in my phone, and he was charging in the corner again barking. There was a little commotion, and right when I looked up, Lincoln shot passed me like a bullet, with that whimpering kind of arc, and I was sitting face-to-face with a pretty good size big deer! That’s the first time I’ve ever seen Lincoln run and whimper.

Deer and I had a staring contest for about 10 seconds, Lincoln started to come back. Slowly, the deer took a step forward, and I threw my arms up in the air and shouted, and then it went off in a different direction. Lincoln was clearly upset the entire rest of the evening, and he did go more than 3 feet away from me the next day when we went outside. his territory had been violated.

Last night we came in about 10 PM, and very unusual, there was a mama deer and a little fawn literally sitting in the middle of my front yard. I’ve seen them outback once in a while, but I’ve never seen any out between the house of the road. When I parked in the front turn around, they meandered over to the property line, but didn’t run. Lincoln barked out the window, but when I pulled him out and put him on the ground (and I kept them on a leash this time) he didn’t want anything to do with it, he just walked around the back of the house and went inside. I could tell by the way he was acting he was all shook up again.

Well, today was happy birthday America. So everybody shooting fireworks all day long, and then, right behind me is a Park where they do the bigger displays. That really freaks Lincoln out. He stayed virtually under my feet. The few things I had to do walking around, and when I sat down to watch a little TV, he literally crawled up on top of my chest. The only time he does That is what he’s really spooked. I fear it’s going to go on all weekend.

Quiet now, took my pill. Wish I had one for him
 

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@Rick W what size vacuum pump is that? When we were doing the AC in my 99 we tried the auto parts store rental first, but it wouldn't pull enough vacuum. After much reading I opted to purchase the 3 CFM two stage pump from HF. Worked perfect. Not sure if the 2 CFM single stage that they offered would have done the job. The rental pump was a 1.8 CFM single stage and looked new, but who knows how it had been previously used.

The only other thing I could recommend for your project would be a small digital scale for weighing the freon. I picked up one from walmart. Allowed for weighing the cans before and after to track how much we added. Would have been good to have for measuring the PAG oil too, but dad had already done that part before I had gotten the scale.
 

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What year f250? I’ll get you the torque spec for the hub bearings.
I’d also recommend replacing the hub seals if you’re going to remove the hub (the flange with the wheel studs).
2011.
 

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Don't suppose anyone's over here in Moncton for the Atlantic Nationals this weekend? I'll be going down to the street party tonight. I'll post a few pics if anyone's interested.
I have to say this has become a pretty amazing event, the city is full of thousands of all types of interesting cars from all over for 5 solid days. Good times for the car guys.
 

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Don't suppose anyone's over here in Moncton for the Atlantic Nationals this weekend? I'll be going down to the street party tonight. I'll post a few pics if anyone's interested.
I have to say this has become a pretty amazing event, the city is full of thousands of all types of interesting cars from all over for 5 solid days. Good times for the car guys.
No idea what that one is about. I'm pretty sure I'm speaking for everyone here when I say, we always like looking at pics if you have them to share.
 

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Don't suppose anyone's over here in Moncton for the Atlantic Nationals this weekend? I'll be going down to the street party tonight. I'll post a few pics if anyone's interested.
I have to say this has become a pretty amazing event, the city is full of thousands of all types of interesting cars from all over for 5 solid days. Good times for the car guys.
What’s a Moncton?
 

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What’s a Moncton?
It's old Mi'kmaq for "usually boring" 😀

Nah, I kid, it's a fine place to live.

Atlantic Nationals are a big drive-in car show/festival/Street party with food, music etc. I don't know how many people come in for it but it's in the thousands. You're required to drive the car in too, no trailer Queens, so the streets are crawling with cool cars, trucks, bikes.
 

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Went to a Waterpark in Moncton once lol. Took a day trip over there when we were vacationing at some 'state park' or whatever Canada calls them that was up the road aways.. forget the Campground. All I remember is it was on top of some whoppin assed hill.
 

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Went to a Waterpark in Moncton once lol. Took a day trip over there when we were vacationing at some 'state park' or whatever Canada calls them that was up the road aways.. forget the Campground. All I remember is it was on top of some whoppin assed hill.
I think they call it Crown Land.
 

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It's time for poutine boys. Yum.
 

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I think they call it Crown Land.
We do have Crown lands, those are sort of publicly owned land (except they're owned by the King) that you can hunt and fish on etc. I think he probably meant the Provincial parks which indeed are pretty much the same as State parks.
 

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Went to a Waterpark in Moncton once lol. Took a day trip over there when we were vacationing at some 'state park' or whatever Canada calls them that was up the road aways.. forget the Campground. All I remember is it was on top of some whoppin assed hill.
That would be Magnetic Hill... the water park is supposed to be good, I've never been. I could use it today though as it's about 95F and 90% humidity. Might as well be Orlando.
 

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It's time for poutine boys. Yum.
It's ALWAYS time for poutine. ;)

Anyone out there remember Pedro Martinez, pitcher for the Expos and then the Red Sox? True story, when he came up to Montreal as a rookie, someone brought him a poutine and he was convinced it was a joke.
 
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It's old Mi'kmaq for "usually boring" 😀

Nah, I kid, it's a fine place to live.

Atlantic Nationals are a big drive-in car show/festival/Street party with food, music etc. I don't know how many people come in for it but it's in the thousands. You're required to drive the car in too, no trailer Queens, so the streets are crawling with cool cars, trucks, bikes.
Ok.

What’s a “Mi'kmaq?”

🤣🤪
 

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