What did YOU do today?

[Blmpkn]

Mountain House is having another sale on select bits of their freeze dried 'apocalypse food'.. so I ordered some more

The sales they run are pretty hefty.. everything I've ordered from them has been 40-50% off. Definitely worth waiting for sales.

...if their ice cream sandwiches ever go on sale.. I'm leaving none left for anyone yuuuuum. Anything to keep moral up while I'm 'left below' dealing with heathens

 

[sgtsandman]

The skeleton of the carport has been stacked and tarped behind the shed. Out of sight, out of mind until October.

 

[Rick W]

I recorded the Indy 500 (I hate watching commercials).

On a break from working outside, I realized it was running four hours late. So I set up to record everything for the four or five hours after the scheduled time on that channel.

Somehow I managed to cut out the last 40 laps of the race.

At least I had luck getting the step trailer off the Road Ranger and turning them both around.

 

[Bill]

Not much. I was going to take a road trip for a day, but my hip hurt. After I managed to mitigate the pain with 6 acetaminophen pills I went WinCo and bought 6 pounds of strawberries. The price is cheaper than it was last week. 99¢ a pound this week and it appears the farmers have more strawberries than they can sell this year.

I really like strawberries.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I decided to trim the brush under the apple trees yesterday then decided to mow that in, then while mowing mowed everything else again... one of the belts I changed a week ago decided to just up and die on me so grabbed the one on my spare deck, apparently I need to stock up on belts... I caught the rope I have on the chute on something and broke the zip ties holding it together so I went a step beyond and broke out the plastic welder and sunk a piece of screen in it then added some more plastic, now grass doesn't get stuck in the crack, it's nice... hinge is still broken so I had to drill a hole for more zip ties... if the flap wasn't $40 I'd get a new one...

I did spend a few minutes working on the Ranger though, I put a hole saw in the drill press for plug welds on the square tubing and drilled 4 holes to plug weld... still have to do the other tube then it'll be time to tack weld things together...

Also took the camper to the dump station since I've been forgetting to do that, need to do some maintenance on the F350 before July...

 

[superj]

I put remote start on the wife's new to her 2019 jeep wrangler.

Its the startx brand, which is the same brand i used on her 2018 mazda3. It worked just as good on the wrangler as it does on the mazda.

 

[sgtsandman]

I participated in two memorial services, as pwr the usual. We even managed not to get rained on.

 

[tw205]

Talked turkey.

 

[Rick W]

I ordered the shop service manual for my 87 and 88 Lincoln Town Cars. Still in an effort to try to fix the electronic gas gauge and message center. It also covers the luxury Fords and Mercurys. It’s a CD. Now I have to find the CD player that used to plug into my old notebook computer.

I have been chatting with the guys on “Lincolns On Line,” the Lincoln version of TRS. Just like you guys, great bunch of guys, but this is one of those “stump the professor” problems.

The brain goes into a fog when you look at all these printed circuit boards and weird connectors in the dash that were all space-age in 1988, a lot of which were never used again, and then one of the younger guys chimed up and said “did you check the ground to the sender, and did you check the ground to the panel?”

I’m going to look into that…

 

[JoshT]

I ordered the shop service manual for my 87 and 88 Lincoln Town Cars. Still in an effort to try to fix the electronic gas gauge and message center. It also covers the luxury Fords and Mercurys. It’s a CD. Now I have to find the CD player that used to plug into my old notebook computer.

I have been chatting with the guys on “Lincolns On Line,” the Lincoln version of TRS. Just like you guys, great bunch of guys, but this is one of those “stump the professor” problems.

The brain goes into a fog when you look at all these printed circuit boards and weird connectors in the dash that were all space-age in 1988, a lot of which were never used again, and then one of the younger guys chimed up and said “did you check the ground to the sender, and did you check the ground to the panel?”

I’m going to look into that…

Might want to start looking for an EVTM manual. It contains the Electrical and Vacuum schematics and is separate from the FSM. When I ordered the FSMs for the Explorer on disc it said that wiring diagrams were included, but they weren't.

On the disc I got they were PDF files and I could simply copy the files to the hard drive or a thumb drive. If yours is the same, you won't need to keep track of the disc after initial usage. Just saying that if you can't find your drive, borrow one (or a computer with one) to copy the files from the disc.

 

[Rick W]

Might want to start looking for an EVTM manual. It contains the Electrical and Vacuum schematics and is separate from the FSM. When I ordered the FSMs for the Explorer on disc it said that wiring diagrams were included, but they weren't.

On the disc I got they were PDF files and I could simply copy the files to the hard drive or a thumb drive. If yours is the same, you won't need to keep track of the disc after initial usage. Just saying that if you can't find your drive, borrow one (or a computer with one) to copy the files from the disc.

Makes sense. I do have the 87 EVTM book, it’s the same thing.

I’m pretty sure I have a CD player, I just haven’t used it in a while. I’m due for an upgraded laptop in any case, mine keeps complaining about not enough memory.

And I wasn’t having enough fun, I went to drive that thing today, and it started up, and died almost instantly. Then it cranked, but wouldn’t spark and turn over. I don’t think I’m getting fuel. A little starting fluid got it to spin a little bit faster, but no joy.

Same old story. You buy a car, drive it for 36 years, and bang, it quits on you.

 

[Blmpkn]

Got a letter from the bank saying I can skip either my June or July payment for the Bronco.

I think I might take them up on that offer.. it'll free up just enough cash to get the big cam and tweecer setup for the 96 found out tweecer offers custom remote tuning too which is kick ass.. 75$ for a baseline, 150 for a baseline and 2 revisions, 300 for the same baseline and 5 revisions. This saves me the trouble of finding a local dyno place that would want to mess with it.. a few of the shops around here are kinda picky.. one won't touch anything but subarus.. another one doesn't want to touch anything that has less than 4 digit HP numbers.. pfftt.

Then all that'll be left on the list besides basic maintenance stuff & mild rust remediation will be the purchase of a lunchbox locker hell yeah.

 

[JoshT]

Got a letter from the bank saying I can skip either my June or July payment for the Bronco.

Read the fine print. They said skip, but that's probably not going to mean that you don't have to pay it eventually. They likely just extend the life of the loan by a month. I guarantee they aren;t losing anything and have likely figure out some way to make it profit.

 

[Blmpkn]

Read the fine print. They said skip, but that's probably not going to mean that you don't have to pay it eventually. They likely just extend the life of the loan by a month. I guarantee they aren;t losing anything and have likely figure out some way to make it profit.

Oh yeah no of course.. Definitely extending the length of my loan by a month (and gotta pay a 20$ service fee lol)


I'll take it though. A month isn't much in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Bgunner]

Major had a vet appointment so I'm at the GF house and taking care of hunny do list items. Yesterday I fixed the hinge on her mom's bathroom door, sanded the top of the spare bedroom door so it will close during the summer, cut back the Arborvitae's from deck, cut down the regrowing Sumack on the side of the house, took Major to the vet (he is doing much better with his jaw) and did laundry.

Today I hand skimmed the pool in prep for opening it for use, fixed the bottom of the fence in a couple areas, started more laundry, removed chicken wire that some one tried to patch the chain link fence with, played with the dog for a while, picked up Majors toys in the yard so lawn care could mow, let the 8 year old boy next door drive my rock crawler to learn and experience driving an rc car, finished the laundry, finally sat down and pet my dog for quite a while.

The rest of tonight will be eating food and laying in bed to rest my back and hips. I'm done moving and the hips are letting me know I've done to much in a Short amount of time.