Yesterday I was going to resume work on my green Ranger but a buddy called begging for help with the brakes on his 2023 Transit van.
I've been told that I read really fast. I've never looked into what the average speed is, but when I'm awake and paying attention I can usually do 350-400 words per minute or more at 90-100% comprehension on the harder online tests. When I'm tired or not paying enough attention I read at least as fast, but while missing or misreading words.
All of that is to say that I had to stop two sentences later to go back and figure out why your buddy called begging you for help with his transvestite.
I'm guessing you've either got it or missed it by now, but Precision is Dell's professional line. Like the P series from Lenovo. They are the top of the line laptops. Actually considered desktop replacements. Both have lesser models in the lineup nowadays though. If you want Intel processors, that H on the end of the part is the 45w TDP (Thermal Design Power). Anything with that is gonna be on the chunkier side because of the necessary cooling.
I actually just bought a Precision 7550 for my wife to use at home and me to use for Forscan and on the road. Almost identical specs.
Precision 7550 i5-10400H 2.60GHz 32GB Ram 512GB M2SSD UBUNTU Laptop +AC
I thought it included a GPU, but I got my listings mixed up. Apparently it is possible to add one, but not necessary for my use. Probably get better battery life without it.
He marked it as pending right after I sent him a question. Then I didn't hear anything so I stopped checking, but when I looked just now he marked it as available and then answered my question in the description without sending me a reply.
Anything on the chunkier side probably wouldn't be any worse than the 10 year old 4ish pound Latitude that I've been hauling to class for 5 years. But it's probably too late for me to go get it. I have to load up all of our stuff and then leave here by about 11:00 tomorrow to take my roommate's truck to the airport. I'm picking him up there, we're driving from there to Cody, WY because he has a job interview up there Tuesday, and then after that we're going camping until we either get bored, have to come back, or run out of the leftover money from the mileage that they're paying him to drive from here to there.
A friend of mine who lives in Aurora has been living in a couple's basement since they got married last May. Both couples are expecting babies now, so they're moving to an apartment. As the friends with trucks my roommate and I got called. My roommate is in Texas helping his girlfriend move into wherever she's living for the summer. His truck (1994 Chevy 2500, 8' bed) is here, but it's partially packed for camping and its starting mileage has already been documented. A nearly new queen mattress doesn't belong in my dirty, greasy bed and some of the other stuff flat out wouldn't fit under my camper shell, so I went and borrowed a 1995 F-250 from the lady that cooks for the college Sunday school class at the church that my roommate and I go to. The friends who are moving went there until they got married and moved across town, and they still come back to visit occasionally.
I wouldn't say that it leaks oil, but when I first checked it in the spring of 2024 it was 4 quarts low. It was a quart and a half low this time, and I'm pretty sure it's had 3 or 4 quarts from a random jug of 15W-40 diesel oil that someone found added to it in the interim. That line on the underside of the hood is oil and/or ATF from the power steering. It also has an antifreeze leak that I can't track down. The radiator was 8 inches low in 2024, it was 6 inches low this time, and it's had a gallon or two added in the past couple of years and ~4k miles. I can sometimes smell it around the passenger side of the radiator but I've never located any wetness and antifreeze is about the only thing besides brake fluid that it doesn't drip.
She doesn't drive it much and she likes when I borrow it because I work on it while I have it, so I picked it up Friday evening. The 460 was a quart and a half low and the windshield sticker said October of 2024 or 151k. It was at 151.8k and the oil was black, so I took the liberty of changing it for her. I also replaced the driver's side windshield wiper, greased the steering linkages, topped off the radiator that was 6 inches low, refilled the jug of antifreeze behind the seat, replaced both license plate bulbs, and filled up the power steering reservoir. I only did the driver's wiper since that's all I needed to see and I'm about the only person that drives it in inclement weather. I'm probably responsible for at least 500 of those miles from the past couple of years.
I took both belts off and checked everything before I took it back since the alternator/smog pump belt needed tightened anyway. The idler pulley on the AC/power steering belt is squeaking and has some play in it, but there's no play in the arm and it doesn't bounce when the engine is running. So my roommate and I are currently discussing whether that 152k mile truck that gets driven 2,000 miles or less per year needs a $30 tensioner pulley (my suggestion) or a $60 tensioner arm (his). Then again my opinion might not be the most valid. The tensioner on my Ranger is a well used aftermarket one that came from a junkyard. Come to think of it, so is the serpentine belt. I even stuck that belt up on the counter and Pull-A-Part refused to charge me for it last year.
It needs some more stuff that I might get around to later this summer. After driving one of the front hubs was consistently 15 degrees warmer than the other on my thermometer gun, topping out at 130* and 145* F after a stretch of interstate, so it probably needs the bearings repacked. The tires are from 2016 and it isn't stored inside. And I think something in the front brakes is beginning to grind like the fronts on my mom's Impala started doing once its factory pads got over 200k miles.
Finally, I'm looking for suggestions on this K&N filter on that F-250.
As best as I can tell her dad put it on. It was his truck until he died in 2006 or 2007, but I dug through the bottles and cans stashed in her garage that date back to the late '70's and I couldn't find any oil for it. It definitely needs cleaned, and I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't been touched in 20+ years, but for now I figured that as far as filtration goes a dirty filter is better for the engine than a wide open unoiled K&N since even when they're done right they let more dirt through. It never leaves the pavement for more than the occasional driveway and the hardest work that truck ever sees is filling the bed with a few hundred pounds of furniture donations for the church ministry for international students that fly over and rent unfurnished apartments. We usually distribute a 53' trailer load plus a 10x20 storage unit per year and that truck is used to pick up most of the donations and take them over to the trailer.
So, do y'all have any suggestions on what I should do about it beyond ignoring it like everyone else has been? The factory stuff is long gone, I haven't asked but the owner might be sentimental about the intake sound of her dad's truck, no one that I know has the little $17 can of K&N oil, and the washable oilless replacement filter that I found for that style of warm air intake is $65.
The sound and effortless power of the 460 is nice, but for regular use being able to almost see the gas gauge dropping on the interstate would drive me back to my 22+ MPG highway 4.0 pretty quickly.
wish I coulda waited til a bit later in the year but.. I gotta get this thing rolling ASAP so a cement truck can sneak through the part of the yard that it's currently occupying.
kinda wasted on a truck that's changed direction from a wheeling rig into a tow rig but... Whatever. I suppose I'll be all set if I ever need to tow something through a boulder field 
lmao.
