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Out with the old....

Just to add fuel... This is a 6.4 that had a new from Ford engine 65k miles ago. Runs quite nicely but it has a cracked exhaust manifold so it's not too expensive, and I'm trying to get him a little lower.

That first site just locks my phone up.

Yeah, I went to look at an f250 the other day and got the code off the pumpkin. Wuut??? Original owner, and he had had it took care of at Ford, so I doubt there's anything hinky going on

I looked a a 4wd truck and saw that it didn't have a posi/limited slip rear diff. It seemed odd to me. Is that normal??

I plan to build a loft, over the office which will be well heated, store liquids, and be used for bench work. Standard trusses are currently available for $276 each. 6-8 weeks for gambrel trusses for about $5000 total. I'm comfortable with the trenched perimeter pad and 12 inch reinforced concrete planned for under the lift. I'll keep an eye on the 4 runs of wire 120 feet long. Where did you buy your lift?

There's an E26 based LED light with 4 adjustable panels that looks pretty neat. I thought I'd put them on 4 switched circuits, but adjustable brightness levels sounds interesting. I thought spray foam and found a couple companies that sell the product and rent the equipment for probably half of what it would cost to have it done....about $3500 instead of $7000. But as I read more, I'm getting the idea that the panels may be a better choice. Radiant blocking both sides of a closed cell sandwich. I'm really trying to go as cheap as I can with this. If I was 40, I'd have a different attitude, but as it is, I'll probably only be able to use it for 10 years or so. It's almost to the point of a foolish investment, but I'm in it now. I figure 60 amps is adequate. I need lights, realistic power for wall outlets, and 220 for the air compressor, welder, and lift, not at the same time.

Some of you who might read the crap I post may remember the grief I've had with the borough about building a garage in my FEMA designated flood zone, and being limited to 200 square feet. Come next week, council should ratify the coding amendment to allow up to a 24 wide and up to 24 long garage, 576 square feet, single story. So if you've got a 30 foot motor home you'd like to put in a 16x30 garage, you are SOL. And if you'd like a second floor as I had planned to store parts, well...too bad. Love your government. Anyway, with time a wasting and decisions to be made or not made, I've elected to go with a metal building that will be assembled for me on site (notice how I went to great lengths not the use the word erected). I can stick build, have air, a nailer, and a saw, but I can also appreciate my diminishing time and ability to do a lot of labor. The cost of metal structure already built on site is about $2k more than the cost of the lumber alone. There's pluses and minuses of metal vs wood, and one is the metal structure has more headroom for a lift. I need 14 foot walls stickbuilt for the same headroom, and that's why the prices are so close. I mentioned time and decisions.......there was a sale on the buildings but ending July 5th, so I needed to figure things out in a hurry. I was able to wangle an additional 5% off because my neighbor across the street is in the exact same situation, and ordered a garage along with me, so we both got another 5% off the 10% off sale price. So now I need a something to put this building on, and again in a hurry. Neighbor says c'mon, we can do it ourselves. Anyone here ever pour concrete? I use to mix, and barrow, and float, and use a power trowel when I was in high school. That was a long time ago. No. Just no. 4 calls out to contractors, and finally one gets back to me yesterday and comes by for an estimate. I had 3 prices in mind.......what I wanted, what I hoped for, and what I expected. He came in a couple hundred dollars less than what I hoped for, so we're moving forward. He said they are out about three weeks. He's going to pour the neighbor's as well because Jay admits he's no wizard with a bull float. Jay already formed his up as it's where his current packed down driveway is, and he won't need extra stone, so his will be less than half of mine. They are also going to pour deeper for mine where the lift will go. Now I need to figure out insulation, and lights. Anybody got 500 ft of AWG4 aluminum for sale cheap?

Okay, thread hijack. F is usually an accessory drive, which is what got me thinking about it. 30 years ago, I had a 386DX with 4 megs of RAM. Very fast computer, much faster than the 486DX machines that the people I played LAN DOOM with owned, which annoyed them much. How? Start the computer off a floppy with a trimmed down batch file to load basic DOS and drivers for video, sound, and network, which took 700k or so, and create a 3 meg RAMDRIVE which was labelled F:. Then, run RAMDISK to compress that drive to hold about 7megs of data, copy the DOOM OS and selected levels to the RAMDISK, and run the game completely out of system RAM. It wouldn't run chkdsk on that virtual drive, don't know why, that was truly above my pay grade.

Why does an Italian helmet manufacturer have anything to do with your computer?

I rode it yesterday, coincidentally. After being on the MT-09 for a while, it's reminiscent of an XX. Has the feeling of solid and stable with "V8" pull and sound. Riding position and seat is really comfortable except the pegs are too high for me. It's a very nice package.

Like Furbird........ I was on my way to trade my 1600 Capri in on a 6 cylinder Volvo. The girl I was dating was a Volvo freak, and I sure aimed to please. I had cleaned out the car including several thousand Grape Malt Duck bottle caps, and had stopped at the arcade to play some Pac-man because I was running early. When I came out, the shifter was limp as a wet noodle and no gears were to be found. Sure enough, both shift rods had come out of the gearbox levers and were hanging wild and free. What to do? I tore the car apart and found two lonely bottle caps caught under the carpet by the seat rails. My pocket knife did a pretty good job of putting a crosscut hole in them, and helped me tap them over the shifter rods after I scissor jacked the car up and slid underneath. And away I went to Bill's used car lot. Bill, his mechanic Eddie, and I had known each other for years and had a friendly relationship. Bill asked Eddie to put the car up on the lift while he and I did paperwork. Eddie set the car up on the 4-post and we could hear the clanking of the lock while Bill and I were shooting the breeze. Eddie roars out "hey Bill" and we both look over to see the car raised about 3 feet with the rear wheels still on the ground. We howled like banshees. ------------------------ Like blackhawk, a buddy and I were on a mission to pick up an abandoned car parked next to a ramshackle falling down old house. The house was well into the "I'm not walking on that floor" stage. Anyway, there was no battery in the car. We swapped the battery out of the truck to verify the old Camaro would start as we were told, and it did. In retrospect, we should have started the car and swapped the battery back out while it was running but we had youth, not smarts on our side. We scratched our heads for a while, then finally entered the house and tore a section of wiring out of the wall. We rammed the bumpers together for a ground, and held the wire we tore out of the house hot to hot, and it started. And got out of there, because we really didn't have the time to be explaining to anyone what we were doing, if you catch my drift.

I got some generic adhesive remover at work. It takes glue and some skin off, but not tattoos, so I figured its kindasorta safe, right? I haven't had a new vehicle in decades, so I'm kinda skittish about the little bit of finish that it has. It looked fine but got really hot. It's in a flood plain, though, so most everybody should get FEMA compensation, right? Who knew powdered aluminum would burn, y'know? I mean it's a metal, you'd think it would just melt. Oh well.

So I got this new bike, and thought I'd do the right thing and take the warning sticker with all the writing on it off me deep metal flake tank. It was over 80 today and I figured out would be easy... And it was. Came off get nicely with my plastic razor blade. And now I've got this goo rectangle I can't get off what the hell? I've rubbed it with alcohol and window cleaner...a lot. What's the next step? Goo Gone? Vinegar? Tequila? Brake fluid?

Mid 2000's Yamaha FZ1 for sale near me by a member too busy to post. 40k ish miles, sheltered, beautiful bike. Has the full factory anniversary kit as well as the original red tank and bodywork. Not getting all big into descriptions unless there's serious interest priced at $4000. Well cared for, beautiful bike. The luster in that paint is hypnotic. Reach out and I'll get you in touch.

I've always red loctite-ed helicoils, and put antiseize on the bolt. I liked Oscars suggestion of a stud. You couldn't do it in every application, obviously, but it would probably be the most greatest fix. 75% of helicoils I've put in were for spark plugs.

ROFL 🤣

It's not the gas stops, it's the 12 hotel nights that will hold you up. I had one of these, they're a blast up to 18mph or so.

Manny, this thread is 12 years old. As far as I know, Graham is no longer in business. Best advice I have for finding him would be to check on the Facebook Blackbird list. Good luck.

99 did not have black stator covers, clutch covers, or swingarms. They also didn't have braided brake lines. This one may have had some "personalization" like most XX's.

Funny how the things you thought would always be around just vanished. GPZ's all got getto'd. CX650T's .......well, they really only made about 100 of them and they were passed around. CX500T are out there for stupid money, each and every one of them needs the engine pulled for a stator. Suzuki Rotaries got so cool they aren't cool anymore. I still have a Honda 350 to get to. Okay, three 350's and a 400, but who's counting...

WOW.........that is so incredibly original. Great find! Oh......dibs!

I'm saving those to fund my retirement. And gauge clusters. And if things get real bad, I'll sell the new OEM CB350F exhaust sets I have.

Yeah, but the shed door is frozen shut and I haven't been able to get in there. I think yesterday was the first day in two weeks that it hasn't been below zero at some point every 24 hours. If Tom's in a hurry, Philip can send these off. Garage door, shed door, and back door to the house are frozen solid.

Beautiful seat at a great price. I feel the front section is a bit too short for my fat ass, and am disappointed, but I will pass to the next interest. Thanks.