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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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People send their rugs out to be cleaned?
Odin will be happy to have a comfortable place to rest at your feet.
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If the rug's been in the garage a few years, yes, a pretty good idea to have it cleaned
If the rug's been in the garage a few years, yes, a pretty good idea to have it cleaned
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Ya I throw mine over the fence and add soap....hose.
If the rug's been in the garage a few years, yes, a pretty good idea to have it cleaned
Musty smells can be really difficult to remove. Sometimes I can't get the smell out of the vinyl on vintage amps that I buy and I have to recover them.
I have one old book that came with a musty smell. I consulted with a couple of libraries and they didn't have a solution. In the end I scraped the page edges with a razor. It worked to remove the exposed paper.
If they can't sufficiently clean the carpet, maybe sunlight would help.
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Nice form and follow through.
Those new fangled GFCI wall outlets in the bathroom trip and prevent you from doing yourself in that way. Modern catalytic converters in vehicles remove a good portion of the carbon monoxide from the exhaust. So that won’t work either.
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Working on getting my limited French back. Stuck in the U.S. until I can get a long-stay visitor visa. Currently not being issued due to the pandemic.
Did it 'dog-track'?
Wire it wrong and get back to us about that.
The intent is to reduce hydrocarbons by burning remaining combustibles- running too lean emits too much N2O and that's even worse than CO2, so the air/fuel ratio needs to be tailored to fit the emissions standards.
GM had fits with the straight 6 and at some point, American Motors became involved- once the problems were fixed, everyone used something like it. In-line engines are definitely torquey.
A table that looks like a book?
That'll do, lad, that'll do.
327 or 350?
When I went to Indiana for boat service training, the place that trained us had an intern who crammed a Corvette LT-1 injected engine into a Jeep CJ-5. They also had a validation vehicle with the same engine-it was a little S-10 pickup.
I don’t know what they are thinking in France. Pissoirs or public urinals are common in some areas. They’ve introduced a new even more public type. Often people miss and the sidewalk is all wet. Be careful where you walk.
Of course feminists were out protesting because they are for men only. Nothing is stopping them from using them. Nobody seems to wash their hands afterwards.
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Looks like it will be quite the electrifying experience.
Remove and/or bypass are the recommended remedies.
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Never step in anything wet if it hasn't been raining is a universally understood rule of personal conduct.
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I've seen more than one woman at a concert back into a men's urinal when the lines for the women's loos were too long.
The Vega is a '72. I bought it in '75. The original engine was complete trash, ran poorly, and blew a head gasket after a few months. Let's also say that "Honest Bob" Used Cars (Bob was the guys name) was less than helpful. I bought another Vega engine from an auto dismantling establishment. This engine ran well. Then the piece of junk Opel transmission gave up. Back to the auto dismantling establishment for a Saginaw tranny which had become the OEM tranny later in '72. Mine was an early '72. More Vega stuff here and a really cool website of automotive history: Falling Star: The Checkered History of the Chevrolet Vega > Ate Up With Motor
Engine is from a '62 Olds F85. All aluminum with steel cylinders. 215ci, 4bbl Carter carb, about 185hp. It made a pretty nice swap. It weighed only 30 more pounds than the Vega engine and physically a little smaller than the small block Chevy. I moved the battery to the back and that pretty much took care of the weight difference. I made the motor mounts, alternator mount, and modified the tranny mount. I found a company that specialized in this swap and bought a bell housing and clutch throwout arm to fit the engine to the Saginaw 4-speed and keep the Vega cable clutch.
The Buick Special used a version of the engine with different cyl heads. Pontiac used the Olds version in the Tempest. The engine was made from '61-'63. The early Buick V6 is based on this engine. GM sold the rights to Rover in England where the engine was used in Rovers and the Triumph TR8. More here: The Strange Tale of the Buick Special, Buick-Rover V8, and 3800 V6 > Ate Up With Motor
I used to do the car show thing many years ago. Won a few trophies, even a few firsts! Got tired of that. After we moved to DFW I started loosing interest in the car. I had a lot of fun (and frustration) with it but it was showing age. Stuff was worn out, needed rust repair and repainting, etc. Didn't feel like spending another chunk of money on it Traded it in on a '98 Accord. I have no idea what happened to the car.
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