Random Thought Thread

Random thought from Yoko

Stay positive in your daily life.... there's so much negative


Surround yourself with good people.. congratulate them on Friday for making it through another week with you ( I spend an hour every Friday doing this)

Find your small victories everyday... pay attention when times are bad... those small victories are there

Cherish them and enjoy a beer!

F YES lol
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I have a late '90s 3/4 ton turbo diesel. It doesn't take diesel exhaust fluid or have a particle filter or exhaust recirculation etc.

If I take my seat belt off, it doesn't care.

It does not have an iPad on the dash. The heat, air, fan controls are all simple and all make sense.

If I want the headlights on I have to turn them on. If I want the windshield wipers to wipe, I have to turn them on.

It makes 350 horsepower, weighs 6500 lb, gets 19 to 20 miles to the gallon on the interstate unloaded and I towed a machining center down from Chicago with it and it only broke down three times.

I do kind of wish it had a backup camera...
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Love my '93 4runner for the same reasons. No extraneous bullshit.

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My '21 Tacoma is a spaceship by comparison.
 
SpyderPhreak said:
Sorry to point it out, but…

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That’s extraneous bullshit! ;) 🤣

Just messin’. I have a ‘99. Not much extraneous BS either.
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Caught red-handed. Came with the truck and ended up being a blessing. It's the only way I can listen (on the 1½ speakers that still work) to all the CDs I amassed in my 20's.

It's refreshing not listening to the same songs on radio rotation. Especially since reception isn't the greatest with the antenna being welded back into place after kinking in a car wash. 😁
 
trevitrace said:
Caught red-handed. Came with the truck and ended up being a blessing. It's the only way I can listen (on the 1½ speakers that still work) to all the CDs I amassed in my 20's.

It's refreshing not listening to the same songs on radio rotation. Especially since reception isn't the greatest with the antenna being welded back into place after kinking in a car wash. 😁
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My factory double-DIN deck / CD player died in ‘07. Swapped it out with a Scion CD head unit (100% drop in plug and play) with MP3 and Aux input capability lol. My ‘99 has almost double the miles of your ‘93… (and you did a hell of a nice job on the resto I saw you did!)
 
yoko said:
Random thought from Yoko

Stay positive in your daily life.... there's so much negative


Surround yourself with good people.. congratulate them on Friday for making it through another week with you ( I spend an hour every Friday doing this)

Find your small victories everyday... pay attention when times are bad... those small victories are there

Cherish them and enjoy a beer!

F YES lol
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is it friday today?
 
SwarthyGnome said:
I took my Subaru (2013) in for routine service…
A/C was having issues. Apparently it bought the farm.
So what I anticipated about ~$100 service is now close to 2k.

For those of you with memories here… this isn’t the first time this kind of thing happened. ☠️☠️
My wife wants me to buy a new car. I am not sure I am at that point yet.
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I’m way behind on this discussion but the reason why it’s so expensive is they replace the entire compressor unit, fluids, etc. (this was the case on the 13 Forester) .The easy thing to check is start the car with the hood open, turn the A/C on and check to see if the A/C condenser pulley is spinning, its bearing style so the outside always spins with the belt, it’s the inside portion that has a spring clutch and should engage when the compressor needs to kick on.

If the clutch isn’t working, you can actually remove the middle screw and add a little shim or two (they wear down over time so when the compressor kicks on, there’s a little too much slop on the shaft for everything to grab together), or you can also replace the entire clutch pulley which is what I did because it was grinding, the actual bearing was shot. I found it online pretty cheap and the only tool I needed to borrow was a smaller sized bearing puller. If you need/want help just reach out and I can explain it better!

Here’s the post I made the day I fixed it:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/random-thought-thread.1507196/post-21541934
 
finished up my first few days at the new job. What absolute chaos. When the new owner took over the lease/space, he tore everything down- all the inventory went into boxes, all the tools went into boxes. My job is to build the service area out and man is it a dog's breakfast. The was a HUGE tool chest that I was finally able to convince the owner is unnecessary, and it was full of these overly curated socket sets- both metric and imperial. I don't know if you guys are familiar with bicycles, but #1- they all use metric now #2- you don't need an enormous tool chest to hold tools for fixing bicycles since all the tools are pretty small. Anyway, that thing's gone, so I've been able to go through all the small parts/components and get them sort of organized in one single place. Going through the tools was a huge disappointment. There are a few gems in there, but there are so many important tools missing, and most of what's there is either clapped out, obsolete, or both. Seriously, what is anyone gonna do with a worn out 32mm headset wrench?

Today's my first day over the past four not at the shop, so I'm looking forward to some contemplative handle shaping in my own quiet, relatively organized, peeple-free workshop
 
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Lorien said:
finished up my first few days at the new job. What absolute chaos. When the new owner took over the lease/space, he tore everything down- all the inventory went into boxes, all the tools went into boxes. My job is to build the service area out and man is it a dog's breakfast. The was a HUGE tool chest that I was finally able to convince the owner is unnecessary, and it was full of these overly curated socket sets- both metric and imperial. I don't know if you guys are familiar with bicycles, but #1- they all use metric now #2- you don't need an enormous tool chest to hold tools for fixing bicycles since all the tools are pretty small. Anyway, that thing's gone, so I've been able to go through all the small parts/components and get them sort of organized in one single place. Going through the tools was a huge disappointment. There are a few gems in there, but there are so many important tools missing, and most of what's there is either clapped out, obsolete, or both. Seriously, what is anyone gonna do with a worn out 32mm headset wrench?

Today's my first day over the past four not at the shop, so I'm looking forward to some contemplative handle shaping in my own quiet, relatively organized, peeple-from workshop
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Any 10mm sockets?
 
Lorien said:
finished up my first few days at the new job. What absolute chaos. When the new owner took over the lease/space, he tore everything down- all the inventory went into boxes, all the tools went into boxes. My job is to build the service area out and man is it a dog's breakfast. The was a HUGE tool chest that I was finally able to convince the owner is unnecessary, and it was full of these overly curated socket sets- both metric and imperial. I don't know if you guys are familiar with bicycles, but #1- they all use metric now #2- you don't need an enormous tool chest to hold tools for fixing bicycles since all the tools are pretty small. Anyway, that thing's gone, so I've been able to go through all the small parts/components and get them sort of organized in one single place. Going through the tools was a huge disappointment. There are a few gems in there, but there are so many important tools missing, and most of what's there is either clapped out, obsolete, or both. Seriously, what is anyone gonna do with a worn out 32mm headset wrench?

Today's my first day over the past four not at the shop, so I'm looking forward to some contemplative handle shaping in my own quiet, relatively organized, peeple-from workshop
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Nathan has a few extra 10mm wrenches if needed
 
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