kastein posted:

Until I find a way to retrieve it, yes.

This is likely to involve me bribing someone with a significant amount of beer/gas money to drive me out there, because I can do some things, but driving two cars at once isn't among them

kastein posted:

Ballston area. Maybe half an hour north of Albany.

Oh, I completely forgot somehow. OSP, that book might be useful to me, but it'll be a loooooooooooooong time before I get as far as airframe stuff.

Este, yeah, dragged a Subaru engine to NY, stuck it in a Subaru and drove it home.

kastein posted:

2ga is going to be stretching things a bit. I usually go with 4ga and the "00" dies for the crimper work perfectly, maybe even a little tight depending on the lugs I purchased that time around. If you have access to a mill, just take the set of dies you're least likely to use (I'd guess the smallest set, they would fit great on like a 20ga crimp and that's what a ratchet crimper is for, no need for hydro) and mill them out to the proper dimensions for #2 lugs and wire.

Alarbus posted:

http://www.jeffdanielsjeeps.com is near me, I'm guessing his income is both flipping repaired Jeeps, and doing custom work? NEAI should do a site visit to compare spare parts collections.

Big Daddy Keynes posted:

brb loading sandblaster with salt

kastein posted:

Just tried the snowblower tractor out. Never been so pissed in my life.

0 out of 10.

I bought a set of chains for it and put them on a few nights ago. Today tried to clear the road and it was the most useless goddamn thing ever.

No traction, even with the diff locked and chains, it would spin tires and sink in going up any sort of hill, or when turning. Needs the snow tires for sure, guess I have to figure out a spacer arrangement now.

Snowblower is... pathetic. And plugs up every 30 seconds. Needs a smaller driven pulley I think, and a fluidfilm treatment so it stops loving plugging.

So basically it doesn't throw snow effectively, drive effectively, or work in any useful way. God drat it.

Geirskogul posted:

By "fluidfilm" treatment, do you mean spraying something like the Kroil all over the inside of the chute and blades? Because this is what we did in the army and it worked surprisingly well (which means it definitely wasn't an army invention).

kastein posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow



It's an 89, 360, 4x4, automatic. TF727 trans, NP229 full-time viscous clutch 4x4. It has rust, mold, and PO fuckery to fix, but otherwise seems solid. Worst case, it'll be a parts donor for a nicer one later after Britt drives it for a few winters. She needs a winter driver that can handle our driveway and won't make me feel bad about getting salt blasted like her rust free Roadmaster.

PO fuckery:


Gonna go over this one with a fine tooth comb.

kastein posted:

Five hundred bucks. Mostly complete. The reason it's so cheap is the seller claimed he got it in trade for a turbo and had no idea what was inside. It might be blown up, it might be good. I rolled the dice on it and figured I can part it out for a couple hundred after using it for mockup if it turns out to be junk.

Cummins engines rarely sell for under a grand unless they're unknown or bad, figured I couldn't lose too badly.

kastein posted:

I have no idea actually . What's the difference?

Edit: this is a 53 block (uncracked as far as I can tell) with a vp44 pump, no cp3 or cp4 for me.


Thanks. I burn through about a hundred cutoff wheels a year so I get way way way too much practice. The drat knuckle kept tipping over on the shop floor or it would have looked nicer actually, but I didn't really care because it's going in the scrap bin. Just wanted to get as close as I could to the surface without cutting into the knuckle.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Some bearing engineer in flyover-country Japan is probably feeling very proud tonight and doesn't know why.

Krakkles posted:

Tremek posted:

So you’re going to stay at Microsoft? I’m confused how you measure for a Paul Allen install

kastein posted:

They're only 0805s, I hand solder them. Shouldn't even need magnification for that

Applebees Appetizer posted:

When I worked installing pool cages back in the day a dude I worked with was a master with tin snips, I could never figure out how he did it, I always hosed it up I hate tin snips

Liquid Communism posted:

That is a drat good looking truck.

kastein posted:

Unfortunately it's only compatible with a rare (at this point) Link aftermarket mostly-plugin ECU designed for supercharger kits on (iirc - I thought it was OBD2 ones but his is a 92) NA chassis Miatas. Estimate is that there are single digit or low double digit numbers of this ECU even still existing, so the market is very small and most sites aren't likely to want to list them.

At this point I can make good money on production runs in the single digit range while beating the last price the original manufacturer of the kit offered them at ten years later, so hopefully the last few people with this setup will want a few spares each and then it'll be over. At that point I'll just keep the design files and any extra blank boards in case someone contacts me years later desperate for just one last replacement before they retire their 30 year old ECU at the end of the season or something.

kastein posted:

I am loving beat. Why did I think doing this two days in a row was a good idea?

kastein posted:

I'm going to seriously miss my old haunts at Sam's pull-a-part (Worcester MA) and the pick n pull chain yards in Rhode Island. Those places were great.

The pick n pull chain yards out here are great too, just don't have what I need in this case. Let me know on your next Seattle trip and we can do a full Puget Sound junkyard crawl.

Full service yards blow rear end (as Sharky said years ago I think, the price list seems to depend on what they think you have in your pocket) and I'll always hate them. Their info is bad, organization is worse, their service is universally provided by surly filthy grizzled antivaxxers, their prices are nearly universally loving insane, and just in general I only go there if I have literally no other choice.

kastein posted:

XJs unfortunately don't do anything useful for me at this point that Britt's wagon, the Honcho, and the MJ can't do. I do, however, need a crane to build a house and barn without a construction crew, or at least that's my excuse to spend ten grand on a toy instead of ten grand on hiring a crew to stand up the framing.

kastein posted:

My reverse lamps stopped working on the 88 Comanche. Looks like I'm about to install the BNIB neutral safety switch I bought for my 96 Cherokee in 2010. I could try rebuilding the old one but I'm betting it won't even come off in one piece due to the rust belt.

kastein posted:

Well, a few weekends ago Jack and I went to Ohio to pick up a welding robot he got a line on from a friend.

kastein posted:

The only thing I could really ask for is a drain plug somewhere accessible so I could drain it without getting any in my mouth. I guess I should add a clear vinyl hose to my roadside kit so I can see the fuel coming instead of only finding out when it hits me.

ThinkFear posted:

Sharky, I don't get the air quality / wasting fuel thing. Close the vent for storage, problem solved? Meanwhile everything that I'm filling with said gas can has a vented tank.

Liquid Communism posted:

I think you just answered my question of getting a couple very specific brass shapes cut when I've only got my garage to work with right now and an HOA that will murder me for doing metalwork in it.