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My last purchase of the battery was couple years ago from Wally world, that was the choice at the time due to neatly 50% lower price compare to some other brands; I felt that was a good decision since it still going strong and manufactured by Johnson Controls.

 

I’ve done that too and to save that 32¢, I comes to realized I spent more than that driving around

Spoiler

and I’ll keep doing it

 

I just learned about water cremation yesterday, it’s basically like a big pressure cooker.

I’ve told my wife to have me cremated, take me on the mountain, and throw me out. All of me, save nothing. Maybe a bear will come by and get a big sniff of me and get diarrhea.

 

Looks too close to comfort!

 

Raising the engine 2 holes made a big improvement on the boat. It will plane out and you can see to steer haha

 

That’s the quality American made vinyl right there on interior panels.

 

I watch prices all the time too. I have the app Gas Buddy to keep an eye on things. Costco is almost always the lowest, (by quite a bit) and we have to drive past it going into town, so I don't often do any extra driving. I stock up if the price seems low, and keep around 100 gallons in the shop for mowing and in case prices get stupid for a bit.

 

Vermont is the 4th state to allow:
https://earthfuneral.com/vermont/

Who knows, your state could be next

 

Agree!

The door glass seems thicker than on the wagon, it also has a metal edge around the 3 exposed sides.

 

Evening all

 

I changed hinge pins on my 79 Camaro and i thought id never get the door back on. It was heavy SOB and i was by myself...but i got it done

 

"We own and operate the world’s most advanced human composting facilities. "

Can you imagine the looks around the table when the first guy proposed this business model?

 

Those second gen Camaros had massive doors, the longer you had them the more pins you changed.

Car doors got heavier in 1973 when impact guard beams were federally mandated.

 

I'd go for that, compost me

 

Yeah, it was big news up here with all sorts of stories. One thing that stuck with me was the fact some of the larger bones and the skull need to be pulverized for the finished product.

 

They dont seem to post their prices, I'm betting its 4x the cost of a cremation. Cause green.

 

A vacuum gauge - this is how old people (aka: me) tuned up cars back in the day.



In the photo the engine is off so zero vacuum - see the green zone on the gauge, a healthy stock engine will show about 18" - 20" at an idle.

By tightnin' & tinkerin' I got it up to the 16" - 17" range but the needle wasn't smooth, nor was the engine. Smooth engine = smooth needle.

It has gotten less bad as I have driven it.

 

So, time for a little troubleshooting.

I pulled the #8 spark plug wire off and there was no change in the idle.
Nor was there a change when pulling #5
...or #2

...or #3

See my post it chart below, the ones with circles made no change in the idle when disconnected.



Any guesses???

BTW:
How can a V8 engine idle fairly smoothly with 4 spark plugs disconnected?

It has to do with weight - this Ford 352 is a massive engine weighing in at around 650 pounds - just the crankshaft weighs around 70 pounds without the flex plate, torque converter, harmonic balancer, connecting rods and pistons. All this rotating weight smooths out the uneven power pulses.

A 3.5 Tacoma crankshaft weighs about 45 pounds for comparison.

 

That app does help when I am out of my locals.