Northern Virginia Roll Call

Buenos dias. Flying home today after working this week in the great state of WY.

 

Cools. You headed home and I’m headed out. Leaving soon for a long weekend down in Myrtle Beach. Wifey has friends down there and they want us to come down for the weekend.

 

Both of the owners of the company I work for have NV3500s with 4wd added by Quigley. Pretty sure they're still around.

 

They is. I surfed. Prices don't look to be as bad as I remember. They're pretty awesome. I had one in Iraq.

 

Have you considered doing the tile yourself using schluter kerdi board? You are almost there! I cant help you with the price of tile and the labor though.

 

Dave, I have a decent tile saw if you want to borrow it

 

Also, I have seen a few folks here lately post about plumbing. I have been plumbing for the last 5 years and have my license if anyone ever has any questions or needs some assistance

 

2017 Tacoma… 60K “Covid” milage w/ two trips from NoVa to Colorado.

 

nice! you've been getting around!

 

We got some surprise snowfall early this morning

 

Do all the busses get parked inside overnight?

 

Wow great timing. I'm going to rent a drain snake later this afternoon to help my parents. The drain in their basement is blocking up a bit, just to be level with the floor. In the past they've had a plumber out and they snake it and its good. I consider myself pretty handy, it's something I should be able to do, right?

 

Yep all the in-service buses do. There are 10 regular garage bays and 8 maintenance bays. Each bay can hold like 200ft of bus (x3 60', x5, 40', etc). Some of the buses on maintenance hold do sit out if they overflow

 

I wouldn't want to be the one who has to scrape the windows on a bus if it has to sit out in the snow!

 

Me neither! And they're at least somewhat warm in there instead of being all outside

 

Sorry i didnt get a chance to see this sooner. Our cell service went out across the area and I had not access to the outside world all day. It was great lol. Snaking a drain by hand is definitely do-able. When you use a machine is when things get dicey. If it has backed up in the past, there is probably an underlying issue in there somewhere. Is the sewage coming up from a floor drain? Something is causing that back up. Anyway, how did it go?

 

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Hey no worries! It was just as easy as the youtube videos made it seem! Shoved it down there quite a ways and finally hit a soft blockage. Spun it up and it went right through. Pulled it back and nothing was on it but the water went down immediately. Even if I have to do it again, I saved $520!

 

What do you guys think about a winter swap meet? Get together and meet folks, check each others rides out, get rid of the parts you don't need that someone else might want....you know....tell lies and laugh at each other!

 

It's a pretty solid engine. I'm pretty sure that's what's in my friends first gen and he's got almost 400k on it. I also think I read somewhere that it's based on the 22RE but that could be bullshit.