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BMW N52: Because if you aren't leaking more oil than Deepwater Horizon, you're not
But damn is it ever smooth and powerful when it's running right.
One more night...I’m like a kid on Christmas eve...I can’t wait till tomorrow.
The foods been great, This place is really nice, the sights are awesome, I with my soul mate. But I’m so fckin bored now, it’s a wonder I have any fingernails left. ( I wouldn’t, if I chewed them,..but I don’t. One more day here, and I might consider it though)
Tomorrow, if I can get her moving, we ( I) hope to be on the road by 9 at the latest. That’ll put me back home by 2-3 provided we don’t run into traffic.
Then it’ll be over....and I’ll be safe..for another 3 months.
Only the next beach trip will be to the Mississippi gulf coast...In the Monster,..In the first week of October. And the ocean will be a backdrop,..I doubt I’ll even see the freakin water.
The litmus test as to whether or not that’ll happen depends on how ape sht the virus flares after the Sturgis Biker rally...
If these yeahoos can have their big assed gathering without setting the virus flare ups off the chart,...maybe there’ll be hope that the thing I want to go to will still happen.
Kate sounds like one of those people who can sit back and quiet the monkey mind - it allows her to relax on a beach and not be bored, and she recharges from doing it.
I think a lot of us haven't learned how to do that and our minds are always running. I can sit and do nothing but still always feel like I should be doing something, and my head is still working on something. You're WAY more driven to do it than I am, and I envy that.
I don't know where I"m going except you know you WANT to put a Jag engine in something. But not a stupid 6.You want a 12-cylinder.
Once this is running and not leaking or making weird sounds (well, weird sounds that are unexpected), what are you going to do?
When have it done that in anything i’ve done here on this forum?He's going to rip it all out....sell it for pennies...and build another engine combo. Probably a Jaguar v12 with custom made spherical camshafts that rev to 14k.
Amelia Island is florida. Florida didn’t have any mask rule the last time we were down here in june, but that was at Ft.walton beach. In FWB, nobody had a mask on while doing anything IIRC. ( Hell, it may still be that way IDK) I’ll call that young stupid, or just stupid Florida. Here, you don’t come into a place w/o having a mask that covers both your mouth, and your nose. The sign at the liquor store made sure of that. We got our foreheads scanned before we went on a “ 3 hour tour” of Cumberland island, and the boat was running at a little less than half capacity. Every shop, and every restaurant required it to walk in. Every retail store was enforcing it pretty seriously. But once inside a restaurant, you could remove the mask...in the confined space, you could drink bottle after bottle of wine, and blather on loudly about your 42’ Catalina, and how this marina was different than the one in the Hamptons..and do it loudly enough for the entire place to hear you...While you spewed Covid cooties all out yo mouth.Im on Long Island.
While most people in the retail environment seem to be abiding by the mask rule.....in the social environment, most don’t seem to care. This has been the case for a while now, and yet we seem to be keeping the virus at bay with very low infection rates.
I hope that is the case for the rest of the region/ country as we go along! Need to get back to normal as we knew it!
Old Dexron fluid takes on kind of a "woody" smell. Burnt fluid smells burnt, it's pungent. Dexron also gets fairly dark from not being changed, but will still look reddish-to-maroon if smeared on paper towel. Burnt fluid will be damn near black.I'm home.
*The banana represents how happy I am to make that statement.
After doing the necessary stuff to get the car unloaded, put the not so cold stuff back in the fridge, the dirty clothes in the laundry pile, and hang the clean ones back where they came from..I changed into some clothes that I didnt care if I got trans fluid on, and went into the garage
Spent an hour trying to get the studs cut to allow me to mount the trans to my engine stand. Once done,..I mounted it, not knowing if the bellhousing bolts would support the weight of the transmission hanging all out there an sht..
But it did..
Once confident that the transmission wasn't gonna just snap off and hit the floor, I spun it upside down and hit the pan bolts with my recently purchased HF 3/8" 20v li-ion cordless impact.
I love this thing.
Those pan bolts couldn't even say " What-tha" before that impact hammered all 14 bolts back out.
Then..I pull the pan...
AND..I don't have a clue what it tells me.
I don't know what burnt fluid vs fluid that never been changed smells like.
( I believe that trans fluid in later model transmissions is supposed to be "never changed" in 2007 and later vehicles)
The pan has no tell-tale funk in it, and the pan magnet only has black funk sticking to it.
I pry open the filter, and there is very little funk there too...just some small pieces of what look like gasket material..with no evidence of clutch or friction material...( at least what I think might be gasket material)
SO... whadya gonna do then?
The trans looks ok...it supposed to be a low mile unit...and I guess maybe it is?
THE red dude on my shoulder says leave it the fck alone...while at the same time, The white dude wants to be sure its OK by taking it apart and inspecting the internals for heat/neglect...
Im so conflicted.
Go into the bathroom,...look in the mirror...smack the piss outta yourself.I wouldn't take it apart and look now. Because where would be the posts when you put it in and it won't go in 1, 2, 3, 4, or R or it leaks, or something else the 3AMD is worried about makes you take it back out? At least it is supposed to fit on the new adapter right, so getting it in/out/in will be a piece o cake, right?
Go into the bathroom,...look in the mirror...smack the piss outta yourself.
Toyotas are and have always been a living hell to service
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