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Man Down, Man Down… The Excursion is in the Shop
Posted on 11. Mar, 2009 by sandy.
Well after 5+ years my trusty 2003 7.3L Powerstroke Diesel Ford Excursion had to be taken in for a repair. I had the smell of diesel fuel coming into the A/C system and decided to pop the hood. Looked at the engine valley area and saw a puddle of diesel fuel. Checked around and it seems to be a common problem for them to have a bad o-ring seal in the fuel separator area. Figured that would be it a couple hundred bucks. Well get the call and they also found another leak at the top of the high pressure pump. Another set of bad o-rings. And finally it was in for the recall of the camshaft sensor that was a freebie. So out of pocket about $1000. I hope that is all for a while, and over the life of the truck so far it’s still not bad. Picked up some coolant additive as I figured it might be another $100 to add a $9 bottle of additive. Will have to make sure I have the right amount now that I think of it. Oh well the sound of another credit card swipe for car stuff…
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Los Angeles Parking Finally Caught Me
Posted on 03. Mar, 2009 by sandy.
Well due to the tight budget the L.A. City Parking Division has stepped it up. While parked outside of my house on Saturday, on a quiet residential street I got popped for no front license plate. WTF that’s bull $hit. Does the city need my 25 bucks that bad? Doesn’t seem sporting at all. If I’m go get caught without a font plate I want a peace officer to have to pull me over and write me a proper ticket. One where the ‘VIN’ box is filled in with my car’s VIN, not the word ‘TOOHIGH’, maybe is should have said ‘TOOLAZY’.
Well it seems I can reduce it by placing the license plate back on the front of my car and taking a picture, and sending that picture with a check for 10 bucks to the L.A. City Parking Bureau. I’ll be skipping that exercise and enjoying paying online for an extra $2.00 fee. Wait, I should send it in a check in an envelope just to be spiteful but that might backfire and bankrupt the Division, seems better to pay the $2 fee and be done.
The real question this raised for me was how long before they can ticket me again? If I park on the road say the next day an a new ‘Parking Agent’ comes buy will I get stung again? Crap, looks like I’ll have to put the broken license plate back on the truck. And yes, I’m a violator of the front license plate law…
The last thing that was amusing about the event was the bottom of the ticket had a small note that said “Citation increased $3.00 by the State”. Well I guess I’m helping keeping the fine State of California out of Bankruptcy.
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Wheel Offset Calculator Now Up at GTSparkplugs.com
Posted on 26. Feb, 2009 by sandy.
Just finished up the Wheel Offset Calculator (WOC). Basically it is a simple tool that will allow you to try different size and offsets for your rims and get an idea where the edges of the rim will move towards. Pretty simple.
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Speedometer Gear Calculator up at GTSparkplugs.com
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by sandy.
Here is the link to the simple Speedometer Calculator. It is a simple program that will help get you the right speedometer gear. You will need to know a few things such as Tire Diameter, Rear End Ratio, Speedometer Info, Transmission Gear Tooth Count. But after that it is simple!
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Sunbeam Tiger Front Suspension
Posted on 11. Jan, 2009 by sandy.
Well I finally got into the garage and took a couple of picture of the Tiger front end. The main website Here has the start of that chapter. I also talk a bit about the brake madness and show some differences in the Wilwood Dynalite and Superlite brake pads.
This is the link here as well –
http://www.gtsparkplugs.com/TigerFrontSuspension.html
