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    Used my exhaust air jack for the first time!

    Last Friday was out in the dunes and one of my friends had a rear control break open. The rear arm went sideways. We were 5 miles from camp and had lots of guys and tried to lift the rear end of the car--no way!!. The bracket found its way below the bolt. Have had an exhaust jack i bought years...
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    Honda v6 with fuel tech--any help for fellow duner

    I have a customer that just bought a V6 turbo Honda project with DBW throttle and a fuel tech ECU. They are out of Vegas. I was wondering if any of you know someone that works with Fuel Tech ecus, tuning and or Honda that would want to take on a project like this??
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    State Farm, pleads with department of insurance for Calif rate hike

    State Farm sent a 4 page letter to the department of insurance asking for permission to raise home rates by 22% (from what i can tell is this is across the board, this is just not in the Palisades or Eaton fires "to avoid financial ruin" pass the mismanaged forest, hills and water tanks on the...
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    How long since your last ticket? how many times have you talked your way out of one?

    It has been a really long time for me maybe 10 years or 12. i have had some close ones but have talked my way out of at least 2 in the last year. Makes my wife furious as she gets pulled over for not having a front lic plate Ill tell you mine later..... tell us your story..............
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    2006 Suspension unlimited, Subaru 5 seater--super clean

    2006 One owner Suspensions unlimited 5 seat car, Mendeola trans, race gas 370 hp. 13 psi sti block you won't find a cleaner car, stored inside all the time. Fox shocks customer has back issues and can't ride anymore you can pm with phone number and i will call you back nice light weight car. $25k
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    wide 5 vw rims, aluminum preferred, 7-8" wide can be ugly need for dyno tires

    someone jumped my fence and stole my dyno rims with brand new tires crazy prefer min backspacing like 2-3= range need a pair
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    fires near lake Elsinore

    the airport fire has grown from 5000 to 20.000 acres in 24 hours my house is now in mandatory evacuation rvc 2197 but 100 yards away from voluntary supposed to fly out of state tomorrow morning so not sure now
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    is my phone going woke?

    i have verizon,  my son always updates to newest firmware i was adding a number and name to my phone and scrolling down through the options like add phone add email now it has this one:   add pronoun!   :classic_mellow:
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    anyone super knowledgeable with multi zone controllers HVAC?

    one of the AC units in my home has a 3 zone controller (built in 2007) and i think its bad (one thermostat went blank, that zone is dead, tried another thermostat and still dead, have 24vac at thermostat and wont even turn on) looking at a more modern controller and have come up with a...
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    It summer time, fun thread tell us a "did you know"?

    did you know that if you were traveling in a twin turbo Callaway corvette at 200mph and passed a dragster that was staged  at the starting line, and the dragster took off at the same time as you crossed the starting line. in 1/4 of a mile, he would not only have caught you but would have passed...
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    Blown 68 Camaro, need help with rearend options

    Hello Guys,  im a little out of my comfort zone but this customer wants me to do a lot of things to his car.  One of those is that he has a Fab9 rearend with leaf springs, they mounted the shocks inboard of the leaf springs but in doing so welded in a bar above the diff housing to mount the...
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    Mothers Day.. what have you done for your Mom or you Bride

    When I asked what I could do to make this weekend special she asked if I could help weed her garden and plant tomato plants.  It wasn’t tops in my list but I did. Great conversation though. Went to the Yard house for dinner. Saw Planet of the Apes. ( that was my idea)   happiness is making her...
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    Dune trip in May you don’t know what you’re missing

    Came out Thursday morning. Supposed to be 91 yesterday and today. Pad 1,2,3,5 had zero camps. We are the only group on pad 4. Some at keyhole and road runner. Sand is absolutly perfect. Slight tracks left. Canal is like 75 deg. It might say 91 but with 10 mph wind it feels like 80
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    tech questions for you honda guys

    as you know AEM is out of the Honda game we are doing our first stand alone LINK Monsoon ecu for a customer in Montana two questions:  this is a j32 motor and there is a 2 wire sensor (probably heat) behind the left cam gear going into the head what is its purpose? the alternator has 4 pins...
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    Had some police action at my shop the other day

    So I have had a parts car in front of my shop for a while and a homeless guy and girl have been taking advantage of using it for their abode. We lock it often but somehow they keep getting in. Well one time they opened a door really hard and put a 5” dent in another cars fender. So the other...
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    Anyone have opinion of the Rugged radio M1?

    On my last rip had lots of rain, mud and then had to clean my SXS  now my display is gone on my RM60 (rugged radio) i called them and they said this unit is not water proof and they have an upgrade option  $450 for the new M1 and then they give you back $120 when your old radio comes back...
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    Now full video (Trailer Teaser) 2024 baja trip with friends

    A few weeks ago 9 of my buddies and 6 SXS did 1400 miles in baja (7 days). started at Tecate and went to the Bay of LA (furthest south, thats 9 hours by car) and back.  $500 in SXS fuel.  total combined repairs on cars was only 1 tire change, one belt slipping--CEL on, and one cracked rear arm...
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    LS sparkplug options....

    do all LS heads have the same sparkplug thread length? is there a common plug number everyone uses?  Gap? a friend of mine currently uses an NGK TR7iX its iridium, i personally never run platinum or iridium in any of my Subarus so is there a standard copper core plug number that is commonly...
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    Any electronic wiz's that could help with a transistor selection/question?

    i have a custom project i would like to do 2023 KTM 1290 super duke GT  it has large built in front amber blinkers.  LED.  the blinking duty cycle is about 50% so that works great for the new changes i want to do i want to now run them as daytime running lights and then have them blink "off"...
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    It’s Christmas Day, what did you get?

    Show us some pics!! 2 shirts, a scarf so my white shirt doesn’t get a dirty collar if I ride my bike to church, a flashlight cause I lost mine a year ago, sizzler gift card cause I eat there twice a week min, pruners cause I love pruning my fruit trees. Salmon rub. 
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