Saw this bug on the way home, we caravaned for a bit, then I passed
him. (he was going super slow, imagine that)

life lesson 876423:
$30 really is a fair price to pay for a haircut.

Haircut gone bad....

The car below is prices pet project, I believe its an 88 rx7. We took
out about 150lbs of interior this morning. it has the potential to be
a fun project (its no v-dub.) :-)

Bus is running well, it needs the idle adjusted, some body work, almost there...
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To make it fast?

Time for a change. We've gone mo-bile... Apple style

same ol' same ol' worked on the car for a while this weekend and got the carbs swapped out. It took much longer than i expected but i had several setbacks. The first, had the carbs on the wrong side... The second, trapped the throttle cable in between the engine and the trans. The third swapped the tubes on the fuel pump... All dumb mistakes but two of the three happened after midnight on Saturday so... chalk it up to sleepy wrenching.

I still have a good deal of work to do...

adjust the linkage
adjust the timing
adjust the points and valves
adjust the idle and carbs
mount the bumpers and lights
re-wire the stop light
make a "jump start" switch, so i can crank the car from the engine compartment... yea i know, a good idea.
wiring, lots of wiring.... for the gauges, for the brake lights and other bits.

After i finish/ get the bus to where i think it's good enough to start driving/ trouble shooting it will be time to do some light body work and then give it the first coat of paint.

realistically the mechanical stuff will take a while... which sucks. But then again that's the fun. I can't wait to take it for a spin, it sounded great...wonder if that translated to "performance."

Christmas will bring two long weekends in a row; by 2008 i'll be cruising in style.

-Got melissas Christmas present today, it's bad ass.

Been really depressed about school lately.

Took the engine out of my car and put new carbs on, I'm about 1/2 way finished. Still have wiring, fuel lines, and trouble-shooting to do. Then paint.

Price has a new baby girl, we went to go see it/ her. It gave me some serious anxiety; talk about responsibility! I thought the baby was fake when we walked in the room, it was very small.

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the grind

work has been busy, and by busy i mean crazy, and by crazy i mean ^$#%^$# crazy. 

last weekend i did a good deal of home work, i was able to work on the car a bit scrubbed down the roof and wet sanded it, took the awning rail off and vacuumed out the inside...  not really anything productive. 

tonight was my test, work sucked today and then on the way home bus crapped out on 75. My lovely wife rescued me, and dropped me off at school for my exam. After the test, dad came by and we ran out the see if we could fix it. As i expected it was the wiring for the gauges. I believe that the gauge of wire i used was much to small and it was the result of my problem, all i had to do was cut out all the melted wire and toss it, then it started right up. I still am having a few issues, but it's running and that's what matters. 

Dual carbs came in today... that means that this weekend i am going to yank the engine and install them. While it's out i am going to:

replace the fuel lines

run new wire for the gauges (with a fuse)

check the trans fluid 

carbs, of course 

try to fix a few of the electrical bugs

paint the bus...

i hope to have it all back together by the begging of next week...

a lot to do, hopefully i'll have time. 

   

regular weekend... i started my new job last friday, it's going to be interesting... we'll see how it goes. It won't be a career, i am sure of that. After 4 months (that's my guess) i think that i will have everything pretty much figured out, we'll see though... 

thursday was a super crappy day...

Yesterday I tried to get a bunch of stuff done, i worked on the car for a while (two steps forward, one step back.)  I installed a volt meter and a tach, messed with the timing, the carb, some other things.... it still need work, always. Hopefully my registration paper work will be here soon... i am still kicking the two carb idea around... Also cleaned up and ran to the sore. We switched phone carriers, Melissa needed to get a "smart" phone and i retired the ol' trusty LG. 

This week work will be crazy, trying to learn new things, meeting new people, figuring out a process that is apparently flawed.... in addition to class... eeeekkkk.... we'll see how this goes. 

maybe i should name my blog "justin bitches about work..."