so waht ya doin today?

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
As strange as may sound, in California telling a cop you have a concealed carry license is not required. But, as has been said, it may be because he already knows.

Hmmm . . . today's car have vast arrays of on-board computers and electronic gizmos, but their batteries are half the size of the one in my '95 pickup, which has some sort of first generation, non-memory on-board computer but no electronic gizmos.
 
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JonB

Halcyon member
I filled my Chevy truck with Gas a couple days ago...Gas leak...I hate that...it seems dangerous?
that's nothing I want to fix, and I have about had it with the prices my usual mechanic charges, so I'm trying a new place.
I dropped off the truck yesterday to repair the leak. He says it's most likely the fuel pump seal on top of the tank.
If that's the case, he needs to drop the tank to fix it, he said he could do it for $200.
He had 7 other cars in the cue, before he can wrench on my truck, he said he'd call when it's done.
so I wait.
well, I got the call. It's not the seal...it's a rotted out filler nipple (where filler tube mounts). He said it was 3/4 rotted out. He says it's a 34 gallon tank (I thought it was only 22ish?), says the tank costs $250 and he can have it yet today. I wonder what the total bill will be?. My quick ebay search says that tank can be had for as little as $135...I guess my mechanic needs to eat too.
 

Hawk

North Central Texas
My 2016 Chevy truck has like 20 onboard computers and that doesn't include auto-climate control a/c , blower motor, automatic seat, mirror and steering adjustment, daytime running lights, all the bright dash gizmo lights, gps, maps, entertainment center, heads up targeting display, twin mini-gun turrents (aftermarket add-on), etc.
Not to mention steering, accelerator and brake control are all motorized or electronic.
 

Mitty38

Well-Known Member
Well have to break quarantine today. Have to go pickup my meds for next month. Just called the pharmacy, they are getting a fellow suited up to bring things out to the parking lot.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
heads up targeting display, twin mini-gun turrents
I took a more subtle approach, with my truck. Installed the heads-up display, too, but added an RPG launcher, figuring it'd still be as effective against VW microbuses and boom-boom stereos, but without the mini-gun expense.
 

CWLONGSHOT

Well-Known Member
Battery wise. Something else I was told was that there was actually very very few actual battery manufacturers.
So not really a huge difference.
CW
 

popper

Well-Known Member
John parked the car in the garage, closed the door, locked it, started it up and sat in the drivers seat.
LE and relatives found him the next morning, all OK. Battery was dead though.
 

Ole_270

Well-Known Member
Some tags just don't last long. My son and I went out for opening day of the Kansas rifle deer season this morning. I took a doe about 20 minutes after legal time, came in for the 4 wheeler and headed out to get her. On the way I got a text from Scott over on our other place the other side of town, to bring the 4 wheeler. I hooked a chain on the doe and got her to the shed, loaded the 4 wheeler on the utility trailer and headed over to help him. He got mid-sized buck in the creek bottom timber. Heavy mainbeamed 8 point, but only 16" or so. 30-06, 165 Partition through the shoulder quartering to, at maybe 15 yards.
My doe fell to the 38-55 with a 250 gr Accurate 38-250B at roughly 10 Bhn, 1450 fps, 20 yards. Entrance through the rear of the near shoulder, exit the size of a tennis ball through the center of the far shoulder. There was actually more damage from the slow speed cast than the 2850+ fps partition at close to the same distance. That large meplat does some damage.
 

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
I let them lay and make dirt where they fall. Did I mention I have a zero-work, 100% native, zeroscaped yard?
That would be nice. I have at least eight different types of vines growing amongst the trees and shrubs in my yard. I literally have to use a machete to keep the plants from eating my house!

Josh
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
That would be nice. I have at least eight different types of vines growing amongst the trees and shrubs in my yard. I literally have to use a machete to keep the plants from eating my house!

Josh
My wife planted a couple of those things...
I let her take care of that mess.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
The day started with trip to doctor's office for SWMBO. That was uneventful but early (for us), so we scrounged a pretty decent brunch via drive-thru and brought that home. SWMBO took a nap, and I went out to the garage to accomplish something, either reloading-related or maybe unbox that new whiz-bang shop vac and get busy on the dust/clutter/mess/Wreck Of The Hesperus within same garage.

The vacuum can wait. I got all of the 243 Winchester tooling put away and rigged up the P-W to do a long run of 45 ACP, which will commence tomorrow. Marie woke up about the time the 45 ACP run was commencing, and wanted to go out for some shopping mission. I had her drop me off at the toy store, where I did the DROS on the Model 71 and I absorbed a bit of financial damage in their reloading section. I snagged a Hornady/Sinclair case length gizzy, the curved one for self-loaders and leverguns. I have tried for some time to score one of these, and both Graf's and MidwayUSA seem to run out 30 minutes prior to each order for the past year. Nicely enough, they also had some Nosler 185 grain HPs (box of 250) for significantly less than the mail-order places ask, which was timely and will save me 250 press strokes on the Lyman 4500.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Raking/blowing leaves....................:rofl: That would be an exercise in futility, with 50+ acres of mostly oaks. Leave them where the fall. Wind changes direction and they move somewhere else. I draw the line at sweeping up those that accumulate on the porches.