Neanderpundit

Just spent an amusing couple hours with Ed Hering of Atomic Fungus. He’s as engaging and amusing in real life as he is on the blog, and has a great grin. He also has conversations with inanimate objects and has more knowledge of electronics than anyone should dare. In other words, he’s one of us. it was great to meet him in the flesh and cool to work with him.

A car repair party is just one of those things gearheads do- get together, bring something that needs to be fixed, and fix it.

Ed wins this round, because he actually accomplished what he set out to do, unlike me, who only managed to change six of eight plugs. I’ll get him next time!! Muhahahaha!!!

plugs today.been running a bit rough, since I have a manifold leak it gets one or two of the plug wires hotter than they ought to be, and they perish.

Lifetime warranty is your friend, no expense just labor.

UPDATE: it’s amazing how well stuff works when the plug gap is closer to the nominal .055″ instead of the heavily burned .068″.

Would have been nice if I had gotten all eight, have to go back after the last two but need to make a special tool to remove the blasted heat shields. Still runs a mile better.

This is what I did, evenings, in the hottest bloody week of the summer.

I may have posted this pic before. This is the stump during excavation. the hole is maybe eight feet on it’s long axis, the stump maybe two feet on it’s long axis (the top, the bottom is obviously bigger)

This is the stump mostly cut in half, which makes obvious why it needed removal

And this is the smoothed out area of dirt where once stood an oak tree. or as I call it, the hole formerly known as stump.

And I have the scars to show for it, believe you me.