Joe Handley

I'm on layoff as of Monday, other than when my Aunt passed away in '98, this will be the first time I haven't had to work at all during this time of the year since I started working 25 years ago as a HS student..........not sure what to do with my self, to be honest!

Well, we've already had the white, the rest if the year can be wet so far as I'm concerned.

That's why I moved that email into the spam file without opening it and tried to pm Charlie ASAP to let him know what happened. It has since been deleted too.

Sorry to here that happened Charlie, once I realized what the the email preview said, I moved it into spam without opening it and tried to pm you about it.

LOL, when I got the email, I was thinking, why is Charlie emailing me this late.......and why is he sending me $20 to boot?!

Same here, couldn't get PM to go through though.

That's why I was trying to get ahold of him, same here!

Charlie, need you to PM me ASAP, tried to PM you, but the site wouldn't let me. It's important! Joe.

Sad part is though Bill, what I have learned over the years, was either taught to me by my now retired railroader father that grew up dirt poor on a farm post WW2, or have taught myself. I would never have tried something like that unless there was absolutely no option other than the scrap heap and I had no other transportation.

I know a body guy that has referred to some ASE techs as "Parts Changers", as in, the computer tells them to change a part, and they do, until it's fixed or the computer is stumped. He told me that after I told him about an experience with one at the HTU I worked for that was supposed to be a fantastic mechanic according to another customer that happened to be a friend of this tech. Apparently he came in to get a receiver pack for his nitro powered R/C truck and we sold him one (not me, think I may have been on lunch at the time), problem was though, the plug on the truck's on/off switch was just different enough that the plugs wouldn't interchange without some modification, or better yet, just replacing the on/off switch with one that has the plug that the battery had and is still an industry standard for this application at the time I changed jobs this summer. Had he gotten home and realized that the plugs were different and called the store (and hopefully got me), we could have figured out the problem on the phone and he could have returned the battery and could have stuck with 4AAs or sold him the switch that had the correct plug that would have been an easy, plug and play swap. Instead, he cut the plugs off the battery and the factory on/off switch then used wire nuts to tie the battery to the switch......which didn't work, and because he butchered things, we couldn't send it back to Hobbico or Horizon (can't remember which dist. we got the battery from) as defective or resell as new, we wouldn't take it back. He kept insisting it was our fault because we sold him the wrong part/not enough parts, but couldn't get through to him that if he had stopped, called, and told us what the issue was when he found it, I could have made sure all the right parts were there to put on the truck and even help put it together (maybe a 20min job) right on the counter! Yes, there would have been a return trip anyway as well as maybe a few more dollars in parts, but nothing would have been chopped up and the truck would have been up and running that night! After the experience with that customer, knowing that he is supposed to ASE certified, yet did this, I started to wonder what would he do if he worked on something like my Cherokee and run across a typical issue, like a bad Crank Trigger Sensor. Say, perhaps he had the parts department hand him the part for the wrong model year, would he start hacking things up to try and make an early, AMC-Renault-Bendix EFI Crank Trigger that would have worked on one of Dad's XJs work with the wiring harness on my later, Chrysler OBD2 EFI XJ?!

This Jeep sat for over a year (prob. 16mo.) with the same 10% blend in the tank and fired way easier than expected this summer.

That's what my Jeep read when I left for work at 8:40am, it was at 5° when I left the office for lunch though!

I knkw this is an old thread, but I had the Jeep out and about today and topped it off at the Aurora Thorntons with E15/Unleaded15. Put about 13gal in it on top of the 87 octane E10 that was already in it and drover out to Downers Grove, then back to Wheaton after my Kid Sister and her BF were in a parking lot wreck with her Challenger (grrrrrrr, sounds like the other driver wasn't paying attention until AFTER her car hit my Sisters and stopped moving), followed them back to West Chicago before driving to Geneva and back (planned on going to the Michaels in Downers, but got waylayed). Truck ran fine, seems to get better the farther I drove it, might have been the extra alcohol starting to clean out the gunk the gasoline left behind from it being mostly parked for the better part of the last 2 years, otherwise, I'm not sure, doubt the extra octane point helps it that much.

Not very well sometimes, there were times that when I'd be running between home and any of the stores I worked for in St. Charles (both HobbyTown locations and Toy's "R" Us) and the roads were barely touched when I would head in to work or leave to return at night and you could barely tell where the lanes were, let alone a painted center divider happened to be, which is not fun when you're driving down North Avenue past Dupage Airport at 9:00pm prior to the road being redone to it's current, much improved state. 4wd is needed, but it makes things much easier.

That is the nice thing about my new job, it's 3.5 miles from home and mostly slow, residential streets, was also told that if the snow slows us down enough in transit that we're a bit late, it's ok. Although, living that close to work and having a Jeep, I probably still don't have much excuse

One thing to keep in mind with those kits Russ, they come with Cartograf decals, the Lawman kit price could very like be 2/3 kit and 1/3 decal or more like 50/50! Not sure about the other kit though, I thought those were supposed to be a decent kit like the Lawman kit, but I'm trying to figure out what kind of decals it might have to justify the $40 price tag, Cartograf decals, or not.

Repost.

I know Bill, I've been thinking the same thing since I found it on Instagram a couple weeks ago! This seems to also be a perfect example of what you were saying about good restyling on a custom car and playing with the car's origin lines. Only place Rob Ida didn't do that was with the back half of roof, and the car looks that much better for it!

This thing is incredible!

This is from the Model Master 2 Stage Lacquer line.

Not sure, the Jimny I posted has the paint backed by the same Duplicolor bedliner that is on the bumpers, rockers, and flares, and didn't darken it any.

Used it on one of my R/C Trucks.

Yup, Joe Esposito, long time friend of and part of Elvis Presley's entourage, the Memphis Mafia, also passed this week.

I remember him from both, anybody else waiting for 2016 to be over?!