What Pleased You Today!

[John M.]

I got off the phone with the GM of my school bus company and I still have the same runs that I had for the last few years. I like continuity. The madness aka a new school year starts tomorrow. 

[JollySipper]

The driving game that I play on the PlayStation. It has five licenses that you must obtain in order to compete in all the races. A 'B' license, 'A', international B, international A, and a Super license. Out of the 80 tests for these licenses (16 tests for each license), I have 71 of them in silver, 2 in gold, and only 7 in bronze........ I think that's pretty good! When you get all silvers for the tests for a license, you win a car. I've won the car for 4 of the 5 licenses. The Super license is the one with the 7 bronze medals....... the other 9 tests for the Super are silver.......

Edited August 27 by JollySipper

[iamsuperdan]

Not so much a today thing, but...

As we know, Tamiya no longer sells spray paint in Canada. As that was my go-to for painting, I figured it was time to jump into airbrushing. 

So over the past week or so, I've finally set up the airbrush and started painting.

Holy crap.

It is so muc hbetter than spray cans, and uses so much less paint. The little bottle of paint from Splash Hobbies did a whole 1/24 Porsche, and barely used 1/3 of the tiny bottle.

And after masking up and hitting it with the 2k clear? And then a little polishing? Forget about it. 

Results are 1000% better. 

Should have made this jump ages ago.

Will be posting an Under Glass about this whole adventure soon.

 

[slusher]

Had a really good day felt good hope I have more to follow…

[89AKurt]

15 hours ago, John M. said:

I got off the phone with the GM of my school bus company and I still have the same runs that I had for the last few years. I like continuity. The madness aka a new school year starts tomorrow. 

Dare I admit it here, but I rode the school bus to the end of High School, yea, I didn't have a car and lived at the edge of town.  Our favorite bus was occasionally used, think a '56 GMC, when the "new" Fords broke down.  The driver was also retired, used for back-up.  Second fav was the early 70s GMC "short bus".  Mrs. Parks stomped on the brakes one time, and shouted down the jerks making trouble, that was actually funny and would get her in hot water today.  And the Prescott Antique Auto Club is currently restoring the first school bus that the district had, a 1947 Dodge.  So I'm giving you best of luck, from the back of the bus!

What topic is this?   Weather is over there Kurt. 😅  Got half an inch of very much needed rain.

[johnyrotten]

6 hours ago, slusher said:

Had a really good day felt good hope I have more to follow…

Good to hear that Carl. 

[TonyK]

On the subject of school bus drivers......My daughter-in-law drives a school bus and she's pretty strict with the kids. I accused her of being this guy.

[espo]

I remember the bus driver we had when I was a Freshman and a Sophomore in High School. #1 we weren't a bunch of smart asses anyway. #2 He had a radio on the then popular WIND, "The windy city station" that played the top forty type of music and he had added a couple of speakers along the top of the windows inside the bus. Everyone was just sort of bobbing and weaving in their seats and we never ever had any sort of discipline problems. The old say "Music soothes the evil beast" seemed to apply. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

I never learned much about Bosch CIS fuel injection because even though I've spent a lot of time wrenching on European cars, the vast majority were either carbureted or had timed mechanical injection. By the time non-timed-mechanical injection was widespread, I wasn't much in the repair end of the car biz anymore.

Well, the DeLorean has CIS with Lambda, known as K-Lambda (exhaust-gas oxygen sensor feedback), and it has problems...which it had when it came in for all the custom work.

I'm having to wade into it with a vengeance, and have bought all the factory and aftermarket CIS books, including the factory Volvo 760 GLE manual (the 760 used an almost identical PRV V6 as the DeLorean).

There's a lot to know, but it's just another machine, and of course it's entirely logical IF you approach it methodically and have all the specs, references, and diagnostic procedures available.

I was kinda dreading it, but it's actually a lot of fun learning a complex new (to me) system, and the bonus is that my '74 911 has pre-Lambda CIS, and after getting the DeLorean sorted, I should be competent to straighten out the Porsche as well (even though the plan is still Weber carbs, just because, it'd be nice to be able to enjoy the car a little with the CIS before I do the swap). 

 

 

[Russell C]

4 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I never learned much about Bosch CIS fuel injection ....

No clue how it works myself, except to say it's been working flawlessly in my '86 VW GTI daily driver throughout the 32 years I've owned it, approx 330k miles. If I remember right, my mechanic only needed to do one small adjustment to whatever the big round lever arm plate is, but I myself need to occasionally adjust the idle screw to keep it around 900 rpm. When my mechanic's visiting German expert on Mk2 VWs came in one time, I asked what he thought of the computer running the system, and he said they are absolutely problem-free.

[rattle can man]

My garden harvest: lemon basil, hyssop (from the mint family), tomatoes, hot peppers (including 3 Carolina Reapers and 3 habaneros, with more on the way), sweet peppers, green beans, sweet potatoes and the last few stocks of rhubarb.

[89AKurt]

Pleased I'm still mobile, and strong enough to harvest, then drop about half a ton of rocks, this afternoon.  Pleased the 57 year old Chevy could go way way back on four wheel drive jeep roads (I'm so lying there) and bring home for a new retaining wall.

I'm going to carve back the dirt bank.  Now it looks like I don't have enough, oh darn.

Finishing up on these steps.  I've done a couple of dioramas using rocks, it's fun!

Started on the small flat stone path.  Have collected purple and green rocks for decades, filling in spaces with those.  I'm sifting dirt, top layer has the stones laid on, then dirt on top, then really watered down, twice.  I stomp on the stones to get somewhat the same level, nice stress relief.  LOL

I think about those long ago who built Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Machu Pichu, who didn't have pickups. 😅

[Ace-Garageguy]

I slept late. No alarm, no work today. Nice to be a lazy old geezer occasionally.

[johnyrotten]

Tamiya paints. First time using them,yup I'm sold. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

31 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

Tamiya paints. First time using them, yup I'm sold. 

That was my reaction.

Only caveat: I've found that some colors seem to be more susceptible to fisheyes from mild surface contamination than materials I've used that have hotter solvents.

70% isopropyl cleaning prior to shooting alleviates the tendency.

[johnyrotten]

9 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

That was my reaction.

Only caveat: I've found that some colors seem to be more susceptible to fisheyes from mild surface contamination than materials I've used that have hotter solvents.

70% isopropyl cleaning prior to shooting alleviates the tendency.

Thanks for the tip. I've only used it for some detail painting so far. I see now why it's the go to product. I'm  pretty meticulous with prep work, it's everything under the paint that makes it nice,but as you know something will usually pop up.

Edited Monday at 09:26 PM by johnyrotten

[ksnow]

Competed in Sheboygan's Strongest Man over the weekend. Hit a PR on the 18" deadlift, 425#. Was a good day.

 

[OldTrucker]

On 8/22/2025 at 5:58 PM, OldTrucker said:

Grandson graduated today!

Really proud of this young Marine!

On to infantry shcool.