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Well my plan is that tomorrow our MC is riding to Ventura Harbor & possibly hit the Ventura Nationals Car & Bike Show. Then Sunday & Monday just relax with the wife & family grill some steaks hit the pool & catch a Movie.

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Tomorrow: "Babysit" Mom while Dad is working on the garage and find the time to go to the bank and fill the 200 when Dad isn't doing that.

Sunday: Work 11am-5pm who knows after work

Monday: Spend more time with Mom while Dad is doing more on the garage.

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sleep in, get in lots of pool time, watch Indy Car finale tomorrow night, NASCAR on Sunday...maybe do a day trip up north Monday.

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Just Sunday .. going down to Lime Rock Historic Festival to see the classics parked on the track. Ralph Lauren is supposed to have these five cars there.

I'll have photos in the reference section late in the day.

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Today out to dinner and shopping for a sofa table - after doing some model work.

Sunday - work on models all day.

Monday - work on models all day and then make hot dogs on the grill.

Probably get in some pool time each day too.

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Well, so much for best-laid plans gang aft agley.

I'll be spending the rest of the weekend doing a timing belt on a PT Cruiser...a beeyotch of a job and the SECOND time this particular friend has let the belt go WAY beyond the replace-interval, resulting in failure in the middle of the road.

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Saturday- Spent the day painting my bridge. Not the first day of painting and won't be the last. It's quite a project, made even more so by my modeler's knack of over complicating the project with two toning. Worked around 10-5, and couldn't make this old body go any further. Spent 5-6 in the pool. Then made cheese dogs for the wife and Ted.

Sunday- Supposed to have friends here for a barbeque.. worried about forecast of rain!

Monday- Resume painting if it doesn't rain.

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Well, so much for best-laid plans gang aft agley.

I'll be spending the rest of the weekend doing a timing belt on a PT Cruiser...a beeyotch of a job and the SECOND time this particular friend has let the belt go WAY beyond the replace-interval, resulting in failure in the middle of the road.

Wow, how many miles are on it are on that PT and weren't those "interference engines"?

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Wow, how many miles are on it are on that PT and weren't those "interference engines"?

It's about 220.000 miles. The 2.0 engine is interference, but the 2.4 isn't (valves don't hit pistons but they MAY hit each other, depending on engine speed at the instant the belt fails). There's a lot of mis-information about these on the web, just like most things.

The worst part of the job is the idiotic engine mount / timing cover design that requires FAR more dis-assembly than would have been necessary if the PT engineers had ever bothered to look at how the rest of the world designed transverse-engine mounts for DOHC engines.

The downside of this job is that the last wizards who did a belt on the thing also did a head gasket, and apparently used a Chinese "exact replacement", didn't get the block and head mating surfaces perfectly clean, or incorrectly torqued the head. The head gasket has been leaking combustion gas into the coolant for over a year now, but I've managed to keep it contained.

I'll be doing the head gasket as well, a quick valve-job, etc. while I'm in it.

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today: was a rainy one, got a little done at the bench. Spent alot of time doing alot of small tedious things

tomorrow: fantasy football draft in the am and a run to the store for some steaks. hopefully making progress on the bench projects

Monday: celebrate my birthday (which is tuesday)

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