Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

I'm so pissed. I just missed out on a SWEET 914. Low miles, one owner, very clean, bad engine, but an easy fix for me. I'm out of town for work and planned to go get it Friday, so contacted the seller and it just sold yesterday. I just found it last night, so was simply too late, but lesson learned is search more often and be willing to sent a deposit if it looks that good.... I've been looking to add the "right" 914 to the fleet for awhile now and this would have worked....really bummed about missing out on this one. Sigh, the search continues.

A guy and 3 young ladies will fit on a Hobie 16. I've done it. Just keep everybody as far to windward and as far aft as you can. There shouldn't be a problem with that.

Cotton wrote: I'm so pissed. I just missed out on a SWEET 914. Low miles, one owner, very clean, bad engine, but an easy fix for me. I'm out of town for work and planned to go get it Friday, so contacted the seller and it just sold yesterday. I just found it last night, so was simply too late, but lesson learned is search more often and be willing to sent a deposit if it looks that good.... I've been looking to add the "right" 914 to the fleet for awhile now and this would have worked....really bummed about missing out on this one. Sigh, the search continues.

1975 Good body bad motor 3,500 OBO

Here you go.

KyAllroad wrote:

Cotton wrote: I'm so pissed. I just missed out on a SWEET 914. Low miles, one owner, very clean, bad engine, but an easy fix for me. I'm out of town for work and planned to go get it Friday, so contacted the seller and it just sold yesterday. I just found it last night, so was simply too late, but lesson learned is search more often and be willing to sent a deposit if it looks that good.... I've been looking to add the "right" 914 to the fleet for awhile now and this would have worked....really bummed about missing out on this one. Sigh, the search continues.

1975 Good body bad motor 3,500 OBO Here you go.

Man, that's the one!! Sold yesterday. If it's as clean as it looks someone got a hell of a deal.

Ranger50 wrote:

Ashyukun wrote: KYAllroad and I were grumbling about this while hunting for the right size wrench for a number of fasteners on the Blazer. Is it *really* necessary to have 10 different-sized fastener heads? Mazda did almost everything on the FC with 10mm and a handful of larger ones. You could work on the thing with like 3 wrenches in your toolbox.

It's a GM, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18mm. Ford is the same way except the 18 can be either 17 or 19.

Except for the odd occasional 14mm (ground strap bolts on the back of the heads) and 16mm (front side of the motor mounts). And the occasional 7mm for smaller connections.

Nope. Those are actually standard. It's gm:some metrics, some standards, all rusty.

If it screws into the block or head, its standard. If it screws into the accessories, its metric. Not just GM, either. All the yanks were like that.

Those commie bastards that did that need to be drug out in the street and shot. Have caused me more aggravation and bleeding than i care to admit to.

So I am housesitting for the week. My mom's dogs (Chihuahua and a Bichon) are so hyper vigilant that if I fart in the middle of the night, they bark

Dusterbd13 wrote: Those commie bastards that did that need to be drug out in the street and shot. Have caused me more aggravation and bleeding than i care to admit to.

Blame the Swedes. 1973, Volvo B20 has English bolts and crank bearing sizes. 1974, Volvo B20 has English bolts and metric crank bearings. 1975, Volvo B20 has all metric bolts and bearings.

That's why the Americans don't bother me so much. As long as you look at what you are screwing the bolt into, its obvious.

The Wife is making my niece and nephew Halloween costumes and wants to go with them trick or treating. She will need to use her wheelchair if they go far so she asked for ideas for a wheelchair costume. So far I've come up with FDR, Mike Dukakis in the tank, and Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile and she's said no to all of them.

Google image search "wheelchair costumes".

My favorite is "prisoner in electric chair" but I'm kinda twisted.

Wally wrote: The Wife is making my niece and nephew Halloween costumes and wants to go with them trick or treating. She will need to use her wheelchair if they go far so she asked for ideas for a wheelchair costume. So far I've come up with FDR, Mike Dukakis in the tank, and Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile and she's said no to all of them.

Star Wars is all hot now.. have her go as a wheeled droid

mad_machine wrote:

Wally wrote: The Wife is making my niece and nephew Halloween costumes and wants to go with them trick or treating. She will need to use her wheelchair if they go far so she asked for ideas for a wheelchair costume. So far I've come up with FDR, Mike Dukakis in the tank, and Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile and she's said no to all of them.

Star Wars is all hot now.. have her go as a wheeled droid

or a Tie-figher. An X-wing might work, but I wouldn't suggest Porkins as her call-sign, unless you want to get run over by the wheelchair.

Sine_Qua_Non wrote: Kinda normal with sellers offering free shipping. Usually those making you pay for shipping ship them out pretty quick. It's weird.

She (?) charged me 11.55 shipping, payment cleared a week ago tomorrow, still nothing.
See kids? This is how you get negative reviews on ebay.
Asked her (?) two days ago, she (?) said that 'she doesn't drive, hoped to get to the post office in the next couple days'

Disclaimer: I'm assuming it's a she because of the comment about not driving.

XBONE controller finally gave up the ghost, guess I spiked it one too many times.
FML

Streetwiseguy wrote:

Dusterbd13 wrote: Those commie bastards that did that need to be drug out in the street and shot. Have caused me more aggravation and bleeding than i care to admit to.

Blame the Swedes. 1973, Volvo B20 has English bolts and crank bearing sizes. 1974, Volvo B20 has English bolts and metric crank bearings. 1975, Volvo B20 has all metric bolts and bearings.

On top of which, if your '73-75 B20 has carburetors (non USA spec) they are SUs, with Whitworth fasteners :)

If the lady driving the school bus can go 35mph in a school zone 20mph, why can't I?

Wally wrote: The Wife is making my niece and nephew Halloween costumes and wants to go with them trick or treating. She will need to use her wheelchair if they go far so she asked for ideas for a wheelchair costume. So far I've come up with FDR, Mike Dukakis in the tank, and Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile and she's said no to all of them.

Cap'n Pike!

Why the berkeley do my spray paint cans clog the nozzle still half full? And related, why can't the manufacturers use the same berkeleying nozzle?

In reply to Dusterbd13:

Turn it upside down and spray it briefly when finished using it. This helps keep the nozzle unclogged.

Dusterbd13 wrote: Why the berkeley do my spray paint cans clog the nozzle still half full? And related, why can't the manufacturers use the same berkeleying nozzle?

In the days of mass production.. just imagine the savings if you could have just one or two companies making all the parts for the spray cans and selling them to the paint manufacturers.

Is Facebook down, or have I just been a naughty boy? I'm getting "service unavailable" messages.

This isn't really a rant, but I didn't want to waste a thread on Facebook.

Automatic flushers were invented by satan. On my way home nature called so I detoured to a rest stop that is usually clean. I sit down and this thing started flushing. Repeatedly. So often the drain was having trouble keeping up. Then even though there are a dozen stalls someone has to sit next to me. He starts to sound like he's disemboweling himself, crying and moaning. The longest ten minutes of my life