The sweet sound of success and a glimmer of hope that the hood can stay shut for a full race weekend.
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The sweet sound of success and a glimmer of hope that the hood can stay shut for a full race weekend.
Cheers Glenn, I was real happy they offered.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Craig,Quote:
Originally Posted by Trublu
My goal for the past 2+ seasons is to only torque lugs, add fuel, and adjust ballast. Hasn't happened yet. However, with my contact at MSRH during R1, at least it forced me to keep the hood "down" as I had to cut a hood pin off to get the hood off once it was back at the shop.
Prayers for no mechanical carnage this event!!
I hear ya mateQuote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
I keep spotting more and more good press for this new Ram 1500 with the small diesel:
http://www.dieselpowermag.com/featur...y/viewall.html
seems like a good option for those of us that have modest trailers and/or daily drive our trucks... pretty killer mpg in all situations
Michael and Raegan welcomed Kaitlynn Shelby Mosty at 1:08pm, 19 1/2", 7lb, 10oz.
Both Mom and baby are doing great and should go home Friday morning
Congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo hoo! Congratulations!
Great news guys
Congrats! ....Shelby...nice.
WAHOO!!!! Congrats. Beautiful girl.
Awesome.... Very happy for ya'll.
Great to hear!! Congrats!
Pulled heads from ol yella. Cracked between #5 combustion chamber and water jacket. Sad thing is I think that has been th root of my evil since Hallet.
No surprise. Probably right about the root. I thought it was a warped head. Glad you found something and hope you can make Tws without loading it on the trailer early. I know you will have it ready.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trublu
Wow, it is amazing how the body can function with so little sleep!!! Kaitlynn thinks it is great to be awake from midnight to 5:00 AM, how fun!!
She also likes watching car shows and even reading the AICMC forum with me. It is adorable to see her face light up and smile when she sees pictures of Mustangs. She also starts crying and pooping whenever a Camaro is seen....
I hope to make it to TWS. It was tough to not be at Cresson and can't wait to get back on track ASAP!!
Congrats Mike! Changes your whole world doesn't it?
Beautiful baby.
Ah, youth... wasted on the young. About the only parenting advice I give is remember you are the adult. We were pretty consistent about keeping changing/feedings in the middle of the night as quick and quiet as possible. And, if the baby takes a nap, everybody takes a nap.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
I hear that Mustang infection is curable.
I fully understand. I think I was a zombie for weeks. Jaycie was so bad... she never slept through the night a single time until she was 18months old. That was enough to guarantee we were done with having anymore kids. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
Hopefully Kaitlynn won't be that bad.
That's good that Raegan can function so well with little sleep. Is Kaitlynn sleeping in her room or do you haver her in your room and you are in a spare bedroom. Just have to reset their body clock as in the womb they sleep when mommy is moving around and are up when mommy is sleeping. All about the routine for little ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
Was feeling sick Friday so went to the doctor. Had a chest x-ray to clear my lungs and got another cool shot of the broken screw in my shoulder...
https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...23274322_n.jpg
went deep into the tilt mechanism on the #39 to try and fix the looseness... we'll see. That's an adventure. At least in the race care the wiring, turn signal/cancel cam, etc. doesn't have to be there/go back in.
Nice. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
You getting that fixed anytime soon? I've got one in my shoulder too (and a few others scattered around my abused body) but I *think* its holding up ;)
I had pix taken Friday too but did not bring them home...had an MRI to finally pinpoint my back pain...slipped disk...got a nice shot in the spine and can actually walk for the first time in a couple weeks. At least now I can work a plan to heal.
Put a new AR together, from scratch. Used some spare parts that were just sitting around and few budget pieces.
Running it as 7.62x39 (AK round).
good beater rifle I plan to shoot cheap steel cased stuff in and clean very little.
still need a flash hider and a rear fflip up sight. May steal those from my 300BLK in the meantime...
Racing related: I piled a bunch of junk from my work bench onto the hood of #95. 'Cause I needed some work space...
AI #67 is getting some good air time on the season 2 premier of Dallas Car sharks on the Velocity Channel.
Cool.. I'll have to try and catch. I watch that show on occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
Whoop... got the new seat belts in yesterday. feels good to be *compliant*
When they interview JD, you can see my front passenger tire/fender. Michael's blown engine is also in the background.Quote:
Originally Posted by AllZWay
When they interview Tommy, you can see down the passenger side of my car.
When they interview the auction guy, you see my Dad's 50 Oldsmobile
So I've been chasing a misfire for a while on cylinder #1. It's been throwing a P0301 (cylinder 1 misfire). I did check the compression at some point last year and it was fine. It really only seemed to happened at idle, so I hadn't bother checking the compression in a while, especially since the car made so much power on the dyno in January. Decided to check the compression tonight and sure enough, cylinder #1 was ~90, with the two others I checked at ~180. Oddly enough, this is the same cylinder that has had issues in the past. Changed injectors and coil packs when I got the new engine last year, so don't think either of those caused the issue.
Will probably go ahead and race the car this month and figure out what to do after that. Pretty sure it couldn't be anything else but piston/rings, but it still seems to run fine above idle and seems to have power. Had the car out this past weekend and ran great except cold idle...
Bent valve.
Pull the spark plug and stick an air hose in there that threads into the hole. Pressurize the cylinder and listen for where the air comes from - intake, exhaust, or crankcase. That will tell you where the issue is.
At TDC with both valves closed of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Will give that a shot tonight or tomorrow. Will probably try the pouring a bit of oil down the cylinder trick and see if the compression changes first. I would think if the compression goes up it's likely rings.
Kevin,Quote:
Originally Posted by blk96gt
I have a leakdown tester you can borrow if you cover the shipping costs to get it to you.
I may take you up on that offer. I'm going to try it with one of those air guns with a rubber tip on the plug hole tonight and see how that works. Will probably be more accurate to just use an actual tester though.
Can someone remind me when to do a compression vs leakdown test? If it passes a compression test is the motor okay?Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
Hey Marshall-if needed could get that leakdown tester from your tomorrow and use it this weekend couple of days if you don't ship it down to Kevin? I could ship it to him after the weekend. I'm doing a compression test anyway so this might be something worth doing??
A leakdown test can be used to determine where you losing the compression at. Valves, cylinder, etc. At least that's my understanding.
http://www.motorcycleproject.com/mot..._leakdown.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by blk96gt