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spud (profile) wrote,
on 10-26-2005 at 11:54pm
Subject: Ich fahre gern im das Auto.

yeah. it's good to have my baby back. and that timing light was the shit.

still need an O2 sensor. and maybe i'll take that throttle body from drew. but it's distinctly better than it was.

there are still so many problems, it's absurd. but at least we're heading in the right direction.

however, i have a vacuum leak at the bypass adjustment screw, and the lifters are still rediculously loud. i think i need new shims for them, to get the valve lashings into spec. but i really don't feel like doing that right now, so it's going to be a bit... so i can build my ambition back up. right now, i'll just enjoy the fact that it's running again... and running better than it ever has before. let me bask, okay?

sleepy tired. 9 am class. homework not done.

fuck.
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rayray

10-27-05 7:53am

car talk.. blah blah blah is all i hear.. you think I'd atleast understand a little bit after all I hear about cars from all the guys I hang out with. However, nothing sticks.. It's useless.

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spud

Re:, 10-27-05 10:15pm

in order to understand well, really two things have to happen.

1 - you have to be actively interested... osmosis alone doesn't work with this.

2 - you have to have a mental picture, usually best served by taking whatever "car part" they're talking about and fiddling with it... tangibly seeing how it works. and the more you see, the easier it gets.

but you need to have the part there in front of you, be curious about how it works, and have somebody explaining specifically how it works to you, in a way that you can understand, in order for it to mean anything. otherwise, you just learn words like "head gasket" without ever actually knowing what a head gasket is. and that won't serve you very well in the comprehension dept.

i don't expect anybody to know what i'm talking about. it's mostly for my own benefit. plus i know beaver usually keeps up. but if you want to learn, just ask sometime. i can show you some of the stuff i've been doing. rule of thumb is... the older the car, the easier it is to identify parts. and it might help to start on like, lawnmower engines or something. and it would help to have the theoretical knowledge of how the engine functions in general, before you try to gather practical knowledge.

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