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COOL! Glad you got6 a chance to to ski.
I LOVE reading and so does my kid. He's currently burning through the Harry Potter series (again) and I'm reading whatever, waiting for Tim Dorsey to come up with something new. that or Carl Hiaasen, but more Tim than Carl. Mostly humorous action fiction, with some biographies and other stuff. Occasional thinky chick fluff. Little bit of everything. What're you reading now?
Lately, non-fiction mainly...lots of history and one or two biographies. Working thru "The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany" in WWII now. It's a slow go with lots of Russian names to keep track of. Next up, "Paris 1919" - the history of the 1919 Paris Peace talks after WWI.
At one time or another, I was reading Grisham, Clancy, Cook, etc. too.
Yes, it does. After 5 holidays in Europe since 2001, being 1/2 Dutch, having friends who lived very near the East German border before the wall fell, and traveling in the East with said friends that aspect of European history has been of interest the last years. Weighty stuff. I'll pick up a lighter book after these two are done.
Did you know it takes longer to document changing the o-ring at the base of the oil dipstick tube than it does actually changing it?
96 4Runner 260,788 miles
Notice fair leak at front left corner (driver's) of the engine, at the top of the oil pan. Closer inspection looked to be at the oil dipstick tube.
Clean area around bottom outside of tube so no chunks o' junk fall in. Pull dipstick out
Unbolt tube bracket on alternator bracket:
Pull dipstick tube out, mindfull of routing- it's gotta go in how it came out.
Carefully push into hole until bracket lines up with screw hole. It should be a little bit harder to get in because shiny new o-ring! That's the bottom of the lower radiator hose at the top of the pic.
Like I said, way longer to document than to do, it's a 5 minute job and that's including grabbing the 10mm socket and ratchet, a rag and a little screwdriver to scrape the icky dirty stuff away from the tube.
looks to be exactly 3", but I can understand why you used the metric system for the Toyota
Well now I feel like a total dorkapotomus, I didn't even notice that.
96 4Runner 260,740 miles
Oil change. Finally! 60 degrees this afternoon melted enough of the snow and ice and dried out the driveway enough to be crawling around on it.
Well now I feel like a total dorkapotomus, I didn't even notice that.
7.62cm = 3" if we really want to get nerdy about it. I prefer metric after using it in science classes for many years, working on foreign cars, foreign travel, and because we use it in skiing.
Have a great weekend with those nice temps. Some skiing and some family stuff is happening here. No truck work for me, but new battery did go into the DD Corolla this week.
7.62cm = 3" if we really want to get nerdy about it. I prefer metric after using it in science classes for many years, working on foreign cars, foreign travel, and because we use it in skiing.
Have a great weekend with those nice temps. Some skiing and some family stuff is happening here. No truck work me, but new battery did go into the DD Corolla this week.
Nerdy: it's the only way to go.
Spending the entire day indoors doing a kid thing. Meh. It's cool 'cause he's going to have a lot of fun with his classmates and they've worked hard on their project. Tomorrow though, tomorrow's MINE! Trails will be too wet, but I'll think of something.
Have some good family and definitely some good skiing!
The hubby got a junkyard antenna motor because the old motor kept going and making a horrible noise for a few seconds after the mast had reached full height.
Out of curiosity I opened up the old motor. Ahh, someone must have replaced a broken mast at one point, but when they did it they left a couple of pieces inside. That was jamming stuff up, knocked the gear out of whack and the spring support got broken. Okay then.
Hubby got himself a brand spankin' new radio because downward spiraling sparky, intermittently working occasional puff of smoke radio is apparently not good enough for him. (oh, how I would have laughed if that had actually caught fire - then cried, of course).
We learned where the dummy plug is on the back of the 99's center dash console (had read about it, but not seen it until then).
Also, so I don't forget, the BLUE/WHITE wire controls the antenna motor. He put a switch in so now his antenna is switched, too.
dummy plug? got pics? is that unique to only the '99, or would we also find that on our '96s?
On the trucks with rear window switch in the center dash there is a dummy plug, not our trucks. Ours are more sensible than that.
Originally Posted by hrt4me
where did you actually mount the switch (hint, hint, how about a pic)?
He's taken the truck to work, but it's a discrete small rocker in the back of the useless cubby under the radio. He just dremeled out a hole and stuck it in there.
Last edited by habanero; Mar 11, 2014 at 06:37 AM.
Feb 28, 2014 | 02:26 PM
After 5 holidays in Europe since 2001, being 1/2 Dutch, having friends who lived very near the East German border before the wall fell, and traveling in the East with said friends that aspect of European history has been of interest the last years. Weighty stuff. I'll pick up a lighter book after these two are done. 
- then cried, of course). 
