In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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BRENDA

Sunday, July 15, 2018 10:00 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't have any advice, but it does sound to me like the timing is off, as you suspect. I hope it gets fixed soon, SIX!

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Hubby's surgery went well, surgeon says "not cancer" (but of course, you always wait for the pathologist to weigh in!) so of course he's relieved but is on steroids and is very, very grumpy. Not too surprisingly, so am I! TTUL

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

*Fingers crossed* for you and your husband that it isn't. Glad the surgery went smooth too.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, July 15, 2018 3:55 PM

This thread had 666 posts, couldn't let that stand.

Recently heard about soy and the estrogenic effects causing cancer in human women (but not in porcine). Have you all discussed that in here lately?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, July 15, 2018 4:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So a guy my stepdad knew that he trusted with cars quoted me $275 to fix the timing if I need it. To the lay person, that might seem a bit expensive, but really I'd imagine that's quite a bit cheaper than I'm going to get quoted elsewhere. Honestly, 90% of the total job I did replacing that seal was getting down to the timing belt and removing it. You've got to remove the alternator/alternator belt, several mounting brackets, several plastic housings, the harmonic balancer and the power steering belt before you can even get down to the timing belt and have access to rotate the camshaft and crankshaft. At that point you're just 7 bolts away from removing and replacing the oil pump seal.

So $275 doesn't actually sound all that bad when you consider that my two quotes for replacing the seal were $500 and $600 before I did any work myself.

What I didn't really care for was the quote he gave me for doing the breaks. He said if I bought the parts he'd do it for $75 bucks. It's been ages since I had a break job done, so maybe that's a deal in 2018, but that seems rather high to me... especially considering while doing the timing job he already has one of the tires off and has full access to the passenger side pads.

I'm going to wait until after I work to call the guy back I really don't want to pay that much to have this part of the job done, but if I can't get it right myself I need to have it fixed. I'm wondering if I can ask him what the price would be if I got the car down there and stripped it down to the timing belt and he just fixed that for me and I put it back together myself.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

geez. IIRC, the last 6 vehicles I bought were $600 each.

And why pay somebody else to do a brake job? I did my last one some weeks ago, in my driveway in the dark and rain (ran out of time).

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 15, 2018 4:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
geez. IIRC, the last 6 vehicles I bought were $600 each.

I never got one that cheap. Got this one back in 2008 for $2,000 though. Served me pretty well for most of that decade. I've actually paid quite a bit more keeping legal insurance in that time than I've paid for the car in the long run.

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And why pay somebody else to do a brake job? I did my last one some weeks ago, in my driveway in the dark and rain (ran out of time).

Nah... I'm going to do it. I figured I'd ask for shits and giggles since half of what would need to be exposed would already be open. Not very impressed with that $75 plus parts response. I've never done breaks myself, but after what I just did I'd imagine it's a lot closer to changing the spark plugs than it is trying to get the timing right.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 15, 2018 5:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't have any advice, but it does sound to me like the timing is off, as you suspect. I hope it gets fixed soon, SIX!

******

Hubby's surgery went well, surgeon says "not cancer" (but of course, you always wait for the pathologist to weigh in!) so of course he's relieved but is on steroids and is very, very grumpy. Not too surprisingly, so am I! TTUL

Good not to get your hopes up until you know.

I'll just say that in 2018 it's probably not wise for anybody in the profession to say "not something" unless they know damn well it's not something. Mistakes can be made, and I'm sure all the doctors aren't out their quivering in fear about every single little thing they say, but I think your husband is is pretty good shape here. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Monday, July 16, 2018 12:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
This thread had 666 posts, couldn't let that stand.

Recently heard about soy and the estrogenic effects causing cancer in human women (but not in porcine). Have you all discussed that in here lately?

Don't think that was and I had heard that years ago. About human women.

SIGNYM

Monday, July 16, 2018 12:24 AM

Quote:
This thread had 666 posts, couldn't let that stand. Recently heard about soy and the estrogenic effects causing cancer in human women (but not in porcine). Have you all discussed that in here lately? - JSF

HAHAHAHA!

When I had an excisional breast biopsy to examine some very strange (to the pathologists who looked at it) tissue, I asked both my gyn AND my surgeon (who also does cancer research) if there were any foods that I should avoid and they both said SOY Don't eat it more than once a week.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

BRENDA

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 8:57 AM

Nice and sunny here today.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:25 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice and sunny here today.

Nice to hear it Brenda. Miserable and 89% humidity here. My sweat is sticking to my sweat. I honestly can't wait to go back to work so I can spend some time in the A/C again.

So my bro is going to try to arrange something with his BIL next week to maybe give me 15-20 minutes of his time. My plan is to go to my bro's house in the afternoon and strip the engine back down to get the timing belt off, and when his BIL is coming home from work he can swing by and maybe between the two of us we can get the timing right. Then if I can't put it all back together again before nightfall I can just crash on the couch and finish it in the morning.

According to somebody on a DIY forum, the camshaft fighting with me isn't all that abnormal and shouldn't be anything to worry about. It's just more pronounced on some engines than others.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

1KIKI

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:31 AM

sigh

Blazingly hot and stultifyingly humid today - just like the last few weeks were, and the next few weeks will be. And despite the humidity, it's dry, dry, dry as a bone. Even the 100 year old native cedar tree and the drought tolerant native oaks are drying up, and constantly need to be rescued from death with whatever water I can get on them.

Rain and snow are how one pays for green landscapes. Without them, it would look like here.

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