In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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Originally posted by Brenda:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I am thinking I may have to put a hold on that part of the series.

Ah, yes. Statehood. Was the want of gold that got that ball rolling. I had to look up when that all happened for South Dakota.

Sorry SIX. I forgot that you haven't seen the movie. Let's say it looked like he died.

It is good. Now, I just need a reup on my prescription for it. I hate doing things over the telephone now with my hearing being so bad. But I think it will be alright. Just have to concentrate on what the doc is saying and get him to repeat himself if I can't hear him.

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You know, Brenda. I guess I probably should apologize just for the fact that I didn't think about how close to home the topic of the show would be for you. Your ancestry certainly had a lot more to do with the events of that show, at least on the periphery than mine did. From anything I've ever heard about my family, I don't think any of us were here before WWI.

I guess in regards to to that, it's not as if they sugar coated anything or made most of the people in the show out to be great people. You're right about the Doctor. He was probably the only one who really was genuinely good.

It's been so long since I've seen it, so maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking that Timothy Olyphant's character was pretty subdued. I remember so many other characters in that show by name to this day, but I can't even remember what the sheriff's name was. I think that it was almost as if they had him play a bland character among all of these very powerful characters so he could be more of an Avatar for the person who was viewing the show rather than a real fleshed out character like he played in Justified. Maybe that's why I viewed it as more of a "Man's" show than a "Woman's" show?

Do you think I might be onto something there?



It is a shame that you couldn't see those early episodes of Season 3 though. I don't remember what you missed, but Deadwood certainly isn't the type of show where missing episodes is a good idea.



Is there any way that you could re-up your scrips online to avoid the hearing issues?

I feel sorry for your hearing loss. Mine is still pretty decent so far, but there will probably come a day where I really regret listening to all of that music in my car with speakers in the trunk that gave you a back massage. The dumb shit we do when we still think we'll live forever.



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It's alright SIX. I was expecting a bigger Indian and army presence than there was being a show about the old West. There should have been more use and or reference to the Dakota and Lakota peoples than there was. That was why I mentioned the army. My direct ancestors, the Shoshoni were another territory over being in Montana. Which didn't achieve statehood until the 20th century. Think I read somewhere around 1922. I know Montana wasn't a state when my grandmother, her sisters and brother were born.

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I think the choice not to have much of an Indian presence was probably intentional, although I could never say how historically accurate it would have been. It was not a government sanctioned encampment and was made up almost entirely of Outlaws, and I'd imagine that even though the few characters they put the extreme focus on were obviously all criminals and probably didn't lose any sleep at all over murdering anyone who got in their way, I'm sure the camp was filled with dozens or even hundreds of people who were just as bad as they were. I just don't know how interested the native people would be to go anywhere near the encampment unless they had a

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Hey. Did you two see that I managed to fix my car? It's legal for 2 more years now.

I woke up this morning and had to shake the cobwebs out before I realized that it wasn't a dream.




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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I PASSED!!!!!!

I reset all the codes first thing this morning and didn't expect that EVAP monitor to clear for days but it did almost right away (which was super strange since I was running on fumes and the drive cycle says to have it at 1/4 to 3/4 of a tank of gas to get it to run).

O2 sensor monitory took a LOOOOOONG time though and I was worried I'd ruined it.

Took a break after filling up and getting all the monitors to clear except for the O2 and CAT monitors, then decided to work on something I had control over and mowed my lawn in the 90 degree sun.

After that, I went out for another drive but was feeling kind of defeated so I was going to call it a day. A mile from my house the CAT monitor still hadn't cleared. When I got inside my garage and put the car in park it was finally clear!!!!

Went right up to the emissions and got my car certified for the next two years.





So what was the trick this time?

I put 300 miles on my car at speeds between 70 and 95 miles per hour over the last two days with 2 gallons of lacquer thinner in a full tank of gas and ran her down to fumes before filling up this morning and doing my drive cycles.


As your mechanic, I do NOT recommend that you put lacquer thinner in your gas tank or drive 20 to 30 miles above the posted speed limit.



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HOLY SHIT!!!!

Yeah, sorry, I mised this bc I was only skimming the Deadwood posts. (Never having watched it, I have no idea what it's about.)

WOO HOO!!!

Lacquer thinner, eh??? Some have acetone, some have toluene. Some have both. As chemist, I'm curious what YOURS contains. If it lists it, let me know!

You must have had some stubborn deposits in there somewhere that only a good solvent could clear. (That, or someone maliciously put sugar/motoroil/gunk in your gas tank.) Between the solvent and running it at hot temps, it sounds like you dissolved off and burned off whatever was fouling your system.

Great that you're legal again!

BOLO for the failure of rubber or plastic-type gaskets or fuel lines (carburetor seal, valve cover gasket, head gasket, etc) Old car/old components + aggressive solvent = component failure? Just a thought, prolly will not happen.

CONGRATS!!!!

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Going back thru your posts about Deadwood, I see there's a lot of interesting discussion about it. So even tho I haven't watched the series, it certainly does seem engaging!

Interesting points about the (lack of) Native presence, and comparisons to video games (avatars and decision trees).

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Laundry day for me as I have a dentist appointment next Saturday. So later peeps.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
HOLY SHIT!!!!

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Right?

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Yeah, sorry, I mised this bc I was only skimming the Deadwood posts. (Never having watched it, I have no idea what it's about.)

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If you ever get the time, I feel it's a worthwhile watch. Not sure if Brenda would agree. Not in my top 10 shows or anything, but would probably pretty easily make the top 50.

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WOO HOO!!!

Lacquer thinner, eh??? Some have acetone, some have toluene. Some have both. As chemist, I'm curious what YOURS contains. If it lists it, let me know!

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I see that the brand I used has acetone. I see no mention of Toluene in the product explanation. I did see it stated that this product is not for sale in California.

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You must have had some stubborn deposits in there somewhere that only a good solvent could clear. (That, or someone maliciously put sugar/motoroil/gunk in your gas tank.)

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Nobody put anything in there. You'd have to pry off and break the gas lid to get inside if the car was unlocked, and I never leave the car unlocked if it's not in my garage.

No... I'm afraid this was years of neglect and abuse on my part. As little as I did drive, I still put quite a few miles on that car when the old flex pipe was completely rusted out and was bellowing exhaust right under where I was sitting. I was driving to and from work even in the winter with the windows open just because I knew it was probably getting into the cabin from underneath.

I've always used the cheapest gas. I probably let the spark plugs go years longer than they should have gone without changing them that first time. I've never taken it to a shop for a tune up in the 14 years that I've owned it.

When I was leaking 1.5 quarts of oil on my 36 mile round trip to work, I was dumping off-brand 10w-40 by the caseload through it after hearing online that it was safe to put in old cars that require 10w-30 (and we all know how everything you ever read on the internet is true, right?)


I mean, honestly.... as much as I resent the Government for doing the emissions which disproportionately screw over the people who can't just afford to go out and buy a new car every 2 or 3 years, the amount of work that it's forced me to do on my car and all of the expensive cleaners I've put through the system that I never would have done on my own otherwise really have the car running a lot nicer than it has in years. Possibly even better than when I first got it back in 2008.

Now I won't be going out and putting premium in there every time I fill up... especially not now. But I think I will put 1 bottle of injector cleaner and one bottle of sea foam through it every 6 months from now on, and maybe once per year I'll use the Sea Foam spray right into the throttle body.

I did manage to get 25 quarts of Shell 10w30 oil at an EXTREMELY low price when it was on sale a month or so back, so I'll be able to change my oil quite a few times with much better oil than I'd been putting into it for the majority of my time owning it too.

I think I might also treat myself to a new interior and exterior door handle since I've had to really rig my car up stupidly to even get in and out of it for years after 80% of both of the handles snapped off.

Maybe I'll even get really crazy and see if a bottle of Freon/sealant might actually make my A/C that never worked operational again.

Maybe.

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Between the solvent and running it at hot temps, it sounds like you dissolved off and burned off whatever was fouling your system.

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That was the idea, from the video that I watched. I'd seen that video two years ago when I was facing the same problem, but fortunately didn't need to resort to this at the time since simply having the mechanic weld the new flex pipe on after I cut the old one off and running some cleaning products through the system was enough to get the light off for about 1.5 years.

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Grea

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