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It'll be nice for you not to need a new rear every week and a half! 😂 And if the cookies ever show up, lemme know. I'm number 18 and I still have NO COOKIES!!!!

BTDT got the t-shirt. I was fortunate enough to get a salvaged transmission for the shipping cost from a bike that had spun a bearing (only known bearing failure on the forum.) I had a slight issue with second gear like yours, but 4th was actually much worse! I never got fast enough in 4th to be...

Well, technically, the seats are not on the main frame, they are on the rear subframe, which is bolted to the main frame. They certainly aren't behind the subframe like the top case is, but they, and the side bags, are on the rear subframe. The main frame carries the engine, steering head, and...

Picture with an intercooler, without an intercooler. Intercooler covers half of the radiator. Development issues. Picture of open motor? Why? And... who needs 250HP??? the 145 is all I can keep up with, amateur rider that I am! Although. I bet it tops out at better than our 155 or so,that I...

Make sure the ground spider recall work has been done on the 2006 if you go that route. A bad ground can make weird things happen!!! Also, make sure ABS works. 2003 won't have it, 2006 will. The solenoid blocks freeze up with non-use, and then there's no ABS when you actually need it. All of...

Anything is, as when it's high in the sky, there's a lot less air distorting the view! Astronomers call that "air mass," and if straight up is 1 air mass, something on the horizon is seen through 38 air masses. Looked at another way, straight up is 60 miles to "space," maybe a hundred miles to...

Unless you've stayed in a cave or under a rock, you all know that Jupiter and Saturn joined each other in the sky for their closest appearance together in centuries. My photography group was inundated with shots by everyone and his dog, showing the planets together in one frame of the camera...

OK, my car!!! Insurance money received and spent! After picking this up I have a couple of Franklins left, even!   2007 Jaguar XJ8 L Porcelain/Tan.     Paint is showroom, interior has tiny visible wear on the base of the driver's seat, but it is otherwise like new. "Excellent," as they say...

That's my thought as well... I'm not too fond of anything Jaguar has done since then. The current sedans are just hideous, with that pig snout they call a grille!

I wasn't clear about it, I can see now, but I've driven the car, met the owner, handed him the cash in his living room, made out the bill of sale and did all the signatures on the title at the same time. The only reason I don't have the car is that we can't get to the tag office to submit the...

And with the Mercedes money, I went and bought a 2007 Jaguar XJ8 L today, with nearly a grand left over! Don't have the car, yet, but he has my money and I have the title. We can't get to the tag office to "officially" transfer it until maybe Friday, but hopefully tomorrow. We both have to be...

Fuel mileage, by itself, can never justify a vehicle switch. That said, if your vehicle is dead and you need another one, look at the fuel mileage as a factor. If all you're doing is replacing a serviceable vehicle, you need way more justification than fuel efficiency. That goes for anything...

No clue on the notches. That wasn't done for this work, those were there when the sheetrock came off, and the boxes, while new, are in the same place as the old boxes. Oh, wait... The entryway had a banister rail with spindles down to the floor, kind of guiding you into the room against the...

Bulbs tend to blow in sets. Weird, electrical engineers say they can't, but something makes the second on go pretty quickly if the first one goes, and you might ride it quite a while and be completely unaware that one bulb is blown. The absolute FIRST thing to check when headlights don't work...

If they were leftover '20s, they'd be VIN'd as 20's. I can't imagine what it would take for them to change the model year on already built inventory...

That picture with the wires hanging out was during the work.

House repairs are in teh suckage. Electrical upgrades for code are complete, nothing else started, yet. I'm scared that my contractor is about to fold, with some of my insurance money already paid to him and nothing to show, yet... I don't have any real reason to believe that other than the...

Progressive called yesterday, they are totaling the S55, as I expected. The check coming is... generous. It's more than I paid for the car over the 22 months I've had it, including purchase, wheel-and-tire replacement, such repairs as were done, oil change, and fueling. In other words, use of...

One of the reasons I wanted to replace the top was... well, it leaked. Floors would get wet, my seat belt would come out of the retractor wet, and while driving, the front corner of the driver's window acted like a faucet that wouldn't quite shut off: drip... drip... drip... drip... So...

A follow up to the post I put in the How's the weather where you are thread, but it belongs here in my cars after hurricanes thread, since hurricanes are the reason this work is being done. I've replaced the top on the Miata, finally. It had damage to the stitches way back in Hurricane...