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oooooooooooh la la... she needs to go a lil further tho

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2485256157 Who paints a pipe YELLOW... honestly!

the gf's mom works for daimlerchrysler in auburn hills, MI. just sent that to her e-mail... she's in for a funny surprise in the Friday A.M.

Rounding the edges makes it less harsh or hard to shift, but you also have to backcut neutral to make it easier to find.

http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30971 there's a pic of that lil bracket in that thread also.

Bumpity bump bump

Held the crank with a strap wrench and busted out the torque wrench. The strap wrench didn't have much flex to it so the torque should be really close to what was required.

Yeah, flywheel/stator/timing plate have to come off. They will hold the case together otherwise. Make sure and user a proper flywheel puller (NOT a jaw-type) to get it off, and the rest is just basic hand tools. As was mentioned, there is a small half-moon shaped piece you gotta take off. It tends to be missed . I circled it in red in this pic of my clutch-side.

Mmmm.. could always expand on the "Bluntman & Chronic" superheroes (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, for those of you going "huh?")

Brooke, I could have *sworn* you had a copy of Quark Express... If you need help locating it, PM me

Yamabond #4 for re-sealing. I did exactly this (thanks Walter for the advice on it, too) a few months ago to swap out gear clusters but didn't want to rip the whole engine apart. Flip the engine on its head (literally), pull the case bolts from the bottom and top, and pull the bottom of the case off. If you need to replace the seal behind the main gear, you're going to almost certainly need an impact wrench to get the nut off of the crank on that side.

Doesn't sound like they're "putting time and research" into their stuff if they're using another company's motherboards... and, personally, I hate being told to go F myself and "use the restore CDs". Some of us don't want a bunch of demo software and crap loaded on our machines. Sony is a chief culprit for that also. Just want my drivers, a Windows or LInux CD, and a little time. I've worked on hundreds of machines, probably thousands at this point, and HP ones are still the worst.. in my opinion. Laptop hard drives in desktops? Perhaps just in the small form factor ones. I have seen thousands of Dell desktops and *never* seen a 2.5" drive where a 3.5" drive should be. Why the hell would ANYONE do that anyway, when laptop drives cost quite a bit more? Can you explain that to me....? sredish: congrats.. you'll like it!

Mmmmmmmm... UNIX-based OS. Mmmmmmmmmm. Open a terminal window and just "rm" something

my ATC70 or the 110 once the carb gets rebuilt...

All the ones I've dealt with were just a heavy wire mesh.. not like window screen Rigid stuff. but yeah, that's all they do at SL.. insert a f lexible rod and if it stops, you should be good. if not.. well...you're not good. If yours just got rusted out or something and fell apart, replacing it with a custom deal might be okay. If you're trying to dump some mesh in some other silencers... well.. they may check for the US Forest Service Approved stamp on them and you won't be able to get by. Not sure though..

IBM is good. Dell is good. HP is nothing but proprietary garbage when it comes to their workstations and laptops. EVERYBODY uses cheap parts -- the difference is whether you're stuck buying a stupid combo modem/soundcard from HP because yours burned out, or whether you can buy a standard PCI modem or soundcard at any store to throw in your Dell. Compaq is the same as HP (same company now basically) but their high end servers are nice. No complaints about those. Plus, Dell's driver downloads on their site are 100% unparalleled. IBM is following closely. HP/Compaq? They tell you to go F yourself and use their restore discs -- crammed with MORE proprietary bullcrap software. You can't do a standalone driver download/install like you can with Dells. And, at least the Dell/Gateway machines don't use some stupid offbrand chipset for audio/vidio -- just Intel i8** series. Nothing whacked out. Dunno.. just my $.02. Dell may be the largest, but what you do NOT want with computers is proprietary hardware -- e.g., stuff you can't walk into a computer store or mail order from a billion different places.

In all harsh reality, the core of the Mac OS X is much better than Windows. Why you may ask? Do some reading about kernels.. recompiling.. customizing.. etc.. and the answer is right there. But, some of the software may seem slower. The harsh reality is that OS X is UNIX based and thus now very stable and nice. They have glitches -- who doesn't? But it is very powerful. Not that I'm a mac lover but... Windows is so not all it is cracked up to be. Windows.. aka The Security Afterthought.

Even with good memory it could lock up on install if.... 1) you're installing over the top of the old Windows -- e.g., not formatting the drive first 2) the machine is overheating Overheating happens a lot on those buggers. Sometimes the fans just get worn out and can't get spun up.. you can spin them with your finger or a small screwdriver to get 'em going. My old Dell CPi (300mhz P2) ran like a champ -- but the fan wouldn't spin up sometimes. Locked up in a Linux install.. finally got it installed but couldn't do much else since it would overheat. Since it was a Pentium, I threw a new fan in and it was fine. AMD would have probably melted nicely. I, too, dislike Norton. Symantec makes some great products, but, i prefer McAfee over Norton. McAfee 7 is pretty good.. its what I run here on my work PC. Supposedly 8 is coming out soon and is even better. Another customization that will speed your machine up is the antivirus -- nobody writes viruses to infect certain types of files, so set them in the "exclude" list so it doesn't bog your machine when trying to open graphics files or similar. The 12.1 powerbooks are nice. If the thing with your laptop & Walter doesn't turn out, those 12.1's are really nice. I'm a bigger fan of those than of the regular full-sized Powerbooks. They're pretty robust too... not a lot of stupid plastic stuff to break off like Toshiba/HP/Compaq.

Ohhh yeah, over-tweaking happens a lot. The best tweaks are just to shut stuff off you don't use, and move that pagefile to another partition. If you have a lot of RAM (which you do) there are other tweaks to make windows more RAM-oriented and not relying as heavily on the pagefile, which really improves performance, but... don't wanna over-do it! The only monitoring apps I run are a CPU monitor and a temp monitor in Linux.. its basically built in and doesn't require extra software (like the ASUS PC Probe stuff).. but I've seen machines with every piece of diagnostic, monitoring, tweaking, etc software installed.. some are OK, but a lot of them do more harm than good. A few simple registry mods are the only way to go, if you want to get deep into it. The Nachi/Welchia virus spreads so quick.. as soon as the TCP/IP stack (networking, basically) is initialized in the installation process.. the machine would be infected in <10 seconds. Some of the later ones are similar but don't spread as fast. Any of the above can easily make the machine severely slow.

and holy heck are there enough of us reading this topic at the same time?

Yeah, bad memory will almost always cause a BSOD. You may run into some file integrity issues also, if it doesn't BSOD, but those are relatively few and far between. Walter has the right method. You gotta wipe and reinstall, and apply all the security patches either 1) behind a router or other good firewall, or 2) off of a CD or si milar.. either way, they have to be put on BEFORE you get online or you'll get railed with Blaster, Nachi/Welchia, and more. When I'm done installing... I go and turn off a bunch of the services you'll never use -- Remote Registry, Messenger (not MSN Messenger.. totally diff), UPnP, and more. You'll never use most of those and they can be shut off to make it go faster and more reliable. Another trick is to partition the drive in a neat manner. You can create a small partition at the beginning of the drive for the pagefile (virtual memory),separate from your main C: partition. This makes it 1) faster, and 2) decreases fragmentation (very very much so!). Even if you have a gig of RAM, Windows has poor memory management and it constantly uses the pagefile (virtual memory) instead of RAM. The above partitioning scheme (Walter knows the trickery behind it, also ) is awesome. Walter can hook you up with that, and with a good WinXp setup, it'll be a bulletproof machine. The Mac isn't bad. Integrating it into a Windoze networking environment is easier with OS X.2 and X.3 (Jaguar and Panther) as they have M$ Networking support built right in. The only worry with the Mac is the availability of software. The Adobe stuff is available for it -- and Macromedia.. but others aren't. Just gotta decide if it fits your needs. Wireless, Bluetooth, basic other mobile features... well.. Windows/Mac.. you won't notice a diff! Its all in the software at this point, basically, as all of the processors use stepping to slow down when you aren't using them (save battery), and other stuff is quite similar.

Well... it sounds like you know what you want it for! If you're going with a lot of multimedia and then just some everyday stuff (e-mail, web) then honestly.. there's nothing wrong with the Mac. OS X is powerful (*NIX based!). No need to run anti-virus. No super-necessary critical updates you have to install or get infected. And the UFS (file system) requires virtually no maintenance, like NTFS does. On the flip side.. you already have the software. Windows XP can be secured really well, but you have to keep up with the critical updates from Mickysoft, and run an antivirus or just be really careful. ONce you learn what ActiveX stuff is in webpages (the little pop-ups.. "Do you want to run this?") and click NO to everything.. you'll be fine, totally. I haven't run an antivirus product, ever, and have never gotten a virus because I don't open stupid e-mails and keep up with my patches. Your laptop definitely isn't outdated. Mine's a 1.2ghz Pentium 3 (m) with 512MB memory. Dell latitude C610. More than what I need honestly. internal wireless, etc. And, running Linux, it kicks the crap out of most laptops out there. It sounds like yours needs a re-loading, and some securing. I can give you a whole list of stuff to do to make it run a lot faster than your vanilla WinXP install, and be more secure and problem-free. My $.02, in a nutshell.. reload the one ya got, and we can help get it secured against the world. Though if you're itching to buy a new one, you may want to go with the Mac.. you'll have one of each then. Oh yeah.. that "whole list" of stuff mostly includes shutting down unnecessary services, getting it patched and keeping it patched, and some other.. misc.. tweaks... since you got a lotta memory. REAL geeky stuff.. like loading the kernel into memory instead of the pagefile, blah blah. Nothing you have to know what it does.. but it helps and is UBER GEEKY>

T5s, soon to be ceramic coated

They shouldn't "burn out". They're basically just a screen that keeps hot chunks of carbon from flying out and starting fires. It may get clogged and need to be cleaned out, but the only time it would ever really need replacing is if the screen gets damaged or similar.