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I just realized that there are almost/over 40 Kidz Bop albums.

How the hell was this allowed to happen.

 

1. About how many miles are on the engine and what kind of abuse does it take?
2. If you know how to wrench, you could take apart the old engine and replace whatever is broken. Engine rebuild kits cost less than the entire engine normally, and if you were to purchase another engine, it may have the same issues within a month. You can borrow a blowby tester from the auto parts store. Normally they let you use them for free.

 

SITREP: Was too chicken to disconnect MAF with engine running. I still think it sounds a little "off", but the rich smell goes down to almost nothing (and the ammonia notes increase) as the engine warms up. Furthermore the burble is significantly harder to hear on a warm engine, to the point where you pretty much have to get right by the tailpipe. You'd think, since oil is thicker at low temperatures, any ring-seal problem would be worse, not better, on a warm engine, but who knows.

Also, there may actually be water in the tailpipe, as it seems to pool at the very end (I got some on my finger and it doesn't look like coolant so ...?)

@Harkin Labs Gaming: Almost certainly over 200K miles and has not led an easy life. Used/abused by the teenage son of its first owner who was not gentle and apparently drove it off a cliff at one point, rebuilt by the shade-tree mechanic I got it from, odometer rolled back at some point by someone other than me, overheated several times since I got it thanks to a temperature sensor gone AWOL causing the radiator fan to not come on when it should, though only once to the point of vomiting coolant (the very day I got it, the first place I went was the drive-through to get lunch and show all my then-coworkers; I didn't know about the sensor at the time). I try not to rev it too high since there's no tach, but it had some crazy super-high-idle stuff going on for a couple days recently (since stopped).

The problem with wrenching is I'm pretty much a rank noob and furthermore I 1. depend directly on this car to do my job and 2. have a funky work schedule that keeps me from taking an entire week just to work on my car.

 

Well, my suggestion would be to buy an OEM service manual from ebay and have a stash of spare parts ready in case it breaks. About the water in the exhaust, look to see if the drain hole in the muffler is clogged. It could be preventing water from draining which could change the backpressure. When I had my SAAB 92-X, the previous owner cut off the muffler and made a cut in front of the catalytic converter, which made the car run bad and occasionally caused it to afterfire. It ran much better and stopped afterfiring after the muffler was welded back on and the catalytic converter was properly sealed. Now that I think of it, check to see if you have an exhaust leak somewhere, because that could explain the entire issue.

 

40 degrees Celsius today, not making any mod progress, it's too hot to think.

 

According to the official forum it's almost trivial, and I was actually looking up information on that earlier in case I needed to quickly "expand my horizons" in terms of which engines I can just dump in on short notice.

Of course, then the problem becomes finding a place to do it (I know a couple people with garages, but one's a sloper and may not be home), figuring out if one of them has an engine hoist (and finding one if they don't), finding a way to actually get the new engine to the garage, not screwing up the whole operation so the car won't run at all and I don't know why, etc.

Plus it may or may not be illegal because EPA (I've heard that even newer engines are illegal without prior approval).

Other than that, I don't really have a problem with it. It's still a CVH, so won't kill my dream to eventually build the fastest naturally aspirated CVH Escort in the entire US.

 

What if that Escort just has 1st silencer internals busted?

 

You even got the gear to test the MAF and do any more than a visual inspection? Can still often visually inspect, look all good, only it actually has an electrical fault. Some you can measure the output voltage on a multimeter against a known good range, though drastic changes in air pressure and temperature can impact the reading at idle I wouldn't be concerned about a reading of 2.54V against a reference of 2.4V. Some you need an oscilloscope

 

I do have a decent multimeter that I bought some time ago.

Supposedly, you're supposed to probe through the insulation while the engine is running and, after verifying that it's getting ground, you rev the engine and look for the voltage to increase and decrease. If it stays the same, then the sensor is no longer transmitting useful data, leaving the ECU blind.

 

I'd suggest buying a copy of a haynes maual. Most problems i've had wit my saab can be found in these

https://haynes.com/en-gb/ford/escort/1990-2000

 

I get to drive my Clio for the first time since mid September tomorrow!!


Going home from university for Christmas and I cannot wait. Let's hope I can remember how to drive a car

 

That confirms it's getting you a signal yes but not that the signal level is correct. Quite possible for an old MAF to under/over read. Also doesn't work for digital MAFs though they won't be an issue in an old escort

 

This is something I would've shared in General Discussion if it wasn't taken away.

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I came across this video and it left me like WTF for a couple reasons.

What really gets me is that the kid featured in this video has more money to spend than I do.

 

so probably does a 5 year old kid or whatever (EGTV i remember being in the news), $1000 is a lot to most people, not to these i assume. But there's no point dwelling on it, strive to make more money (if you are thinking that bad about it, then you could probably do with more ), if not then just put it past you, there's millionaires out there, so what. some things can't be bought with money.


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*sigh* don't know whether i should take apart my MacBook Air, i could break it and it's my last laptop standing, i really need to clean the fan, it roars quite a lot, but i'm not sure if it's actually that dusty, or whether new websites are just really heavy and un-optimized (leaning towards the latter). After all, it is only a Core 2 Duo.

Also, i'm not sure if i should really get into the mac eco-system again, i really enjoy my MacBook Air, not too sure if it's just the fact it's lasted 8 years without fault, but it is such a joy to use, no racking my brains out with Windows Updates and reinstalling the OS every five minutes, the touchpad is gorgeous where the scrolling is so fluid, the glass touchpad is just amazing. The keyboard is fine also, the only issue is the CPU+GPU and RAM, basically all that makes it a computer. And that is why i can see how Apple kept the design the same since mine. (core 2 duo until 5th gen broadwell is pretty damn impressive!) But to get a MacBook pro is such a compromise for the User Experience, and i don't really benefit from most of the MacOSX features like i used to when i had an iPhone.

Mind you, this is probably me being a perfectionist again, it's a real turnoff when i'm scrolling through a web-page and the touchpad just stops. but otherwise i can survive with Windows. It's probably because the only windows laptops i have used are either really old, or cheap and relatively nasty. Like my 2006 HP Compaq NC8430 could scroll quite nicely, but again, showing it's age, the fan would get going quite a bit just on relatively simple web-pages, it was just to inefficient.

I hope to get a new laptop soon, i might get a Dell XPS, whatever the new touchscreen one is, but the problem is that no single laptop yet fills my requirements, *sigh* and AMD Picasso looks weak also. Again playing the waiting game, did the same waiting for Vega but that was a let-down.

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When I go grocery shopping, koalaty is paramount.

 

If this rail network functions, what is British Rails excuse?


Today has been fairly chill for me. I went to the skatepark, didn't run anyone over, so that was a good time. Then beyond that I have been playing some OpenTTD, I don't always play it, but when I do it tends to draw me in.

 

Because in a video you don't have the accumulated weight of the British government (i.e. probably one of the very few in the west even worse than the US government) holding you back?

 

I do hope you realise that was a joke

 

I think I overdid it finding models

 

holy hell
thats a load of models
what do you plan on doing with all of them?