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by foggydogg
08 Apr 2023, 15:38
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Re: What did you do to your Volvo today?

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"OFF WITH HER HEAD!"
by foggydogg
27 Apr 2023, 19:40
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Day tripping in Northern Virginia...

...While various Doctors practice medicine on me. Then to the Bureau of Land Management office to pick up a lifetime National Parks pass. IMG_0154.JPG Little display area with survey gear. IMG_0155.JPG iPhone 7s take notoriously lousy pics. IMG_0156.JPG And out front by the security desk and magnetr...
by foggydogg
02 May 2023, 06:03
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Gordon Lightfoot, 1938-2023

A contemporary of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell and Ian and Sylvia Tyson, his songs were covered by a generation of big names in music. Gordon Lightfoot.jpg https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/arts/music/gordon-lightfoot-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=zs7FYp9yOCcAq4qOlwtMjjnOc8RVSrVVUaHOu8hXJikqpXJ...
by foggydogg
02 May 2023, 06:49
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Re: What did you do to your Volvo today?

1)Take off the exhaust pipe, and smack it with a BMF hammer ( pipe is 3" s.s. ) to flatten it out a little on the bottom. 2)Use a couple pieces of bar steel to shim the cross member down, and drop that section of the brace. 3)Take it to an exhaust shop and have them bend and install a new sect...
by foggydogg
08 May 2023, 06:31
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Re: Dissecting a cracked expansion tank cap -- 9445462

50/50 anti freeze mix coolant has a boiling point of 223*F. A 15 pound cap pushes that number to 268, which I think is plenty hot. If any of my two-decade old cars gets any warmer than that I would rather they puke on the ground to let me know they are feeling poorly, as opposed to pressurizing the ...
by foggydogg
10 May 2023, 07:26
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Re: What non automotive projects and repairs are you doing?

Fabricated a cross brace for a lifting eye overhead in the shop building...
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...using found objects.
by foggydogg
18 May 2023, 21:35
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Re: [WTB] 850 clutch and brake pedal assembly

Check with Robert, although he tries to keep full kits intact, but he may have a spare. He was headed back to Cincinnati at last report. Probably easiest to call him, his cell number is on his website.
by foggydogg
23 May 2023, 06:28
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Re: We're keeping our cars on the road longer

"...April's average new vehicle transaction price was $48,275" Towards the end of the Great Recession of '07 that money would've bought a house in a rural area of the country - and in some urban areas. That alone will inform the decision of the motoring public about whether to fix the old ...
by foggydogg
23 May 2023, 18:58
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Re: 5/22/68 Scorpion found the bottom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589) One of my sons just visited the USS Blueback in Portland OR. Last of the diesel-electrics, he said. Keep in mind wikipedia is the Wild West, anybody can post/edit anything, so take some of the ideas in that entry with a large box of Skeptica.