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  1. On 12/3/2022 at 5:54 PM, Gil Bang said:

    Vega's were a horrible design.  Aluminum pistons, aluminum block.  Seizeville.

     

    My buddy had a fiat spider.  Even in Socal, it rusted like a motherfucker.  You could look down at the floor and see the road. 

    Not exactly correct. I got 125K on my Vega without issues. The design issue was aluminum block without steel sleeves for piston. Any temperature issues warped it. Dad bought several for 100 bucks or so and sleeved the engine and they ran fine after. Delorean's book said the beancounters removed the steel sleeves. However the body rust issue was real. They learned the hard way that certain metals rust when touching - like the clips holding trim on. However any mid 70's car was a mess as they tried to go from horsepower to fuel economy overnight

    The Vega was fine for me. Also had 2 Fiats which were not fine. We also had a couple of Corvairs which were fine since they were after 1964.

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  2. 15 minutes ago, Jasper_Jester said:

    Please do not edit this.

     

    Note: I would prefer to be the only QB that has won a superb owl vs one of so many that have won super bowls

    Actually laughed at it and then remembered that Super Bowl is trademarked so you can't use it in advertising. Wonder if you could trademark Superb Owl?

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  3. Love the old eye2's but after 30 years there have been a few changes. Most of the big gains are in woods but irons have enough for you to look at. First you get a lot of shaft choices. You mentioned reshafting the Pings but the original clubs had 2 or 3 at best. Second - everyone is now going to stronger lofts and shaft length. Your old 7 iron is now 8 or 9 iron.  Third - eye2's were famous for heel/toe weighting but newer clubs have really tweaked it.

  4. 1 minute ago, AUinHsv said:

    If you use the vice make sure you get the hard rubber insert to hold the club. Otherwise you just dented the shaft. That scraper works well. For some reason every Callaway club I have regripped in the last 20 years has industrial strength factory grip tape. No clue why Callaway uses such strong stuff

     

  5. On 11/4/2022 at 3:21 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    Vice or golf clamp makes it easier but ive regripped a single club or putter standing up. Very easy 

    hook utility knife is nice but regular one works good enough. The worst is the old grips just caked on the shaft, and having to scrape that entire grip off. 12 or 13 times 

    If you use the vice make sure you get the hard rubber insert to hold the club. Otherwise you just dented the shaft

  6. 7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


    Great feel, love the more tapered design. Yes, they last a very long time 

    Find one of these or something similar, makes the job much easier 

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    get two way tape. One long piece over the end and as close to the bottom of the grip as you can get. Do you a have a vice or set up ? Align the club head square. 

    Finger over the grip hole. Fluid and flip / spread inside. Pour over tape. I always used plenty of fluid. Align grip before slipping on, be quick. Slide on and final align. Don’t diddle daddle. Get it on and square it up asap 

    Also get the hooked knife blade to cut the old one off. Man I miss Golfsmith for stuff like this. I actually did all my woods once with a steak knife in a Residence Inn room. Wasn't too bad except for not having a vice

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  7. 5 hours ago, blacklab said:

    Yeah, I think I like buying tools to do the work more than actually doing the work. 

    For the transfer and diif make sure you check what the plugs are and have the right tools. On my 01 4Runner the front diff has a screwy hex plug. You use a hex wrench adapter and it's an absolute pain. No clue what the idiot engineer was thinking except all the other plugs use a socket so I have to choose something totally different. You can't any leverage unless you get it off the ground. Breaker bar just hits the ground or is lost in the frame.  And of course make sure you can get the fill plug out before pulling the drain plug :) Only forgot that once and it took a lot of work to fix

     

  8. 42 minutes ago, Dewey said:

    They've had 7 coaches since '98. Granted, we're trending that way, but not kinda like... Not yet. ;)

    Math is a little off - Bowden, Tuberville, Chizik, Malzahn, Harsin.  As was mentioned he just was not a fit in SEC. I am pretty sure both the AD and new coach will at least understand the SEC.

     

  9. Sorry for laughing but the idea of a store only having one side is what would happen to me. On a holiday. At least you have traditional shocks and not struts. Was looking at mine on the 2001 4Runner and trying to decide what local garage has a press. No way on earth I am using spring compressors on truck springs

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  10. 9 hours ago, Horn80 said:

    A&M is being universally recognized in media for being fools for signing Jimbo to the worst contract in sports history. 

    Not even close....

    https://www.businessinsider.com/nba-will-pay-two-brothers-500-million-to-get-out-of-crazy-business-deal-made-in-1976-2014-1

    As background the NBA/ABA merger left two teams behind. One took a one time cash payout. The other took a percentage of the TV contract until "the end of time".  Granted this was in the 70's and the NBA championship was on tape delay but suddenly Magic, Bird and Michael showed up. In defense this was the last negotiating point  to allow the merger and it was something like 3am so everyone agreed. The family of the Memphis team appreciated all the hard work for almost 40 years. Got millions for doing absolutely nothing

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  11. Love the early morning game... They should coach how to run the pick play better than that. Still scored after penalty

  12. GT40 and IIRC this is a Shelby Daytona. Not cheap. Notice bumper sticker

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    A friend of mine bought a barn unseen and found this in it. Not this exact car but the same color and engine - Cutlass 454

     

     

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    Just in case of fire - a hundred year old engine that still works. City tuned down an offer of 1 million for it

     

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  13. To cheer us up after seeing upside down car. Went to a smaller car show in the Von Braun Center today. Still had a few really high end cars there

    Very rare Judge - because of the paint color

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