Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
For those of you waiting with bated breath, I did finally get the truck all sorted out. When I bought it, I had a pre-purchase inspection done, which revealed that the DPFE sensor was the cause of the Check Engine light I'd noticed.
On something of a whim, I went into the Car Quest store across from my workplace earlier this week, and asked if they carried the replacement sensor. Indeed they did, and once I got a look at it, I realized it would be foolish to ask someone else to replace it -- two bolts, two tubes and an electrical connector. This is a job anyone could do with two wrenches and a little bit of patience.
So I replaced the sensor, and disconnected the battery for 10 minutes, to clear the check engine code from the computer. I drove it everywhere I went for the next few days (which was actually kind of gross, and I managed to get a parking ticket, because I'm so out of practice with parking habits), and when I went into the emissions testing station yesterday, they gave it an immediate pass. Previously, it had reported "Not ready" twice, which I now think was the computer cleverly insisting that the busted DPFE sensor really was important to the process. I had been concerned that I wouldn't get it past the emissions test in time to avoid the late fee for transferring the title. Fortunately, that all worked out just fine.
I'm glad that whole thing is done. I've parked it, and am back on the bike, and surprisingly happy about that. Driving around my 17 MPG resource hog wasn't enjoyable at all, and it was a real relief to throw a leg over the bicycle again yesterday.
Posted at 10:55 permanent link category: /misc
Bloggers Disappear, Friends Wonder
I've got a little roll of friends' journals and blogs that I check daily, but for the last month or three, it's been pretty arid out there. Tumbleweeds, like.
Where'd everybody go? I suspect I know, and I know the painted hussy you're all hanging out with. It's Facebook, isn't it. Oh sure, 420 characters is plenty of space to say something, and it's fun to play with what you can pack into that constrained space, but we want to know your in-depth thoughts as well. We want to see your stories, your successes and failures in more than a brief paragraph.
Even worse, maybe it's Twitter. Oh, Twitter looks good, but you end up jittering around like a meth-head, barely able to string two coherent thoughts together. An ADD service for an ADD nation.
Well, I'm here to tell you, break the addiction! Come back to your long(er)-form writing roots! We miss you, and we promise to read what you have to say with eager brains and ready comments, snarky or sincere as the entry warrants.
Posted at 09:47 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater