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Done anything stupid today
jenz58 - June 3rd, 2003 at 12:24 AM

Well I'd sanded and polished and painted a gennie for Bel (thought I'd do a nice detailing job)

Looked at the regulator cover this morning before work and noticed one side didn't have good paint cover on it. The regulator was on the gennie and all was ready to go into Bel. Hmmm, I thought, wrap paper over the cleaned back metal on the cylinder, should be right, spray some paint on...........

Well tonight I took the regulator apart and cleaned the legs on it that got painted and the screw heads, and sanded the squirts of paint off of the cylinder. Decided the fan cover was dodge so took it back to metal again and repainted. Somehow I've become some crazed perfectionist:o

All I need to do now is get that damn nut off the generator shaft which holds the pulleys on:D Na, have someone coming tomorrow to help

Hmmm, learning. Thick cord, thin cord D+, Df, for regulator. Could I blow something up if I'd got it wrong. Manuals are very handy


Bizarre - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:17 AM

Done any thing stupid - Yeah came to work!!!


kombikim - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:25 AM

yep, last night I adjusted the tappets out in the lane 'cause it wasn't actually raining, 11.30pm thought I would do that "one more simple thing" change the incorrect pilot jet sitting on one of the carbies for the correct solenoid operated one, simple,:cry by 12.30am it still wasn't simple & not running right, by 1am it was back to where I started. "one more little thing" late at night can be the ultimate disaster when the vehicle has to go to work at 7am:(


jenz58 - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:29 AM

So was it public transport then?:(

Hope things run smoothly today:sandrine


pyr0 - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:34 AM

anything stoopid huh well lets see, for starters getting on the train to get to skool then actually going to skool other than that im doing alright


kombikim - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:35 AM

NO it HAD to get going again 'cause it is my wife's car, & she would take my Humber:(

[Edited on 2-6-2003 by kombikim]


jenz58 - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:36 AM

LOL

Hmmm, I have to think about catching that train.

Done. Thought about it!:D


I'll get serious soon:sandrine

[Edited on 2-6-2003 by jenz58]


Andy - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:06 AM

Bad news Kombikim. It's amazing how frustrating things get that late at night. Been there too often myself!!
Sounds like it's going again though.
:)


kombikim - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:19 AM

yep it ended up fine again there was (is) a fixed 060 pilot jet in there so I replaced it with the correct 55 solenoid jet which was clicking ok but no amount of fiddling with the initial idle screw would make it run on 4 cyl, have to have a look in daylight, was quite a bit of work to get initial idle screw right again when I put the dodgy jet back in


pyr0 - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:20 AM

stoopid stuff *part2* 4today

teacher: are you doing skool work ??
me: yeah of course
teacher:ok show me what youve done
me: i showed him all the posts i put up

he wast impressed. lol you get that tho :bounce


Quickbug - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:40 AM

[size=4]Not yet.[/size]






[size=6]BUT ITS EARLY.[/size]


kombi_kid - June 3rd, 2003 at 10:44 AM

ahahahahahah not going to the sports carnival and working on my fastback!! very stupid idea i ended up finding rust :cry
cheers
rhys


type3kid - June 3rd, 2003 at 01:27 PM

i do something stupid every day,

GET OUT OF BED AT 6:30AM!!!!!!


kombikim - June 3rd, 2003 at 01:28 PM

how come so late?
you should set an alarm


type3kid - June 3rd, 2003 at 02:24 PM

i have an alarm, it's not bad at all considering it gets thrown at a wall every morning. lasted a long time, close to two years now, mind you it only used to go off at 7 am for the first year


BiX - June 3rd, 2003 at 02:44 PM

Not personally, but a friend last fri nite was trying to get her new engine running for the weekend, at 1130pm she worked out she had lost her kill switch key, once a replacement had been located(waking me), started the new engine to remember that there was no oil and that they had run out. so located oil at 1230 at nite. got it running.


buzzbug - June 3rd, 2003 at 03:56 PM

went to work,
jumped out of plane,
came home from work.

i think that is classed as stupid, right???


Starbug - June 3rd, 2003 at 05:05 PM

woke up really early
went to uni
thats pretty stupid, because im really tired now, feel really crappy and pissed off, but heres the clincher...

now ive got to go to work till 11:30....

life!:puke


kombiluva - June 3rd, 2003 at 06:00 PM

Yeah......I did sometjhing real studid today!

I FAILED a CISCO (Computer course) Exam today..........ahhhhhhh.........($@#!***).......Gee I hate that!
Less sleep and more study required!

MH


vw_carrera - June 3rd, 2003 at 06:10 PM

30th of November I got married


amazer - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by jenz58
Hmmm, learning. Thick cord, thin cord D+, Df, for regulator. Could I blow something up if I'd got it wrong. Manuals are very handy


getting it wrong would not be good. My simple trick for wiring or hoses (even when you have the diagram) is to wrap masking tape around anything you take off and mark where it came from. just mark them 1, 2, 3, or a, b, c. That way you can put things back without thinking. A good thing if you have a memory like mine.


vdbleu2002 - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:40 PM

bought a pair of empi repro mirrors on e-bay
bad mistake!!!!


Bizarre - June 3rd, 2003 at 08:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kombiluva
Yeah......I did sometjhing real studid today!

I FAILED a CISCO (Computer course) Exam today..........ahhhhhhh.........($@#!***).......Gee I hate that!
Less sleep and more study required!

MH



hah..... i know people who work/incharge there!! ....... big mistake!!


BiX - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:40 PM

spent the day looking at this forum and also looking at parts for the car. when i should have been doing my three assignments due on fri!

iam going to do this when i can't get them done in time:puke


jenz58 - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:47 PM

This forum is a trap once you get hooked:bounce


BiX - June 3rd, 2003 at 09:53 PM

must of spent about 6 hrs on here today. and didn't put up taht many posts. i so need to go racing its been to long!!!!

I need a fang!!!


helbus - June 4th, 2003 at 09:50 PM

Got involved in some unconstructive gossip!


Shani - June 4th, 2003 at 09:58 PM

Forgot to ask husband to put the soft top back on my Bug last night. It rained today and I couldn't drive it :(
There has to be a trick to those annoying tops! I can't get the dern thing to clip up right at the back in the middle. Either there's a trick or I need stronger hands...


Grey 57 - June 4th, 2003 at 11:15 PM

For the third morning this week , I got up got dressed and walked straight passed a perfectly good Oval, got into my late model company trolley and drove to work.
Were what I should have done is jumped in that oval, skipped work and cruised around all day. :cool:


vanderaj - June 4th, 2003 at 11:44 PM

Wasted all evening responding to and fretting about a legal threat against this forum which I can do precious little about, when I should have made some dinner, and settled down to watch The Bill and Buffy from last night.

Andrew aka "Starvin' Marvin"