Good Morning CGs!

Check out the date....won't see that again in your lifetime, huh? 10.10.10 Seems very ominous...

So where is everyone? Chat was dead yesterday. Is everyone on vacation? Hmmmm....

Supposed to work on my neighbor's exhaust today on the e150. I hate doing exhaust work. I'm sure it's fine in California or Tennessee, but up here the salt we put on the roads bonds everything together with rust and corrosion. Rust falls in your face when you're working on it and it's so bonded together you just about need a torch to get it off. And the bolts all rust and seize together. Awesome. Oh well, that's just the way it is.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Matthew

Good Morning....Yes Matt, it was dead yesterday. Maybe everyone was out driving their cars...I hope so. Nothing planned for me today, well at least until the wife gets up and tells me what we're doing. I might go to school and do a little paper grading...end of the first quarter is Friday.

I know what you mean about exhaust work, brutal, just brutal.

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Oh yea, the only thing that's worse is body work.
Watch your eyes, I got a piece of rust in my eye doung it when I was 15, had to do to an eye doctor, blah,blah,blah.

Crusin' weather here.

Sounds like a good day for safety goggles, Matt - I never seem to think about those until I have a bunch of junk in my eye.

Gotta wash the accumulation of bugs off the Maxima from our road trip - it's quite an impressive collection for this late in the season. Couldn't believe the weather we had - it was in the upper 70's and sunny both days, just gorgeous. Gonna go spend $300 at Home Depot later for a lawn sweeper, too. The trees we planted all those years ago are getting to be quite a mess.

Have a good one, everybody!

Good Morning!

I had a bad day yesterday in the garage. It actually started on Friday but I ignored it until yesterday afternoon. Friday I began removing the exhaust system from under the car. While under there, I kept getting dizzy when I would move my head one way or the other while laying on my back. I brushed it off and the vertigo feeling went away after a few seconds each time it occured. Yesterday, I was planning on removing the drive shaft, C-Beam and transmission. I even went to Harbor Freight in the morning and picked up a transmission jack. I had just crawled under the car and started removing transmission pan bolts to drain the trans-fluid when the vertigo started again. This time it was even worse. It persisted for a long time even after getting out from under the car. I almost tossed my cookies, but seemed to hold that off, but felt like crap the rest of the day. I need to get back out there and at least get the fluid drained and the pan back on tight for now, but its pretty odd feeling. I guess on Tuesday, I need to get this checked out. Anything to slow progress!!

It is a beautiful day, so I think I'll just relax.
Hope you all have a nice one too.

Had that happen a couple of times to me, Don. I think mine had to do with inner ear fluid. I hope yours is nothing serious.

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Thought you guys were just naturally dizzy.

It happens to me once in a while, not often. But, it's usually when I've been bent over the car for a while and stand up fast.
I thought about it when I was up on the roof last week.

Hope it's something simple,Don.

Oh, it's my youngest grandson's birthday today (6). We just had a nice big breakfast and sang to him and gave him his present. It's liable to be a crazy day here.

Don - hope that's something non-threatening! Have you seen a doctor about it?

I spent 4 hours even getting the exhaust done on the van. Almost two hours just to get the bolts lose. Combination of grinding away the rust, 1/2 can of pb blaster, and a breaker bar where I could get it in an a box wrench and dead-blow hammer where I couldn't. Of course the exhaust flange nuts were 15 mm....guess what size socket my impact set doesn't have. What a weird size. Oh well. Another hour getting the exhaust pipe separated from the catalytic converter piece. Another hour putting it back together, test driving, and scanning. Passes with no codes! Yeah. His emissions test is this month so we had to get it done. After that I ate some lunch and then changed the oil in the vette. Time for a workout soon.

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday so far

Matthew

Beautiful day, I'm going to pull the top and cruise as soon as the F1 race is over.

We got a dusting up top last week.

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Been gone this weekend to a family gathering in a small village about 90 miles away. Ultrawoman and Ultraboy went early to help get stuff ready on Friday and I followed later on. I took the Vette and showed it off to all the brother in laws and aunts and uncles.

They all like it a lot and we did our normal eat eat eat and watch football and play some games. We stayed in a crummy motel that still charged 100 bucks a night. What's up with that? The toilet wouldn't flush and the seat was broken and the TV was bad. We didn't have much choice where to stay but I told them they were charging to much.

I did get my AAA discount. I don't mind paying if its a nice joint but this wasn't. Anyway I got a chance to enjoy the Vette and love the way it runs and looks and goes down the road and everything else about it.

I get that dizzy thing when I get my head in a weird angle and a lot of times it's when I am under the cars or truck trying to raise my head up and holding it up for awhile. It's a muscle thing in my neck and started after a motorcycle wreck back a long time ago. I usually go to a bone cruncher and he gets everything all lined up and adjusted, then I will be ok for awhile. You might want to try that Don. Gotta go rest up before Monday.

Great day here in NE Indiana. Helped friends pull pier out of the lake. Friend let us take the jet ski out for a while.

Good evening gurus. Lately teaching has become a hectic, frustrating, time consuming,and totally aggravating job. Daily meetings after school and this week coming up three all day meetings with the state.
So with that in mind I gased up the Vette last night and my wife and I headed out somewhere... anywhere.... We took all the backroads to Auburn,Fort Wayne and Berne Indiana. Headed south to Muncie Indiana and west to Rockville Indiana and a covered bridge festival. Fourteen hours later were back home in Granger. Relaxed yes, Vette ran great, drone gets to you after awhile, thinking about next week..yea. I may let my nice side emerge a listen to the BS and chow down on the free food. Too bad the meetings aren't out of town, but at our school.

I was driving my Caprice to the monthly muzzle loading match on a rural road this morning, when a couple of Corvettes appeared in the rear view mirror.
I pulled over to watch them pass and sat there as 35 Corvettes went by. Found out later there was a huge car show out that way today.

Ron, you talked me into driving the Vette tomorrow. Poor thing is neglected, and I'll be putting it away sometime in the next 2 weeks.

Mojo, Don - hope that is nothing serious! Some years back my wife had something called labyrinthitis, which was 0 on the fun meter. It is an inner ear disorder, often brought on after some kind of cold/flu/galloping crud. She still gets some dizzy spells from it.

Yea, driving withe the top off, up the twistys, cruised Lake Tahoe, hit Squaw Valley and just walked around.

Tonight - my first try at Chicago Deep Dish Pizza.
If it turns out good, pics tomorrow.

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Had Chicago Deep Dish Pizza Friday Night. Local place in Mishawaka. Its takes 45 minutes to make and minutes to eat.
Saturday night we went to a Vietnamese/Chinese Restuarant. Its funny to listen the owners speak their native language thinking that knowone in the restuarant understands what they are saying. "Owner" says to cook, "big guy(me)in table 12 with his wife wants Mongolian Beef maybe we give him rat HaHaHa." Owner returns with our drinks I tell him in his own speek "I would rather prefer beef, rat and snake are a little chewy and bland" HaHa! HaHa is universal, kinda like f(*^ you its universal too

HaHaHa!!

Two more weekends and I put the 87 and Erin's Vette up for the winter. Both will come out to play in April. Erin is beginning to learn about soft tire compound and 34 degree mornings with a light frost. It would be nice to drive it all year round.

Thanks for all the well wishes. I'm feeling a lot better tonight. The wife and I went across the street to a nice restaurant on the water this afternoon and had a nice lunch and a couple cold beers. It took my mind off the dizzies. I'm off work tomorrow so I'm gonna get back under the car and dump the tranny fluid. If I do ok with that, I'll give the C-Beam and drive-shaft a try.



You guys talking about putting Vettes up for the winter... I wish mine was drivable for the winter. LOL

Take Care and Chat later

Well Don, since the Vette was down, look how many more times you took out the boat. You took it out how many times?

Just bustin your chops ,,,,,

I won about $500 on the slots. Unfortunately, I spent $1100 doing it. (donated $600 to the fun ships) Probably would have faired better playing red or black on the Roulette table. Gambling.... some people never learn. Time to start saving up for the next junket.

Glad your back Tommy! Hope you had a good time. Must have if you donated your fun money to the cruise line.

I'm gonna try one of them cruises some day soon.

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jealous.. I really wanted to get my ski's out 1 more time this year today or yesterday would have been good... but just doesn't seem to happen... was out only 3 times this year.. trying to put off winterizing them just in case...
-=Rick

Evening guys.....didn't do too much today. Had some neighbors that moved about 4 years ago stop by for a visit....it was real nice seeing them again. Of course I had to get the Corvette out to show them. They are a couple years younger than me...empty nesters....she really liked it, well so did he, but she really liked it. I told them "Take it for a drive", him "Nah, I might like it." me "All the more reason to take it." them "OK" They weren't gone very long, but the smiles on their faces when they pulled back up were worth a million bucks. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they didn't end up with one in the near future. it was actually kind of cool seeing the Corvette go down and come back up the street.....they are sharp looking cars.

While the Corvette was out, I decided to take the 6 year old for a drive....another one of those "million dollar smiles". I spent some time working at school grading papers as the end of the first quarter is Friday.

Oh yea, welcome back Tommy...glad you didn't leave all your money on the boat.