Thinking
98 F150 5.4L E40D/4R100
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My wife is an ICU nurse and she caught covid at the end of last July and we both had Delta back in June of this summer. We have been vaccinated since March so that was unexpected. I missed work, not of my own accord, for the first time since I had my surgeries a couple of years ago. Not a good time. Lol
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From: Utah
Zinc is good too.
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Good morning thinkers!- hope you fellers had a good weekend- The ponies look good, White!
I like the blue jean blue, and magnetic metallic on new blue- i would look good on frankie, i think.- speaking of cheap paint- when my oldest wrecked his Topaz, he wanted to change colors- we went to Farm and Fleet, bought a quart of Ford blue, black, and International red, I mixed up a nice dark blue, dumped in some gloss hardener, reducer, and repainted the old girl!
it didnt come out too bad, i shot it on like the old DuPont Dulux- he was happy his car wasnt powder blue anymore!
Coffee cup is empty, back to the drag- ttyl!
I like the blue jean blue, and magnetic metallic on new blue- i would look good on frankie, i think.- speaking of cheap paint- when my oldest wrecked his Topaz, he wanted to change colors- we went to Farm and Fleet, bought a quart of Ford blue, black, and International red, I mixed up a nice dark blue, dumped in some gloss hardener, reducer, and repainted the old girl!
it didnt come out too bad, i shot it on like the old DuPont Dulux- he was happy his car wasnt powder blue anymore!
Coffee cup is empty, back to the drag- ttyl!
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From: MntLk Ter Wa
Yesterday I finally got around to doing the zip-tie mod/fix. HOLY CRAP what a difference! I always felt like my 2002 5.4l was down on power compared to the 2000 5.4l in my previous F150. The 2000 felt significantly more powerful at least until I replaced the leaking intake manifold with a Dorman POS. I changed the plugs cleaned the MAF and the TB etc.and even through a new set of injectors at it that I got a good deal on. While it ran well, it just didn't have that much power. Well I was under the dash tightening up the infamous shifter screws when I checked the throttle cable. It had about 1/2 - 9/16th" of slack in it so slapped a couple zip-ties on it to see if made any difference. I expected maybe I would get a bit more when floored but it seems more like a swapped in a bigger engine. There is more power everywhere and when floored, it's a different truck now. I realize that at less than full throttle it is the same as just pressing harder but it really FEELS like more than that. I haven't even removed all the slack yet, just put those on to see if there was any validity to this and wow, there sure is!
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I take it those are your blood labs White. Optimally Vitamin D should be way higher. I had the same level as you in early spring.
My doc said get on 10 K a day and cruise till the fall and re test.
I'm at 50 ng/ml now. Hoping to hit 80 ng/ml by early fall. My lab has 100 ng/ml as max end of range.
If I can hit 80 ng/ml by fall or what not...I can cruise at that level with 3-4 K vit d a day.
All the people I personally knew who were hit hard by Covid had Low Vitamin D.
My doc said get on 10 K a day and cruise till the fall and re test.
I'm at 50 ng/ml now. Hoping to hit 80 ng/ml by early fall. My lab has 100 ng/ml as max end of range.
If I can hit 80 ng/ml by fall or what not...I can cruise at that level with 3-4 K vit d a day.
All the people I personally knew who were hit hard by Covid had Low Vitamin D.
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I don't know what I'd do in this situation... I'd like to think I'd jump in there. But I don't know.
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