i would be lost without my steering wheel controls


In other news , stopped by at the dealer to get all my stuff off the old truck yesterday, got in and almost hit my head on the roof, hmm thats strange, i dont remember the seat being up this high, oh well not my truck anymore.

This truck is #8 I have leased from them in the past 10 years

 

Don't you have a library out there in Tooele?
128 W Vine St.
Back when I started out on my own in 1998
I checked into AllData with the old CD you would buy from Autozone et al. (it was 30 bucks a month back then)
I ended up getting a labor time guide in book form from Motor until I found Mitchell on demand at the library in Clearfield
Now I use just Alldata as their database is the factory manuals for all makes
I am sure that costs AllData a ton of money
The Mercedes and BMW manuals from AllData are verbatim Mercedes and BMW pages as well

 

I work on a few purchaser guys trucks
These guys buy million dollar CNC machines (Williams International)
One day the guy asked me how I came up with 300 bucks to put a clutch slave cylinder in his Nissan
He had left his W2 on his front seat
(of course I looked)
It showed him making 125k in 2000
That was the reason
I never jacked his rates but he tips me well and I still fix cars for him
I charge mainly on the clients wealth or my perceived wealth
If they are broke, I charge less, if they are loaded, I charge more
I need not show labor times out of the book much anymore (nobody around here can match my bids) and I only do the jobs I want to do anyway

 

The shop that offered me a job uses that. I would've taken that job if they had a better health insurance package.

I use the hell out of cruise - but that's the only option there, lol. My 2011 Escape has radio controls, but both my Wife and I still control it from the dash. I do enjoy the shift paddle controls on various vehicles though.

We do, but it's not even close to being as complete as county libraries. The library in Tooele is a "city owned" library, and they are not connected to the library in Grantsville. In SL County, every library is connected, and your card is good at any of them. Kinda got used to that luxury, lol. Maybe you missed my response, but I plan on going over there and seeing if they have it.

 

I'm w White in that I use cruise, and that's all I have. Wife uses her wheel controls for the radio. It's smart. It would consume too much of my brain power to figure it out. Usually I listen to the motor. Not much on the radio for me. I'd rather gun turret controls on the wheel anyway. The road gets my full attention. Not much room for music. Traffic is too just too lousy.

 

Missed a few days, there, guys.

White: This seems to give a rather wide range of estimates, but perhaps it could help you out? - https://www.napaonline.com/en/auto-c...pair-estimator

 

Thank you Ohio!

Geez... just for what I've completed so far:



I currently have the intake off. Someone has been in here before. They used orange RTV on the China walls. The rear was leaking profusely, and this is why... If you look on the two ends, it's flat. The intake was not making contact in the center, so it had a little gap in there.

 

damn phone...

 

Damn phone!

Ranger is done and delivered. It runs like a top. Accidentally crossed two plug wires when I was putting it back together. That made my brain panic momentarily. I was wondering if somehow I was off a tooth on the chain. But, it's all better now.

 

I was going to say you should come to MI and try it out. Transmission guys won't even talk to yuh w/o a $2500 retainer around here.