Better excuse than Alex's?

And I had me some babes Friday night, so I'm not jealous. Hell, I'm still full from the monster I ate at Freebirds for lunch yesterday. Oooo, speaking of, they're building a Freebirds in my neck of the woods, WHOOP!

 

Sounds like an excuse for a party to me!

 

Sorry for not keeping the thread alive. Unfortunately, I have a job and a life and don't spend all day either having sex with my car or talking about it on a website.

So yes, I suck at keeping pointless threads alive.

 

ouch... alright guys nice talking to ya...

 

This situation reminds me of a song:
TLC - No Scrub

especialy that part "can't get no love from me" Lol

Edit: PS your sig is still old :P

 

So has anyone thought about a 4th of July meet?

 

well autozone has an attendance points system and when i got pneumonia back in january and missed a bunch of days i gathered up a bunch of points. well i was actually fired for 2 days back then until i brought the papers i got from the emergency room, and they knocked off 3 points to keep me hired. that put me 1 point away from termination.

so up to the present situation on friday morning i had to be at work at 6:45am and the night before i got off work at 10pm, needless to say i overslept that morning and got stuck in traffic on my way to work which made me late and get my final point for termination.

good news is i have been looking for a new job for the past few weeks and i have an interview tomorrow morning with racetrac as an overnight manager so everyone wish me luck im about to go to bed so i can get a good nights rest before my interview.

 

good luck man

 

^ Ditto

 

Good luck!!

 

well as some of you already know i got fired today from autozone so i no longer get te hookup there.

 

that sux Brian...hope u get that other job

 

yeh me too but on a good note if anyone needs any installs done, right now while im unemployed will be the best time because im free pretty much everyday.

i am doin some part time work at a local shop so atleast i have a little cash coming in.

 

^----I might take u up on that...I just got my new brake pads

 

dude, how'd your interview go?

 

it went good i think im waiting on the call for the second interview with the district manager now but im not sure if im going to take the job if they offer it to me becuase the shop im working part time at is thinkin about hiring me as a mechanic

 

go for racetrack and keep the job at the shop for fun

Im currently employed at QT but i never work their, I have another job as a mechanic/inspector at a car shop, pays a bit less but a TON more fun
but racetrack; like QT, is a great company and treats their employees right. good luck with all that stuff

 

So last week Steve tells me his car is making an alarming popping sound when he drives. After work we jack the car up and find that the driver side front endlink isn't fully tightened to the sway bar. We tighten that and go for a drive; it still pops. I get out and he drives into a driveway and we discover it's now coming from the passenger wheel area.
We get back to his house and get the car up in the air. I placed a jack under the brake and starting raising and lowering the whole front wheel assembly minus the wheel. We pinpoint the popping to a certain range of compression and decided to loosen the bolts on the top of the shock tower.

Once the bolts were loosened, the shock compressed and then the bolts retightened the popping stopped. My thinking was that the shock just became displaced slightly. Maybe that little plastic shim broke away?? Any ideas.

On a side note, when I was adjusting his rearview mirror it cracked the windshield....how fucked up is that ****?!

Anyway, when's the next meet?

 

No clue on the popping but thats freaking crazy about the mirror!!!

I'm wondering the same thing...

 

Haha you missed the last one....

 

i dunno the shop pays $4 more an hour than racetrac is offering and the same amount of hours

 

Because I was busy destroying Steve's windshield

 

Yeah you did! lol....oh well hopefully it can get fixed.

That stupid noise came back though....hopefully it is just that little plastic bushing on the strut and nothing else....

 

I posted this in a different section of the forums but maybe some of y'all can help a brotha out... Ill C/P word for word what I wrote :

Just last night I was double clutching ( Clutch in > Neutral > Clutch out > Rev > Clutch In > Gear > Clutch out) from 4th to 2nd and it didnt quite feel good, I know double clutching is better but it felt like it grabbed a little and notched 2nd a tad in a bad way. I wanted to throw-up... No more double clutching for me after that, Ill just leave the clutch in while I rev-match... Im worried 2nd is going to start grinding and acting notchy like my 5th gear did before I got it replaced.

Before I got my new 5th gear it would be very grabby, not in a good way, grind a little, then go in. It was like a "mini-grind" but it'd go in.

Worst part about all of this is my Warranty expries this month (June) on the 19th... So I gotta get my baby in and tell them what happened so its documented, so if later it does start to **** itself Ill have some proof I tried to get it fixed and they didnt...

Other than the 5th gear that crapped out REALLY fast and this incident last night with 2nd (only double-clutched twice, 2nd time was to see if I messed up the 1st time) my transmisson is good. It has weird quirks ( like my 3rd gear like falling into place but it feels like its rubbing something tough and sometimes engages hard) but no grinding issues...
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