Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

DjGreggieP said:

iansane said:

DjGreggieP said:

 

Wix makes the Napa Gold filters so there is a chance this could help sort out the leak.

I think I heard recently that NAPA switched their gold line to another manufacturer?

There's been discussions of the switch happening, but the parent company of who's making them hasn't been told to us as of yet at a retail level.

The bulletin about the molded gaskets came out some time last year and we are *just* starting to see some of the molded gaskets in store now.

I know they used to be WIX filters but the last one I got from NAPA in Canada was a MANN with the NAPA sticker on it.

Still a good filter.

In reply to gixxeropa :

I don't have enough thumbs up to adequately express my agreement. 

It's February 1. I'm cleaning shop and sweating my ass off. I should have worn shorts.

Where the hell did winter go. 

Toyman! said:

It's February 1. I'm cleaning shop and sweating my ass off. I should have worn shorts.

Where the hell did winter go. 

Come take as much as you want.

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Dry air can reduce the effectiveness of bodies filtration system (a.k.a. Nose hair and mucus ).   

ShawnG said:

DjGreggieP said:

iansane said:

DjGreggieP said:

 

Wix makes the Napa Gold filters so there is a chance this could help sort out the leak.

I think I heard recently that NAPA switched their gold line to another manufacturer?

There's been discussions of the switch happening, but the parent company of who's making them hasn't been told to us as of yet at a retail level.

The bulletin about the molded gaskets came out some time last year and we are *just* starting to see some of the molded gaskets in store now.

I know they used to be WIX filters but the last one I got from NAPA in Canada was a MANN with the NAPA sticker on it.

Still a good filter.

Yea, some Gold say Mann&Hummel, some say Wix. Proformers (cheaper line, still a fine filter) have had Mann&Hummel for a long time.

We haven't had anything from corporate higher ups to say that its no longer Wix making the Gold series.

Probably as long as a certain percentage of the total filter line is made by Wix, we won't get an actual announcement about it. There has been a new line code for filters added to the system for months now but its not yet the *active* line code, so the switch is coming, eventually... 

Of note for you, we are having our filter booking sale (which is still afaik still a direct order to Wix) in March (10-14th) and I am in Yorkton SK, so up your way they will probably be having theirs around the same time as well if you wanted to get some filters on hand to have.

In reply to DjGreggieP :

I appreciate that very much but I do so little volume in oil filters, it's probably not worth it.

I've bought 4 oil filters in the last 6 months and those were for my own vehicles.

I've stopped doing automotive and i'm just focusing on powersports stuff now. It's much simpler to just use an oil change kit from the manufacturer when it comes to motorcycles and quads.

In reply to ShawnG :

Nothing personal but I'll stick with our winter. Yours looks less fun. 

We get more than enough snow to keep me happy. 

gixxeropa said:

solidworks uses 70% of my computers resources when I open it, my company's security software uses the other 30%. If I have any other apps open while I'm using solidworks, everything slows to a crawl. It would be nice to be able to use the browser while I'm working on a drawing but oh well. I even have to close outlook and teams

What kind of potato computer did they give you?

Rants? 

Every damn time there's an accident, mishap or catastrophe you get the ham 'n eggers that don't know their ass from $4/week telling you how it should have been.  How so & so did something wrong.  I'm sorry, you've never been on track, so you KNOW why a car crashed.  Not a pilot, but you KNOW why plane dropped out of the sky?

I sold my sailplane a few years ago to a guy from Washington state.  Flew here, checked it out, paid cash.  He seemed quite capable and confident.  Came back a week later with his wife and dog to tow it across county.  

Some time later i read about a glider crash.  My DG-300.  =~ (   

Mike died on the way to the hospital.  All these arm chair quarterbacks online are pontificating on what happened, how they would have not done this or that, blah blah, blah. 

Sometimes I hate the internet.    

I finally pull the trigger on a new-to-me daily.  Tuesday I go to the dealership, drive the car, it seems good, we agree on a price that seems reasonable.  They're gonna run it through detailing the next day and I'll bring a cashiers check from my bank.

Wednesday the Mrs takes me back to the dealership and drops me off.  I get the keys, shake hands all around and hit the road.   Made it about 1/2 a mile and go to turn left and the headlights turn off.   Back to the dealership and get a loaner while they sort it out.  Apparently there is an open recall on this issue so the car is taken up the street to the Ford dealership to have the work done.

The car?  A cream puff 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis with a whole 80,000 miles on the clock (I figured it was time for a comfortable roadtrip sofa/car).  A car widely regarded as one of the most reliable ever built.  Sigh.

Hey Shawn, how many times do you have to learn the same lesson? 

If 2-stroke engine are so f-ing sensitive to spark plugs, why don't you just put plugs in every sled that comes to you with running issues? Even if you get spark on both plugs when you test the ignition?

Cleaned the fuel system on this 440 fan yesterday, ran great at WOT but wouldn't idle. Double checked the idle circuits in both carburetors, all clean and flowing well. Pulled the plugs, one was wet, one was dry. FML...

New plugs this morning, thing runs like a champ...

New plugs, every f-ing time.

I need a sign on the shop wall or something.

In reply to ShawnG :

I learned that lesson many years ago. I also stopped using champions and just go with NGK now. 

In reply to No Time :

NGK is all I use.

In reply to ShawnG :

Which is somewhat odd because if it's plugs it will usually idle fine if it starts, and break up under load. 

People think two strokes are hard on plugs but I owned a 2011 Husqvarna CR150 for about 8 years. When I sold it, it had about 150hrs on it, mostly at race pace. It still had the original plug in it. 

In reply to ShawnG :

In reply to Peabody :

That's why I kept thinking it was the idle circuit.

I've had plugs fire on the bench but not in the cylinder. This is the first time I've had WOT ok but poor idle. I'm guessing because magneto systems make more energy as they spin faster whereas distributor systems make less.

In reply to ShawnG :

Ignition systems are weird.  Weak ignition in a rotary can manifest as poor light load but acceptable WOT.

I guess, really, "engines that choke on their own effluent at idle and part throttle" are weird 

I freaking HATE networking. Network devices never, ever seem to just play well with each other. I don't understand how networking is this complicated in 2025. 

brandonsmash said:

I freaking HATE networking. Network devices never, ever seem to just play well with each other. I don't understand how networking is this complicated in 2025. 

If we disregard the expense, this is the main reason I still don't have data for autocross. Everything connects wirelessly, when it connects, that is.

And now, my other autocross rant.
 

I had been trying to decide all week whether to do the eight hour round trip to Moultrie Georgia for a red Hills event.

I finally decided Saturday morning that I would be going today, and spent the next several hours swapping tires, changing oil, and doing other work on the car and in the garage. I forgot to actually register until about 4:15. Registration closed at 3:30.

This usually isn't a problem, I normally register for events as soon as they open. I'm not too disappointed, I've got plenty else I can do today, and I needed the race tires on the car since it's going in for alignment tomorrow.

Trying to apply for an e-visa for the country to which I will be deployed to.

All I was given in the email was the link to the country's government website to apply for the visa.

No guidance on how to fill out the application.

I was not given the date of when I will be arriving in country nor the location of which I will be staying at, which is required for the visa application.

No further instruction other that "Get it done".

It's E36 M3 like this that burns me up. I will have been with this company one year in a week. The entire time I have been employed here has been like this. It's infuriating.

Changing the oil on my tundra, the stream from the drain hit my pan at just the right angle to splash all over the place. Even made it all the way to the brake heat shield. At least I had a bag of kitty litter ready

Another wasted weekend. I can't seem to get E36 M3 done.

brandonsmash said:

I freaking HATE networking. Network devices never, ever seem to just play well with each other. I don't understand how networking is this complicated in 2025. 

Teaching myself wireshark right now to find and fix weird network issues. Totally not my job but it keeps coming up.