Changed the earl in Skooby the little brown clubster. New air filter too. Now to replace yet another dead TPMS sensor. I really dislike those, can't change the dead battery in them. Oh boy! :incazzato: Thanks to our friend Steven at eMINIparts.com. Great service & nice prices.
Steve's the man! Did my wreck picture get taken down? Someone here must work for Meridian insurance :cornut:
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Yea I have the beta too. It is doing all sorts of odd things. Like on the Runt when I plug the 9pin connector it in to the radio it wont play in the radio. It will only play on the phone or hearing ads!:mad2:
Today I am going to get the helmet out and give it a bath. Then change the oil and plugs on the Runt.
On my way to my "surprise" Birthday party. I don't roll the odometer over to 70 until next Saturday, but my baby sister's Bday is next Friday and this is the only time she could travel here. Be kind of strange seeing some of the family that I haven't seen other than at funerals for the last couple of decades. Y'all have a nice day.
Had to go help line up the companies 100th Anniversary parade. Lucy wanted her picture taken with some of the big boys. We had 57 trucks from all eras. My fav was the narly but uber cool 1944 snow blower. Engine on back powers the blower. I think it would actually be able to shed mini. Great time was had by all.
After two weeks in airport parking (covered), the MINI got washed yesterday afternoon. I drove down to the Austin area and back today to shoot a car, and drove through a very strong storm coming back. Heavy rain, pea-sized hail and really strong winds. The MINI is okay, but needs another bath. CD
Took Skooby the clubster over to Discount Tire to have the hole in the tire fixed. In & out in 40 minutes, good folks there. Once home I gave Skooby the full on spa treatment. Sooo clean.
Got a new donut/spare for my 2003 R50. The old one was, of course, 14 years old and although it was fine a few months ago, it's 0 psi now with a rotten valve, came apart in my hands. I don't trust 14 year old rubber in an emergency, especially when it's been hanging under the boot in the elements and the wheel is pretty rusty, so a whole new wheel/tire with fresh rubber from WMW did the trick. Just put a new tire on my wife's 2001 VW Cabrio's donut as hers is 16.5 years old. Tire rack is just about the only place to get replacement temporary spare tires these days.
I also keep a high volume hand pump (about 1.5" diameter by 20" long tube, not the real short skinny strap-on-the-bicycle types), a good pressure gauge, and a Dynaplug kit in the boot, but sometimes you want to get somewhere else besides the side of the road to plug it, and sometimes a plug doesn't work or isn't indicated by the type of puncture. I've actually had to put on the donut briefly a half a dozen times over the last dozen years on one car or the other.
Got a new bypass valve, tensioner arm, and window motor in the 2003 on Saturday. Feels like I'm building a new R53 one piece at a time. Also bumped into Dave.0 while he was getting his new supercharger etc installed.
It was a good weekend. I helped install my new Supercharger, Throttle body, Bypass valve and installed new MAP and TMAP sensors. So my car should be good for another 100k of fun.