Warmish, and overcast, with storming later. IF it didn’t rain all night. I went to bed late and the promised rain hadn’t started, so IDK what to expect today. Yesterday ended up relatively nice, with periods of pretty nice. No rain for me, other than a few spattered drops.
Went to my client’s house and did some poking around. Found a problem with a cable. Swapped an extender pair anyway just in case the extender was failing.
Left the site to head to my buddy’s shop, but he waved me off, which left me at loose ends. Hit the Goodwill outlet. Meanwhile, D1 has been having an “interesting” day. One male vs male fight in the hall, and two female vs female fights, one right in front of her. The video is vicious. No posturing and fake fighting like the girls did when I was in school. Congrats ladies, you are violent sl#ts, just like the men. What progress! #feminismrules
This was followed by a phoned in bomb threat that resulted in a brief lockdown. Not credible. Thankfully.
Da fuq is the world coming to?
The official communication from the school should be interesting. So far there’s been none. I will assume then that this is common throughout the district, and we just haven’t been told about any of the other violence either. Time, maybe long past time, to look at alternatives.
“Teach your children well”. Well… they’ve been taught, and we’re going to reap the whirlwind.
Stack. Look hard at your personal security. Stack some more.
nick
Soup bowls.
Public utilities are almost as sweet as government.
A “gravy train for life” as I heard one light rail consultant put it while talking to another regarding Seattle’s commuter rail projects while riding the bus out of downtown in 2013.
Of course the Geico Gecko is involved in Seattle’s “heavy” commuter rail … which only works north of the city about half of the time. The consultants worked on the “light” project.
Don’t mess with the Gecko’s soup bowls.
Texas is about to learn about feeding the Gecko.
Two divorces.
We worked hard for this.
Probably voted for Kamala and Joe.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tradwife-life-finances_l_6627c443e4b00ea555a50d30?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
My kids will be in therapy for years over my failed stint as the stay-at-home-parent. I’ll admit it wasn’t my thing, but the other adult in the household hated being the “mean” person to get the job done with regard to household income, which made the situation worse.
I believe Kamala is half Tamil Hindu through her mother. To certain Muslim demographics, that’s just as offensive as being Jewish.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tradwife-life-finances_l_6627c443e4b00ea555a50d30?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
–I thought huffing glue post went bankrupt? ⅓ attack on the ‘tradwife” movement, which dems HATE, using ’tradwife’ as an insult most of the time… then the rest is “women should be more involved in the household’s finances” which is gender role based advice, seemingly reinforcing stereotypes for the last 100 years… which if they felt the need for the article, clearly there are a lot of women still playing out that role and stereotype….
n
Tucker is wrong. Big time.
https://hotair.com/dennis-prager/2024/05/02/some-on-the-right-are-having-a-moral-meltdown-n3787617
Yes he is. The article lays out perfectly why he is wrong. To the Japanese during WWII, probably even today, anybody not Japanese was/is sub-human. I read a book in HS called, I think, The Knights of Bushido, about Japanese atrocities during WWII. The Japanese started a war with us, committed massive atrocities, and what, atomic bomb bad? Carlson makes a classic logical mistake of no good human would use the bomb, therefore you are bad even if you support it.
75F and overcast. Some water in the gutters,but no evidence of crazy rain. HOWEVER north of here there was crazy rain. Lake Livingston apparently got 11 inches. Walker County has EVERY road flooded according to their EMgmt people.
The Trinity River basin is flooded and getting more flooded.
Feels weird to not have the disaster happen to us.
n
An entire culture had a case of foaming dog fever and needed to be put down.
The militarism hasn’t totally gone away in that society. “Space Battleship Yamato” continues to be rebooted and remains popular. Maybe the drunk engineer and pervy robot aren’t appropriate in this day and age, but the ship and its past are celebrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNT3un2JmJU
I had an inch and a quarter of rain last night. Some lightning, too. Right now I have my phone tethered because the internet radio blew up last night. I don’t know where all the pieces are. The power supply is dead. My router and a switch are dead.
Man, the phone connection seems extra slow today. Off to Big River!
@paul, I’ve got boxes of networking gear, what do you need? and I don’t use my internet radios…
n
If you need a software update to make your tail lights work, your designers and engineers have gone seriously off the rails.
n
I THOUGHT the son of a b!tch author of the DM article had it backward last week, the jury was hung by one person NOT wanting to acquit not the other way ’round.
n
Yup.
Rancher should get a medal.
DA should get the boot.
I’ve ordered a couple of switches. Two so I have a spare. Plus a D-Link DIR-812 router. I don’t care about wi-fi abilities. Big River says delivery on Wednesday the 8th.
Thank you for the offer.
The ISP must be busy or something. No reply to my trouble ticket. Yet.
If the ISP replaces the radio real soon, I have old parts I can use until the new parts arrive.
Eleven want to acquit? I’m rusty on my American civics, but isn’t that enough? I didn’t think a not-guilty result required a unanimous jury?
The designers and engineers are under pressure to produce software patents which can be weaponized against competitors.
Plus, since the beginning of the year, everyone working in software is increasingly required to write code using AI tools. Ostensibly, the AI increases productivity by providing boilerplate where required, but the reality is that the C-suites believe that the tools can capture the software development process so they can fire as many developers as possible, reducing staff to quota hires and other people not “on the spectrum”.
I’m on the naughty list every month where I work because I work in GNU Screen and Vi instead of Visual Studio Code.
I despise VSC and believe it makes developers lazy. As of late, having the dominance in the market also allows BillG to select what Linux gets supported for mainstream development use long term.
I don’t get a lot of leeway on that, but I just caught a huge one line bit of stupid which I suspect came from an AI code suggestion. calloc() with one of the arguments set to a 0 constant. I’m open with management that I will open VSC enough to get off the naughty list.
Maverick. Hecho en Mexico.
Ford leads the industry in recalls.
I believe the Honda Ridgeline is the official pick-up truck of senior citizens around here. It's become a bit of a game when we're driving. If we see one someone will say "I bet they have gray hair" and, sure enough, once we 're next to them it's always a gray-haired driver. lol Though, to be fair to Honda, the small sized pick-up trucks (S-10, Ranger, Dakota, etc.) have always been popular with the elderly male crowd as they don't want "too much truck" for their declining driving ability.
The 1st Generation Honda Ridgelines (2006-2015) had that SUV/Pick-up hybrid thing going on similar to the Chevy Avalanche. However, the 2nd Generation (2017 – present) is just a small pick-up truck.
@Nick – re your ‘attic critter’ problem.
Was reading that rats/mice don’t like ‘old’ bait. If you are using bait of any kind from your ‘stacks’, perhaps use a newly purchased (non-stack) bait (new from the store jar of peanut butter, etc) might be worthwhile.
An external bait station with freshly-purchased bait might also be an idea.
See this article.
/random-thought…
The half ton truck class have become manhood statements in the last few years, and, with the average selling price of an F150 at $60,000, essentially unaffordable unless you get a deal from a dealer’s fleet sales office who need to move a mistake off of the floorplan.
Unfortunately, the small trucks are now the size of where the half tons were around a decade ago, and those are getting larger with corresponding price tag increases as the manufacturers scrounge for cashflow.
The Honda is the last of the small trucks with a V6 available IIRC, and that six is a great engine, with a long lifespan if taken care of properly.
The Nissan Frontier has a v6 engine.
Cool. Unfortunately, Nissan did capitulate to Uncle and use DI for the V6.
OTOH, I think those are still assembled in the US whereas Toyota sent the Tacoma to Mexico.
My guess is that, in addition to the turbo four engine, the new 4Runner will also be Hecho en Mexico, on the same assembly line as the Tacoma which forces a purchase decision at our house this summer.
I liked the Ridgeline, but in 2019 the dealer wouldn’t budge on the price: higher by $5k than a Ram 1500.
Goofy.
Pre-pandemic, the local Dodge dealer’s lot was overflowing to the point that they hid vehicles in the back parking at the mall and in the remote lots of the ISD’s showpiece HOK-built football stadium.
I think a good first step to reining in the regulatory state is to force a ⅔ successful recorded Congressional vote on any regulatory measure estimated to increase costs to taxpayers on a good or service by more than, say, 1%.
Two divorces.
We worked hard for this.
Probably voted for Kamala and Joe.
And is ready to vote for Kamala and Joe again because, they really care. And the mean orange man is real mean.
So, Oklahoma wants to put Christian pastors into schools. The Satanic Temple says, ok, we’ll come too. Hilarious freakout by Oklahoma politicians.
Guess what, the Satanic Temple is an organization that exists to tweak fundamentalist noses. Separation of church and state is important. Oklahoma politicians obviously don’t understand that.
That is similar pricing that led to the death of the Dodge Dakota. The last several years the Dakota was in production you could get a Dodge Ram 1500 (I say Dodge Ram because this was before Ram was split off into its own entity) for the same price. So, why settle for the smaller/weaker Dakota? Rather than drop the price of the Dakota they just did away with it.
@EdH
A better first step would be to require they pass a test:
balance a checkbook
parallel park
hard boil a dozen eggs and peel them
change a flat tire on a pickup
If they pass the first 5, they go on to the second 5:
Draw a map of the United States and label the states and their capitols
Write down the Bill of Rights and explain what each one means
Explain the difference between republic and democracy
Decorate their proposed office on a $5,000 budget
Make the trip from DC to Tulsa using public transportation (bus and train pass only) and $20 a day for food
To that demographic, Orange Man is Bad Daddy, a frequent topic of discussion at the weed edibles buying club down at the church/synagogue.
Direct Injection? I don’t know, I have a 2019. Built in December. In Mississippi. Northwest corner of the state, I think.
As far as I can tell, I have port, not direct, injection. It’s the VQ40 engine. 4.0L. I think they started using a new engine in the 2020, Same truck but new engine and a few things like “keep the fob in your pocket and push the button to start the engine”.
It’s a Pro4x and has as far as I know available everything except the option group of leather seats, power seats, a moon roof. and heated outside mirrors. I’m not missing anything. Heck, if the weather is so nasty to need heated mirrors, I’m staying home.
Darn truck is loaded out more than an ‘82 Cadillac Fleetwood d’Elegance. I’m just missing the ashtrays with cigarette lighters in each armrest.
Super Mario is coming to Orlando.
And he’s bringing his friend, Donkey Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmd0jGpg9o
Yeah, plenty of DEI. Comcast is still 80% owned by institutions.
Home from my buddy’s. We did get work done, even if only by skylight and headlamp. Big storm came thru around 1030 and took out power in various places for hours. At 230 the shop was still dark.
One kid had normal school, the other sat in the classroom without power all afternoon.
Small branches down all over town, and about 3-4″ of water in the buckets.
Just got power back inthe neighborhood around 315.
n
Power just blinked several times in a row. Might go out again…
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13376093/jim-jordan-censorship-white-house-amazon.html?tag=ttgnet-20
so not a conspiracy theory. And one more reason to own physical copies of stuff.
n
My man Travis Taylor:
Chilling moment four UFOs are captured on high speed camera as scientists investigate possible portal on Utah’s Skinwalker
He brings legitimacy to The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Stop laughing, it’s one of my favorite shows.
Chasten Buttigieg’s book was always in stock at Amazon’s physical bookstore experiment during the store’s brief tenure in The Domain (Austin’s attempt to imitate California).
In theory, the bookstore was only supposed to stock the top … 500? … bestsellers in the country, but I have a hard time believing that hot mess sold more than a handful of books even in Austin.
AG Merrick Garland Admits That It’s *Gang* Violence, Not ‘Gun Violence’
I miss “Finding Bigfoot”, and I’ll watch “Botched” if I catch it.
“Skinwalker Ranch” has pretty slick production values but not a lot happens in most of the episodes.
Good hotel TV material, which is how I watched last year in Tennessee when I went to pick up the wife’s nephew’s car.
If basic cable dropped the mandatory sports channels and repriced to $40/month, I think the cable companies could reverse their subscriber losses in a heartbeat.
This caught my eye.
https://digital.militaryaerospace.com/militaryaerospace/20240304/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=34#pg36
It’s a drone to resupply Marines remotely, carries 150 pounds, up to 40 miles, and at nearly 70MPH. It’s in use. They want more.
This is what caught my eye… among the list of things it is to be used for is “island cleanup and invasive species control.”
WTF? “Island cleanup”?? “Invasive species control”??? I bet it has a spray rig to put down whatever the modern version of Agent Orange is. And I bet you could use that same spray rig on people too. Ammonia. Gasoline. Crowd dispersal agents. Dye. Taggants.
The potential and potential for misuse is astounding.
n
I want 5 of them! Make that 10!
Use them on Hamaasholes on college campuses. Bear spray.
>> Just got power back inthe neighborhood around 315.
@nick, any hopes for the transfer switching install before hurricane season?
>> “Skinwalker Ranch” has pretty slick production values but
not a lotnothing happens in most of the episodes.FIFY.
He changed his surname. Ignore and shun.
“New water heater efficiency standards will create largest-ever energy savings from one rule: DOE”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-finalizes-energy-efficiency-rules-residential-water-heaters/714965/
“The final rule will generate more than 17.6 quadrillion British thermal units of energy savings over 30 years, the Department of Energy said.”
But what will the cost be ? Just mandating that all water heaters be 98% efficient does not mean that the common folks can afford the new $20K water heaters. And we are talking about a device that uses $20 to $50 of energy per month. The ROI (return on investment) is not there to pay for the increase in efficiency from 90% to 98%.
The ISP says their hours are from 9am to 4pm. I think I’ll take the pieces of my radio to town tomorrow. Get there about 9am. Might even get a BoB from What-a-burger.
I’m had zero response to a trouble ticket, or in the chat room, or to a phone call. Nothing. I’m really annoyed.
Here, here is your radio. What I can find. Complete with scorch marks. So don’t tell me to re-boot everything. Thank you for not burning my building down. And by the way, don’t charge my account until you replace the radio.
grr.
When we moved out here I needed to replace the water heater. Furrow’s had a very well insulated unit on clearance. Sure, it was 30 years ago and it would have been replaced by now. But it was cold or room temp when you touched it. Even the top. The current GE is warm. Not real warm, just a enough to feel.
Since we put in the whole house on demand water heater, I can say I prefer a heater that runs without electricity.
Def do not want some weird heat pump thing with computers inside.
Any savings on efficiency get lost by using it for an extra 5 minutes per shower, since a large part of the population will shower until the water starts to get cold.
n
@alan, def looking for an installer… took note of a couple of companies in the area when I saw their trucks out and about.
n
Truck suddenly starting making a noise, loud. Shut off the engine, noise stopped, Started engine, noise came back. Turned off A/C, noise stopped. Turned on A/C noise started. So I drove home with no A/C. Took the truck to the local mechanic figure I had a decomposed A/C compressor. He immediately diagnosed the issue as the circulating fan. He pulled the fan and found a plastic part. That part being part of the diverter damper for part of the system. He thinks it is the recirculating damper. The cost to repair is $1,500.00 which includes the part and labor. The part cannot be purchased instead requiring the entire manifold assembly.
“Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining”
https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/
“Last month, Statcounter reported a notable decrease in Windows 11’s market share, and the trend continued in April 2024. After reaching its all-time high of 28.16% in February 2024, Windows 11 plummeted below the 26% mark.”
“According to Statcounter, in April 2024, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, going down from 26.68% to 25.65%. All those users seemingly went for Windows 10 since the OS, which will soon turn nine, crossed the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023, gaining 0.96 points.”
“It is interesting to see Windows 11 losing quite a significant chunk of users in the middle of its cycle. Even Windows 8 and 8.1, universally considered not great versions of Windows, only went down after the release of their successors. True, Statcounter is not 100% accurate in its estimates, but an almost 3-point decline for a product with over 1 billion devices is too big to dismiss.”
This is quite surprising. I am seeing several of my customers, including a Fortune 1000 corporation, move to Windows 11 and Office 365.
Truck suddenly starting making a noise, loud. Shut off the engine, noise stopped, Started engine, noise came back. Turned off A/C, noise stopped. Turned on A/C noise started. So I drove home with no A/C. Took the truck to the local mechanic figure I had a decomposed A/C compressor. He immediately diagnosed the issue as the circulating fan. He pulled the fan and found a plastic part. That part being part of the diverter damper for part of the system. He thinks it is the recirculating damper. The cost to repair is $1,500.00 which includes the part and labor. The part cannot be purchased instead requiring the entire manifold assembly.
How many miles on your 20xx F-150 4×4 ?
Since we put in the whole house on demand water heater, I can say I prefer a heater that runs without electricity.
Def do not want some weird heat pump thing with computers inside.
Any savings on efficiency get lost by using it for an extra 5 minutes per shower, since a large part of the population will shower until the water starts to get cold.
Is this a natural gas demand water heater ?
It does not have any electricity from the house ? How about self generated electricity from a heat generator ?
How old is it ?
2014 F-150 4×2, about 130K.
By looking at the part that was in the fan, it looks like it has been partially broken for some time.
$1,500 to fix the AC recircuilating damper.
TIme for a kluge repair. 1) Remove the broken part and see it you can live with partially functional AC. Or 2) Fabricate a dampner patch and see it you can live with partially functional AC. Etc.
Nope. I don’t like kludge repairs.
@lynn, nat gas, but the unit needs AC to run the control board. I keep meaning to put it on a UPS, but keep cringing at the cost. I need to replace most of my UPSs and that will be $500-1k depending on models… so I’ve been putting it off.
I should just be getting one new one every month…
n
A family member had one of the early Rangers that was made in South Africa. It was a complete lemon; anything that worked did so intermittently, including the engine.
Paul, sorry about your internet radio. I have become quite attached to mine. Listening to it now… Max Bruch’s second violin concerto. Beautiful!
Yesterday was the opening day of Roebuck season. A washout, literally. There was a storm cell sitting overhead between 17:00 and 01:00, with plenty of thunder, lightning and torrential rain.
One can dress for rain, but sitting up a wet ladder for a few hours with a lightning conductor in one’s hands… suicidal. I gave up, went home and went to bed early instead. The fresh May greenery in the woods was spectacular, though.
We have a new game! Find words I don’t know. Like Scrabble (not the dumbed-down version). No joy on devolatilization, though. Do you remember the episode of Dad’s Army where Capt. Mainwearing’s troop drove around the countryside in Cpl Jones’ butcher’s van with a bag of wood or coal gas on top to fuel it?
Internet radio now: Schubert’s Four Impromptus for piano, D899. Exquisite. The BR Klassik / ARD Nachtkonzert is wonderful balsam for the soul – worth the insomnia sometimes. It kept me sane when I was in hospital years ago and could get no sleep because of tubes, drips and other impedimenta.
Good excuse to buy a 3D printer!
@MrAtoZ
“Use them on Hamaasholes on college campuses. Bear spray.”
I’d go with a mix of urushiol and LSD with some DMSO for penetration.
If you need a software update to make your tail lights work, your designers and engineers have gone seriously off the rails.
n
Yup. Today’s vehicles have dozens of computer controlled relay panels to turn stuff on, off, and variable speed. Over a hundred of them according to a TED speech from Bill Ford. Every relay panel has 12 volt power to it with a computer chip of some sort. Every one of the panels can be locally and remotely controlled. This is why the EMS (engine management system) in most vehicles is over 30 million lines of C code now. I cannot even imagine it.
Could someone explain internet radio to me?
At first, I assumed you meant somthing like Pandora. But then it seems there’s a separate piece of hardware?
How do you select channels? How do you get programming? How is it paid for? Is there a subscription? Advertisments?
@Nick
“WTF? “Island cleanup”?? “Invasive species control”???”
They use drones in Hawaii to spray some really nasty invasives in rugged terrain.
Near the end of my time at GTE, some C-suite exec got plied with hookers-n-steaks marketing and bought a repackaged version of the system EDS developed for the engine control software on the Northstar Cadillac V8. I believe the name was Continuus and sold by Caseware at the time.
The rumor was Northstar was over 10 million lines of code, and that was the early 90s.
We had to abandon our homebrew RCS for Continuus and it only ran in a GUI. What a gigantic pain.
Like Radio Caroline?
http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk
Winamp used to be the popular way to listen to Internet radio stations back in the day. I believe that Shoutcast was the popular software to use for a server.
iTunes also supported listening to the stations.
At one point, Cisco got very close to releasing a standalone “Internet radio” hardware device, but then Dot Com Bubble 1.0 imploded and piles of Cisco gear stacked up in surplus vendors’ parking lots, essentially worthless.
I THOUGHT the son of a b!tch author of the DM article had it backward last week, the jury was hung by one person NOT wanting to acquit not the other way ’round.
I am amazed that all twelve people did not see this as self defense. This shows the rot in our society and lack of empathy for somebody else in trouble. There are evil people out there and one must be able to defend yourself against them.
So much for the old “I’d rather be judged by twelve than carried out by six”.
Many radio stations simultaneously stream their feed on the internet. They usually have a web app on their site. There are PC/Mac apps that let you search for radio stations that stream and play right through the app.
It specifically sounds as though there is a separate piece of hardware that itself is an “internet radio”. Possibly provided by your ISP.
My query is how that works, both technically and in terms of service.
@lynn, nat gas, but the unit needs AC to run the control board. I keep meaning to put it on a UPS, but keep cringing at the cost. I need to replace most of my UPSs and that will be $500-1k depending on models… so I’ve been putting it off.
Yeah, I had two water heaters in the last house that ran on natural gas but they had computer controlled thermostats. The computer used a little electric generator from the heat of the pilot light. Both of them died within five years. The heat of the attic is a tough place for any computer.
Ah, yeah, like Squeezebox. An IoT device that connected via your net connection to their feed servers. I think they went TU. I’m not sure if they had a fee or made enough off of box sales. These days who wants another box. I stream from my phone or Mac to a Home Pod.
I remember OFD listened to a pipe organ radio station in his area. I found their site and was able to stream live to my Mac. Pipe Dreams I think it was called.
A search of the iOS App Store lists a bunch of live radio station streaming apps. I’m sure Android has a bunch.
@lpdbw ,
since Paul has previously mentioned his Squeezebox (or similar) I thought that was what he meant blew up, but his later comment clarifies that it was his fixed wireless Internet provider’s radio that blew up. And he’s not chiming in because he has no internet as a result….
Internet radio, and stand alone boxes to listen to it, has faded somewhat. I have a couple of the “radios” which are essentially boomboxes with a network card and small computer inside that uses menus to find and connect to streams online provided by either actual ‘over the air’ radio stations, or people streaming from their homes… as a sort of ‘pirate’ radio.
Some were dependent on phoning home to servers that maintained the lists of available streams, their meta data, and URLs. Some (logitech) have software you can install on a local pc to provide that server function and continue working, some have gone tits up and are basically useless now, and some still work fine, altho their “station” lists might be out of date.
They are well suited to putting a boombox in the sun room, garage, or on your desk to stream and play the music, and not tie up a computer, or need a screen and speakers, etc. I was just thinking of taking one of my squeezebox players to the BOL to use in the dock house or the garage.
The stations tend to be very focused on a theme or genre, or provided by stations (many public radio stations in the US and their equivalent in Europe) so you can search or use the menus to drill down to “world music” or “blues” or “roots country”…
They are also a great way to hear music you’ve never heard before (because you don’t have a local station playing it) or to binge on a genre.
When I was testing and fixing the ones I picked up at goodwill, I was enjoying a station that only plays ‘electroswing’ which is modern remixes or mash ups of swing and electronic music. I like the genre a lot.
n
Pearls Before Swine: I Fear 80
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/05/02
Me too. Only 16 years away.
“I bent over without a plan for getting back up….”
n
https://www.wmur.com/article/cicadas-on-food-menu-new-orleans/60542630
you will eat z bugs…
n
As the nation prepares for trillions of red-eyed bugs known as periodical cicadas to emerge, it’s worth noting that they’re not just annoying, noisy pests — if prepared properly, they can also be tasty to eat.
Copperheads love them. But I don’t love copperheads.
He thinks it is the recirculating damper. The cost to repair is $1,500.00 which includes the part and labor. The part cannot be purchased instead requiring the entire manifold assembly.
Sounds somewhat similar to the “blend door” drama with the early Explorer/Expeditions. Just a simple design error that cost $$$ for the owners.
I must confess that I did a “kludge” repair on my 98 Explorer as per a YT video and some parts from the US. Luckily being RHD didn’t make the job any harder, (or any easier for that matter). 😀
Appeared to fix the problem and worked ok.. Finally passed the vehicle on to my nephew and he had no complaints..
If the piece caused the annoying noise, and that is now stopped, I’d just live with some degraded performance vs spending the money, but that’s me…
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