The Thread of Randomness. . .

General conversations about BMW E28s and the people who own them.
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1st 5er wrote:Who wants a GoJo Hands Free Headset?
Now, who wants their click back?
I wants my click back.

Also:

Just finished up with the subaru rebuild. Rockauto.com sent me the wrong timing belt tensioner, Napa sent me the wrong radiator, but was I ever worried? Well, yes. Quite a bit, frankly. However in spite of all this, we just took it around the block, and it felt great. It threw a CEL, which turned out to be a cracked PCV tube, which was promptly replaced with a section of a spare M20 breather tube I had lying around. Apart from that and a bit of valve tick, the engine purrs like a kitten. The valve shims are on order, should show up in a week or so to finish the build. The only thing that's questionable is(are?) the spark plug wires, which will also be replaced when the shims come in.

If 4 years ago you told me that I'd be doing a block-up rebuild of any engine, I'd have slapped you. Let alone a subaru engine. We play the hands we're dealt I suppose.

All I can tell you is that I've had half a pint of scotch and I felt like sharing. Is it worth bumping the subaru thread? I may just go back and edit my last post with an update w/o bumping, that should be okay.

Thanks for all the technical and (just as important) moral support. I have learned so much from you guys over the last few years.
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1st 5er wrote:Who wants a GoJo Hands Free Headset?
Now, who wants their click back?
I just saw that ad during Peter Gunn.
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Xenocide wrote:
1st 5er wrote:Who wants a GoJo Hands Free Headset?
Now, who wants their click back?
I wants my click back.

Also:

Just finished up with the subaru rebuild...
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duh da duh da duh da da Crude attempt at the Peter Gunn Theme. Put a storm door on the tent I put up to R+R the clutch in my Ranger..The clutch is like a Torqueflite with a bad pump. It takes almost a minute to engage.
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Yesterday the weather forecasters were talking about a chance of 3-5 inches of snow by Friday night/Saturday morning. I woke up this morning to ~6" of fresh powder this morning. Nice surprise.

I really can't complain though; it's late January and this is the first snowfall we've had this winter where I've had to break out the shovels. Our Golden* Christmas was a little dull. And weird.

* as opposed to Brown Christmas
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In 16 years of BMW service, this is the first time seeing one of these. Pretty cool.


Vehicle information

Type code GH03

Type 740IL (USA)

Dev. series E38 (2 PL)

Line 7

Body type LIM

Steering LL

Door count 4

Engine M62/TU

Cubical capacity 4.40

Power 210

Transmision HECK

Gearbox AUT

Colour TITANSILBER METALLIC (354)

Upholstery STANDARDLEDER/SCHWARZ (N6SW)

Prod. date 1999-06-02


Order options
No. Description
248 STEERING WHEEL HEATING

438 WOOD TRIM

444 MULTFUNCTIONAL CENTRE ARMREST IN REAR

455 ACTIVE SEAT F DRIVER AND FRONT PASSENGER

456 COMFORT SEATS, ELECTRIC. ADJUSTABLE

494 SEAT HEATING F DRIVER/FRONT PASSENGER

496 SEAT HEATING FOR REAR SEATS

502 HEADLIGHT WASHER SYSTEM

508 PARK DISTANCE CONTROL (PDC)

522 XENON LIGHT

609 NAVIGATION SYSTEM PROFESSIONAL

640 CAR TELEPHONE PREPARATION

672 CD CHANGER BMW FOR 6 CDS

677 HIFI SYSTEM PROFESSIONAL

818 MAIN BATTERY SWITCH

925 SHIPPING PROTECTION PACKAGE


Series options
No. Description
188 RETRACT WINDOWS FOR DRIVER AND FRO

210 DYNAMIC STABILITY CONTROL (DSC)

216 SERVOTRONIC

220 SELF-LEVELING SUSPENSION

223 ELECTRONIC DAMPER CONTROL (EDC)

245 STEERING COLUMN ADJUSTMENT ELEC

261 SIDE AIRBAG FOR REAR PASSENGERS

302 ALARM SYSTEM

319 INTEGRATED UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL

354 GREEN STRIPE WINDSCREEN

365 LT/ALY WHEELS/SP 70 W SECURITY TYRES

416 SUNBLINDS

431 INTERIOR RR VW MIRROR W AUT ANTI-D

441 SMOKERS PACKAGE

460 COMFORT SEATS RR ELECTRIC. ADJUSTABLE

473 ARMREST, FRONT

645 RADIO CONTROL US

826 EXPORT SUSPENSION SETTINGS

845 ACOUSTIC BELT WARNING

850 ADD FUEL TANK FILLING FOR EXPORT

853 LANGUAGE VERSION ENGLISH

876 RADIO FREQUENCY 315 MHZ

992 NUMBER PLATE ATTACHEMENT MANAGEMENT


Information
No. Description
459 SEAT ADJUSTM., ELECTR. W. MEMORY

694 PREPARATION FOR CD CHANGER
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It's a violent pornography / Choking chicks and sodomy / The kinda shit you get
on your TV / It's a violent pornography / Choking chicks and sodomy /The kinda shit you get
on your TV
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Brian in TN wrote:In 16 years of BMW service, this is the first time seeing one of these. Pretty cool.


Vehicle information

Type code GH03

Type 740IL (USA)

Dev. series E38 (2 PL) ...

So, I'm guessing it's an armored version? I hear they are a tad on the heavy side.
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Hitting the yard today with a shopping list for me and a few friends. Sunny and 65 today so I see a "damn fine day" happening and hoping the little store by the river stocks Four Loko.
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Post by Brian in TN »

davintosh wrote:
Brian in TN wrote:In 16 years of BMW service, this is the first time seeing one of these. Pretty cool.


Vehicle information

Type code GH03

Type 740IL (USA)

Dev. series E38 (2 PL) ...

So, I'm guessing it's an armored version? I hear they are a tad on the heavy side.
Yup. Doors are stoopid heavy. 1.5 inch door glass. According to the engineering info, the windshield weights 91 lbs. Oh, and the rear windows are non operatonal.
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Perry Mason is a badass.
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I just finished watching Kick Ass; totally not what I expected, and much better than I expected. Laughed out loud at the scene where Kick Ass finally got the bad guy. :rofl:

:up: :up:
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Today I watched year one, 40 year old virgin, The sweetest thing, the love guru, and part of some Disney mermaid movie. Lol.

Anybody interested in a Quebec pizza?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nT1BzH3 ... ata_player
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While random movies watched recently are being posted, saw Eagle Eye, Wednesday night, for the first time. :up: :up:
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Watched Margin Call. Pretty good film, I think.
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I think the thread title should be changed again.
The Thread of Randomnesses. . .
;)
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1st 5er wrote:I think the thread title should be changed again.
The Thread of Randomnesses. . .
;)
Perhaps something like, "What's on your mind?" or "The AD-OS* Thread." ;)

* Attention Deficit - Oooh! Shiny!
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Just wanted to say thank you to the two lipstick lesbos today tucked away in a corner at the ice skating rink. No, I wasn't watching the Zamboni like you thought I was standing so close to y'all during your make-out session. I was trying to get a better glimpse of tongue and I think that you, Betty Page look alike, were on to me. Again, thank you.
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Anyone here recently go vegan? My wife's making me do it (long story), but I'm paranoid that I'm going to have uncontrollable diarrhea for the next two weeks. And not the hilarious kind.
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NoM54me wrote:Anyone here recently go vegan? My wife's making me do it (long story), but I'm paranoid that I'm going to have uncontrollable diarrhea for the next two weeks. And not the hilarious kind.
My guess is the other way, once you get back to meat and animal fat it's going to be an adventure. Probably only a day or two either way though, not 2 weeks.
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I'd rather be dead than a vegan. Ick.
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Just say no to Vegan. NFW.

Wifey is a Glutard. Not celiac, though it runs strong in her family. She really misses real Toll House chocolate chip cookies. Tonight she tried a chocolate chip cookie pie with chick-peas peeled and ground as one of the substitutes for the flour. Not horrible. Even the kids are eating it.

In other news, I clearly have not watched enough football with my kids.
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I like meat way way too much to go vegan. I'd eat a burger on a tour of a slaughter house.
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id be begging them to hurry up and carve out a hunk to slap on the grill for lunch :cool:
mtnman533 wrote:I like meat way way too much to go vegan. I'd eat a burger on a tour of a slaughter house.
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Post by Mike W. »

The problem with vegetarian and vegan diets are it's really hard to make tasty, appetizing foods. Not impossible, and I think they're getting better, but very difficult. I had some marinated tofu many years ago that wasn't too bad, but the regular stuff is awful. The marinated stuff probably had so much salt in it that it wasn't any better for you than meat. :laugh:
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winfred wrote:id be begging them to hurry up and carve out a hunk to slap on the grill for lunch :cool:
mtnman533 wrote:I like meat way way too much to go vegan. I'd eat a burger on a tour of a slaughter house.
Talk about fresh, prime cut, first choice meat!

I wonder if they'd allow a BBQ in there... maybe the car park?
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winfred wrote:id be begging them to hurry up and carve out a hunk to slap on the grill for lunch :cool:
mtnman533 wrote:I like meat way way too much to go vegan. I'd eat a burger on a tour of a slaughter house.
(random memory) :rofl: The big John Morrell packing plant has been a fixture in Sioux Falls for a long, long time. When I was a kid they would give tours; I went through it a few times on school trips, and they'd give everyone a cold hot dog (beef frank?) at the end of the tour. There were always some kids who couldn't finish theirs. I could never understand why. ;) The smell of hot dogs in the package always reminds me of those tours.

The guy who gave the tours was a buddy of my dad (dad worked there for 42 years) and was quite a character. He could whistle like nobody else, and would whistle a tune as the tour went to the next department; that was the warning for the guys to tidy up a bit for the tour. The warning didn't always help though; on one of my trips through the kill line there was a bunch of freshly dead cattle hanging by a back leg on a conveyer line, but one of them was still kicking and bellowing as we came in. Left quite an impression on a bunch of grade schoolers. :shock:
(/random memory)
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Made fajitas tonight and thought of you filthy carnivores. Is it just me or have beef prices gone up considerably?
I'm saving the goat meat for the hot tub.
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