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Or any weed eater.

I thought this was neat, so as usual I am posting it for the greater good of my comrades. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0215.shtml

Funny you should say that. I walk down streets all day for my job and made some observations and posted this on facebook several days ago. We had almost a foot of snow dumped on us. "3 of the 4 seasons go by with old people looked down upon. We help them carry their groceries, get their medication, drive them places. But I swear in winter they can out-shovel the kids living next to them. I don't care if the kid is 18 and goes to the gym religiously, the 90 year old living next to him will throw snow higher, farther, and more of it than the kid will. Damn old people."

My grandpa will be furious if he sees this. He chopped his fingers off a few years ago. I don't know why hes still remodeling houses at 80.

I would think an ear thats been in frigid cold until you can't feel it and then someone flicks it would be the worst

You know you're getting skinny when you have suspenders holding your belt up.

There are so many forms of needs and wants but it is always interesting how people pick the materialistic forms. My parents have always been that way. Every Christmas was overdone, every birthday was full of presents. My dad is an engineer so it was almost mandatory that he build a big garage and fill it with every tool you could imagine. He has everything from plasma cutters, welders, mills, cherry pickers, and every other tool you could think of in there. In the middle of 2013 I moved away to the big city to do some more college and just get away from my parents. I have an apartment, I have no garage, no nothing. At first I felt helpless. I worked in a machine shop for years so losing the ability to make whatever I wanted because of a lack of tools seemed so depressing. I brought the injection pump to my dinner table, same with a turbo off a power stroke, and I tore them down where they have indefinitely been sitting. Every time I want to do something, I have to go buy the tool or drive an hour and get it from my parents'. As time went on, I realized this materialistic thought process that my parents seemed to be instilling in me was not a very fulfilling one. You always wanted more, always needed another tool, always wanted to make something you probably didn't even need. I've spent hundreds just tinkering, if not over a thousand. It is fun while it lasts and the knowledge you gain is priceless. However, it is still an item. Something lifeless, albeit unique, it cannot do more than what you allow it to do. The more I went on, the more I realized how little I cared for items and how much I cared for something real, something valuable that could be taken and given without the manipulation of greed. Things such as input amongst each other, friends, lovers, etc... They have become the centerpiece of my life and every day I go on, the more I try to break any and all ties to anything that holds no true life. I use things that directly link me to things with life such as this place or read about stories or news articles. Then other times I might go out and do something with people. These things are priceless. You cannot price friendship, honor, respect, experience, ..... They are the things I want most and no item can take the place of it. A while back i lost thousands upon thousands of pictures I had taken of vacations, friends, family, things to help you guys, everything. I blinked, said some choice words, and moved on. They can be replaced and the lifelike memories that are inside your head are the true values you hold onto. I live incredibly modestly at this point. I might slowly make my place a little fancier but I have no attachment to any of it. It is the people I know, be it good or bad people, that I truly worry about. I know so many people who place an item above the priceless things I mentioned and it is terrible. Things can be replaced, priceless things cant. It is just amazing that people who used to love each other can become so evil as to turn items into something that is prized much more than the relationship they once had. Items of great value (rings, etc) should be sold and the money split, or she gets the $5000 ring and you get the $5000 lawn mower. There should be no debate, no hostility, but thats all there seems to be anymore. I wish people would see the world without value, where only priceless things are valued.

These rumors run wild. There is a timing advance slot in the 215 ppump plungers that everyone has stated completely wrong rumors about. There are vastly different timing charts for setting the timing on the ppump which means you have no clue which one is right (which is why I spill port time mine). There are also the very same fuel pressure limits blowing out some seal which I have never found. BS sells.

I hope he gets dropped out of fame just as fast as he got in. I've read about people who live next to him in his hometown and they say he is a disgrace to the town.

Then say that before saying I don't make any logical sense. No I haven't even started it in a year. I'm just gonna sell it, I have no use for it.

We went over this before. I have nothing up front, no batteries, no overflow or washer tanks. I have nothing. The air free flows through. Sitting at a stoplight it would skyrocket.

I've put 35 in mine as well. Mine comes on around 31 gallons worth of topping off, or ~4 gallons left.

I did it...idk if there is any difference. I'm going to say no. It is there to keep the pulses separate between 123/456 but as Mike stated, the housing entrance isn't divided on the HY so it's a wash. The pulses help low end spool up supposedly so it would be a good thing to keep them separate, but I really don't think it made much difference on my HX, even with everything being divided. I would leave it alone..

If it's under 32F and you can easily plug it in, I would. Just because they can start without it doesn't mean there is no reason to use it. If you have to go out of your way to plug it in with generators and stuff, don't bother. If it gets below -10F I would start doing something that drastic. The long term effects start to show if you start it at frigid temps repeatedly. Every now and then doesn't really matter. Daily -20F starts all winter would definitely start to wear things. The vid is my truck at -2F, not plugged in. It will do it, so I kept doing it...it doesn't start like that anymore. Months before that vid I went out and started it at 0F with no grids, fired up just the same. I went to college and started it 3 times a day, each being frigid, it didn't take long to start sacrificing compression, I'm surprised the mpg hasn't dropped off as well. So yeah, if you can, do it, if you can't, don't do it often. I mean a winter trip isn't going to kill it, just be sure to go easy on it when you take off until it warms up. Idling is probably worse unless you have a jake or something to load the engine as it is too cold and idling produces almost no heat which is why it takes so long to warm up. Let it idle a minute, get in, drive it, nicely..

You can always tell when you get into kansas or nebraska; your steering wheel goes from perfectly level to 90* out of level to maintain a straight course as the straight line winds push you. Going under an overpass where the wind stops for a second is always interesting. I watched an ecoboost pulling a big TT doing 80 almost wreck after going under an overpass.

That's weird since the 4th to 5th shift is the same mph and stuff as the 5th to 6th shift yet even smaller gap, so you shoulda experienced the opposite. The od on the 5600 is also numerically lower which would make it even worse.

Mine as you see in the chart is around 68 at 2000 rpm. Its perfect pulling the trailer since at 70 its at 2050 so I never have to downshift no matter the hill. Bad thing is that means I run very excessive rpm when unloaded. The Dana 80 has the option for 3.31 gears, nothing lower but that would make it much better unloaded.

Been wanting to do this for a long time and finally did. Basically its my truck with 245/75/16 Tires and 3.54 rear with Nv4500 Vs Nv5600. The chart shows me shifting at 2000RPM in every gear then picking up the next gear at the same MPH that the last gear was going at 2000RPM. The numbers between show the RPM drop between gears, as in 4th to 5th on the Nv4500 drops 500RPM. Its interesting because the 3rd to 4th gap on the Nv4500 is actually less of a jump than 2nd the 3rd, but because it is still jumping a vast RPM at a higher speed, the truck can't cope with the lower RPM and high load of high speed that it encounters, so it "feels" like a huge gap. When you compare it to the Nv5600, it definitely is a big gap. From 15-50 there is exactly 2 gears worth on the Nv4500 and exactly 3 on the Nv5600. Quite a difference. However, I am not sure but based on the chart do you guys with Nv5600's feel a slight "gap" between 5th and 6th?

It was -1 in the morning but warmed up to 34 around 3. After freezing so much, 34 felt like 80. I went back and ripped everything off and finished the rest of the day with just a long sleeved shirt. It was nice.

It was -10 here this morning with the same 30mph winds. I couldn't breath facing the wind. I have to walk down streets all day and it sucked. My hands and feet go numb easily and I never can figure out the cure for it. I think I need to revert to heated gloves/socks because I don't produce any heat. Everyone always tells me to get better gloves but if your hands barely circulate then there is no heat to insulate. All in all, it wasn't really that bad. The winds were gusty rather than constant. The winds died down in the afternoon and it was fine, albeit -1F. It got me thinking that the wind chill has gotta be wrong. I mean the chart says at 15F with 50mph winds, it's -10. Well it was -10 this morning sitting in my jeep (no wind) and I guarantee you it wouldn't be the same with 50mph of 15F air coming at you. There is one thing that might be a factor though. I had to grab some steel stuff today bare handed and it froze my fingers much quicker than if it were 15F. So I think wind chill relates to that. How fast the heat transfers from your hand to the object. So basically 50mph of 15F air would simulate touching something that is -10, like holding your hand to the wind per say, rather than the effects it has on your breathing and whatnot. It is comparing heat transfer coefficients I guess. I guess you all probably know this already but I always wondered how it worked when the wind made it feel so much colder than the wind chill temp.

I saw some movie where they were in Antarctica and they had to take their gloves off and they grabbed a metal pole and their skin stuck to it or something or froze and it started bleeding a lot. I've endured a lot of pain in my dirt biking but just seeing that makes me shudder.

My weather says -8F sunday, high of 3 monday..........you northerners are really starting to tick me off. Keep this $&*7 on your side of the fence. Was only 15 today. Global warming my @$$.

I knew the softener fixes it but I can't install one here. I think I might just continue cleaning. I am a clean freak so it never gets to the point of needing CLR. My walls are probably cleaner than Willy Wonka's wallpaper.

I have a question concerning this... My parents have well water and then run it through a water softener and the water doesn't build up on anything. At my place, city water...it builds up on the shower curtain and stuff so you gotta constantly clean it off. Is there something cheap and easy (I can't install anything over the top being just an apartment that I don't "own") that I can put in to fix it?

He said it cranks over fine. Is there a chance some wire somewhere is corroded and the starter pulls the voltage down enough to keep whatever from turning on? Hence why pull starting it fixes the issue since the starter isn't pulling the voltage down.