Intrepidation

If the right vinyl is used & applied correctly, it will actually protect the paint very well, and come off very cleanly. I've researched it while considering it as a cheap alternative to a regular paint job (turns out that if you use the "right" vinyl and pay a shop to apply it, you'll spend nearly as much as a basic professional paint job). Ah yes, it's ScotchGuard by 3M I believe. I've seen a BMW 3 series get covered in it...changed it from black to white. Looks just like a professional paint job...of course it was installed by pros.

That's...obnoxious. It's like a Prius being stickered "I'm saving the planet and you're not". I mean that's a super cool story bro but I don't want to know about it while I'm driving.

Holy hell you changed your avatar.

I wonder if SS stickers are equivalent to Type R stickers and give +17 horsepower? The dealer perks and assisted payments are a pretty sweet deal, but if it were mine I'd hope that stuff comes off without damaging the paint. Way too tacky to keep once the car was paid off. How on earth did you fit 9+ people legally into a Silverado?

Subtle.

While I can see the appeal of a genuine article, I personally wouldn't bother me to own a "fake" that's just as real as the original it emulates...for a hell of a lot less.

Very nice but $125k?

They also whore your personal info, as I learned from my neighbor who had them printed. With that said I can just buy some business card paper and print it myself. My problem now is that I have more people looking for mowers than I have mowers ready! Tomorrow's going to be a busy day before work...maybe I'll get one of the other two I have ready.

Well the Yard Man sold today for $70 and he traded me his mower, which is a nice one that doesn't run. He also wants to come back when it needs servicing so I've got a repeat customer now. I should make up some business cards. Feeling pretty good about that. New suspension here I come! Thursday I came home from work to find a mower next to the garage. They've started reproducing! This one is a Craftsman 22" with a Tecumseh mower. This one would briefly run with starter fluid, so today I pulled off the carburetor and found the fuel had gelled up really bad an corroded the bowl and metal float. Picked up a new float, blow, seat and pin kit, and primer. Cleaned the carb up real good, put the new parts in, cleaned out the fuel tank and put new fuel line on. Pulled over first try. I'm really happy about that. All it needs now is the blade sharped and its all set to sell, and I may already have a buyer for it. Meanwhile, my other project is coming along. It's actually all painted now but haven't got photos yet. I do have some of the underside, the bed liner came out good I think.

Same for me. In college I could pull all-nighters, and had to a few times, and still function the next day. Can't do that anymore.

We need more races like this where the cars do more than turn left and are actually based on production cars.

The ignorance is strong with this one.

Simple! To piss off the people who just gave them the finger and making them stay mad all day long! In your case: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! LOL! IRL trolling.

I know right? They're still stuck with Flathead and OHV designs. They need to catch up to Honda's OHC engines that use timing belts.

Never tried it before. Would like to someday. I'd like to get a hold of a really old walk behind mower to restore. Balthy do you have one kicking around?

I present to you. 12 blowers. Nitrous. 3,424 horsepower. Epic. <iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YqkY8GB9VW8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Its like... god sent his son down among us in the form of a diesel. And he looked upon the land and the howling of a 3,424 horsepower oil burner. And he saw that it was good.

LG Rumor 2. Not bad for what it is. Takes halfway decent pictures, surfs the internet and has a full keyboard and a music player. Fanciest phone I've had so far. I'd like to get an Optimus V at some point.

I should be soon, the Yard Man is for sale now and this one I'm painting is pending sale upon completion, which means I'll be closer to my suspension redo. I don't plan to do complete deck overhauls like this too much, as it takes a lot of time and a fair bit a money, unless the mower is worth it. I think normally I would sand down the top of the deck, prime it, and paint it if it needed to be repainted. However, this one had some minor issues that needed taking care of and I want to practice painting and see how well bed liner works.

The current project is this one, an MTD (all of these mowers except the Brute are MTDs) Yard Machines 114-034F000. Unlike the other one, which is pretty identical, this deck seemed solid, just pretty rough, so I elected to "restore" it. I want to get better at painting anyway, so its a good project I don't have to worry about making mistakes on, since it won't look any worse! I was originally going to just do the top, but after uncovering some small rust holes I decided it would be best to sand down the whole thing and patch the holes with Plastic Metal. This is how it looked when I got it. And after a good pressure washing, took a bunch of the paint off it! Ready to prime!

Several members have little projects going on, I figured I'd have a thread for mine. This will be an ongoing thread, if for no other reason than because I like documenting my progress. After building my own mower and rekindling an hobby I had when I was younger, I thought it might be fun to fix and flip mowers for some extra crash and as something to do. I went from having no lawn mower to having 6! Not sure how that even happened but that's ok. The first one is of course the Brute, which is my keeper. To build it I was given a donor mower with a good engine that needed TLC and a well used but still solid deck. After that was finished I came across a couple of mowers on CL in running condition for $10. One had "deck issues". And by deck issues they meant tow of the wheels had rotted off... No matter though, as luck would have it, I had a spare! Then I was given this guy. Didn't run, but some new gaskets, primer, fuel system and carburetor cleaning and a general tune up later and its all set and currently for sale. Then a couple days ago I was given this one. Same deck as the green one, same wheels, although this one has all four of its originals. It was very dirty, like it had been unearthed. Haven't been able to get it to start yet.

Cool, looks like lots of us have little projects going on.

Good as new!

My poor lawn! f@#k this heat. I was going to go to Main Street in Motion but the heat is just too brutal.

Could be lots of things, none of them sound like an intake gasket magically blowing overnight while the car sat parked. Things like the ignition coil, fuel pump, relays, etc. Making sure it has spark and is getting fuel is definitely the first things on the list for a car that won't fire. It's called troubleshooting, its what they should be doing for a no start problem The problem isn't going to be when the car is running, otherwise there would be no problem. Sounds like a very incompetent dealer.

Touring car racing and 24 hour endurance races are where its at. WRC is pretty cool too. F1 is ok but has more drama than a soap opera. NASCAR still sucks.