I grew up working on Toyotas. When they were mechanically simple vehicles they were amazing. Toyota mastered engineering simple mechanical systems. Their electrical control systems were also very good. They almost always found the best and simplest solution to any engineering challenge. They were never afraid to eat legacy engineering costs ( Read more... )

Today, being the end of January, I had to file my business taxes. Washington State has a Business & Occupation Tax, or a gross receipts tax. Instead of paying taxes on our incomes we Washingtonians tax our businesses like mine. I don't really know which is better and for my purposes today I don't care. It's not that hard for me to file my B&O ( Read more... )

Last night's recording session went amazingly well. We tracked nine tunes in five hours. The guys in the band were all very focused and worked very well. Some of the recording was done under a great deal of duress; there was a very loud, very mediocre nu metal band rehearsing just down the hall from us. They were loud enough to shake the walls ( Read more... )

The Caddy runs just fine now. With the new distributor it runs beautifully. However, I need to adjust the timing just a little bit. The timing is slightly retarded so it doesn't quite have the get up and go it used to. I'll have to bust out the timing light and set the timing slightly advanced from where it is now. Once that's done it will be ( Read more... )

The Cadillac is behaving badly. The camshaft position sensor is acting up. That sensor tells the fuel injection system when to squirt fuel into the cylinders. Without the sensor input the car just stops running. I have to replace the camshaft sensor. On many cars that would not be difficult; there's usually a small sensor in the front of the ( Read more... )

I'm watching some of the Lakewood Officers Memorial right now as I get ready to venture into the cold and work on the water system. This tragedy has been striking; the more time since the shootings the more connections I've discovered that I have with the incident. The shooting was at Forza Coffee, a shop which my aunt and uncle frequent a couple ( Read more... )

...is for the water to go out when it's amazingly cold outside. This time I don't yet know what's causing the problem. I've figured out that the pressure in the water system is too high and that the high-pressure switch is what's cutting off the water. I don't know why the pressure is too high. I suspect that some parts of the water system may ( Read more... )

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