Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 58 to 68 and heavy rain coming.
Haircut tonight, that's all there is on the schedule besides day job.

Diggin it - whats going on?

Be well, back to work

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 57 and going to rain, not getting much past 60.

Good day yesterday, stayed busy all day, got manure pushed back, trash and recycling down the lane, smoker all cleaned up and secured, moved the enclosed trailer so it can be accessed from the lane, briskets came out quite well, big hit at the VFD, one of those guys must have eaten over 2lbs by himself, came back for at least 3rds. They came out around noon, got wrapped in foil and sat in the Cambro until 6. They were almost too warm to slice then.

Gotta get going before the rain, I’d like to clean out a few gutters, unload some grain and retrieve the trash and recycling toters while it’s dry. Then inside to do some oil changes and cleanup, music likely tonight.

 

[daugen]

a friend of mine was having problems with trans overheating on his Honda Ridgeline and I got him an inexpensive OBD reader to
see if his codes told him anything. Curious to see what dealer was seeing, if they hadn't already erased trouble codes.
He made a decision to sell the car, which he just did, and is now out hunting a fairly new F150 to tow a small rv with.

So I have this OBD reader and another friend has a high mileage diesel jeep with a bunch of issues.
He seemed hesitant to plug it in.
All cars have the OBD plug under the dash I thought.
Assuming it's read only, can you hurt or reset anything by plugging a reader into the car's port?
I would think not but before I do something I regret...

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JFVX1J1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

that erase button looks potentially dangerous
Even if it only produces a numeric fault code, is is reasonable to assume if one Googles that code with brand of car
something will pop up online? free?...

oh my that smoked brisket looks good. Bet it smells good too.

 

[Buppies]

Jiffy lube interesting cross threaded oil plug lost motor in Chevy Caprice rebuilt motor or refurbed never again for me. Cheap service Drew my truck is almost double that

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp was 52 and the high to 59°F. Wind S 7 mph. Mostly sunny.

Got one trailer load of 'stuff' out of here and to the dump and a second load will be going today.

Still haven't done anything with the tractor roof and heater blower, but I will get to it...eventually.

Ron, no wonder you take such fantastic pictures, clean window AND a Canon 6D.

I often wonder how big Germanys' armed forces would have been IF they didn't have forced conscription.

Dad and his brother both volunteered. Both are gone now, but not forgotten. May they rest in peace.

What is this 'vote' that you guys down south are talking about?

Have a safe day all

 

[Looking4new]

Jiffy lube interesting cross threaded oil plug lost motor in Chevy Caprice rebuilt motor or refurbed never again for me. Cheap service Drew my truck is almost double that

Jiffy lube up here constantly told me that they lubed the 'U' joints at the ends of my front axle on my Jeep. When we took the 'U' joints off (one was finished) they hadn't been lubed since they were put in. That was the end of my going to jiffy lube for anything.

 

[daugen]

successful trip to garden before the rains come.
lot of split radishes

now to make up some small xmas presents for gardening friends, recycling some squash seeds
don't need many seeds to grow a good number of squash, and then if one saves seeds, you can have enough squash to feed the county
the next year if you had the room. Seeds beget seeds.

there is so much competition for labor today that anyone working in a Jiffy Lube for 15 bucks an hour is likely not the most precise wrench in the tool box.
The problem is when they break stuff, make a simple job terrible. For a few years I paid claims for a chain of lube shops.
These were not SAE (ASME?) mechanics by any stretch of the imagination. So it's been 40 years since I used a chain oil shop. But they are still out there.

pretty sure you can still get a thirty dollar oil change.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Why I went back to changing my own oil. I thought Lube places prices were ridiculous at near $100 for just oil change.

 

[kenmbz]

a friend of mine was having problems with trans overheating on his Honda Ridgeline and I got him an inexpensive OBD reader to
see if his codes told him anything. Curious to see what dealer was seeing, if they hadn't already erased trouble codes.
He made a decision to sell the car, which he just did, and is now out hunting a fairly new F150 to tow a small rv with.

So I have this OBD reader and another friend has a high mileage diesel jeep with a bunch of issues.
He seemed hesitant to plug it in.
All cars have the OBD plug under the dash I thought.
Assuming it's read only, can you hurt or reset anything by plugging a reader into the car's port?
I would think not but before I do something I regret...

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JFVX1J1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

that erase button looks potentially dangerous
Even if it only produces a numeric fault code, is is reasonable to assume if one Googles that code with brand of car
something will pop up online? free?...

oh my that smoked brisket looks good. Bet it smells good too.

OBD can read and reset, but not reprogram. So no worries plugging it in.
Do so with power off and leave it in until powered off again.
I have used some cheap ones and they really help, but not all can reset the newer codes, like after you replace a part.
Some codes reset after a certain time or number of starts without a fail anyway.
I use a product called Torque on my phone as it formats the data to be more user friendly.

 

[Rich B1]

Good Morning! 56 now and raining. High of 62, looks likely to have rain most of the day. Next 10 days looks quite cool.

My thanks and respect for all the veterans and their service on Veterans Day.

Not sure what I will get into today. If like the last several, I will get started on one thing and get distracted and do something else.

Everyone stay safe out there!