{"id":2175,"date":"2005-05-02T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-05-02T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T08:58:00","slug":"not-so-turbo-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Not So Turbo-Quick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Not%20So%20Turbo-Quick...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>UPDATE: So yesterday turned out to be a quagmire, kinda like the one after the first week of the Iraq war, sans sand storm; a quagmire only because I wanted everything to be done NOW and that wasn&#8217;t going to happen. I rented an engine hoist (cherry picker) on Saturday and they didn&#8217;t give me an engine sling, which makes the hoist useless when trying to lift an engine. I called them and they didn&#8217;t have one, so I returned the hoist and got my money back. I ended up buying a hoist for $150 (and of course the hoist didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come with a sling either but I found a way to improvise. Thank God for bungee cords. Just kidding \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I used high capacity tie-downs). I could have rented one, with sling, from another company in town, but the realization hit me that the engine \/ tranny swap was probably going to take several days, and the rental fees would have come close to the purchase price. Plus, in a couple of months, my lead vocalist will be swapping engines in his Pontiac Fiero and was planning on buying a hoist for the job. When he starts his project, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agreed to buy this one from me, and if he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, I can sell it on e-bay.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started shopping for the bits and gaskets that I need to do this right. But again fate was against me. Each auto parts store had only one or two of the needed parts in stock, so I had to go all over town to get the stuff, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still a piece or two.<\/p>\n<p>So now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 5 pm. Had to assemble the hoist.<\/p>\n<p>So now its 6:30 pm. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too tired and frustrated from the lack of progress to do anything else.<\/p>\n<p>I did manage to get a little prep work on the new(er) engine last night. But dinner called\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 AND the new season of Family Guy started at nine. It Rocked!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/186\/3104\/1024\/fgCastTable.jpg'><img border='0' src='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/186\/3104\/320\/fgCastTable.jpg'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>sonicfrog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Not%20So%20Turbo-Quick...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>UPDATE: So yesterday turned out to be a quagmire, kinda like the one after the first week of the Iraq war, sans sand storm; a quagmire only because I wanted everything to be done NOW and that wasn&#8217;t going to happen. I rented an engine hoist (cherry picker) on Saturday and they didn&#8217;t give me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}