Sir Sam

damm, and ill be back next weekend.

Looks like the exhaust design changes were fubar. Someone's gonna swing for that. Well, that's what sea trials and shakedown cruises are for. Enjoy the $$ Sam. Been on many sea trails in the past but as a crew member. No special pay, O/T, or other bennies for moi back then. Learned quickly where the $$ lay. :yes: The changes were required by the Navy after the fact which meant they were outside of the expected design. The problem isn't so much in the exhaust as the space constraints/airflow around the exhaust, which is where the heat issues came up.

Thanks for looking.

Not sure exactly, might leave in the next day or two, or be around through the end of next week. Y'all conducting smoke tests during the sea trails Sam? http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/04/15/burned-lcs-to-resume-testing.html?ESRC=navy.nl Haha ya. I'm back in colorado because the sea trials are postponed until tentatively early May, hopefully I will get to go back for the second round. The short story of it is that while getting up towards a high power run we had some minor fires in the diesel engine rooms, first port, then starboard. Fires reflared, I got sunburned chilling on the helo deck. Apparently there were some design changes to the exhaust that changed airflow and therefor exhaust temps, they were monitoring deck temps and a bunch of other stuff, but some insulation caught fire(someone left some foam pipe insulation on top of the exhaust). They came up with a solution, but are implementing it now, it just means reworking some stuff. We killed a day on standby thinking we would be doing more sea trials on saturday before they released us yesterday. Hopped on a plane and made it home at about 10:30. The good news is I got 40 hours at sea with 15% pay premium and 21 of those are OT with 15% premium. Woot! 30 hours of OT with 21 hours premium pay......gonna be a nice paycheck.

Austal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Coronado_%28LCS-4%29

Not sure exactly, might leave in the next day or two, or be around through the end of next week.

Yesterday, it was nice out. I'm in town for sea trials on the LCS4 USS Coronado.

More online here: http://colorado4wheel.com/images/uss_alabama/content/IMG_1952_large.html

Congrats man! I worked a 25 hour day yesterday on this thing(already at 40 hours this week):

$50, sure I'll take it, you free tomorrow?

If you ever see some front JK 44 parts I could use some, need a passenger knuckle, calipers, and caliper brackets.

My diesel KJ never has this problem.

Isn't that @#$%ing annoying? Here is this cool thing I did, here's a single $#!&ty pic and I'll never come back to the internet. Right now I'm working on an SVX engine conversion into a VW van. This is a swap that has been done hundred of times before, but I'm having trouble finding a good single documented swap on it.......grrrr

cool beans, I look forward to more.

coil pack ignition = pro in my mind I can safely say that in the past 12 years or so of 00+ ownership the LP D30 has never been an issue.

I prefer the 00 to 01s, but the 99s are good too, I avoid the 97s like the plague, and 98's have that yucky two tone interior. If and when you ever have problems with the head a new one comes in at around $500 for a brand new updated 0331 casting, and takes a saturday afternoon to swap out. I've never had a problem with the 0331 on a bunch of XJs and I think its way overblown.

autocomputerperformance.com is the company I used to get my WJ ECU flashed when I was having trouble with its SKIM. They can remove the skim, change the vin, etc, all that you need. And yes it does look fairy straight forward, I even considered the same because I was seeing KJs with bad motors, but not many of the early tonewheel motors used.

I'd have to find a YJish tub at the junkyard, then somehow cutout the section with a sawsall, then overpay for it, only to have it sit around on the shelf for years for the day I might get around to it.

Do you think we will ever hear back?

Don't call me Shirley.

No, thats why we have emoticons.

:rotfl2: I know right.

Some of the firms that make reproductions are already licensed and have the old OEM tooling, so literally the same machine that made a flat fender in WWII is making the panels now. (there are several outfits out there that do have the stamping dies actually) Hence why I asked if they had the ability to stamp any of those. Plus, its not like international trademarks have stopped anyone before.

Jim if you go into the gallery link and click on an image it will give the exposure settings for the image, as for the lens its a canon EF 28-105mm on a EFs body(ei 1.8x magnification )

http://colorado4wheel.com/images/Galena_fire/index.html