Sir Sam

If you really want to go cowl cooling just use some hinge spacers and turn the whole damn thing into a cowl cooler plus you might get some low speed cooling too.

I feel like the location of the vents may change the functionality. That being said, I think none of the vents are functional and are only sold as snake oil cooling. Aesthetics value only.

5.9 vents look good and are fairly cheap out of the uk.

Got the upper part finished up tonight, now I just need to toss in back into the seat base!

That and other "stuff" Ya she did the sewing, I dissected, measured, drew, measured, marked, cut, recut, pinned, and then had her sew. Never operated a sewing machine before so I'll let the expert do that. I got the upper part measured cut and sewed last night, hopefully tonight I will get the corners cut and sewed, and then get it on the cushion, it would be nice to call one seat done and see how it looks.

Oh nothing. I just didn't like the color.

Thanks guys, I started on about the easiest seat part to do, I figured it was good for learning. The material I am using is called sunbrella, its an acrylic woven material that is used on outdoor funuture, awnings, boat tops, etc. It's pretty sun resistant and water resistance stuff, and its reasonibly priced online 20-30 a yard. I figured it would make pretty nice material for a camper thats going to have kids/dogs/booze/food/bodily fluids getting all over, and sure last way better than the OEM material. The corduroy material in my van was one year only, 86, and just goes to shreds in the sun. the 85 and 87 materials hold up great, but not the 86. On a side note my van turns 27 this month......older than me.

Started recovering seats, since this is a first for me I started on about the easiest piece to recover, the small part of the box seat. I screwed up once and had to start over with new fabric, but overall I am pleased with how it went, and I'm pretty pleased with the results. I'm really impressed with the ability of the sunbrella to shed water, It think its going to make great interior fabric in terms of cleanup and waterproofness for spills. Should last a long time too.

No.

I think its great! Why wouldn't you be happy about an american company making more money by exploiting a previously untapped market without shifting one bit of US production overseas?

N.013.294.2 Diff. Lock Actuator Pin spacer1 0.50 $0.50 VC.DIFFLOCKACTBOLT Diff Lock Actuator Bolt spacer2 0.49 $0.98 N.012.417.1 Diff lock Actuator Shaft Circlip spacer1 0.70 $0.70 251.711.822 Diff Lock Actuator spacer1 73.50 $73.50 70.765 Skylight seal spacer1 11.95 $11.95 VC.FOLDINGCUPBLACK Black Folding Cup Holder With Articulating Arms spacer2 6.95 $13.90 251.035.503A Antenna spacer1 8.95 $8.95 251.201.KITA.PLASTIC Fuel Tank Reseal Kit A Plastic spacer1 78.50 $78.50 4170 Distributor Rotor (Bosch) spacer1 5.50 $5.50 3212 Distributor Cap (Bosch)- Fits 85 through 88 spacer1 10.00 $10.00 WR7CC Spark plug (Bosch) spacer4 1.60 $6.40 That little blue guy in one of the pics is the expensive locker actuator on my VW.

I ordered some more stuff this week, this as the artwork included on the box. I'm keeping this one. Very impressed! Van-Cafe:

Nope. Same state though.

Wow, if that guy had not been such a tool about it all he could have made it better on himself.

I would prefer to buy this for 250k: http://colorado4wheel.com/images/misc/houseweb/index.html

full story yet?

Not exactly true! While the SKIM is locked to the ECU via the PIN the ECU can be replaced and its PIN matched to your SKIM. IE when you replace a PCM the SKIM does not need to be replaced! It is certainly very possible.

I still don't see the big deal about 2 feet of snow in colorado. I drive a Jeep after all.

Eh, selling on craigslist is about the dumbest way to fence a stolen vehicle.

Skim delete $125, auto trans delete was similar cost. I don't see why you would need a new skim.

Get the Degree. Then get a masters. Make sure you get some internships. There are so many entry level jobs that you will need a masters to even be competitive for. Part of the reason that its taken me as long to find a career job is that I did not have internships or a masters. While my job actually stated that a 2 year associates and 2 years experience was sufficient qualifications I doubt I would have gotten it with an associates. Likewise there were many jobs I was looking at that I could have done and done well, but they wanted a masters or 2-4 years experience. There are many engineering related paths where if you don't have at least a BS in an engineering discipline its going to hold you back bigtime. There are lots of younger guys starting their careers after being in engineering school for 4-6 years that are doing jobs that really someone with an associates degree is qualified for. But because you have shown via a piece of paper that you are competent enough to stick with school, they assume you have a better and more rounded skill set and knowledge base, while somewhat true I have seen guys with masters that had almost no hands on experience or ability to work in a practical day to day problem solving way get chosen over someone with a BS. Likewise there are guys coming out of school with a BS that don't have any real experence outside of school that will get picked over someone with an Associates. The other thing you need to keep in mind is that having that degree will mean you are always worth more(ie bigger paycheck), and you will always have that "baseline" knowledge. School was tough for me, took me 6 years, repeated more than one class, I'm better learning by doing than sitting in a classroom and filling in a piece of paper to show what I know. That hindered me in school, that hindered me in finding interships, that hindered me in job hunting, yet at the same time its what will give me the greatest success career and life wise. Give me a problem and I will fix it, if I don't know I will learn to fix it and then do it. My advice stick it out and get the degree, I cannot imagine doing any different. Thanks man. The travel does bother me a bit, but its good experience, its good pay, its a good career move, there are so many positives that it makes up for the travel and being away from the GF/dog/chickens. My base pay alone means I could have my student loans paid off in a year, and within 2 years I could buy a second home as a vacation/rental. My social skills are more developed than that of the ordinary stapler or even 3 ring binder, so I ought to do pretty well.

Yellow! Sweet sweet yellow!

Thanks, and to you too, I posted this with the same title because you posted yours, figured I would share. Me? ME Thanks, while I'm not traveling for uncle I'm sort of breaking the mold from my parents, my old man has been a federal employee since the mid 80s and current works for NASA, my mom works for a private company that is defense contractor. So for me this is the most private sector anyone has been in awhile. Siemens is one of our clients, GE is our primary, we make most of the control systems on GE turbines. Planning on investing, I'm still trying to figure out how to build my budget and make plans, trying to figure out the order in which I spend money, some parts for the vehicles here, finishing a bed/bath in my basement, paying off student loans, build a down payment on a second house, etc etc etc. So much to think about.

Funds aren't so much the issue with the MJ right now, its the time, the MJ is going to be backburner for awhile more while I try to get some other stuff reorganized. I finally have the funds to finish out my basement, so I'm going to do half of my basement, a bed and bath, and then I will be able to rent that out, my smallest bedroom will become an office for me and the GF, the GF is moving into my bedroom, and I will keep renting out my larger bedroom. Same number of bedrooms being rented by roommates, GF will pay me some rent, I will have more space in my bedroom without my desk and such, and I will get more rent from renting a bed and bath in the basement. Another up for me is that I just refinanced my mortgage, went from paying 1445 a month to 1071. (374 a month savings). Here in a few months when I have my basement done I'll be bringing in about 1125 a month in rent. Boooooya! Very exciting for me, big financial situation turn around, it means that for me within a couple of years I can think about having enough money saved for a down payment on a vacation/rental house in ouray(been my dream since I was basically a kid). Thanks jim, ya there is lots of electrical related stuff, work is going to be buying me a nice new fluke multimeter! Plus a bunch of other tools, too bad I won't get to keep them. It should be very different, new stuff all the time, the downside is being away from home so much, so I need to maximize my productivity at home. I won't be doing any travel for a couple of more weeks at least, so before then I am trying to get as much stuff accomplished and knocked out of the way as possible.

I graduated engineering school about 2.5 years ago now(ME), been flipping Jeeps and doing some other Jeep related work(diesel KJ work, etc). Back in august or so I applied for a job with company here in town, I didn't even expect to hear back on the position, and really didn't put much effort in to applying. To my surprise I heard back for a phone interview, then I heard back for an in person interview, then I heard back for a job offer, I accepted back in dec and started January 2nd. Comes with great benefits health insurance wise, 401k matching up to 4.5% on 6%, 2 years in I'm vested and start getting a stock contribution(we are a publicly traded company). The job I'm doing is a "Field service engineer", basically I perform field service work on a bunch of different industrial turbine systems, so if there is a warranty issue or more commonly a repair needed I go onsite to perform the work. The cool things about the job are; I can make 50%-100% of my base pay in my travel premiums, eg if my base pay was 100k(it isn't, I'm just making the numbers easy for my example) I could make 150-200k a year. I'm salary when I'm in the office, but the second I go on travel I'm hourly, anything over 40 hours a week I get the typical time and a half pay, plus a premium depending on where I'm traveling, international is 20% premium, offshore 10%, and travel advisory times are an extra 5%. So I get compensated for the travel pretty well, I could make up to 30% depending on where I am traveling. The downside is that I will be traveling about 60-80% of the time, the upside to so much travel is the extra pay. I could be traveling anywhere from the north sea on an offshore oil platform, to the carribean to work on a cruise ship(one of the best jobs you can get, even better if they want you to stay on board for testing during at sea), to china to work commissioning on a power plant for 6 weeks, to basically anywhere. Keep an eye out for updates about where I am in the future!