mjeff87

Hey stranger We met up last year in Disney springs for a mini pow wow. My wife and I were in Mickey land for the week, and Pete was in country too. Rick and Buck came up, we had a great night. Sadly the wife and I postponed our Disney trip this year due to you-know-what but we're still planning on driving down to JAX area in August for a week (couple days in Savannah to start ). Maybe we can figure something out for a meetup (?)

I used a consumer grade kit from the big box store and its held up fairly well. One thing I didn't do (but will be doing this time around) is to put a top/clear coat on it. I didn't, and the product has faded over time. But, adhesion-wise, it's stuck on 100%. Of course, I had brand new concrete to work with at the time (we had the house built, closed on a Monday but didn't move in until the weekend so I rolled it on and it sat for 4 days untouched to cure). All I did was acid etch the surface and let it dry very good. The biggest pain about coating the floor is all of the prep you need to do to the floor to make sure you don't botch the job....the actual rolling on part is quick and simple. This first coat is 11 years old now, FWIW. One other tip, if you broadcast flakes onto it, don't try to "direct" where the flakes go. Just toss a hand or cup full of flakes straight up in the air over the area and let the flakes go where they want to. You get a much more even coverage that way. For my recoating job, I have to rough sand the surface, then sweep and wipe down with denatured alcohol. I'm not planning to remove the first coating, because it's adhered so well already. Just need to give the surface texture for the new coating to adhere to.

The set I pulled eons ago are still sitting on my workbench, all painted up and pretty looking. I'm taking a vacation (stay-cation) next week from work, they are on the list of crap I want to get done. Along with re-epoxying my garage floor, re-staining my deck, powerwashing the house, and painting all the wooden trim on the porch and around the garage door. I'll be lucky if I get 2 of those things actually done, lol.

I've been twice. First time, a long time ago my buddy and I called off work and drove up to Niagra Falls (Canadian side). Found a hotel bar, drank a very expensive beer and promptly drove back over the border. Second time was just a couple years ago, we did a cruise that involved Halifax. That was a blast.

RIP John. Damn.

A very happy Canada Day to all of our northern members. Pancakes and poutine for all, lol

Surprisingly, the rest of the glass is in really good shape. That's why I want to get the chip sealed now, before it decides to spread any. The car obviously went through a hail storm sometime before I bought it....there's a bunch of tiny pock marks/dents on the hood/roof/trunk. They're really not noticeable unless you are up close to it, though. I don't care, it's a beater car

Got her car back, it was done surprisingly quickly. We'll see how long this piece of glass makes it, lol. Now I have a rock chip/star in the center of the Focus glass....bought it that way. I just noticed it's starting to crack just the tiniest bit. I only have liability insurance on it, so no glass coverage. I'm gonna get the chip drilled and filled out of my own pocket. I'd rather pay $50-100 for that than have to pony up for a whole new windshield.

Could really have been a sunlight reflection/burn....coulda been a water bottle left on the back deck one sunny afternoon like Ben says. Funny that it narrows in the center, and then that little "blank" spot in between the marks. My neighbor has one window on the south side of his house, which faces my window-less north side of the house. Every year, around mid-November when the sun angle is juuust right, and the siding temperature is cold, sunlight reflects off of that window and warps my siding right on the corner. If my house was 3 feet further away it would just hit the brick foundation and not be an issue. We've both come up with a plan to fix the problem this year, so I don't have to keep replacing the siding

I'll toss Subaru a bone too. My wife is on her 4th one, started with a Legacy that she inherited from her grandmother when she passed several years ago. Traded that on a Forrester, then another Forrester, and another Forrester (see a pattern here lol?). Nothing wrong with any of them, she just likes to have a "new" car every couple years for whatever reason (says the guy who owns/drives an 01 Focus and an 02 KJ). She just got her windshield replaced yesterday, but that's another story...and wouldn't affect you unless you decided to purchase a 2018+ model. Outback is a little bit smaller than a Forrester, and has a pretty bad view out the back window due to design, but is a solid vehicle. She gets consistent 30-35 mpg in mixed driving her Forrester, and remember it's an AWD too. TONS of room inside of it, plenty enough for a couple car seats in the back and an unbelievable amount of room with the rear seat folded down. Puts my KJ right to shame. I've already said that if I ever decided to stop driving Jeeps, I would be driving a Subaru something-or-other.

They're integral to the new safety systems that are now standard on all new cars.....adaptive cruise, lane-keep assist, collision avoidance, etc... I can't stand to drive the darn thing. You can disable most of the features (but not all), but you have to do that EVERY time you cycle the key off/on. And there's a campaign going to get a class-action lawsuit against Subaru about the faulty windscreen glass. It cracks if you look funny at it, lol. The problem started happening in 2018 when all the safety crap got installed....it seems it has to (or Subaru just cheaped out on) the glass so it would work with the system. Prior to 2017 they never had problems like this with their glass. https://www.classaction.org/subaru-cracked-windshield-defect-lawsuits#:~:text=No.,deny that any defect exists.

Focus came back home last night, yay. Just in time for me and the wife to drop off her Forrester at the glass installation place.....she got a rock chip a couple weeks ago that decided to up and crack the entire way across the windshield last Thursday. Kicker is that her car has that "eyesight" system, which has cameras mounted on either side of the rear view mirror, that have to be re-calibrated when the glass is replaced. That's getting done this morning, I'm leaving work when they call to say it's ready to go back home, get her, and drive out to pick it back up.

Yeah...pizza eggs happened here today. Had 3 leftover pepperoni slices. I grabbed an onion and a bell pepper, diced them up and added them to the diced up pizza. A little extra mozzarella on top of it all too. Holy crap, that's a beautiful dish

I'm not paying to read the full article, but I get the gist of it. $20 says the author drives a Prius....idiot. Although, my Jeep's name is the ultimate oxymoron and I can't believe no one at DC (at the time) ever noticed or said anything. I drive a Liberty........LIMITED edition.

^^^I need to be drinking for that picture to make any kind of sense to my brain.....

I told my wife, when we were in our last house, that the next move we made we were selling everything but the 3 cats and the clothes on our back, buying all new and have it all delivered to the new place. Well....we ended up buying (building) a new house in the same subdivision we were living in about 1/2 mile away. Ended up moving everything redneck style with friend's pickups/SUV's/trailers in about 300 trips back and forth. Honestly would have been SO much easier to just rent a huge truck and pack/unpack it all in one trip. The NEXT house, which is gonna be the buy-and-die house, I will implement my selling everything plan. And I get the fun of helping one of my wife's friends move tomorrow (in 93 degree heat) from a 1-bedroom, second story apartment, to a 2-bedroom ground level apartment in the same complex about 15 doors down. That's gonna bring the suck.

Focus has gone "up the road" for a bit.....one of my friends started a new job yesterday. He called me at 9:00 PM Sunday night, his DD crapped the bed (bad fuel leak, too dangerous to drive). So the wife and I schlepped the Focus up to him to run to the job this week while he tries to get his car fixed. I haven't driven the KJ much lately, so it's kinda good. I get to run it for awhile (although I'm paying alot more in gas to drive it ).

Definately. We have to hear you gig in a band somewhere, some night. My buddy is an old drummer who did stuff in New Orleans back in the day, and up in PA when he lived there. We need a good night out to just jam

We're still going to Florida, just not to Disney. I have no desire to spend all that $$$ on something that's going to anything but a "magical" experience, LOL. I told my wife if she really wanted to go we would, but she'd have to put up with my sitting in a hotel room and being cranky and miserable for a week. We'll be in Hilliard (about 30 minutes north of JAX), but actually closer to Folkston GA. About a half mile from the St. Mary's river (the border). We're driving down (again, this makes the third time.....). She doesn't want to fly just yet. Going to meet our friends in Savannah and spend a couple days there, then drive to their house for the rest of the week.

I must have had my beer goggles on when I checked the first time, lol.

Slightly off topic, but the wife and I postponed our Disney plans this year. We're going back down to visit our friends again in Hilliard, FL in August again. They are actually closer to Folkston, GA.....which by my googling is only about 2-2.5 hours from hot-'Lanta. We might could figure out a meetup whilst we're there

Yeah....that was pretty awesome. I debated on putting the cabbage in, but I'm so glad I did. It really made the meal. I grabbed a quart of rice from the local Chinese take out place, ans sautéed some red/orange/yellow pepper strips in a bunch of mashed garlic as a side. That recipie is a keeper

I'm going for the pork for dinner tonight. Have to run oil and get a bottle of liquid smoke....I think I'll grab a small pizza too for pizza eggs for breakfast tomorrow morning

where's the teaser pics mang??? I've been waiting for an update.....I think I want to try this one out.

Well...you asked. If it was me, I'd tear it apart and put it back. If it were a 2.5L that uses a chain tensioner I probably wouldn't worry about it so much, but you don't have a tensioner. It'll most likely be just fine, but like others it would bother me to no end. And like OldMan says, it if wasn't needed it wouldn't be there in the first place.