That's right !fitness lads, spring time and soon summer , meaning it'll be time for sunshine and babes

(maybe)

It's cold as heck here in the west but summer should be warm.

What are your plans to prep for summer, any advice you need from other fitstrags (and you need to include too many coom images ), any recipes you found or routines and other shit.

House was too quiet/depressing so I decided to adopt another rescue cat and found this poor guy who'd been repeated abandoned for shitty reasons like divorce.

He weighs like 18 lbs so we got some work to do but he's so chill, gentle, and affectionate and I frickin love xhem already.

His neck was too fat for a regular cat collar so I had to daisy chain two of eeries old collars together but it works out lol

Here she is in all of her flawed glory, just waiting on an air-oil-separator and I can start the process of putting it back in. The plan is to begin on Monday when the part arrives, and hopefully have the car back up and running on Tuesday. It would be earlier, but I originally bought an aftermarket version of the part and then second guessed it because of the work involved installing it. So I have a proper Porsche sourced one coming.

Previous Entries:

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/258426/porsche-proctology-part-iv-parts-purgatory

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/256458/porsche-proctology-part-iii-neardisaster-and

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/256091/porsche-proctology-part-ii-its-out

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/255934/porsche-proctology-and-why-not-to

My fastener board where I staple bagged and labeled small items.

The area beyond that yellow thing hanging is no-man's-land where garage guests are not permitted. Mostly because that car is full of raccoon poop.

Interesting that the wiring harness uses a Mercedes part for the throttle body, I broke this connector and am going to try and re-pin the wires in a new one.

The special-order sport exhausts have a problem where a baffle comes loose in the muffler and causes a horrible racket. New units are no longer available - you can buy the standard mufflers and modify them, but it's hard to get somebody who knows what they're doing and is willing to do the work. I cut this one open and fixed the baffle myself, but the dual-layer stainless steel was a bit more than my welding skills could manage. I did what I could and spent about $50 in extreme heat JB Weld making sure it was sealed up properly. It looks like shit but nobody's going to see it.

I put some UV dye in my coolant tank in an attempt to track down an old coolant leak. What a mess. I used too much dye to begin with, then it clumps on the surface and makes you think you have oil mixed in with your coolant. To top it off, it's impossible to rinse it out of the coolant reservoir.

Little furry helper spotted.

This book contains the torque values of every fastener on this car and has been an invaluable resource.

So anyways, plan on a video of me starting it back up on Tuesday or Wednesday. Or, if it goes catastrophically wrong, expect a post on WPD.

Now I want molasses cookies

The mountain I live on is is in 98%th or so path of totality and my ranger station is on alert for tourists all weekend. We are expecting about 20k flatlanders coming here to nh and double over to

Maine so it's probably going to be an absolute shitshow.

I've had four service calls already since this morning so assistance. 2x CT, 2x MA goddarnit tourists

Attended this place virtually for like a month but still get gay emails like this from them. They did give me a neat uni email though, I've used it to get a lot discounts. My uni deactivated my email the moment I graduated

Today my little nephew told his mom that I'm his favorite aunt out of all of them

I'm so lucky to have a loving family in my life

Oh I figured out what's causing my hot start issue. When I have the car on I get a good 55psi fuel pressure but as soon as I shut it off, the pressure bleeds off immediately instead of staying pumped up. So the ecu is expecting a primed up shot of juice and says “no baby you're already worked up enough as it is” but the problem is that she's on antidepressants and can only build the pressure up, not hold it anymore basically the cylinders aren't getting any fuel for those first few cranks.

Replacing a fuel pump isn't too tricky as the cars usually have some access ports built into the sheet metal to pop out. Well, like the 996, this uses a saddle tank and a two-part master and slave Venturi system to equally suck from both basins within the tank. The problem is this chassis was never designed for such a tank to share room with Rwd components and what I'm saying is there aren't any access holes. You have to either drop the whole rear subframe and driveshaft, or you can lift up the carpet and cut your own access holes very carefully.

There arent any clear photos of exactly what to cut and where either. And the factory pump is no longer available and all you can do is rebuild the existing pump with a new motor and regulator. What brand is good depends on who you ask and everyone's got an opinion.

I think I'm gonna go for the cut method. I'm not going to start in on it until the Porsche is running though.

Just waiting on a few more o-rings and a hose before I can put it back in - but in the meantime I decided to do another leakdown test on that bad cylinder.

It was down around 12% and I was certain it was a stuck ring or something with the cylinder itself.

Spraying some oil in it before hand allowed me to trace it to an exhaust valve.

So as long as I'm not getting any misfires from it I'm going to just let it go for now and see if it gets worse and try to diagnose what exactly is causing it. This is all good news though. Being able to stay out of going inside the block avoids an $8-15k job.

I can't believe Maddox got a job with Harbor Freight.

Loljk I'm not a woman or a gay.

!alligatorfrickhouse

oh my god. i'm really making a mess of this. im sorry.

this is the latest version, with zero of the changes others have recommended

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I'm still relying on you neurodivergents to evaluate my autism so I can improve. I know, it's hella lame, but so am I

Had to re-record narration about a dozen times again and fix a bunch of incorrect info again. It's that usual nonsense where your voice sounds fine the first time you listen, but hearing it over and over again during editing makes it sound weird.

I haven't dialed in the audio quite yet or added some smooth jazz background music, but feedback would be appreciated. Talking too slow, too fast, obnoxious transitions, too many , something vague, anything.

As a bonus, helps the algorithm fairies promote my stuff a little bit before I hit primetime to make it seem like a rapid growth (relatively speaking)

okay i am straight. heterosexual. i love women. i worship women. i breathe women. my god how much i love women. id genuinely be a slave of one if i got the chance. i am easily manipulated by women in fact. they are my kryptonite. i am ready to establish the matriarchy if it means that i get to serve womens whims. anyway. i cannot get into a relationship with one.

i see like genuinely bad (and kind of ugly) dudes getting into relationships with girls and i cant help but have that pathetic little 'nice guy itch' at the back of my head. we get it you have a peepee, how lucky you are to have one!

im not even saying that im a good partner. im inexperienced, clingy, awkward, jealous and overprotective but i have genuinely seen SO MUCH WORSE. there was a guy that literally said SLURS, and made HITLER JOKES but somehow he still managed to get into a relationship with ANYONE, let alone a girl.

genuinely, the only women willing to talk to me are either gay, much older than me, taken or literally are not interested in dating in general.

i swear if i tried confessing to a straight girl shed think im a lesbian. im not saying because i am pessimistic and have a bad opinion of them but cause many girls demonstrated that they dont see me as a guy (or im just in the closet in some cases).

add several heartbreaks to all that and id probably be an incel, except my love of girls is stronger than that. checkmate.

anyways just kind of wanted to vent this shit unbearable

of heat exhaustion. global warming iz real. i kneel :greta

Frick! Life is good. You need those little obstacles to make you appreciate the good shit.

Had a problem but now it's all good! I bet this is how Hawaiians feel all the time.

omg i like juuuust realized its finally DONKEY KONG DECEMBER

i have updated my pfp and username accordingly

i put a lot of effort into my new avatar, so please dont bully. okay?

Saw this at Costco and it was pretty neat. Toyota Caldina. It's got a 256 hp 3S-GTE engine and the awd system from the Celica GT-Four. Still would be tough explaining to someone why you'd want to import one.

Continuation from here:

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/256458/porsche-proctology-part-iii-neardisaster-and

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/256091/porsche-proctology-part-ii-its-out

https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/255934/porsche-proctology-and-why-not-to

Nothing too exciting, aside from waiting on parts orders that trickle in everyday. Always want to get on in last minute then eat the shipping charges when I remember something else an hour later. At this rate though I should have everything together and possibly back together by the 15th.

I got this timing tool. It's not as precise as checking with the computer, but I'm trying to avoid buying a windows laptop and special software just for my car. This at least gives me confidence it didn't jump a tooth. When the first piston is at top dead-center, the slots on the cams should line up so that this cam-locking tool can fit in both slots.

Connects to the alternator. Gotta figure out what to do with it. Leave it, glob some hot glue onto it, liquid electrical tape, or de-pin it and re-crimp.

These aren't adapters, but are short little extensions for when a short socket is too long and a long is too short.

Finally got a parallel/ratcheting tool for these clamps. Had been using the plier style but the extra leverage really gives it that last squeeze it needs. The nice things about this style clamp is it doesn't bite / cheese-grate the hose.

Partially reassembled. I changed out those pulley bolts to match.

Guibo / aka flex disc. This couples the main differential with the driveshaft going to the front wheels. Mine's not too bad but pretty cracked up and I might as well change it while I'm in there. That's been a bad theme on this project and has added about an extra $2k in parts expenses.

This O-ring is seemingly too thick for the fitting it needs to mate with. My old fitting didn't have an o-ring there and it connected firmly - yet my old one also leaked. Will have to do more research but will eventually force it on.

New hose on the left, old hose on the right, also on the right is a section of hose I wasn't supposed to cut off, that I cut off. Cheap enough mistake, but then add shipping costs plus waiting time and each mistake becomes really annoying.

Test-fitting which fastener and wrench type would work best for doing this job with the engine in-car. Going to change out the original E-torx head bolts for something simpler like an 8mm hex head. Something you can use thinner wrenches on.

Factory 02 sensors are around $150 but you can get the exact same ones for $50 if you reuse your old connectors.

I hate spring clamps with a passion, but this car has a lot and I can't replace them all. So I picked up these. They're based on the standard Knipex Cobra but with swiveling tips on the jaws to grab ahold of the spring tabs. They also have a locking lever to keep the clamp open. They make clamping fun!

Here's another set of my favorite pliers. These are hose-grip pliers and are meant for, well, gripping hoses. That's great and all but what I really bought them for is to release the tabs on electrical connectors.

Especially old ones packed with dirt and grease.

Also picked up these Raptors to help retrieve a slightly stripped oil fill plug.

Proxxon rotator ratchet. This one's got a really neat trick and if you're lucky I'll make a video.

And finally I picked up a digital torque wrench in the hopes that the ease of setting it will promote its use. You'd think stripping an aluminum block would encourage it but no.

This is the worst post I've made on this site so far and if you upmarsey it you share blame.

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I've seen on news reports and social media for the last two years calling people that unlawfully travel into the US "migrants". I could have sworn that they used to be referred to as "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens". Very strange. Does anyone know what's going on?

And my old one is 777

I get all the cool numbers

I haven't been following meta shit recently. Is this a lame April fools thing or?

That is all.

Imagine being a boomer and seeing this, you'd have absolutely 0 idea what the frick is going on this cluttered screen. I barely understand what's going on.

Gen Z and A gonna have fried dopamine receptors from all the brainrot they scroll every day. Gen B is gonna come out with pre-fried dopamine receptors.

I cannot distinguish whether my life is cringe based, or based cringe.