Month: September 2018

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Transmission is fixed!

I gave up on fixing the transmission on the Land Rover, and finally asked for help from Todd over at Columbia Rovers.

He got Jose on it right away, and Jose found a completely severed transmission shaft. After a marathon transmission pulling session, I got the transmission out of my parts truck and to Todd the next day. I really have to get a two post lift like they have. Jose then promptly hooked the new transmission up and drove it onto my trailer.  I did not have all of the parking, swaybars, brakes, shocks, etc hooked up enough to drive it home. 

 

This is the first time I’ve driven it in a long time. Feels really good.

This phase of the project is done.. Now for the “new” ARB bumper, and tightening everything down.  I’m hoping to have it ready for the next meeting.

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Windows 7

So I pulled out one of the old company laptops to use for some random thing, and installed a copy of windows 7 on it, as that’s how old it is.

We moved to Windows 10 long ago here,  and actively purged Windows 7.

I forgot how awesome it was… no waiting, no candy crush, no “I can remind you to buy lunch meat”, no you need to run this critical update that does nothing right now while you are trying to get stuff done.

it just starts and works..

so refreshing..

Well that did not last long.

No it’s not important.. don’t “excuse me”.. I don’t want to update. I just want to use windows 7.