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definitely an exciting time to be alive, on annual leave just relaxing at home haha

Yep, forgot to say I'd already applied the poison powder (well, at least Kelli did as I helped move them around with a dustpan brush...)

yes yes, big wins, little wins etc... made it home and the outside is crawling with ants everywhere.. gee, leave the house for a week and it gets taken over some ant poison powder to distract/kill 'em and hopefully some vigilance will have it all back to how it was.

Much love to you and your family great people, intense/winding conversation, a lot of dog/human cuddles, good banter, reasonably slow repairs to my car (because I'm a backyard mechanic), maybe a turned tyre or two and desert weather.

morning all, happy Monday 🕠 Heading back to home today but have had a great time at @Puffwagon's house; thanks to his whole Family for making Kelli and I feel super welcome, even though there were some hiccups and the weather was/is oppresively hot.

Washed it... And washed @Puffwagon's car. It was a team effort to wash both, of course... bloody hot day to be doing it, but the result was worth it, after the car was covered in all sorts of road-trip-grime and Puff's a bit covered in crap after he decided to show Kelli and I the sights around his town, down a dirt road! haha. Good to spend some time up here in Adelaide Cheers for the hospitality to myself, Kelli and our two dogs , Puffster & Family... Puff also lended some mechanical help haha... had neglected my car a bit in lieu of the house purchase/after-purchase-work and found a few issues Dump pipe was only held on by one nut! and there was 2 studs missing of the 5, the 4th one pictured is one spare that Puff had haha Puff found some bolts with the same thread, which were too long, so out comes the angle grinder and the bench grinder to cut them to the right length and then to clean up the cuts haha... now the dump pipe is nicely tight and hopefully won't come loose again so easily... oops... Funnily enough, most of my exhaust manifold and turbo-to-manifold bolts/nuts were loose, too... torque'd 'em all up, as well. Fiddly bastard to get a spanner on some of those, as anybody who's had a go at those can attest And to top it all off, found a loose bolt for the exhaust housing of the turbo; luckily it was the one where the oil drain is otherwise this probably would have backed itself out all of the way and be on the road somewhere... All this "loose" stuff, was probably caused by this damage to the impeller blades Amazing that the turbo is still holding together and making reasonable boost amongst all of those vibrations it'd probably be causing with that sort of damage... still no shaft play and the blades aren't touching the side of the housing, either, so... got some time before the turbo will need some work haha Also had only the front-passenger-side down to metal-on-metal; another oops... not so bad on the front-driver-side, interestingly... new pads and discs today are on the agenda.

morning all, happy Sunday 🕔

morning all, happy Saturday

Shift to 5th first manually first. Shouldn't be planting it in 6th anyway.... Take it back to ask which condition the ZF was in before it was replaced as it might not have been in perfect condition.

That's definitely one way. Haha.

morning all, happy Friday 🕟

and potentially not far from a beach or two, eh?

looks a little toasty haha

hell yeah!

morning all, happy Thursday 🕓

The silver XR6T. Enjoying overtaking that it does so easy on these long drives

morning all, happy Wednesday 🕞 off on a road trip yesterday, a lot of driving today, but a good way to spend a bit of time off.

morning all, happy Tuesday 🕒

wouldn't dream of it

gee, that's a lot longer than I would have guessed... more money for car parts, eh?

plenty of time to drink it? or does it go off? I'm a newb when it comes to this sort of stuff.

fair enough my bad for the mis-characterization.

what about the missus? she a booze-hound like you?

yeah, fair enough... do you drink anything other than beer?

good to achieve a goal sometimes, even if it's a negative one