Leaking water pump and harmonic balancer replacement has turned into replacing the timing chain and timing cover front seal.
Leaking water pump and harmonic balancer replacement has turned into replacing the timing chain and timing cover front seal.
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There's certainly good ones out there that go unnoticed.
The landscape is changing in many states as well. Decision makers are beginning to allow non-attorneys to own firms. Seems innocent enough until you later realize that big hedge funds are buying the firms up and will soon be employing "law techs" who will do substandard work while operating under the license of one attorney. The costs for end-users likely won't go down much, if at all, because the hedge funds are there to maximize profit...but the quality of care will go down. That's ironic considering that the push for this "access to justice" movement is being promoted as a movement to help poor people. Right...
It's similar to how urgent cares are owned by the insurance company, which are owned by hedge funds. My ex's dad (physician) said urgent cares employ less doctors and more "medical techs" who work under the employed doctors' licenses. And, of course, urgent cares refer patients to "in network" hospitals that the insurance company also own...so it's all owned by hedge funds etc.
It's better to be a specialist now days in the medical field and as a new attorney; otherwise, you may have trouble paying off your student loans because ownership charges the same but pays employees less. I chose the tax attorney route because the structure is basically logical chaos that (to me) paralleled fixing the electronics on F-14 Tomcats back in the day. We'll see how it goes, but I plan to never stop working hard because I want to be a problem solver that folks can rely on.
Lastly, I've noticed the employers don't give raises like they used to for employees who have earned them. They say something like "you deserve it and we'd like to give you a raise, but we can't afford it." Instead, ERs provide raises when the EE has leverage to leave their job for a better paying job. That's why I signed up for the CA bar mainly so I have leverage to be paid what I'm worth to a firm (hopefully in AZ or UT). I'll go to CA if it makes sense to do so, but that's not the main reason for taking the CA exam. I could go back to NYC, but I prefer being able to explore the west (there's so much access to adventure and that's what makes me happy). I'm trying to pull off a balance so we'll see what happens.
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I changed my HB, chain/sprockets, and seal last month.
Did you see a splash guard behind the crank seal? Mine didn’t have one.
It should have an oil slinger behind there usually mounted next to the crank gear if that's what you mean. I haven't had the cover off yet, I took the pic last night at my stopping point and hope to continue today after work.
I’ll add i’m in no wat litigous-
Those that point guns get shot at.
But let experts do the expert work.
There’s many ways in which attorneys play a part. Not everything is crime or injury related like I tended to imagine it in the past. Some attorneys are leaches and some really help things. Depends some on the specialty and mostly on the person with the license. Just like any specialties there are snakes and there are the good ones.
Just look at mechanics…it’s easy to find one, but not so easy to find a good and honest one.
Put some aluminum hood latches on. The flutter was real going down the interstate in tornado class winds the other day. These seem nice and tight so hopefully they’ll work out well.
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Don't know about Kincaid, but when I put the Kentrol latches on, the flutter stopped. I think most flutter comes from the rubber hinge straps.Not telling you to get one, but a hood louver greatly reduces the flutter if that's still an issue down the road.
Here is daytime (in the garage) and night time. The 3rd brake light is, well VERY bright. I got the taller mount for it, but I think I'll stick with the one as it is installed now.I'd like to see the lights lit up if you are willing to share more.
Started installing my BMBs. All new up front, just calipers in the back since I did everything else recently.
Frustrating how slow I go but I like to take care of rust and other issues I find as I go. I’m flushing each corner to get the gunk out of the lines before connecting them to the new calipers. Then once they’re connected I’ll bleed them all again. Time consuming, and fluid consuming, but might as well keep the old gunk out of the new calipers as long as possible!
Not telling you to get one, but a hood louver greatly reduces the flutter if that's still an issue down the road.