What did you do to your other vehicle today?

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From what I've read, male pole dancers are a thing - very athletic apparently and no heels required.
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...on the way to the office this morning, the 1 year old Northstar in my Expedition gave me some grief. Stopped for gas, and the voltmeter read low when I turned the key back on after filling up. It barely started, and when I got here, I put a voltmeter on it - 11 volts. Now I have to figure out what's up with the charging system. No rest for the weary! :(
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I charged the Expedition battery over night and load tested it before work. It took a charge up to 12.2V, but dropped to 10.5V or so under load, and when I started it, it was weak. With the engine running, I got 14.2V, so it's not the alternator. I just drove to the nearest Batteries Plus on my lunch hour (it's their re-badge of the Northstar), and they tested it and concluded the same thing. Gave me a replacement, no questions asked!

I'm happy the service was great, but I'm a little disappointed that a Northstar battery, in my backup/hunting trip vehicle that only sees 5-7k per year, only lasted 11 months. I have a genuine Northstar-branded battery in the LJ, and since it's in a constant state of modification, it's not even seen 1000 miles since I installed it two years ago. I have a maintenance charger on it, but I guess I need to load-test it before the warranty period expires! I hope that one doesn't require warranty because it was purchased mail-order when it was very hard to find them in-stock.
 
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sab said:
Getting the thread back on track: :ROFLMAO:



I charged the Expedition battery over night and load tested it before work. It took a charge up to 12.2V, but dropped to 10.5V or so under load, and when I started it, it was weak. With the engine running, I got 14.2V, so it's not the alternator. I just drove to the nearest Batteries Plus on my lunch hour (it's their re-badge of the Northstar), and they tested it and concluded the same thing. Gave me a replacement, no questions asked!

I'm happy the service was great, but I'm a little disappointed that a Northstar battery, in my backup/hunting trip vehicle that only sees 5-7k per year, only lasted 11 months. I have a genuine Northstar-branded battery in the LJ, and since it's in a constant state of modification, it's not even seen 1000 miles since I installed it two years ago. I have a maintenance charger on it, but I guess I need to load-test it before the warranty period expires! I hope that one doesn't require warranty because it was purchased mail-order when it was very hard to find them in-stock.
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Hopefully it was just a fluke, and the new one will be mo' bettah. You need that Expedition to drive yourself to all those pole dance classes! ;)
 
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You need that Expedition to drive yourself to all those pole dance classes! ;)
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I'm afraid that there's only room for one male belly dancer here... :sneaky:

Edited to add: And probably no room at all for a male pole dancer! :p
 
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sab said:
I'm afraid that there's only room for one male belly dancer here... :sneaky:

Edited to add: And probably no room at all for a male pole dancer! :p
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Probably not - dem poles are 8, 10 feet long or more! Even an Expedition would have a problem with the longer ones! ;)

There is/was an outdoor stage at a venue I danced at fairly often back in Commiefornia. Right at the front edge of the stage, kinda-sorta in the middle, was a small tree. One time I hooked a leg around the thing and did a kinda-sorta layback - the audience thought it was hilarious. That's the extent of my involvement with pole dancing!
 
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New transmission cooling lines arrived in the mail today.

got the vast majority of the reassembly finished tonight. think im gonna replace the upper radiator hose before fully topping off the radiator, engine oil is in and just need to fill the transmission.
 
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The rust bucket is all back together, tools are all put back away, scrap metal is down at the end of the driveway in a pile for free & no apparent leaks so far. Drives and shifts smooth.

Ended up putting 2 gallons of ATF in the transmission, looks like im in the range of a quart or less low.. I'm just shy of the lowest HOT hash mark on the dipstick after driving for quite a while. Got to return the unused gallon of ATF to Wally World and get a quart & all my fluids should be good.
 
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I did the final lawn mowing, I hope, of the year. Spent almost an hour after that cleaning an entire season worth of grass clippings out of all the nooks and crannies on the zero turn mower. A full service on it after Turkey Week.
 
Got the worst of the rust off the inner top of the trailer frame, and some rust reformer sprayed onto same. Need to do a little bit more on the outside top, then It'll be ready for "red lead".
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Note the new mesh sides flash rusted in the rain. Had to pull the tail lights, fenders, and spare tire back off temporarily.
 
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Cheesy said:
I did the final lawn mowing, I hope, of the year. Spent almost an hour after that cleaning an entire season worth of grass clippings out of all the nooks and crannies on the zero turn mower. A full service on it after Turkey Week.
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this is my front lawn...the rest of the leaves won't drop so the landscaper is not showing up...lol

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Picked up an LR3 compressor a while back. It will be used to fill my air bags on the f150. I hooked it up today to make sure it turned on (it does) and to find a mounting location. I think along the frame rail in front of the radiator will be a good spot.
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I was under the impression that the LR3 compressors were failure-prone...
I hope it works out well for you instead of becoming a nightmare.
 
My 2001 Expedition has the factory air suspension. The OEM compressor, which lasted 15 years and about 200k miles, is no longer available, and all the aftermarket ones are junk (I have had four of them, each lasting only a few months). I like the air suspension for towing, so I put a dual-motor ARB on it. I now have on-board air, in addition to a reliable compressor for the air suspension! The ARB works so quickly it's almost comical because you can see the vehicle rise. With the OEM one, it was so slow you really couldn't see the rise.

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