Every time I change the oil in my truck I keep wanting to find the idiots who decided where to place the oil filter on the third gen Ranger 3.0 engines what the hell they where thinking.
That might be the worst oil filter placement I’ve seen. It’d be more than enough to get me to wash my hands of it and just take it to a local mechanic instead of doing it myself.
I like knowing exactly what’s being used. I switched to using Valvoline High Milage Full Synthetic a while back, and I’ve been happy so far. It’s a pain in the butt, and while I usually change a little sooner then needed, I at least don’t have to change quite as frequently. Besides, there’s a satisfaction in doing it yourself.
I’d be going with a remote filter setup with that awful placement.
Can’t say I know how to do that. Just having to snake my arm past the lower control arm and around the starter and have my hand right next to the exhaust manifold (close enough to touch while installing/uninstalling) makes things a bit of a pain in the ass
Plus you’re supposed to change oil while it’s hot. Looks like a death trap to me. Can you reach it from underneath?
That’s the only way I can reach it. I usually let it cool off enough so I’m not burning myself. The nut on the K&N gold filter is a life saver here. It’s a battle to grab the filter with oil filter pliers, but grabbing the nut with the extra hight with a crescent wrench or slip joint pliers makes it easier(though still not exactly easy)
Just a small note here - I’ll be off the site for a while, probably staying logged out to prevent checking on things just by muscle memory. I’ll probably be selling a lot of my things very soon too. I’m not sure I’ll be able to keep the Oxygen long enough to compare with the Olina like I hoped, but those comparisons will be dime a dozen when folks start getting them. Sorry for any other reviews and opinions I never quite finished, if you were waiting on them. I’m doing what I need to do to save my marriage. Just today it was crazy when I was deliberately not checking here, classifieds, eBay, other audio forums, squigs etc… that I realized how much it’s just a reflex. In planning periods, when i wake up, get in the car, wait for the kettle to boil, whenever I have 2-3 minutes spare, times I thought I was just going to be listening to music and get sidetracked, and so on.
Just a small part of a big overhaul of how I spend my time, and where my care and energy is directed. I’m picking very, very few priorities and putting my everything into those. And my marriage is on top.
Thanks for everyone’s friendliness, generosity, and advice. I’ll probably have a planned/timed log in every so often to check for any direct messages.
Take care, and never forget to listen to music, not just to IEMs/headphones/speakers!
Parting recs are the Aladdin with stock tips as always, and the Penon Serial if you can get deep insertion with smaller tips, preferably ePro Horn EP00.
all the best to you and getting your priorities set and family as the focus.
feel free to pm me your email and I’ll send funnies to you direct! 
I guess less of a grievance as much as saying: if you’re going to be doing something remotely dangerous, wear proper attire.
A friend asked me to help him get rid of a tree branch that was laying on his mother’s roof, and I agreed. T-shirt, jeans and my Red Wing work boots. Long story short, one bad swing, and it was off to the hospital.
Holy shit, hope everything is alright. May you get better soon!
Ya you got pretty damn lucky, good on you for wearing proper safety gear a lot of folks dont.
I was an army back in the day, we had a guy get impaled through the foot with a steel rod, was somewhat lucky it didnt cause any major permanent damage (some reconstructive surgery and some bolts but overall dude was ok).
EMS was surprised that I did exactly what I should have done and was so calm. I was in JROTC for my entire High School career, and was in the BSA (not that I agree with everything they’ve done since I left). When in Job Corps, several friends where in the CNA program, and I fought to try to be allowed to get a CPR certification (was denied, as it didn’t pertain to the IT program).
Soon as I realized what happened, I set the axe aside and noticed the bleeding, took the boot and sock off to inspect the damage and told my buddy to grab a first aid kit, only to find the house was locked, so I told him to call for an ambulance. Pulled the lace off the ruined boot and tied it tightly around my leg to try restricting blood flow without cutting it off completely before sliding on my butt back to the ladder before climbing back down. Limped my way around the house and back to the tailgate of my truck and sat down, pouring an unopened bottle of drinking water over the wound before taking some fresh paper towels I keep inside the cab as a just in case and using them to staunch the wound while keeping pressure. Initial pain never got past a 3.5. Stepped up once the adrenalin wore off, the lace was removed and bandage EMS had put on a bit tightly where removed.
Unfortunately, along with my high pain tolerance comes with a rather high resistance to pain killers. Hydrocodone doesn’t do much of anything for me, and so do almost all over the counter options. Thusly, I really got to feel the Doc stitching me up having to really force the needle through my skin right at an open wound with the nerves waking up, being so close to an already receptor heavy area.
Having no control of your anger can suck a lot, and this is from someone who is trying to keep his own temper in-check, especially at times when it at the utmost necessity to remain calm and should not be bothered by anything.
I fucked up today, and I knew from the getgo that I should not let it into me that much for it is only a game and sometimes you are going to suck and sometimes things will not go your way even though you try hard enough to do what is right.
I just wish I can remain focused and calm, not only playing, but to most anything so that I can maintain rational thoughts and not harming anyone including my friends on such matters that should not have made a bigger deal, and that can be a fault of my own, for I still struggle to keep my temper in check.
I admire your resolve to know what to do and act when no one else is around to help you. Many people I know don’t have the Nerve to even push to take two steps of what you did all on your own.
I mean, I had my friend there, but I needed him focused on getting help, holding the ladder, making sure my tailgate was down, and grabbing me the roll of paper towels out of the cab. Once I was just waiting for EMS, told him to go start cleaning up the tools for the day.
Ordered several items… every last one of them came in royally damaged and all just fucked up… they shattered the TV(very large… very expensive… over $3 grand) and try to pass it off as “its okay its just the packaging”… shattered a mirror… broke the fucking wall acoustic foam pieces from GIK I ordered(its encased in wood-like fiberglass material which is all busted now), and also SOMEHOW managed to literally smash an amp(tube amp at that) I had coming in as a test item that now I have to explain to the company as to what just happened.
Gotta love UPS, THANK GOD Pokrogs headphone was not involved in that… I would have been absolutely fucking furious.
Left shoulder pain after waking up, shitty quality sleep and the workout last night was not up to my standard therefore I sucked during that session, even though I tend to crush that routine with relative ease. Sometimes, it is just not your day to have a good one but it will come to pass.
But seriously though, I freaking hate this pain on my left shoulder.
pain sucks the life out of you. I know as I’ve had it accutely for 23 years… with sciatica for almost a year this April.
