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Today's plan was: - remove the old exhaust - replace the clogged fuel line - install the new exhaust As you might have guessed, this plan didn't survive first contact with reality. The old exhaust needed some serious convincing with the angle grinder to get out, that alone took 1.5 hours...

Doesn't look too bad optically, besides the obligatory upper tailgate. I love the wrench stuck on the rim!

Depends if you are color blind or not!

Fully agree on green hydrogen, that stuff is so usefull for all kind of things!

Yeah, I spend my entire career in supply chain, and once you realize where all our stuff comes from and goes to you become a cynic. There are different degrees of bad so, getting rid of the worst is good even if enough bad remains. This subject is a pet peeve of mine, so please excuse if I go...

8.5% transmission losses globally between 1960 and 2014, measured as the ration of power generated and power consumed. Not nothing, but assuming a modern fossil fuel plant the overall efficiency from power plant to EV wheels on the road is much better than for an ICE vehicle, if you look at...

So true! They peaked, in the places I know, kust nefore covid hit, back when those companies were swimming in cash. Now that the money is gone, the scooter went the way of rental bikes. We had four different brands of eScooters, with multiple standing at every street corner. Now we have one...

EVs as in cars, maybe. EVs as in scooters and as a replacement for small motor cycles on the other hand have a ton of benefits for cities in other parts of the world. Those electrical rent-a-scooter things in our cities so do not replace anything, they allow people to walk less making them a...

Rare earth are a mess, and Lithium mining isn't hreat neither. Still beats open pit coal mining and coal burning. Climate change so is already ruining everything and everyones lives. Generally, I think all of us in the developed world are living lifestyles that are not really healthy, neither...

Efficiency of a modern ICE is somewhere between 40-50% theoretical maximum. Never ever achieved in real life. Thermodynamics are a bitch. Large gas turbines are much better, size helps, they always run near the theoretical max anyway (something a car never can, ship engines are more capable of...

The share of renewables is increasing faster than electricity consumption so. And if memory serves well, the full chain from fossil fuel power plant to electric motor is more efficient than a small ICE (it has been a couple of whiles since I studied that stuff at university). And with central...

Electric cars are fine, just don't buy one from VW! Funny how the same car from Skoda is better, but this was the case between VW and Skoda like forever now. Only reason we don't have one: two kids, range (EVs for this do exist) and budget (just not at a price point yet that is within budget)...

Sold via eBay, someone clicked on the Instant Buy button today.

I have one, and I love it, especially after being in the desert. While I never sprayed oil all over the place you did, I did when changing the oil... Took almost a year for the stains to fade away on the pavement on the drive way...

Been a while mine did! 😭 Well, I almost managed to remove the old exhaust today. Well, time to pull out the angle grinder next week-end.

Thanks for the tip! Pictures will most likely have to work for the week-end so, pretty busy week so far...

Today was prep work for the exhaust, turned out I missed some bits and pieces. And since I had not much motivation to get dirty, I emptied the car to get the new carpets in. This also means new wirimg for the second battery (some out lets in the trunk for camping, and some somewhere for a fridge...

Those make for great campers, friend of mine has one just like that!

Me selling this is part of a deal I have my dear better half: you want a new Nikon lense for four figures, you sell of the other stuff that lies around for your car for years. That deal was very reasonable, after all I never managed to install the overdrive for two years now. And I do have diff...

So, turns out I jave two U type temp compensators now. She runs very nice so, idles just fine at 800 revs, no sputter and just smooth without any fine tuning of the carbs being done.