isteve

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  1. Up here in the northeast, well at least where I live we have had nitrogen available for many years. We go from 100° in the summer to -20° in the winter. I'm pretty sure all the major tire sellers also offer nitrogen.

  2. I think your looking in the right spot it defiantly sounds like a lean condition. These things are hard to diagnose until it triggers a trouble code "I'm sure it will eventually unless you find it first". Fuel filter is a good place to start at least to rule it out. There are so many tiny possible points of failure it's hard to know where to start especially when it doesn't happen all the time. Sounds like a busy christmas good luck.

  3. I found this on Mac Rumors, thought you guys may be interested.

    (From Mac Rumors)

    Apple released a technote detailing an issue that some users have run into while installing the latest Mac OS X Software Update.

    When attempting to update software using Software Update in Mac OS X 10.5, the update process may stop responding while "Configuring installation" is visible in the update window.

    Apple describes that this may happen when trying to install a partially downloaded update. The work-around is to remove the partially downloaded update and try again. The incomplete update files may be found in "/Library/Updates" and can be safely deleted before trying Software Update again.

    Alternatively, users can download the Combo update and install it themselves.

    It seems that the bug resulting in the partially downloaded file affects Mac OS X 10.5.1 through 10.5.5. Once you successfully installed 10.5.6, the issue seems to be fixed for future updates.

  4. I know a guy that converted his old Mercedes to Vegie. He gets his oil from restaurants, his son made a part time business collecting old oil for free, filters it and sells it for I think .50 a gallon. Of course like I said we have a lot of grease cars where I live.

    Hmmm... I'll have a big mac large, fry, coke and can you fill'er up.

  5. Sometimes the erratic idle like what happen can be caused by low fuel pressure, stuck injector or failing TPS and eventually set a trouble code. So you may want to check if it happens again. Bad gas usually causes problems that don't go away until the next fill up.

  6. I don't think we are at the point to pick just one alternative. Say we choose bio fuel and drop all other development but in ten years some one makes a new battery that takes half the time to charge then what we have now and last 3 times as long or the other way around. Also we never know what new thing is just around the conner.

    I read today that the University of Massachusetts that is near where I live has plans to build a Bio Fuel plant. I guess they are working on new production techniques and different plants. There is a company a few blocks from me that builds Grease Car conversion kits. So whenever I go for a walk I always see old VW Rabbits and Mercedes that smell like french fries.

  7. "i dont understand why the usa hasent

    gone into alternate fuels "

    Because it's cheep, just filled up tonight $1.57 an gallon when it hits $5 then we'll see alternatives. We had $4 gas this summer and thats all anyone could talk about now fuels under $2 not so much.

  8. I believe Brazil is almost all ethanol and it is working for them. I agree that corn may not be the correct plant but scrapping the whole bio-fuel industry is not the answer.

    If gas prices push $5 a gallon and we give up on Bio-Fuel the tinfoil hats will be saying that the government stop development of the Bio-fuel industry because big oil needed to scam us.

  9. At this time it takes almost as much fuel to make Ethanol as it produces but as production increases that changes. Also if we could change from corn to wood pulp "or other starchy fibered plants" it would be much more cost effective.

    I think the main reason for E10 at this time is to cut pollution. The byproduct of burned ethanol is water. But energy we get out has to greatly outweigh the energy put in before it makes sense.