Front End Refresh
My low horn stopped working and while I don't honk much, I would like it to not sound silly when I do. And the passenger side bellows...
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Fixing the Sunroof
When my 911's sunroof jammed I really wasn't ready for what I found. There are a few pieces to this: The early style sunroof cables are...
The A5 hits 90,000mi
Back in the fall of 2013 my VW Jetta lease was ending and my fancy consulting job gave me a stipend to pay for a nice car. I went looking...
Central Locking Issues
I turned the key to lock the doors, and the lock went down and then popped back up. I tried it from both sides and got the same result. A...
Fixing Our Stove
Our home came with a stove in it, like most homes do. It is a dual fuel 36" range with a gas cooktop and an electric oven. It is a...
Low Latency Recording with Logic
What is latency? Latency implies here there that things that should be simultaneous are not. In recording, we are often over-dubbing new...
Building a Strat
One thing about getting older is the guitars you bought on the cheap 20+ years ago may be getting pricey and a little beat up from 20+...
Replace Your Cylinder Head temperature sensor
My initial symptoms seemed to be that I was getting gas & getting spark since the car would start when cold, run and then die. I could...
Replace your fuel pump
Things are not always what they seem. It started out with a ride on a flatbed, I was about 10 minutes from home, the car was running...
Building a LP Jr Style Guitar
Hot on the heels of building a Tele in spring/summer 2020, I then fixed up a beater strat which took more work and got me optimistic I...
Replace your Ignition Coil
Nothing mind blowing, just some hopefully helpful tips for first timers. While tracking a start and then stall condition, I tried to test...
Zippy gets a battery
Seems to be a theme around here, old cars with old batteries. But in this case Zippy was a little funky starting sometimes - it didn't...
Audio Engineering Basics
Basic Basics By no means exhaustive or definitive, but ideally short & helpful for new folks to fill in some gaps. "Stands For Decibel"...
Replace the outer window scraper
Thanks to the magic of internet searches I learned that some people call this a squeegee. I was taught that it's a window scraper, but...
Saving a budget Strat
Back in 2020, a guy I went to HS with saw that I was fixing guitars online and he reached out when he saw a beat up guitar at a...
Repairs / Cost Of Ownership
A few years in, I wanted to look at cost of actual repairs - stuff that broke - vs the cost of things I chose to renew/restore. How is...
My "evil girlfriend" (a car story)
I was in an abusive relationship. I bought a 1997 M3 5-sp 4-door sedan via the CPO program from BMW. It had about 30,000 miles on it but...
Spitfire headgasket, Round 2
Well, we certainly tried to do it "right" but something did not work out. I broke down and had to get flat-bedded home. When I got the...
Old vs New
There are lots of rumors, heresay, impressions and not a lot of hard tech data about why old gear may sound different or better or worse...
Valve Grinding
If you've got the head off for whatever reason, you should check the guides and the seats. Even if the guides and seats look good, they...
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