Good morning Gentlemen,
Well, three unexpectedly beautiful days, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The final of the Wolves Cross Country series was in Grande Prairie. As I had to face replacing the front right wheelbearing/hub and CV joint on my Sentra I took the Z06 for one of its final road trips.
The race was an interesting one, a 3 runner relay race on a pretty hilly course. I needed to finish within two points of one runner in order for us to be tied overall and as I had results from a 4th race (top 3 race results nomrally count for overall series placement) I would win. I'm not as fast as this fellow but I'm lucky in that I ran some races in which he did not participate. He did finish ahead of me in the relay race but the division results were not broken down until last night and lo and behold he finished 1st for 10 points and I finished in 2nd for 8 points so we did tie and my 4th race result gave me the overall series win for the 2nd year!! Yep, a pretty happy and proud moment for me.
As well, some of you know that while sort of retired from my professional work as a research agronomist I still do some industry plot work. I have a small plot combine but have not used it in three years and spent some time this fall getting it going. In the end the little 4 cylinder VW engine fired up and I was off and harvesting yesterday. Some of you may be familiar with combines but this is a little Hege 125 from Germany. Works pretty well the same way but allows you to do plots that are much smaller in size than you would need if you were using a full sized combine. Here is a video from yesterday:
The World's Smallest Combine - YouTube
So the weather is turning to seasonal finally. Today is the last decent day it appears, 12 above, showers today and tomorrow, then 6 above on Friday, more showers on Saturday and highs of 2 and 4 on the weekend.
I've picked up my oil filter for the Z06 and will get the Mobil 5W-30 today for the storage oil change and hopefully can get it squeezed into the SeaCan with my Dakota. Battery minder to follow and then 5 or 6 sad months of snow and no Z06............
But if I enjoyed it year-round I would probably not appreciate the six months that I do get to drive it for up here.
Another reason Manny would never hire me - I printed off the instructions for replacing the wheel bearing/CV joint on the Sentra and in the assembly process got this silly piece of sheet metal 180 around. Garry the idiot was looking at the diagram for the LHS instead of the RHS! Of course you don't realize there is a problem until you go to put the brake caliper back on and you discover it won't fit! So you have to take EVERYTHING all apart again to rotate this piece. No job more hateful than having to spend another 90 minutes doing it all over again. On the plus side the car is nice and quite now. I have the parts for the LHS but as it seems they are fine I'll hold off on doing that for the time being.
Cheers,
Garry
Well, three unexpectedly beautiful days, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The final of the Wolves Cross Country series was in Grande Prairie. As I had to face replacing the front right wheelbearing/hub and CV joint on my Sentra I took the Z06 for one of its final road trips.
The race was an interesting one, a 3 runner relay race on a pretty hilly course. I needed to finish within two points of one runner in order for us to be tied overall and as I had results from a 4th race (top 3 race results nomrally count for overall series placement) I would win. I'm not as fast as this fellow but I'm lucky in that I ran some races in which he did not participate. He did finish ahead of me in the relay race but the division results were not broken down until last night and lo and behold he finished 1st for 10 points and I finished in 2nd for 8 points so we did tie and my 4th race result gave me the overall series win for the 2nd year!! Yep, a pretty happy and proud moment for me.
As well, some of you know that while sort of retired from my professional work as a research agronomist I still do some industry plot work. I have a small plot combine but have not used it in three years and spent some time this fall getting it going. In the end the little 4 cylinder VW engine fired up and I was off and harvesting yesterday. Some of you may be familiar with combines but this is a little Hege 125 from Germany. Works pretty well the same way but allows you to do plots that are much smaller in size than you would need if you were using a full sized combine. Here is a video from yesterday:
The World's Smallest Combine - YouTube
So the weather is turning to seasonal finally. Today is the last decent day it appears, 12 above, showers today and tomorrow, then 6 above on Friday, more showers on Saturday and highs of 2 and 4 on the weekend.
I've picked up my oil filter for the Z06 and will get the Mobil 5W-30 today for the storage oil change and hopefully can get it squeezed into the SeaCan with my Dakota. Battery minder to follow and then 5 or 6 sad months of snow and no Z06............
But if I enjoyed it year-round I would probably not appreciate the six months that I do get to drive it for up here.
Another reason Manny would never hire me - I printed off the instructions for replacing the wheel bearing/CV joint on the Sentra and in the assembly process got this silly piece of sheet metal 180 around. Garry the idiot was looking at the diagram for the LHS instead of the RHS! Of course you don't realize there is a problem until you go to put the brake caliper back on and you discover it won't fit! So you have to take EVERYTHING all apart again to rotate this piece. No job more hateful than having to spend another 90 minutes doing it all over again. On the plus side the car is nice and quite now. I have the parts for the LHS but as it seems they are fine I'll hold off on doing that for the time being.
Cheers,
Garry