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check out the current weather in ankorage alaska...........................


and,,,,,,,,,  the worst month for us has not hit yet and thats Feb.

it was 50° here today. I didn't mind it.

Yeah, I have some friends that live in Anchorage and I have been going up there every September for a number of years, so I look at the weather. They're having an unusually warm winter this year. It's 10 at my house and 37 in Anchorage right now.

Yeah, I have some friends that live in Anchorage and I have been going up there every September for a number of years, so I look at the weather. They're having an unusually warm winter this year. It's 10 at my house and 37 in Anchorage right now.

It's great starting a car that has sat outside for 12+ hours in the morning when it's 5-10* below zero.

I went on an errand a few minutes ago, walked out, all bundled up, and was like, "hell, this ain't so bad", got in the mountaineer, and it's 28. Normally that would feel cold, but compared to 3 and 20mph gusts, it's a god heat wave. I'll take it.

the WHAT is leaking?

the fan clutch?

Yup!

The goo inside has the consistency of rubber cement.  I have to order a new one.  Gonna go with one of the SSP ones....

We got a weird snow fall. Not quite hail, but not frozen rain. Stuck to the ground as slush with snow covering the top.

Huh. I've yet to see that happen. Maybe on a junkyard car. How old was it?

As far as the SSP fan clutch yeah get that. I've had one on my Thunderbird for several years. It's a Motorcraft part but I'm not sure if you can still get them or not. Also if you don't have it now would be a good time to get a Fox Mustang fan. It's the same size as the Thunderbird/Cougar/Mark VII fan but has 9 blades instead of 7. I'm running one of those too.

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Huh. I've yet to see that happen. Maybe on a junkyard car. How old was it?

As far as the SSP fan clutch yeah get that. I've had one on my Thunderbird for several years. It's a Motorcraft part but I'm not sure if you can still get them or not. Also if you don't have it now would be a good time to get a Fox Mustang fan. It's the same size as the Thunderbird/Cougar/Mark VII fan but has 9 blades instead of 7. I'm running one of those too.

Every stock 5.0 I've ever dealt with ran GREAT in the cold and HATED the heat......

Well, it's one of the VERY few things I've not upgraded over the years.  To be honest I couldn't even tell you which clutch is on there now.  I've had the car 16 years and it's been off and back on plenty enough.  I'd say it's a rather safe bet it's original to the car.  You can still get the SSP clutch, but they've become quite pricey.

I've often wondered why the Mustang was a 9 blade fan as opposed to our 7.  Yeah I know, more power, but the flip side is heavier car.  I think though that the fox Mustang has a distinct disadvantage as far as open grill area in front of the car and underneath, so it NEEDS the fan. 

Not that ours didn't.  It always seems that most of these cars that are gone were killed by overheating in the warmer climates and rotting away in the colder/salt-on-winter-road areas.  Probably no different from any other car of it's era, but perhaps a 9 blade fan would have helped the warmer weather cars.  Every stock 5.0 I've ever dealt with ran GREAT in the cold and HATED the heat......

Only got 4" instead of 6"+. It's party time :banana:.

It's heavy and wet this time too.

12-14 inches here, drifts like a son of a bitch. This is worse than the big one of Feb '11. That was only a few inches but it blew so hard.


Oh Boy!!!

It got cold and snowy here pretty much right after Thanksgiving, which is unusual.
Outside of a couple "warm" days in the 40's since then, it's been cold and snowy. I also have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do on the car, but I'm not in the mood to eff with it in the cold, unless it's a necessity.

My lower back doesn't get workouts like this no matter how hard I hit the gym.

I've cut trees.  I never seem to twist the way I do as compared to when I shovel.

-9 without the windchill this morning.

That's my personal record low that I've personally experienced.  Had to endure that on a flight ramp while changing an actuator on the rear spar of an aircraft.  Wind Chill pushed it to -39. 
The real kick in the pants was the fact that the bolts were too small for me to manipulate with gloves and when you swap these out, sometimes jet fuel will weep out..... Guess where the fuel went?  Right on my hands.....

What is normally a 20 minute job for 1 took almost an hour for 2 of us.  Had to keep swapping out every few minutes.

i thought i was gonna have a jeff goldblum moment and have an ear fall off.

It's supposed to be 36* with rain here on Monday. It's said that makes me happy.

I was done with winter about 35 yrs ago.

It's supposed to be 36* with rain here on Monday. It's said that makes me happy.

I'm in magna, about 15 miles west of salt lake, and about 30 miles south west from ogden. my younger sister actually lives in Roy, so I head up that way a couple times a month. your kid drive any cougar/birds?

I really wish I had chosen to fix my mower chain though, I would not be “so stuck”.  17inches so far

BO~ ill check in on your folks tomorrow,, long walk

Im about an hour NW of Phila. We have been getting way too much snow here. Another 12" today and 2-4" more tonight.  I m making some good overtime but have now had enough.

Well howdy neighbor. This is getting outta hand. It makes the two winters I spent in Maine seem like a cake walk

It was 81 here yesterday. Going to be mid 80's today. Cool front coming in tonight so we will only get to the low 70's tomorrow.

You suck Chris!  LOL

Travis

48 degrees here, and sunny. All our snow is gone, but it is one muddy mess. Gonna go tan later, ie; pick sticks up out of the yard from the terrible wind we had yesterday evening/last night.

Hopefully this warm air mass drifts east and gives you guys a break.

The snow that's left here is a glacier. It's white/gray and nasty looking. It needs to melt away.

the first A hole that complains about the heat this summer Im going to punch out....LOL

I absolutely hate this winter. If I could move, I would.

Rain!  Yay!

Washing all the salt and the last remnants of the nasty snow away.  There's been snow on my property since late December without interruption.

I miss snow already.

The O2 sensors harness "loop" or jumper, has to do with the system management of the NSS signal to pin 30. Manual transmission setups use the SIGRTN ground and AUTO transmission setups use the starter solenoid START circuit (which gets 12 vdc when an engine cranking condition occurs). The problem with the O2 harness is...... when a mix between the auto circuit and the manual SIGRTN dependent circuit (with the SIGRTN circuit inline) happens....... causing the circuit to burn in the ECM.

It's right around there now once its warmed up and steady.  Base idle resets are not really doing anything at this point....  I got a gut feeling I'm gonna find something else wrong.  We'll see.

I've never actually set an idle or let the computer learn on, though my cars have all been stock so far. a lumpier cam might change things there. i just unplug the iac still it starts stumbling and then plug it in and drive it.

Are they $#%$$ kidding me with this forecast?

Are they $#%$$ kidding me with this forecast?

Of course the climate changes, the planet went from a hot wet place to a cold icy place...granted, it took several thousand years. Another forum I'm on, a guy posted a chart, owing to meterological and ice cores from the South Pole, etc, Earth is undergoing a regular cycle.

Saying it's anything but climate change, in other words, strictly the result of the last 150 years of man's impact on Earth is untrue and there simply hasn't been enough time to measure the latest trends against those of the the recent past (last 20,000 years or so).

I'm far from an expert, but out ancestors went after big hairy elephants with spears in stuff that makes what we've been getting look like a rainy spring day. We'll survive, if not a little more bitchy about the cold, LOL.
I went on an errand a few minutes ago, walked out, all bundled up, and was like, "hell, this ain't so bad", got in the mountaineer, and it's 28. Normally that would feel cold, but compared to 3 and 20mph gusts, it's a god heat wave. I'll take it.

Then what you're saying is "climate change is real, but it's probably not out fault".  Correct?

This.  There's a reason that the term "global warming" has been replaced by "climate change." Also I hear it's snowing at home.  Not there right now so I can't be sure.