Post by downeastnc on Feb 15, 2018 21:59:53 GMT -5
Heck I turned on my AC it got up to 78 in the house and the windows open werent doing any good and I cant sleep in a warm house.....thankfully the cold front tomorrow night will let me turn it off....gonna be a cool wet spring I am not feeling the severe weather vibe....though if the current pattern can hold on and last into spring it would be spectacular.
Post by downeastnc on Feb 21, 2018 18:13:31 GMT -5
Naw the GFS shows a decent east coast trough by early March....with our luck it will lock in for 3-5 weeks making spring cool and rainy.....but not stormy..winter basically lasted 5 weeks this year from Dec 23rd till Jan 20th or so....
Naw the GFS shows a decent east coast trough by early March....with our luck it will lock in for 3-5 weeks making spring cool and rainy.....but not stormy..winter basically lasted 5 weeks this year from Dec 23rd till Jan 20th or so....
Yep typical Nina pattern. A cool March is almost guaranteed, Nina’s usually have them and we seem to get the elusive negative NAO to lock in then.
Benign weather. Nothing to talk about. I guess I will tell everyone about my upcoming project.
I bought Bandito (my 1993 Toyota FZJ80) in January. I've been working on it and fixing some things up. New radiator, new Neutral safety switch, new Kenwood 6.5" touchscreen stereo/CD/DVD player (wife got it for my birthday), new Kicker speakers (previous owner installed), new Memphis Audio 10" subwoofers, new Kenwood 600 watt amp, new seat belt restraints, new LED strip lighting in the interior, replaced all exterior light bulbs (including headlights) with LED lights, new wiper washer motor, new Throttle Position Sensor, oil change, etc. This Friday I'm going to the auto salvage yard and looking for bolstered leather front seats to replace my leather seats that are torn beyond repair. I'm hoping to find some VW GTI, Jetta, or Touareg bolstered leather seats in a wrecked car. I can fabricate some new mounting hardware so they will fit. The middle seats are in great shape and just need a good cleaning. The foldaway jump seats in the back are also in amazing shape. They just need to be cleaned with leather cleaner and then treated with Lanolin. I've sanded some spots on the body where the paint had chipped and then primed them. There are a couple of dents on the body (very few for a 25 year old UTE) and I plan on taking some Bondo to them this weekend, sanding them to make them flush with the body, then prime them. Hopefully by the end of the summer a new Forest Green Metal Flake DuPont paint job can be applied. Five coats of heavy primer, 12-15 coats of paint, and another 10 or so of clear coat to complete the job. I'd also like to take out the carpet and rhino line the interior and then add Dynamat over all the interior metal work. Then replace the padding with heavy padding and put the carpeting back in.
Hopefully on Friday when I look for the seats I can grab some replacement door panels. The salvage yard has a 1993 FZJ80 in the yard and I'm gonna try and take as much off of it that I can use for replacement parts on the interior.
When I bought her she already had an ARB front bumper with a 12,000 pound winch attached. He had also put a safari rack on top of the roof. I moved the full size spare to the safari rack so I could have more ground clearance. I'd like to replace the rear bumper with an ARB bumper ith the Jerry Can holder and swing away spare tire mount. That's about $1,200 so not in the immediate budget. I'm also waiting to put the ARB Snorkel on there for when I get into the deep water on my trail rides. It's also a good idea for moments like when Hurricane Matthew came through in October 2016 and flooded everything. At the height of the storm I took my daughter's boyfriend home (he had a Pontiac Grand Prix and couldn't make it out of our yard) and I had water coming over the hood of my Tundra 4X4 and seriously though I was going to get water in my intake and then seize the engine. This wasn't a small truck. It had a 3" lift on it to begin with and I had water coming over the hood and completely obscuring my headlights.
The motor has 316,000 miles on it and doesn't make a bit of noise. It runs like it is just off the showroom floor. The only thing that has been done beside replacing sensors that have gone bad, tune-ups, oil and filter changes, is the valve cover gasket and both main seals were replaced. The transmission was replaced about a year ago and runs really well. It has full lockers front and rear from the inside. I want to replace the electrical actuator for the differential lock with an ARB air actuated locker. Much more reliable. I'd also like to eventually replace the stock 31X12.50 on 16's (really nice red letter General Grabber AT Tires on there now and on the spare) with a set of NITTO Trail Grabbers in size 33X12.50 16's. That is going to require a 2.5" lift which I plan on doing with an OME (Old Man Emu) lift. They're a great off road company out of Australia and specializes in Land Cruiser.
Anyhow, I'm taking the family in Bandito to the Spring Meet and Greet for the Old North State Land Cruiser Owners Association the second weekend of March at Uwaharrie National Forest. Guess I've taken enough space and time. Had to do this once no one has posted in while and the weather is as boring as watching fleas fornicate.
All the models show winds gusting 50ish tomorrow for 4-5 hrs starting around lunch time, it will be 30-40 til then....with all the rain could put some trees down.
All time record low water levels were set at Washington today.
As a side story......way back in the early 2000's me and Ron use to duck hunt and one trip we took was to tranters creek just a mile or so west of of Washington. It was a windy blown out day like today and in a cove that was drained of water we saw a box. As the sun came up better we started noticing some shiny handles to this box. As we started looking with the binoculars we noticed it was a coffin. Probably had been floated by the Floyd floods and settled at the bottom of the cove. Was quite a creepy thing to see. We made a call to the sheriff to inform them so they could recover it.