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I built a tall bookcase for our son in early 2004. Since then he’s moved a few times and now he is a first-time homeowner. It was hard to move this book case, so to make something that seemed more in style with a 1950 house, I decided to rebuild it as two pieces, so […]
I wasn’t too keen on the windshield suction-cup holder for the FiTech handheld control panel, so I made a holder from some scrap walnut. Just above the FiTech controller is my home-brew bargraph fuel-mixture gauge made from Radio-Shack parts.
I added the fuel tank vent through the LR wheel-well, and an alligator clip lead from the base of the throttle body to the negative battery cable. No issues on a 30 mile test-drive. Still tweaking the idle screws to bring the IAC steps into the recommended range.
No real issues with this upgrade. I found that the problem with mounting my raid partitions at boot was due to using the wrong format in my /etc/fstab file. Instead of /dev/mapper I needed to use UUID= to specify the partitions. I extracted the UUID values using blkid.
2-Jan-2015: Nothing is ever as easy or straightforward as it should be for me. The stock seat belts in 69 Mustangs are a complicated 2-belt affair, with separate lap and shoulder belts. This was the first year Ford installed shoulder belts in the Mustang. I thought it was time for an upgrade to a modern […]
