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What I did today

Yup, Daryl and Neil. I have quite a few friends in the music industry because of what I used to do in a past life career-wise. I also got to meet several old-school Hollywood-types because of my grandfather and what he used to do. He and Ronald Reagan were friends from back when Ron was acting, worked on a couple of movies with him. When he was POTUS, grandpa used to get a birthday card from the White House every year, personally hand-written and signed Ron.

Anyhow, not name dropping per se, but my mom and Judy Collins were BFF's in Jr. High and High School in Denver. And of course, Neil was in this little four piece band with Stephen Stills back in the day when Stephen and Judy were quite the item and Stephen wrote this song about her that was a major hit for them, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
 
Will L. said:
Ok. He looks familiar, but I couldn't get it. Looking at his face I had the feeling he was saying "remember me"

Ba-dum-bump.

Big T, I've got this script I want to send you...haha
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Please, the procession of scripts was endless when I was financing films. Banks generally lend against collateral and in the case of films that was distribution presales such as domestic distribution by Universal Pcitures plus foreign distribution deals with the likes of Canal Plus, BBC, etc., territory-by-territory. When there is a presale, that buyer has vetted the film project and committed a minimum amount of money to it. So the distributors read scripts and assess the talent attached. A banker should be really just looking at the distributor's credit and capacity to pay.

All that said, I did occasionally read scripts and assess the package, particularly when there were collateral gaps. For example, a producer came to me with a film starring Denzel Washington, Academy Award winner = good. However, collateral gap with major unsold foreign territories such as France and Germany = not good. Subject matter of the film was on the Negro Baseball Leagues, which explains why they had the foreign collateral gap: No baseball in France or Germany. Not sure that one ever got made, but rest assured, the lesser of my banking brethren who were infatuated with stars, were all over it.

Daryl Hannah was in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I financed a number of Ridley's movies, even had lunch with him. Good guy.

Daryl Hannah undoubtedly falls into that crazy blonde girfriend category. Jackson Browne, now Neil Young. Lives the enviro lifestyle brewing B100 diesel. She should hook up with Ed Bagley Jr. or Leonardo DeCaprio. However, I think Leonardo scores younger stuff.
 
Cool. It's nice to meet famous people that aren't jerks. Met a lot of them in Vegas. Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields when they were together- both nice people. The latest was in 2014- I playfully flirted with Mariah Carey not knowing Nick Cannon (husband at the time) was behind me. Both of them were funny.

Nothing as cool as your guys knowing them, but a funny part of my life: When I was in high school I did tech theatre, tech touring group(think roadie), and recording studio class. I did a year in college of recording studio that was taught a Vegas Recording Studio- gone now but big from 70s-90s.

One day at the end of class we set up he studio for a Willie Nelson recording and I got to stay after to help.
Half way through he took a break and the sound engineer/studio owner was listening to some of the recording.

The rest of us waited and talked. The Willie pulls out a huge joint- almost Cheech and Ching size! He forgot his lighter, looked around and pointed at me saying "you obviously get high, hand me your Zippo." I had hair to my shoulder blades, 3" goatee, and was wearing a Metallica t shirt, so I understand his error.
I passed on the "pass" but stayed and talked.

He asked me "You look like that and don't smoke? Do you have a clue who I am?" I said of coarse, "Willie Nelson". He said "oh yeah, what's your favorite song that I sing?" Panicked (I know some of his songs a little but can never remember names or which band sang which song) I said "umm, ring of fire!" He started laughing so hard everyone else did too. My friend in the class leaned in and whispered "always on my mind".

When the laughter stopped I said "No really, always on my mind." (I bought my buddy dinner that night btw). At the end of the session, only the studio owner myself and my friend there, he got mad and asked basically wtf? My friend explained how I was the worst person in the world at trivial pursuit, especially about music. The owner told me look for a different career explaining ego stroking is 75% of why he lasted so long in the business. I haven't been back in a studio...
 
maple boil 2.png After waking up to several inches of snow on the ground (a week and a half ago it was 70 deg), I decided it would be a good day to boil down my maple syrup.
 
It has to be greatly reduced and darkens as it thickens. Can't remember what the ratio is, something like 200:1
 
Tomorrow I hit the Pick a Part boneyard during their 40% sale. Items to get:
1. GMT 800 Front Brake Calipers and Rotors for Colbythekid.
2. Trim ring (grey) for center headliner lights on my '99.
3. Third brake light for GMT 400 Truck, by popular request from AK Diesel.
4. Looking for GMT 800 3.73 ratio 14 bolt Full Floater axle assembly, but may settle for a 4.10.
5. Pics of GMT 800 parking brake cable equalizer for SmithvilleD. May snag one for me, as I can't find the one for the other GMT 800 axle we bought.
 
For the 3.73 10.5" rear axle, best bet is to look for a 2500 SUBURBAN with an 8.1L. Not many trucks got it that I'm aware of. All 8.1L and DURAMAX trucks got the 11.5" rear axle, and all 6.0L 2500HD's got 4.10's with a 10.5", ALL 3500's got the 11.5" axle, and 1500HD and 2500 light duty trucks got the 9.5" rear axle. 2500 BURBS with a 6.0L got a 9.5" rear axle, but 8.1L could have 3.73 or 4.10 with a 10.5" rear axle. Also make sure the front brakes are from an 01+ truck as 99-00 2500's were unique.
 
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For the 3.73 10.5" rear axle, best bet is to look for a 2500 SUBURBAN with an 8.1L. Not many trucks got it that I'm aware of. All 8.1L and DURAMAX trucks got the 11.5" rear axle, and all 6.0L 2500HD's got 4.10's with a 10.5", ALL 3500's got the 11.5" axle, and 1500HD and 2500 light duty trucks got the 9.5" rear axle. 2500 BURBS with a 6.0L got a 9.5" rear axle, but 8.1L could have 3.73 or 4.10 with a 10.5" rear axle. Also make sure the front brakes are from an 01+ truck as 99-00 2500's were unique.
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Thanks on that Ferm. My backup is to change it to 4.10 with differential from the '95 with 4.10.
 
If it doesn't snow over the weekend (yeah, Jody, it was 78 here Wednesday, too) my project is new rotors, pads, hardware and a complete flush of the brake system on my Camry.
 
Husker6.5 said:
If it doesn't snow over the weekend (yeah, Jody, it was 78 here Wednesday, too) my project is new rotors, pads, hardware and a complete flush of the brake system on my Camry.
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Do the Camry's suffer from warped rotors like my Honda Accord? I even had an OEM rear rotor crack. I No longer have the problem since I've gone to drilled and slotted rotors by Powerstop.
 
Big T said:
Do the Camry's suffer from warped rotors like my Honda Accord? I even had an OEM rear rotor crack. I No longer have the problem since I've gone to drilled and slotted rotors by Powerstop.
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Never had that problem on either of my Camrys. This is my around town and short road trip max fuel mileage min dollars vehicle. 95 Camy with 334K miles on it. I've put about 12K on it since I bought it a year ago. I noticed some abnormal pad wear on the passenger side while doing a Spring tire rotation last week. Further investigation showed somebody prior had installed the inboard pad wrong and the lower tab had slipped out of the bracket's indexing slot causing the backing plate to hang up on the bracket and as the piston applied the pad began wearing in a wedge shape. The outer pad had started wearing in a mating wedge because a caliper pin boot was missing, water had gotten in a long time ago and both the pin and the caliper mounting bracket pin bore had rusted substantially enough that there was sufficient play for the caliper/pad assembly to apply at an angle due to the hung-up pad. Part of the inboard pad's backing plate had dug a groove into the rotor.

So, since I was able to obtain a pair of new rotors and a set of ceramic pads to do both sides off of eBay for $42, a NOS Toyota complete front brake hardware kit for both sides (new caliper pins, pin lock bolts, pin boots, pin bushings, pad springs, pad retaining clips, anti rattle shims and copper brake line banjo bolt washers) for $20 and a Cardone remanufadtured right caliper bracket for $15 all off of eBay with free shipping and all for the cost of just a set of OEM replacement rotors from O'Reilly Auto.

My old 95 Camry (totalled in March of '11 when I hit a patch of black ice and spun off the Interstate at 50mph on an on-ramp and sideswiped one of those big light poles on the way off. Whee, fun ride 25' down into the ditch backwards!) never had rotor warping problems in the 85K miles I had owned it (there was 215K on it when I totalled it two months after doing the timing belt, water pump, oil pump, timing belt tensioner, front main oil seal [part of preventative maintenance when doing the timing belt] new front and rear struts and upper strut mounts, new brakes and a set of new BF Goodrich Touring TAs all around. Set to go another 60K without any major repairs and then WHAM! That royally sucked!
 
Husker6.5 said:
Never had that problem on either of my Camrys. This is my around town and short road trip max fuel mileage min dollars vehicle. 95 Camy with 334K miles on it. I've put about 12K on it since I bought it a year ago. I noticed some abnormal pad wear on the passenger side while doing a Spring tire rotation last week. Further investigation showed somebody prior had installed the inboard pad wrong and the lower tab had slipped out of the bracket's indexing slot causing the backing plate to hang up on the bracket and as the piston applied the pad began wearing in a wedge shape. The outer pad had started wearing in a mating wedge because a caliper pin boot was missing, water had gotten in a long time ago and both the pin and the caliper mounting bracket pin bore had rusted substantially enough that there was sufficient play for the caliper/pad assembly to apply at an angle due to the hung-up pad. Part of the inboard pad's backing plate had dug a groove into the rotor.

So, since I was able to obtain a pair of new rotors and a set of ceramic pads to do both sides off of eBay for $42, a NOS Toyota complete front brake hardware kit for both sides (new caliper pins, pin lock bolts, pin boots, pin bushings, pad springs, pad retaining clips, anti rattle shims and copper brake line banjo bolt washers) for $20 and a Cardone remanufadtured right caliper bracket for $15 all off of eBay with free shipping and all for the cost of just a set of OEM replacement rotors from O'Reilly Auto.

My old 95 Camry (totalled in March of '11 when I hit a patch of black ice and spun off the Interstate at 50mph on an on-ramp and sideswiped one of those big light poles on the way off. Whee, fun ride 25' down into the ditch backwards!) never had rotor warping problems in the 85K miles I had owned it (there was 215K on it when I totalled it two months after doing the timing belt, water pump, oil pump, timing belt tensioner, front main oil seal [part of preventative maintenance when doing the timing belt] new front and rear struts and upper strut mounts, new brakes and a set of new BF Goodrich Touring TAs all around. Set to go another 60K without any major repairs and then WHAM! That royally sucked!
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You, Colbythekid and black ice are not a good mix.

I've had two Honda Accords and both suffered from warped rotors. Searches on the net showed it was a common problem. You can turn the rotors, but the problem reappears. WarWagon's theory is that the metal changes and hardens in one spot after a stop. So even if you turn them, the softer portion of the rotor wears and the high spot returns.
 
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Yeah WarWagon is right. They covered all this stuff when I went through training classes Bendix for working on big rigs many moons ago.

Warping the rotors- it's just uneven heating or cooling of the entire surface. Think about how you would do it if you were trying to. Get it hot then allow one side to cool down while trapping heat on the other.

Either after hard stopping letting the brake pads & caliper cover one area while the other is exposed to air can cause it. Picture glowing hot red formula 1 rotors- now cover 20% of that area with those nice Brembos and wait 1 minute. Now take a temp reading of the part exposed to the air, then he part under the brake pads. You'll have a big temperature difference.

So can having them hot (just below Leidenfrost point) and a nice blast of water from a puddle. The metal gaurd next to the rotor isn't just there to stop a rock chip, it's to shield it from a water deluge and trying to allow an even cooling around the rotor. A single uneven tempering will harden one area by pulling the carbon in the metal to that area. Now that high carbon count area is going to cool slightly slower than the rest. It isn't going to happen in 1 minute, this process takes longer to effect it.

Bigger & thicker rotors fight it by forcing having more material to heat up, and releasing the heat at a lower rate. Drilled,slotted, or combo rotors try the opposite of dumping all the heat as fast as possible so by the time your sitting in traffic or parking the vehicle the heat has already been dispersed.

Sometimes you just have poor design or material that no matter how well you treat it, your conditions kill rotors. GM trucks use a really high carbon steel so that most normal applications have little problems. The trade off is heavy towing, loaded mountain driving, or heavy traffic braking suffers. Since these groups fall to the minority it a better economic choice for GM.

On the Honda idk what their design fall is. They have always been later to market with newest technology trying to avoid problems like this. For as innovative as they are in racing, they're very conservative in production. All the (brand loyal) Honda techs I know really get aggravated by the Audi guys bringing this up.
 
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