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Hello all! It's been a while (8+ yrs) I visit CR since I sold the Supra, but eager to be back (sorry still no Supra). Still living in the C-bus area, work as an architect, but my passion for motorwerks goes back to my childhood helping my uncle work on rotaries for drag racing. This time I'm working on my daily driven 06 VW Passat 3.6L 4-Motion (aka R36 eurospec), with lots of things already done so far but more to come. I hope I can be as good a teacher as I am a student in this community. Be glad to help.

I'm sure this idea had been around since as long as folks have been working under cars, but I figured there might be even one person out there who would benefit from this PSA. If you are going to work under a car that is supported by jack stands, please take the time to make a set of "Body Blocks". These here are made from alternating layers of 2x12 & 2x4 with the wood grain going different directions on each layer. They're held together with 3" lumber screws attaching each layer. I opted to to not glue them together in case I want to add or remove a layer. To use them; once you have the car lifted and on the jack stands, simply slide these under the car where they will provide support should the car fall off the stands. They're not intended to provide continuous support of the car and are not to be used in place of proper jack stands. They are only there to give you a chance to escape should the car fall or the stands fail. I recently gave my original set of body blocks to my son and I'm about to spend a lot of time under a British sports car and so I took a half hour this morning and made a new set. This PSA is especially poignant today. Earlier this week, a local father of 2, 42 years old, was killed while working on his car. The car fell off the stands and pinned him to the garage floor. The poor guy wasn't killed quickly, rather suffocated slowly under the weight of the car while his wife and kids were inside the house.

Saw this on carpy's cafe page. Triumph Rocket 3 Motorcycle - funny commercial: https://youtu.be/fPeyhiD7KYw

Understood, I'm like that with choppers. It's not that they're bad, it's just that they're for poopyheads and everyone who rides one is wrong.

Thanks for the offer Alan! I know there's going to be some duplication of my Strom with a DR, but a can't shake the money trees enough to get a WR at this time. I could have kept my CRF and towed it to dirty places, but my RAV4 isn't ideal for hitch racking and I don't have room for a trailer. I THINK a DR will help me find a happy medium that neither the CRF nor DL quite hit. We'll see. [emoji2]

Exciting! You're gonna have "antsy-pants" 'till then! Fuck yeah, I said it. :fuckyeah:

I am bored as fuck today.

I am always exactly 80/20 front/rear. I never miss even by 1%.