This self isolating is beginning to get tiresome. I'm in a "super high risk" group (ahem "older age", lost most of a lung a few years ago due to advanced pneumonia, still sneak the occasional smoke, etc.) so I'm avoiding almost all contact with people. Can't stand television and am retired. Not even any kids running around the neighborhood to yell at.

Been doing a lot of things around the house I've put off. Lighting, painting, patching, furniture cleaning, you name it.

Got so bad today I went through and sorted all my resistors, diodes, micro-switches, etc. into little labeled containers.

Thinking about throwing all my sockets into the ultra sound cleaner and tumbler just to clean them. Already rebuilt/cleaned my ratchets and polished my end wrenches.

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I hear ya. Go to the virus stat sites. It is like watching the debt clock site tick away. peeps instead of $.

I'm 65 two born in the 90's ones a engineer,one 11 years old full of energy,a sick wife for 5 years. Mowed today with my one year rebuilt heart,was fun,more energy,than 2018

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

online card games

Taxes, trying to get the landscaping done in our home. A lot of specialty stores are by appointment only. Very thankful for UPS/Fedex. So what's the deal with Russia? Pandemic Seems like it's not a problem there...

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W111 280SE 3.5 Coupe
Manual transmission

Past cars:
Porsche 914 2.0
'64 Jaguar XKE Roadster
'57 Oval Window VW
'71 Toyota Hilux Pickup Truck-Dad bought new
'73 Toyota Celica GT

"In Russia, you don't get virus. Virus gets YOU!"

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― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

huge distances? less travel. less commerce. authoritarian gov control?

Hang in there Mike ! .

Kaiser X-Rayed my lungs a week ago when I had a 102* temperature, said they're wrecked, good thing I gave up smoking .

It's been raining so I can't go out into my back yard and work on my projects .

I've been social distancing my self in my trucklet driving out the smaller canyon back roads .

My son and I had a nice long 'phone call this evening, they're doing O.K. , kids, wife and he .

We'll get through this too, not much fun for me, I dislike being inside / idle although I'm getting a lot of reading done, I love reading and can bang out 1,000 pages in 12 hours now .

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1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

To help keep things in perspective, a little amusing image

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I dread it,but hope to soon,do flex disk,722.605 filter,plug,atf,and by pass radiator cooler,with larger cooler,oil change,new champion plugs. Hate bosch

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Why hate Bosch?

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Never had good performance with them,carbon up bad

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oh yeah motor mounts. going I guess to use ac evap, to use as trans cooler. Did that before long ago,really make trans last. W140s are bad at internal radiator trans cooler rotting,causing coolant in trans. I block off ends on rad,then run hose pumping from trans to top line,so gravity takes it to pan in trans. parts extra hose two clamps per connection. Old hot rod magazine trick for auto's. Don't like AC, waste fuel, and bones hurt worse. To expensive to repair AC too. Never over 96f here in summer.

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wrong heat range or too rich a fuel

As mentioned, check the heat range and always the gap too ~ most engines need at least an .035" gap, some larger .

Also, make sure you're not using platinum plugs ~ for some reason I don't understand they tend to run cooler than regular plugs, I tried them but was never happy because they'd foud easily in carburated engines, I went to the rce track and asked my son and the other Mechanics, they all said 'platinum plugs run tool cold' .

Try the gap and heat range thing first before you go further afield .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better