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When I was in 9'th grade the school that I attended pushed for collage and people like me were thought of as loser's by not wishing to go to college I decided to attend the local tech school and it was the one reason I did graduate plus I learned some life skills that I have been using for 53 years. Before I was out of school, I lined up a job as a Honda motorcycle mechanic for the day after I graduated and, in the fall, I took a job as a heavy equipment mechanic

My guess is the ruling class wants never ending market and GDP growth. Also, the USA has not been at replacement birth rate since the very early 2000s. And even then it had been stagnated at barley above or below replacement rate since the mid 1970s. If you don't believe the AI hype then in order to continue year over year GDP growth you need more workers and consumers (children) than the current 2 generations of child bearing age Americans are willing to provide. If there are illegal immigrants here who have become assimilated and are gainfully employed then it would be easier to get them on the books and give them citizenship rather than deport them and either hope young, native Americans starting having more babies (they won't) or start over and properly vet several hundred thousand or million new legal immigrants.

But I’ve also heard more than once they can’t find enough, qualified blue-collar workers in this country, including this place Reno electricians construction hands and firefighters

lol yes it’s like hitting the lottery and then losing the ticket

It gets confusing. https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/02/02/trump-deputies-approve-65000-more-h-2b-visa-workers/

Those DAMN grounding issues, get you every time. .....Hippy

Wow missed this somehow… that’s absolutely wonderful…. Thanks for that … bob

Thank you for the information, I appreciate it.

It was 64 here yesterday that’s very unusual. It’s about 15° warmer than it’s supposed to be. I’ll take it supposed to be the same thing today.

We have survived this cold snap.. Down to 10 degrees yesterday and this morning and I still have water with no problems. Yesterday's sun did a great job of melting Saturday's snow. Our road is dry, but by the TV, north of us in Greenville they still have some on their roads. Today's predicted 45+ should cure that, and finish our snow cover.

Liquids to soften crud, air chisel and a puller. Haven't trashed an injector yet,but surely beat them to death. Only stripped two of the spacers so far.

“It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela can be 53rd.” “We’re not going to invade Greenland. We’re going to buy it.” President Trump joking around at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday

We used to run an extra ground for the EECU on E-Techs for similar issues..

What method are you using now ? Paul

Ok update: I remembered something just before the truck went down. The truck was frequently going into high idle around 1100rpm just randomly throughout the day anytime the parking break was set and the truck sat idling around 5 minutes. I figured it had something to do with the smart idle settings in the parameters, which cause the truck to raise the idle to maintain charging voltage when it sensed it was low. This prompted us to replace all the batteries since one was bad. Only three days before the truck went down. It was also only showing 13.2 volts at idle and the smart idle function triggers when voltage hits 12.8 volts and raises the rpm. Fast forward to this weekend, I took the ecm in for repair and they told me it was too badly burnt to repair, I still have the burnt ecm, it’s not repairable. I got another used replacement ecm and had it cloned with another that I have for this truck, got it back to the truck and installed it. I also installed an additional heavy gauge ground wire directly to the ecm because the oem ground strap that the ecm’s come with was looking pretty questionable. I got the truck started and I’m not sure, but now that it has additional grounding, the voltage on the dash now reads 13.7 volts. I don’t know if that’s coincidence or what. Anyway, the truck is set to return back to service tomorrow, I’ll update when I know how it behaves.

Good afternoon all: We are working on a very well used Mack AC attempting to pull the cylinders cast in pairs retained by six 5/8-18 crankcase studs . The service manual describes only removing the six nuts to remove the cylinders. The cylinders do not move even with the engine hoist wanting to lift the truck . We are trying hard not to break anything along the way. Any wisdom from someone who has been there done that would be greatly appreciated!

Great, thank you! I was thinking that but figured I would make sure first.

Well, 3 injectors out, 3 to go. The last three do wiggle so they are trying to come out. Will keep trying.....

Speaking of kangaroos, this was in Nelson county, just up the road and across the river from here.

Yeah, yeah, but what about this-