Recent content by tjb

I've had good luck with one of those, and can't believe I cross-countried deep into solitary spots in national forests without having one on hand. Seems an essential carry now.

My magazine won't eject and I am suspecting it of being a parasitic drain. How did you disconnect this? I can't find an easy fuse to pull to do it and not a lot of info here about it.

Just wanted to update this … Background: Last winter my AHC started to fail (reverted to L and the OFF light was flashing). I was able to flush the fluid, which was “chocolate milkshake” in character and get the truck back to N. I didn’t look further into it, but did not raise or lower the...

I haven’t. I have foamy fluid, first guess was bad globe introducing gas into the fluid. Gonna try to swap out the fluid tomorrow when it’s supposed to get above 20F.

Pump has been flagged by the diagnostic software, and was acting up for a while. My mechanic wanted to replace it last time I was in (based on the flag) but it seemed to be working so I didn’t trust the diagnosis. I’ve had the chocolate foam fluid and I did at least two fluid changes with...

I bought Impex globes about four years ago. 83,000 miles later, one or more appears to be blown. Anyone else had any issues with globes from Impex? Do recent shipments contain date-stamped parts?

I thought I may have blown a globe last winter but the car stayed at N and I kept riding it. About a month ago, I got the blinking off and set to L. Last night, at about 0 degrees Fahrenheit, the truck suddenly went way down in the back. I swapped my globes out with new ones from Impex a...

I've put just under 70,000 miles on Impex globes and at least one seems to have failed. (I've got the tan milkshake fluid that often suggests one has blown. It's been too freaking cold to do anything other than swap out the fluid - done no diagnostics as the AHC has been balky since the...

Flushed the fluid - what a sh-tshow. Pro tip: When it's very cold (30s F), the plastic tube can't be easily pushed over the accumulator nipples, and none of the held. I took many showers. The fluid from all five bleed valves and the reservoir was a foamy tan milkshake. I believe that is at...

My device is a barely functioning 2015 MacBook Retina 12-inch with one USB-C port, its battery long beyond its shelf life (which the machine is constantly informing me). I can keep it going just long enough to do most jobs. That’s the one I used to re-download the Techstream image from Post 1...

Because I don't know what exactly caused this to work I'll just pass this along: I didn't reinstall VMBox, and I had updated it to the latest at some point in the last week or so. I try to keep WiFi off when running Techstream - on the chance that it checks back with a server somewhere as part...

I was fighting this for a few days on an Intel based Mac and finally went back and reinstalled the TechStream image, deleting the first image that I had been using. It worked then. Can't explain why that worked.

I’m not at all sure that it is! Just noticed that the globes didn’t have one and thought it strange. I’ve bought a bunch of stuff from Impex and not noticed any problem before. I’ve put just under 70,000 miles on the new globes.

Thanks for the advice. I did a couple of flushes with the plastic-bottled AHC fluid. I have ordered a bunch of stuff from Impex without a problem. Fwiw Amayama has globes for ridiculously low prices right now. I was in a warm garage when I swapped them out before - Maine is warming up but...

I started the Impex trend here, I think. Installed mine three years ago. Wondering whether that was a good move. The ones I got had no date stamp - had me wondering at the time. I have foam in the reservoir, which leads me to suspect a bad globe. Anyone else having problems with any Impex...