Terk FM+ indoor TV and FM antenna

Bought at WalMart for the TV Josie left us in Madison at the apt.  Works just fine.

1967 Mercedes-Benz 230SL

Inherited the 230SL from Rube and have a long history with various problems with it.  At the end of last summer, I started it up and it ran, idling for 45 minutes before I put it up in the garage for the winter.  Yesterday I pushed it out and jump-started it with the truck.  It popped on and ran, but the accelerator linkage came undone.  I idled it for 30 or 40 minutes just the same and shut her down.  I put a new top radiator hose in that I ordered on the internet.  No problem there and I should order the bottom one as well, because the one I have in there is not the right one and I have it stood off from the fan by teflon straps, which is subsufficient.  The accelerator linkage popped off a fulcrum under the passenger side manifold.  You can see it from behind the front wheel, but you can only get your hands on it  by jamming them beneath the manifold, front and back.  It doesn't want to go back on.  I can't find my book, so I need to do some research as to what might have popped off there and where it might have gone.  Long ways to go to get this car primo.  It smells inside something terrible, too.

Garmin Foretrex 101 wrist GPS

Put batteries in the Garmin for a bike ride last week and it didn't boot up.  I took it apart at my leisure and found the clip that the batteries ride up against was stress fractured and a piece came loose.  I tucked the loose piece behind the flat part so tht it protruded it somewhat and it kicked on.  Used it on the Black Earth Bike ride with the Bombay Bicycle Club.  It seemed to work fine.

Fuji S-12-S Ten speed bike

a germ-bike.  rolled this one out to test-drive it up the big hill a few times and see what it can do.

Blue Fin Runabout w/Force 85-hp outboard

We bought the Blue Fin for like $1000 bucks from a guy in Deltona, Florida a year ago and it immediately became a big project.  We dragged it north and at the tune of about 700-bucks I got the motor worked on at Powerhouse.  It had needed a lot of tuning up and a new water circulation pump, seals and so forth.  It ran after that but we had to learn some stuff...like jiggling the throttle while you are starting the motor. 
Sea Foam proved to be the miracle.  We ran a can through it and it immediately improved it's running.  There are lots of cosmetic things needed, but I did buy and install a Bimimi top last summer and I love that.  We were able to take the grandkids all boating. 

When I put it up for the winter, I drained the lower unit of the outboard thru the clutch pin hole.  I was worried about that, because in the manual it said "do not remove." I did put it back in but now there is a big question mark.

2001 Hyundai Accent (Josie's)

I have put front brakes in this car, out in Portland and Josie has had the rear shoes done since then.  Otherwise I think I've got her using Mobil One and such.  It has 94,000 miles on it.

Josie's Accent has some issues I'm trying to address:  Took it to Scotty in Edgerton but his dad had just died and he put me off for a week.  Her biggest issue was that in the winter it stalled and missed until it warmed up.  I was thinking an EGR valve stuck open, but Scotty said it could be anything from a leaky head gasket (I hope not that) to something as simple as a temperature sensor telling the computer that it was 70-degrees out when it was 10-degrees.  It is running fine right now, as far as I can tell, in the warm summer, so we'll see what happens when I can take it in.  I topped up a quart of oil and dumped a bottle of injector cleaner into the gas fill. 

Josie said the braking felt funny, but it seemed just fine to me and the fluid was OK.  I braked with my hands off the wheel and it slowed down pretty straight. 

Her third issue is putting it into reverse.  I noticed that.  When I tried once it didn't go and just kind of whirred in neutral.  I noticed that when I pushed down on the shifter and over to the passenger side it would catch every time.  Could be that the linkage just needs adjustment.  We'll see what Scotty thinks on that one, too.