Route 66 fun run 2017 summary
 

Guess Bruce and Joanne didn't make it. Maybe they got sidetracked with the Doc.

Had a great time this weekend. Guess it was a valve train problem after all. She started tapping pretty loud on Carefree hwy on the way home. Called Western Towing and they got there pretty quick. Took us home nice and safe and then wouldn't let me pay. He said home office doesn't charge "family". My work contracts with Western. Just wow. I'm blown away. All the nice people from the club that helped and offered help this weekend and then this.

Bruce and Joann did make it. I saw them. Carnut, you can't fool me.. I was there.. I saw them both. Joann with her pretty eyes and Bruce with that cute little motor..

Ginny and I had a great time, even if we were in that stupid hyundai thing-a-ma-gig.

Great to see all the old gang and meet some new ones. On to next year.

High light of the trip... Our first ever carb rebuild in a motel room.

Mikiec

"Had a great time this weekend. Guess it was a valve train problem after all. She started tapping pretty loud on Carefree hwy on the way home. Called Western Towing and they got there pretty quick. Took us home nice and safe and then wouldn't let me pay. He said home office doesn't charge "family". My work contracts with Western. Just wow. I'm blown away. All the nice people from the club that helped and offered help this weekend and then this"

I'm telling ya......lobe...lobe...lobe.

When I scrapped mine out, I'd driven all the way home from Flagstaff. Ran fine and quiet over 2500RPM.

I was out west of Seligman doing some shooting and it was fun seeing everyone drive by.

Topock Gravel Parking Lot Sunday
 

Meanwhile,

Robert has been working 10-14 hour days for the past 2 weeks straight, writing new traffic detection patterns for inline web application firewalls, and re-orienting SSL termination points up into shallower border crossing points within the corporate DMZ architecture; in order to trap, isolate, and remediate a pernicious security vulnerability which extends from implementing Struts RCE in Apache webserver....

And I've been viciously berating every brain-dead software developer (and their Management) over every true-positive hit I get for Struts RCE, anywhere in the layered product footprint...They can't hide. I have the ability to run TCPDUMP directly on their servers- Wireshark shows me everything I need to see. Some of these idiots even had the RCE listener activated, when they didn't even have a configured servlet bound to the listening port... Morons.

Of course, I've been preaching to our Senior Management about the inherent risk to using open-source application frameworks since 2006- These Ass-Clowns should have redesigned their Java crap away from Struts, and into one of the more up to date MVH hierarchies, a looooooong time ago.

Nobody ever listens to me... It's like I'm speaking a foreign language, or something. :LOL:

Oh, and my Cobra has a dead battery.

Sounds like you need to get out more ! Maybe take a drive ?? :MECOOL:
At very high speeds !!!!!!

Rob, approach from a different flank. Make them think it's their idea.

Everyone needs a place to vent. Corporations (and banks especially) using open source software are just asking for trouble. ("But it's practically free!")

Yeah, I can't do that... I've tried in the past, and it just leaves me feeling "slimy"... I have an ethical conundrum with allowing the credit for accomplishment to be afforded to those whose sole contribution to the effort was that they "Ask the tough (aka dumb) questions". It's a character flaw on my part, I'm sure. :JEKYLHYDE

Don't get me started again, Stein... :cool: To be fair, all this stuff is 3rd tier, non-core, internal use software (mostly workflow and queue management stuff)- really dry, uninteresting, boring... Using open source for this stuff wasn't necessarily wrong, they just didn't keep up with the house-keeping.

It's like these guys never changed their anti-freeze, and when the freeze plugs rusted out and started leaking, all they could tell me was "We don't know why they're leaking; The engine had brand new freeze plugs when we installed it in the car, 300,000 miles ago".... :p )

Wow, this thread sure went off track.
Thanks for the nice report Bob.

Robert, if you don't like your job, quit.:LOL::LOL::LOL:

Is this your first visit to the AZ Cobras forum (or to Club Cobra in general)?

This thread made it for 9 posts before it got derailed- That's almost a record. :LOL::LOL: But yeah- I'm gulity for the thread-jack (sorry everyone)

I am quitting. Only 15 years (and 2 college educations to finance) until retirement- It's right around the corner. **)

Hey- at least I had a legitimate reason for not making the fun run... What's your excuse, Mr. Crossed-Flags and Cinnabons ??? :LOL:

Rob I would trade your software problem for my hardware problem.

How bad was the piston or should I say can the block and heads be salvaged?

OOOOOH MAN. That sucks Mike.

Did it chew up the top of the piston at all? or is the short block ok?

I had a 72 Blazer in college, and I was coming down 17 just outside Camp Verde when one of my valves completely broke in two - It took out everything with it- Only the crank, and one cylinder head core were rebuildable - The other head was cheese, the block was cracked, and I was a broke college student.

I rebuilt that engine in our dorm room at NAU, and re-installed it in the truck (in the dorm parking lot) during homecoming weekend, 1991.

I even got my picture in the school newspaper...:p