Don't forget - I live at an altitude of 4800 feet (1500 meters?).  I guess you'd call this a "high desert".  If you don't think it can get cold in the desert, think again!  

Quote from: KerryI guess you're up, Ed.  Did you get yourself a digital camera yet?

Who woulda thunk a guy from the (almost) desert would guess it.  :dunno: I got a crummy digital, but I'll bet I can come up with something. I'll post / e-mail Kerry a pic when I get home. :mrgreen:

Quote from: KerryDon't forget - I live at an altitude of 4800 feet (1500 meters?).  I guess you'd call this a "high desert".  If you don't think it can get cold in the desert, think again!  

deserts are defined as dry places
antarctica is a desert
just a little fyi

I submitted my pic to Kerry! :mrgreen:

It may be too easy, or it may be too hard. :dunno:

Ed, rather than send you the URL I thought I would just go ahead and post it for you.  Here it is:

Cactus...the poor little bumps onna cactus. Luv the Baby G and the forum.

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I took a walk after work, with my camera. Well, gee, what do I see, this being Arizona and all... a prickly pear cactus. :mrgreen:

Cernunos, you got it.  I knew it would be either too easy or too hard. You're up next.

No, I don't think it was too easy, the hilarious thing is I was just thinking about a cactus because on TV there was this Cowboy movie and some dude had just blown the top off of a cactus with a rifle. I clicked on the thread and ran down to Ed's pic and...lo and behold...there's the little prickly bumps onna cactus :lol: Ok, I'll have to wait till Bebe get's home to post my pic 'cause I don't know how to do it   . (And they had me running an engineering dept. with Ford Motor Co....hmmmm, maybe that's why the Fairmont never was such a big hit) But I think I know what I'll post as the pic. I'll fire it off as soon as she gets home. Lovin' the bike and the forum...and this thread is fun too. :kiss:

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next next!

Sorry Weaselnose, Bebe get's home in two hours. I bet if you were an animal you would be a Siberian Husky...impatient, smart and full of surprises. :lol:  Love my Baby GS500 and the forum.

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ya but they can be naughty too.  a friend of mine has 3 of them.  the one attacks strangers while they sit on the couch (climbs up the back of the couch and crawls on ur head).  the other steals socks and hides them behind the fridge, under the couch etc.  the other one hides food around the house! not good when u find a stash!

Quote from: cernunos(And they had me running an engineering dept. with Ford Motor Co....hmmmm, maybe that's why the Fairmont never was such a big hit)
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As a mechanic for a lot of years, boy would I be interested in what goes on in the minds of some of your ex-department....  Got any good stories about designs that didn't make the cut? Care to answer a few "What the F were they thinking" questions?  That would be an interesting off-topic topic!    

Ok, I sent an E-Mail to Kerry (Sorry Kerry but you started the darn thing) with my puzzle pic. Maybe somebody can show me how to post the things myself? Ah yeh Commuterguy there's all kinds of weird crap people come up with and a lot that don't work. I remember the Tempo always being such a slug with the little 2.3 4 cyl engine and I wondered why powertrain and chassis development never put some spunk into it. I was talking about this with one of the PT engineers and he said something like "hey we could put the SHO motor in it ha ha", like it was some kind of joke. About six months go by and he comes to me wanting me to work up some durability testing for some new throttle and speed-control assemblies. I asked him what they were for and he just grinned and told me they were going to try and shoe-horn the 3.0 six into the temp. I thought, WOW, a Tempo with the 3.0 Yamaha SHO motor! But it turned out it was just the old iron-head push-rod six like used in the Ranger and Base-Six Taurus. Still, those things ran pretty good and if you can ever find a Tempo GLS with the 3.0 you'd be surprised how well they run. Give a Z-24 fits for sure. But they just made a handful of them...they didn't sell very well and the bottom line is money. BTW, would you believe if I told you the actual NET profit/vehicle for Ford in 1990 was around 30 dollars US? Funny that a lot of people think car makers make thousands of dollars per vehicle...the dealer is the one who makes high profits on each vehicle. But when you consider that Ford makes vehicles by the hundreds of thousands it comes out pretty good. Love the bike and the forum.

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to post a pic, you need to have an online hosting account (I use village photos) once you upload the photo to your account, you go there and click on the photo. scroll down to underneath, and you should see a link for public viewing or direct viewing choose the direct viewing (should start with img or image) copy that link and paste it in your post. the proper format to post directly is      

Kerry is much better at explaining that, but that's the basics.

If you want, send it to me and I'll put it up.

Yeah, I knew about the low profit on autos. But 'net profit' is kinda skewed anyway. by the time you get to 'net' they've run out of creative ways to chop down 'gross' with trumped up expenses so they pay less in taxes.... most companies do this, mine included.

I remember the 3.0 tempo, also remember the AWD tempo with that teeny little diff in the back... it was so cute! :lol: ... also remember wondering why in the heck they tilted that master cylinder at an angle so sharp. you had to jack the back of the car up 3 feet to bleed it if you ever got air in the mastercylinder (either that or pull it off and re-bench bleed it, install the lines with it level, and let it gravity bleed before re-bolting it to the booster...

oooh....  speaking of tempo's   what was the whole reasoning behind the foam rubber coated wheels?  it was always funny to see one come in after a caliper had locked up and melted the face off of the wheel :lol:

sorry, just thought of that...

By the way, Kerry, I sorta accidently maybe slightly thread-jacked here... my bad...  I like your  photo contest entry, I had frost on MY seat two weeks ago (yup, all the way down here in Fla....)

Quote from: cernunosOk, I sent an E-Mail to Kerry (Sorry Kerry but you started the darn thing) with my puzzle pic.

Uhhh ... I may have deleted your email.  I remember tossing a few a couple hours ago, assuming they were spam.  And then for some reason I decided to clean out my Deleted folder for the first time in weeks.  :x

Care to resend?

Quote from: cummuterguyKerry, I sorta accidently maybe slightly thread-jacked here... my bad...

Ah well ... what are threads for if not to be hijacked once in a while?  :dunno:

But seriously: automotive design decision questions?  

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But seriously: automotive design decision questions?  

If only you knew how many times either I or one of my co-workers had pondered eloquently (read, cussed up a storm) over the years due to various not-so-repair friendly designs, etc...

to hear stories from the other side of the curtain would entertain many a mechanic, I think

No, I understand the interest in the subject ... but in my Mystery Photos! thread?

(Just giving you a hard time.   )

hehe.... it was cernunos that mentioned it first  

I woulda pestered him long before now had I known where he used to work!  :mrgreen: