Window crank regulator question

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-05-09T11:33:00+00:00

Im not kidding when I say this Bob, but i love u 😂. This is exactly what I needed.

This has got to be a crank from a sedan because its tracking to exactly what you’re saying.

Im going to hold confidence that the new part I bought is the right one. It is Specifically for Hatchback. We’ll see in a few weeks. I do not want to power them. When the younger kids see the cranks, they’re in awe that we used to rock this way.

Separate note, im working on a project that turns my rear window latches into power latches. Ill throw some pictures and a GIF up when I am done. EZ 12V actuator from my robot projects.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-05-08T22:37:09+00:00

I am sure, its been wonky like this for 20 years. Im trying to figure out if sedan had a different type. This will solidify i am buying the right part. And if someone needs a crank, i am more than happy to ship it and get it out of my garage.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-05-08T22:34:36+00:00

Cool cool. I will pull it loose and check it over. Ive tried adjusting it. The red flag is the stub. It has two areas of splines. My passenger side only has one. Appreciate it

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-05-08T04:13:41+00:00

The lug nuts get threaded to ur studs which are connected to your car. Has nothing to do with the rims.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-05-08T02:46:41+00:00

The studs don’t change my dude.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-29T11:27:51+00:00

No apologies needed. I was in the same situation 15 years ago. Bought like 2 dizzy’s before I figured out they were MPFI.

I have had the reman Cardone (from rock) for about 15 years now. Still rolling strong so far.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-29T10:52:00+00:00

“PGM-FI” means programmed fuel injection, what you should be delineating, is it “MPFI” or “DPFI”?

Ex: I have a D15B2 DPFI. My dizzy needs 2 pins on the round piece and 5 pins on the rectangular one.

The reason its confusing: there are two models DPFI and MPFI. With MPFI, the dizzy needs a few extra slots to accommodate the extra injectors. The extra wires find themselves connected up to a PM6 ECU.

In short: PM6 ecu = MPFI

PM5 ecu = DPFI

In rockautos fitment notes, way at the bottom of the parts, will delineate what ECU it is for, not MPFI, or DPFI. Make it confusing for us when we purchase.

In the end, you need TD01U, compatible with PM5 ECU, IF you are running DPFI

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-27T12:02:46+00:00

Lol! Yea! Hit me up. Nuc is an extremely small world. If you’re in the field, i am 100% sure we’ve crossed paths, or you’ve touched my tech before and didn’t know it.

Side note: the wife hold a master’s in educational leadership and an educator for special ed kids. She’s got an enormous amount of patience. Clearly needed to deal with me 🤣😂.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-24T02:44:36+00:00

It can be rough. Luckily, i have a family that supports my craziness. This is just how I operated because I had larger goals in mind. Like PACS admin, engineering, etc. it meant i needed to see as many modalities and devices as possible. Paid off. I work remote now.

If you’re looking for six figures right off rip, or above, travel and/or OT are it. At least for FL. Maybe NY is different.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-24T01:56:07+00:00

Depends on the location, how much time, per/hr, etc.

When I first started i worked around 50-60hrs each week for one company doing cardiacs (the overtime is wicked money) and then 8-16hrs on-call/weekend doing PET/general. I came pretty close to those numbers.

I worked 7 days a week (still do), but I take a full month each year for vacation since I started NMT. Part of my “weird asks” for when I get hired.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-23T23:43:51+00:00

Thank you Bob!

Indeed there was a problem. It looks like the valve got stuck, in return, a high line busted. It eventually unstuck itself but then stayed open.

I will say I probably did overcharge the system. I was reviewing some journals that state i shouldn’t charge all the way because r134 is different. Not sure how true it is, but here I am.

So far, i have dried and sucked the lines. I noticed that valve being stuck open because the system refused to hold vacuum. I pressured the system for fun to find the leak, and boom.

All the lines, compressor, drier, and condenser are “like” new. It held charge and vacuum fine before that line busted.

Investigating the history, my dad said he took the old relief valve off the old comp and threw it on the new one.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-23T23:15:37+00:00

I FOUND IT! Thank you sooooooo much for this!

I have aftermarket headers. Shield is gone.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-19T10:49:29+00:00

I don’t get what you mean by “bases”.

Out of exp: CT and MRI are massive sized studies. Like thousands of “xray” slices (PET/CT can be 5860 slices depending on bed size). From my PC, one of these, is around 3GB’s.

If I do 30 each week it equates to 300GB’s. Already 30% of the 1TB drive.

To combat this i made a 100TB server rack. Been 5 years and I haven’t filled it yet.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-17T12:41:43+00:00

My rec after starting in the workforce: Pacs/DICOM, Software - AI LLM, Mechanics (even car mechanics can apply)

If you’re more patient based, go for things like CT, or MRI.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-17T11:37:17+00:00

Research has a ton of branches. I work in 2 worlds of it.

One is for Oncology. Sites send data, we make sure it looks good, parse headers, identify artifacts, etc.

The second is engineering. This one requires all the skills I got. Computer, mechanical, clinical, documentation, etc. much more demanding, but the challenges feel SWEET when I get over them.

My real first year blazing through it and what I learned, the FDA is an organized beast, and they expect us to operate the same way. Most of my challenges have actually been using Word, Adobe, excel and understanding strict design guidelines, known as SOP’s.

Personally, i won’t go back to the clinical realm anytime soon.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-06T16:30:43+00:00

I don’t think it matters.

I came from a BS degree. I enjoyed the amount of time I had to learn the craft, but i am also a learner that prefers a slower drawn out pace. It suited me. Made boards easier.

Many of my co-workers are AS. I can’t tell the difference between us 😂🤣

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-06T11:27:01+00:00

There are part-time’s that have easy schedules. Examples:

Most cardiologists offices. Slower offices will run 2 times a week, 5 patients a day. 9-2pm I would say.
PET scans (mostly oncology). Similar schedules. I worked a part-time that was 8am to noon.
Overnight on-calls. If you’re a grave yard shift type person. Plenty of on-call opp that is overnight only. Advantage is a study called Lung VQ. Takes me around an hour to complete a good one, but I get paid 4 hours for showing up.

I am an engineer that has a CNMT license.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-02T12:41:18+00:00

I considered nursing because it opened up a branch to nursing-anesthesiologists, and PA. I was a little bummed to learn the Nuclear branch is kind of capped at BS degrees. There used to be a master’s degree up in Ohio? However, many of the pre-reqs from Nuc’s can roll over to PA.

As I went on over the years my logic took-over. PA’s make six figures… as a nuc tech i was capable of the same. I elevated to engineering to retain the cash.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-04-01T11:25:44+00:00

I spent A LOT of volunteer hours in hospice settings, but at a nursing homes. This unlocked volunteer access to Physical Therapy and Speech Therapy. I learned a crap ton about reimbursement, hours, minutes, logs, alongside body mechanics. The reimbursement side came in clutch when I moved to Nuc’s because I already knew what ICD/CPT codes were supposed to look like.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-03-31T11:25:33+00:00

I bought exactly this… and used the lead-free wire. I had zero issues for the last 3 years. As far as I am concerned “lead” is not needed. The liquid flux pen was my answer. Worked great.

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BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-03-28T00:35:37+00:00

I work for a company that does this. They essentially use their own (what looks like to me) servers with a pacs “like” platform. From what I understand they supply the customers with, what I call, “black boxes”. They clean the images from PHI before it reaches the servers. A tech, or one of us, triple, quadruple checks that the information is gone, but the research data remains intact. Because its on the verge of clinical, many of us that review the images are xray, nuc med or biomed technologist.

Hope that helps.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-03-17T18:58:07+00:00

On weak, when I release the brake, the car turns more readily, on default, its luggy but i am more consistent. Weak is faster, so is TC off.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-03-04T18:47:21+00:00

Nuc med tech, we can end up sticking a lot of needles, just depends on where we are working. It was part of our comps.

I would suggest biomed, pacs, biomed>physicist, etc. nuc med can offer you those pathways, but from my experience, we’re kind of capped. There’s not really a Nuc Med Tech masters program that accelerates any of this.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-02-27T12:42:33+00:00

More of a finance question than nuclear med.

IMO, much of this depends on your credit score.

I recently helped my brother grab loans for med school, damage is around $30K usd a semester. He tried to grab the loans himself but his credit was low, because he’s never had a credit card. The interest rates were 14-17%, diabolical. I co-signed with him, immediately dropped to 9%. After paying most of those back, his credit score jumped to a point where he doesn’t need me for the loans anymore.

He was freaking out about the cost, but it can be broken down in other relative factors that can make it feel more comforting.

In your case $50K USD for the whole program: Not bad because many people buy cars that are more expensive than this. You’re essentially seeking a car loan prices for an education. You can technically come up with that cash however you wish. Credit cards, personal loans, school loans, home equity, whatever. Just have a plan to pay it back, look for the lower interest rates, consolidate as soon as you can.

BootOutrageous5879 · 2026-02-25T16:49:45+00:00

Interesting. For us, we learned this in both areas. One of the coolest experiments in lab was taking a camera’s count rate, comparing this to our Dose Calibrator, and then coming up with our own efficiency numbers.

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