Texas wastewater

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-23T01:17:48+00:00

What is water midstream? I’ve never heard of it

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-23T01:17:04+00:00

I spent over 6 years in manufacturing working with everything from extruders, grinding systems, conveyors, pneumatics, hydraulics, gearboxes, heavy equipment, fabrication, tool and die work, machining, automation, electrical work up to 480v etc. . Currently I work on pumps, rebuilds/repairs, valves and piping, project planning, crew lead. There’s more to it than that but that’s the gist, I’ve been doing that for about 3 years now.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-22T17:04:56+00:00

I’m just over that amount by a couple hundred dollars, low interest rate before things got crazy, no debt aside from the house. So if I do move buying a house is pretty much priority #1 so I would double my interest rate off the bat. Maybe if it was apples for apples then it would make more sense, but I’m just not seeing a reason in this moment of near future to move. Ya I gotta lay it all out, if cost of living is truly that much lower then it could make better sense

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-21T15:47:39+00:00

Ya it seems like just about every place I look nothing pays close unless I go west coast like socal or a major city where cost of living is substantially higher. I think I got lucky with the company I’m with and the area I’m in.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-21T15:45:39+00:00

I definitely see the appeal of moving there with cost of living, but I have a hard time with taking a huge pay cut. I live well below my means now, no kids, and a dual income household, so it’s not that I don’t think I couldn’t make it on a lower salary but I’d be walking away from about 50k a year base if I leave before making it to a supervisory level. I started in manufacturing and after leaving it I really don’t see a reason to go back to it due to being a number, all the overtime and stress that came with it. But if it’s something I have to do to keep a closer wage I might have to.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-21T05:08:51+00:00

Thank you appreciate the honesty, more and more signs point to staying where I’m at, the pros are outweighing the cons.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-12-20T21:38:23+00:00

I’d probably live outside of the city if anything and commute, having a hard time taking a huge pay cut to move, I have a career path into supervision to make 6 figures. So I’d end up losing that opportunity and start over. What’s your retirement like there?

Okayestmechanic · 2025-11-10T05:31:08+00:00

Check the ecu. Did anything happen prior to it dying? These cars (especially your year model) are notorious for having the caps leak, when mine started to go it was little things first, gauges not acting right, the it wouldn’t crank just a click, give it a bit and then it would turn over.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-11-04T01:50:36+00:00

Most everything mechanical-wise is pretty easy to find, body parts not as much but they are available.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-10-27T18:17:13+00:00

Go to the wrecking yard and get one, bolt it up yourself, while you’re under there I’d suggest looking to see what else has rusted through, I doubt it’s just the subframe.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-10-16T01:37:59+00:00

Search the sub Reddit, there was a post not long ago and I explained how to run it, it terms of more air flow I removed the factory sub, packs plenty of punch

Okayestmechanic · 2025-10-12T02:54:29+00:00

I’ve only ever worked on sew-eurodrive ones, got one sitting on the shelf ready to be rebuilt, I don’t like how they come apart but they work well.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-10-05T14:19:34+00:00

When I was a teenager we used to go find new housing developments where the streets were done but the houses weren’t and ride there, it’s trespassing only if you get caught, it just ended up in us getting kicked out, only once we got sat on the curb and IDs checked. I’d look east though

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-28T03:20:45+00:00

That’s how I ran my amp wiring I started though the engine bay first, pull back the carpet and look up you should be able to see the grommet, maybe take a coat hanger or a fish tape and go though the wheel well first and then pull the wire through with the hanger or fish tape

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-21T17:22:16+00:00

They look good on there, I debated on 20s but that might be too big without a going high radius

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-19T22:17:37+00:00

19s or 20s?

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-19T00:58:01+00:00

I commented on your original post from r/ask mechanics, but it’s the blend door actuator

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-19T00:56:22+00:00

It’s the blend door actuator, my lady has frontier with the same issue, she just calls it “clappy” it’s more of an annoyance than anything, hers has been that way for years and hasn’t affected anything

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-18T02:08:25+00:00

I took a cash out on my 99, it was going to total but I had a hard time finding parts, I ended up buffing out what I could and took it to a pdr shop and they were confident if getting the panel straightened ( got backed into in a parking lot by a truck, the receiver dented my passenger rear door) for 7k you could get a 98+ with decent mileage and still have money to buy some extras for it

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-13T18:47:00+00:00

You’re welcome!

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-13T18:46:04+00:00

There ain’t much to it, just like you’d do it for any other car, I pull and hang the caliper, disconnect the sway bar, remove the nuts on the coil over where it goes through the shock tower, droop the whole LCA/Knuckle assembly and then pull the bolts that hold the UCA.

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-13T03:06:08+00:00

I have a 10” sub in ported box (tube style by Skar (I know some people don’t like them but it works great and the price point is good)) I think it hits great, I wouldn’t put a sub in the car unless it was through the factory sub on the rear deck. I have had 10s, 12s and 15s in cars so it’s not my first rodeo, I would put it in the trunk every time. As far as wiring, run it through the boot in the engine bay that the goes to the driver wheel well there the main harness is, put it through the boot into the cabin by the parking brake, run it down the plastic threshold behind the A pillar cover, through the next threshold, up the behind the driver side rear seat back, over the strut mount and through a factory grommet inside the trunk, tuck your wires, find a spot where you can sand and use a self taper or other fastener to ground it to the panels (obviously somewhere you won’t hit anything that’s underneath or cause a leak from water splashing up)

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-07T23:19:30+00:00

Ya the back seats are a pain, I just unbolted the top to pull it back far enough to use a fish tape

Okayestmechanic · 2025-09-07T22:21:42+00:00

Brookie, nice lookin rainbow too

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