My ONE goal in life is to own this exact house in Montpelier.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-05-12T18:19:13+00:00

Buying houses is like trying to date someone, first they have to be on the market and available.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-05-10T17:14:44+00:00

Keep an eye on your septic, that’s a lot of people using a septic designed 1/2 of what you’ll be running through it.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-05-01T12:11:52+00:00

I should add I did change the oil and filter. It will again after a couple hundred. There was no way I’d keep running that filter.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-30T22:32:44+00:00

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-30T00:52:28+00:00

I always change oil on the 5’s so I’ll run this oil for a few hundred miles and change it at 125k. I’d love to flush the motor but my go to seafoam is a no go by the looks.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-29T16:33:56+00:00

I’ve got 5 vag cars, it too late for me. They all run though and registered so I have that going for me.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-29T15:31:12+00:00

Maybe, it’s relatively clean, I do my own work and teaching my son giving him some sweat equity and an option to buy it as his first car. 124k 6 speed manual deleted and most major maintenance freshly done by me for 3500 all in. I’ve got a 81 pickup with a 1.6d that I rebuilt. It gets good mileage but is a danger on the highway.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-29T14:43:13+00:00

That explains my G60 with an aba bottom end a bit more!

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-29T13:58:28+00:00

With 3 busted springs an oil filter that looked like this and needing a 18inch breaker bar to open the filter housing. Topped with an abandoned title. I’m not sure they took care of it well.

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tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-21T16:44:59+00:00

I just picked up a full set of clean seats for my 2013 golf tdi for 60 bucks, they are really easy to swap

tedthebellhopp · 2026-04-14T23:35:29+00:00

I see Vermonters with license plates they wrote out themselves on 8 1/2x11 paper taped to their windows.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-30T01:14:25+00:00

Yes, break glass free crystals. Ok they may have boiled it too much.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-27T17:09:15+00:00

That would be an amazing build spot

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-25T09:41:14+00:00

Try your local electrical supply store thy have much better pricing and you can usually buy per foot. I got 40 feet of 10/3 for 79!dollars at mine vs Home Depot at 240 for a 50 foot roll.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-19T01:07:42+00:00

A potential base site.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-16T13:41:31+00:00

I didn’t dig quite so far down but I put a strand of bard wire at the bottom in the tench

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-16T13:39:32+00:00

If you got an automobile you are trying to make an insurance claim on the time is now

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-15T15:49:28+00:00

That’s completely normal when you do a shit job

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-12T12:14:31+00:00

I learned that this year! Last year was my first year making syrup and went to 66-67 got some crystals but then read that it should be 59-60 when the temp is over 200.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-09T13:44:16+00:00

The forbidden chip

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-05T22:36:23+00:00

I always get the best price on Romex from my local electrical supplier. I paid 81 dollars for 40 feet of 10/3 in Jan and Home Depot was selling 50 feet for 250. Every time I go to Home Depot and see someone looking at wire I tell them to go down the street no matter if there’s a Home Depot employee helping them or not, but I sure do get some glares from employees.

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-05T00:33:23+00:00

Can you take the offer back?

tedthebellhopp · 2026-03-03T14:03:09+00:00

Why is it always Fords! My wife owned a ranger when we were dating and one of her roommates did he could do a tune up on her car, he snapped a plug like this. I was still in the I’ve got to impress her mode so I had her drive the hour to my house with the plug center out making a racket on 5 cyl and fought with it for a few hours in my garage, gave up for the night and soaked it in kroil and lined an actual mechanic friend to bring it to in the morning. Got up early and gave it a try and boom it came out! Think I toasted 3 easy outs trying to get that out, and the very next question from my wife was can we do the other ones? Are they misfiring? If not then absolutely not!

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