on sunday i dressed my 2 1/2 year old son in a jawa costume. the local news interviewed me about costuming and activities , everything was going great but then she called me a star wars nerd on camera and i replied " huh I'm no nerd" and she just made a weird face and stopped talking. i never made it on the news but they did play a little of my son in the costume. here it is, its about 1m 48 second into the clip.

http://www.sandiego6.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=487254@video.fox6.com&navCatId=137&articleID=487584

 Star Wars.com took a picture of my son and posted it on flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/starwarsblog/2736997268/in/set-72157606361733297/

i got the Durge/anakin pack and noticed that the figures were packaged on the wrong sides. the durge name and picture has the anakin figure inside it.there is another comic pack like that but i forgot which one...

good guy to do business with. great communication and quick payment. hope to work with him again. thanks for the tip...

Quote from: King_Maul on July  1, 2008, 12:05 PM

Quote from: name on July  1, 2008, 11:27 AM

unless it's buried up under a whole lot of front end, radiator replacements are a piece of cake.  you shouldn't have a problem.

That's good to know.  It doesn't appear to be buried beneath a bunch of things, but there are a couple of fans that are attached to it.  Hopefully those will come off pretty easily as well as the hoses that are connected to it.  I'll keep my fingers crossed. 

 Yup, the radiator replacement didn't turn out to be a lot of effort.  I have to attribute that mostly to my cousin's experience with replacing a radiator before.  I'm sure it would have taken me a lot more time if I were fixing it myself this past weekend.

We probably spent about 3 hours on the whole thing.  We didn't have much trouble finding and taking off all the screws connecting the radiator to the frame of the car.  We had to disconnect the 2 fans that were attached to the radiator and reattached them to the new radiator.  We put in the new radiator (we ordered a new one over the internet), reconnected everything, and filled the radiator all the way up.

After starting the car, the temperature gauge shot up to the "H" area after a few minutes of running the car, so we knew there was still something wrong.  We found a leak in one of the connections at the bottom of the radiator.  We took care of that with a new plastic o-ring and some teflon tape.  There also must have been a big air pocket in the radiator. After filling it up and running the car for a few more minutes, we found that the fluid level was low again.  We topped off the radiator fluid once more, and temperature gauge finally stayed at normal which is a little less that half way between C and H fo rthis car.  There were no more leaks, and the car appears to be running fine now.

every time you remove the radiator and replace it or replace the coolant you have an air pocket from the bottom of the lower hose to the top of the engine. when you run the car the thermostat opens and all the water from the radiator goes  in the engine to cool it down.all cars are like that some like the VWs can take up to 1 hour to "burp" the car...

i think it's new collectors that are more into investing than collecting and think in a couple of years this will be there retirement fund or the new sports car...

on sunday i dressed my 2 1/2 year old son in a jawa costume. the local news interviewed me about costuming and activities , everything was going great but then she called me a star wars nerd on camera and i replied " huh I'm no nerd" and she just made a weird face and stopped talking. i never made it on the news but they did play a little of my son in the costume. here it is, its about 1m 48 second into the clip.

http://www.sandiego6.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=487254@video.fox6.com&navCatId=137&articleID=487584

I take it you got both the Yoda & Obi-Wan key for me. 

    yoda #129/750
 obi-wan# 59/1000