http://bobsbadbinder.com Anything Less Is Just A Car Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:20:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always seem to have trouble with the headlights on my 1964 Buick LeSabre. If I'm driving early in the morning, or at dusk, and turn my lights on, I invariably leave them on and kill the battery. All these new vehicles have a timer that shuts the ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/automatic-headlights-for-vintage-cars/33/ So Jason bought him a new toy recently. A 1998 Yamaha YZF 750R. Sweet bike - check out the photo gallery for some pics. http://bobsbadbinder.com/yzf-750r-for-slacker/32/ Every Memorial Day we head to the North Sand Hills near Walden Colorado. This year was no exception. Generally the dunes are extremely busy over Memorial day, but this year was different. With gas near $4.00/gallon and a tornado going through Windsor the week before, the sand dunes were ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/walden-sand-dunes-2008/30/ After a good night's rest, we got up and headed for the trail. Last year when we were out for the Easter Jeep Safari, we scouted around and ended up at the far end of the Kane Creek Canyon trail. We decided then and there we wanted to ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/moab-march-7-9-2008-day-2/29/ This spring, end of March, the week before the Easter Jeep Safari, Jason, Jed, Jed's co-worker Delbert and I made a jaunt out to Moab. Fuel has been high, so Jed offered to drive his Dodge with the Cummins Diesel, and take his toy hauler. We had more ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/moab-march-7-9-2008-day-1/28/ OK, even though the name of this blog is Bob's Bad Binder, I think we are going to have a change in direction. As you may have noticed, not much Binder information on here lately. The project is coming along a bit slowly this spring, so I haven't ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/changing-focus/27/ Went to the Coy's swap meet at Bandimere today. Didn't find too much, but there was one excellent bargain for Jason. His Sweet Pickup, a 1968 Chevy with a 427 and 700 has woefully antiquated drum brakes. They are OK, but in the mountains they get hot and stop ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/swap-meet-find-disc-brake-conversion-for-67-72-chevy-pickup/26/ Found this company over the weekend, Dynamic EFI, who are building a better ECM. I have thought for some time that it would be very interesting to hook a laptop up to a GM TBI wiring harness and create software that would be much more flexible in terms of engine management. ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/dynamic-efi/25/ http://bobsbadbinder.com/original-scout-commercial/22/ Spring has sprung, and only a couple months until our annual Memorial Day trip to the Sand Dunes. Spent the last couple weekends trying to wrap up the floor work on the Scout. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to cooperate either weekend, but I do have a fairly good rundown ... http://bobsbadbinder.com/current-status-spring-2008/9/