700,000 Miles in an Old Jetta
–home –700,000 Miles in an Old Jetta I’m thinking back to the Winter of 2011. After much research and clicking of “filter by lowest price first,” I found and purchased a Black 1999.5 Jetta TDI. It had around 160,000 miles, the ALH diesel engine, a 5 speed manual, and the interior was dirty enough and […]
About ThePaperTrails (About Me)
–home –About ThePaperTrails (and About Me) This is where I write things down. Some of it comes from work, some from time outside, and some from trying to make sense of things I don’t fully understand yet. Some of it isn’t meant to be polished or complete. Some of it is just a record […]
Adapting and Coping with the help of Nature
–home –Adapting and Coping with the Help of Nature Nature is not well-defined. It offers challenges not found in the classroom, or in video games, or on the baseball field. There is no answer key in nature, no cheat codes or levels, no winning and losing. There are no trophies or badges given out by […]
Swapping a Tremec TKX Transmission to Front Shift the Easy Way (without splitting the case!)
–home –A new TKX Transmission for the Monte Carlo This car has a split bench seat so I wanted to move the shifter up to the forward position–of course you have to buy a $400-$500 shifter in order to do this. I bought the cheapest kit I could find off EBay. It looks like […]