10.Chicks showing their breasts to the band. Yes its always a crowd pleaser but come up with something original. It was cool when your mom did it.

9. The band saying "If it weren't for you guys we wouldn't be here". Thanks captain obvious and here I always thought bands that didn't sell records got the big tour busses....

8. Guitar solos. Wow you can thrash on the guitar, but you are no Steve Vai or Eddie so just put it away and play another song.

7. Meat heads in the mosh pit. Good for you Frat boy you just shoved a skinny long haired 15 year old down. No wonder you score all the dudes... er chicks.

6. The encore. Just say Ill be back in 5 minutes I need to cool down and grab some water. Stop acting like you MIGHT come back out.

5. Weed. If your gonna get high why not sit in your car or living room and crank up a CD and not pay $40 - $60 to go to a show to get stoned.

4. Crowd sing along. If I wanted to hear a bunch of no talents singing your stuff I'd record myself in the shower.

3. $4 beer. Not really a cliche I just hate paying $4 for a beer.

2. Giving the horns at a pop rock concert. Unless its Slayer is there a point?

1. Lighters. Yes it was cool in Bon Jovi videos, you can stop now.

I have been slowly working on the Camaro a little more. I am talking the tires off the wheels and polishing the wheels to regain the luster they once had. Below are before and after pics of the rear wheels. I'm doing the rear first because I need to take the tires off to redo the back brakes.

After

 Much better. I also bought a new lower grill

This week I hope to get those rear shoes replaced. I have decided to just go ahead and put in all new springs, wheel cylinders and drums. Ill get the rear tires remounted and then get the front wheels off the tires and get those polished as well.

So Im kinda addicted to youtube.com to watch my music favorite videos but I'd love even more to have them on my Zune.

The answer has arrived http://vixy.net/

Check it out - you just plug a youtube URL into the text box and convert it to the file format you like.

Now if Viacom would let the Daily Show put their clips on youtube it would be even better

I began this morning at about 9AM at the parts store and picked up a battery. I came home with donuts for the family and tweaked a few queries and waited for it to warm up outside. I went out around 11.

I located the lug lock key earlier in the week and took the tire off and had air put in it. Then I installed the battery, blew air through the fuel line and filled up the radiator. I kissed the key put it in the ignition and cranked. I let the motor crank for a bit to get the fuel up to the carb. When I saw the line fill up I poured a drop of fuel in the carb and cranked it again. It ran for about 3 seconds and then fuel started pouring out of the carb. I tapped it with a screwdriver handle to knock anything loose and cranked it again. No luck gas was everywhere.

I knew this had to be one of two problems. To much fuel pressure and it was blowing past the needles or The floats were stuck in a low position. Well bing the fuel pump was new and cheap the most likely scenario was the carb floats or the something was stuck. I took the top off the carberator (not for the weak of heart) and inspected it.

As I suspected there was a lot of build up on the right float and it looked like it was weighing it down... hence it dint float ;) . I was cleaning the carb and ran out of cleaner. I ran to the parts store and picked up a rebuild kit for the carb. $50.84 later I'm at home putting the new parts in the carb and reinstalling the top of it. I cranked a few times it started to run and died. I still think the priming pump on the carb is out and I will need to look into that.

I got it ruining and it cranks off with a flick of the key now. I would have loved to take it around the block but the brakes are defiantly out.

This week Ill see about putting a new master cylinder on it and see if I cant get the brakes to come up. I'm also going to order the backseat sail panels to improve the interior.

I did something to the Camaro I always wanted. I bought steel braided fuel line. It serves two purposes, it looks great and I need somethng to keep it off the lower radiator hose. I need a 90 degree fuel fitting to get it further away from the radiator hose. I ll work on that this week.

I also put a new fuel pump in it. Usually a fairly uneventful task. But the pump rod was on the cam lobe it felt just about halfway. Normally you just turn the key to crank the motor a bit to get it of the lobe. Unlucky for me I cant crank it so I had to force the pump spring down and install it. It wasn't easy... but I am good. ;)

I began to take the wheels off for closer inspection of the brake lines, calipers and tires but I can't seem to find the lug nut lock KEY. I looked every where thats what prompted the clean out of the trunk. Speaking of I think I must have liked beer when I was driving that car. I pulled out 8 beer cans from the trunk. and about 20 beer bottle caps. Red Dog was beer of choice it seems.

I didn't find the lug key but I did find a headlight trim piece that was going to cost me $45 to replace. I'll have to order a lug-lock removal kit from Amazon. The wife is loving the slow bleed of cash this thing is doing.  I managed to get it off the ground and crawl under it to inspect the transmission lines. The seem to be intact but a little leaky. I want to change the exahust when its driveable and when I do that I'll re run the tranny lines to avoid the new headers.

 I went ahead and cleaned a few things to just get it looking decent

I took off more A/C parts because evently I will upgrade to the new R134A systeem I can get the entire system with a chrome compressor for less than $1300. If you look closley on the evaporator canister you will see a coors light can. I used to call it the silver bullet. Clever I was.

I think the next thing is to buy a battery and crank it off. We'll see how motivated I am next weekend.