My dinner, IAC

Well the horrible idle with a warm engine start problem has been getting worse and worse with my Tacoma.  When it happens (when restarting the truck with a warm engine), I basically have to two foot the truck with one foot on the gas and brake to keep it running.  It can sputter and surge like mad when it is in this state.

I have done a lot of research on this and it seems like the culprit is pretty clear, the idle air control valve.  Evidently it is a very common issue for this to stick due to carbon build up after a number of years.  There are two options, remove it and clean the valve thoroughly or replace it.  From what I have read, simply cleaning the valve normally fixes the problem and buying another one will cost roughly $200 so I plan to go the former route.

Getting to the IAC valve requires removing the throttle body from the intake of the truck.  The procedure isn’t hard besides removal of some brass screws that I read are very easy to strip.  The best solution to avoid stripping screws is to use an impact screw driver, which I don’t have.  I plan on getting one, they are less than $30.  That is a small price to pay to avoid the hassle stripped screws can bring.

I had another juiced dinner last night.  It consisted of two roma tomatoes, two celery stalks, 3 good sized carrots, some left over lettuce from our garden and a good handful of spinach.  Ali also made us salads.  I was good to go.  The taste is fine, removing ginger from the mix was a large improvement.  I’ll probably do something similar tonight, it just isn’t that bad.

Last night after work I made an attempt at setting a new PR for a wall handstand hold.  The longest I ever held was 70 seconds and that was done a long time ago, probably early 2010.  I haven’t been working handstands recently at all since my focus is the BBR’s.  Well I figured my low body weight might allow me to increase the hold time.  I stayed on my hands for more than 75 seconds and to be honest I might have been able to squeeze out 5 or 6 seconds more. Sweet.

I smiled when I saw a Ron Paul political sign was placed at the end of our street.  The slogan on the poster was “Why change the dealer when you can change the game?”  There is no doubt the game needs to change.

I heard last night that this current congress has gotten the least done of any congress in history, despite being in session as much if not more than past years congress.  Of course this is the end result of the crippling polarization between the two political parties.  In the big picture the winner in this quagmire of course is the rich, since no movement means the policies in place that have helped the disgustingly wealthy get obscenely wealthier for the past decade + remain firmly in place.