Winter 07 Maintence of the 240SX.
Well the 240 is down. On November 3, 2007 I noticed while driving the vehicle the temperature was fluctuating beyond its normal operating temperature. I knew the water pump was on its way out for the last few months and as always I kept a close eye on the temperature gauge. Luckily I was within a few blocks of my mother’s house and parked it there. And at the time I was actually driving to go to the junk yard to pull parts because also at the time I was brokering parts on eBay. So I parked the 240 and drove the Saturn to pull parts. One of the parts I was getting was a vLSD from a 95 SE 240SX with 138k miles on it, much less than mine. So my thought was to swap the LSD because it was practically free upgrade. So I pulled the one off the junk yard car, then the one off mine, I compared the resistance in the moving the axles in opposite direction and it turns out mine was in better condition (aggravating) so I spend the better part of 3 weeks lethargically putting the diff back into my car.But back to the story of the car. I decided while doing the water pump to do the timing chain. I mean it hasn’t been done yet and its already right there. Then I thought, if I’m removing the front covers, I will have to replace the head gasket (or at least I don’t want to risk it), if I’m removing the head gasket the I’m going to need to replace the head bolts. And while I’m doing all this I might as well tweak a few other things: remove the EGR (and wire in a false signal for the EGR sensor) Apparently the falsification signal is only needed on California 240SXs (as they were the only ones with an EGR temp sensor), remove the Swirl Control Valves (using a S14 upper intake manifold), install a longer duration intake cam (248º duration as opposed to the stock 240º), install an adjustable cam (to balance out the new intake cam), reduce the number of vacuum lines (specifically the unused ones that due to the removal of the AIV, carbon canister, and EGR systems), and replace any hoses that I come across in condition less than good (Power steering low pressure hoses, fuel hoses, and vacuum lines).This is what I find ironic out of the whole mess:
How to resume iTunes playback when returning from sleep (aka waking) on OS X.
Because the stock OS X system doesn’t have a monitor or anything of that nature to watch sleep/wake cycles you will need to download an application that will. SleepWatcher can be downloaded from here: http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/
After you install sleepwatcher.pkg you will also need to install the StartupItem package as well. The startupitem package includes some sample scripts and will also make sleepwatcher startup on boot.
You now need to start up AppleScript Script Editor by going to Application > AppleScript Script Editor. Paste the following into the editor and save the script where ever. I saved mine to /Library/Scripts . This script is a simple script that will tells iTunes to hit the play button but because you will be using this script immediately after waking from sleep (iTunes will already be paused) it will play iTunes from where you left off. Try to keep spaces out of the filename, I saved mine as ‘rIpb’ for ‘r.esume i.Tunes p.lay b.ack.
tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains "iTunes"
if the result is true then
tell application "iTunes"
play
end tell
end if
Now you will need to open Terminal. This application can be found at Application > Utilities > Terminal . For those of you who are not familiar this is a command line interface (CLI). You will need to edit the rc.wakeup script that the SleepWatcher application installed. To do this type in and hit enter:
sudo nano /etc/rc.wakeup
Sudo is an application that gives rights of the superuser (the administrator named root) for that one command. Nano is a CLI text editor.
While in nano scroll all the way to the bottom (with the arrow key) and enter this line (the directory will need to reflect where you saved that script previously):
osascript /Library/Scripts/rIpb.scpt
Now hit Ctrl + X when prompted if you want to save hit "y" to save changes and "enter" to verify the filename.
You should be able to open iTunes start a song, put the Mac into sleep and when you come back out it should resume playing within ~3 seconds.