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Thanks. I'll tighten a few things up on the rebandaged harness and give a quick test drive this week to get it ready for the weekend. It's been almost 3 months since the last drive, I hardly remember what other issues the car might have. With that said, there is a chance that the wiring harness work has fixed the weird off-throttle issue I've been having as there were a few questionable wires here and there. We will see.

*Drum roll* Not a day too soon the car runs!! Got an expert to come down and we did a deep dive into the harness and tests of everything. 6 hours into pulling the harness out to give it a good once over and wipe it from all the oil under the old electrical tape as well as plug up random terminated ends etc we come across this peeking from underneath the tunnel As we out curiosity piqued we found this trouble maker under After fixing all other harness issues and going out to buy a micro 3A fuse we put everything back together and after a few other gremlins the car fired right up Always thought it might be a rather simple fix (10% chance) but didn't think it would be a hidden fuse. The ECU was likely reading 9v after back feeding from the alternator, that's why it would show 0v in a feed wire to ECU and would only show voltage when ECU was plugged in.

Saturday is a make it or break it in the garage with an expert to figure out why the car doesn't run wiring wise. I think current forecast is 50/50 rain

That Stalker appears to be going through it's yearly change of ownership ritual so I wouldn't be too concerned

Quicksilver tested both ECUs. Both work just fine. Amusingly enough the new one has a reversed TPS table like some other member here had as an issue. Charged me more than I wanted to spend but beggars can't be choosers. Next weekend diving into the wiring harness and trying to pinpoint the issue in the wiring. Injectors and ECU pins seem to be getting 12v from the fuse link with key on. Pull the fuse and all see 0v. Put it back in and injectors see 12v but ECU sees 9v. That's likely one of the main issues I have. My wiring guru friend will be over next weekend. Pulling seats out to make it easier to get to all the wiring and will do the nut weld mod at that time too

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You're again missing the entire point. Yes people are free to chose and you're mad that millenials and young women aren't choosing trades and are trying to persuade them to alter their decisions for the good of the country!! So much for free choice you keep talking about yeah? I'm trying to explain to you why many trades aren't FREELY chosen by people, many especially by women and I pick specific ones as examples. I never talked about cops as an emergency I just said their shift coverages are 24/7 and new meat doesn't get shift priority over the "good shifts". But that point eludes you. My "fantastic statement" about cosmetology comes from what the Internet shows as one of the biggest trades by women. Many you should start a campaign to get men into this field to equal the numbers. Let them choose this career, freely of course, in this free land. I'm sure you can get the percentage up. Im also not sure what you don't understand about percent numbers. Most women in the trades world are either nurses, designers or cosmetology according to brief internet search. I showed you the pathetic percent of other "manly" trades occupied by women, I also explained to you why that is. Hope your ad campaign will address those concerns that the links above show that they have about those careers. Don't argue with me. Argue with the women themselves and feel free to tell them that their right not to chose those trades is wrong. I'm not sure again what your obsession is with black men and now their Johnson's. Again not touching this tangent. Your closing points if I understand them correctly are as follows 1) people are free to do whatever they want 2) for the "health of nation" we need to tell people what they want, and what they want is trades! 3) universities are not free to do whatever they want or what their students want and instead should do what I want in the name of freedom! I see. Crystal clear.

Re - electricians. Let's look at an actual study in the field and see what actual people in industry say. https://electricianpal.com/how-many-electricians-are-female/ Trade Percentage of women in the trade Painters 8.9 Glaziers 7.6 Welders 3.5 carpenters 3.1 Bricklayers 2.2 plumbers 2.1 electricians 1.8 Reasons why Extrapolated Categories Number of Comments in the Category Verbal and physical harassment 12 Perceived differences in general interests 6 Dirty and filthy work environment 6 No dedicated female bathrooms 5 Danger hazards 3 And here is general discussion from women https://reddit.com/r/feminisms/s/YDcJqwZdJM As you can see the "generalizations" I've mentioned come up again and again from women or people in the field.

Plumbers are often on call for late emergencies. Cops work 24/7 shifts. Regular electrician might be fine but if a woman is a lineman she's gotta cover inclement weather emergencies which are often non stop work for days at a time away from home. If you consider military a trade there is a thing called deployment. Oil fields is 6 months on and 6 months off. There are lots of differences that some trades have that white collar often doesn't. With that said there are plenty of travel white collar which also can't be performed well by anybody with a new born and they are never an emergency leave, at least they can be planned for. Your plan to get 10% to 25% is just to advertise? Even more ads to get to 50%? Wouldn't advertising also attract more men as well further hurting reaching the women percent target? If youre worried about generalizations you should go through the early posts in this thread as generalizations is what brought on this discussions and corrections to how nobody seems to work in trades anymore. Keep in mind that unemployment level is very low so almost everybody they can't work is doing something, and they would have to do a career switch if they wanted to start in a trade. Even once in a trade, most females undertake cosmetology as a trade career and overall the percent of women on trades is represented by a single digit, somewhere between 3 to 7% percent depending on the study outside of slowdudes personal experiences. Im not even touching your slave owner tangent.

I think you confuse anecdotes with what reality in mass is. According to you there is some invisible hand that's stopping all these capable young millennials and competent women from being a force willing to work trades no matter how much money is thrown at them. Not the fact that they simply aren't an attractive avenue for young people and in particular young women who prefer to have a great all around job without many sacrifices that many trades simply cannot offer. Tell me how soon these women you know rejoined the workforce? Did they breast feed? Did they take 3 months off to recover from birthing and getting to spend some crucial time with their new born or did they send them to day care? Did they have any postpartum symptoms? Did they not want to stay home with their baby if they could instead of working? Did they take as much overtime as before birthing? Very curious.

I'm not discouraging women from joining, the more the better. I'm explaining reasons why they don't or won't. Some will. Most won't especially once babies get involved even if you disregard all other issues. Again like I said, examples exist but they are outliers and not majority. If you want large numbers to join trades, talking outliers doesn't help. Old guys working mechanics becomes less and less useful as the age goes on and they can't keep up with the endless pursuit of making a car into a calculator. Same generation that can't figure out apps on their phones is now required to do everything in software that constantly changes in the car world and requires constant troubleshooting. You're turning mechanics into IT as software problems are more and more common. I never said health issues are confused to trades but you'll be hard pressed to find an office worker who fell off a roof or has knee issues due to decades of lifting.

Talking generics is always assumptions based on whatever anecdotal data or research one can find. I speak from personal experience and the data that I've seen as well as pure facts of typical trade being a more dirty work than typical white collar. Everybody's favorite proponent of trades explores them on a show called "dirty jobs" and explores just how dirty many trades or hands on jobs can get. Some of these discussion topics just write themselves.

Why would young women ever they want to join an industry that is toxic to them? A number of lucrative trade industries do value physical strength and will always look down on women joining as equals. Even if they do get in as equals the other men in the industry will make it a toxic environment with sexual harassments and have that considered the norm that you can't complain about. Look at the army for example. Tradesmen are the worst advocates for themselves in this regard. Due to this you can rule out roughly 50% of available employment population from the start. If you ignore the reasons above other in need trade industries that are in high demand and pay decent such as oil fields, oil rigging, long distance trucking, almost all of them do very little to cater or help with a women wanting to start a family unlike a white collar world. Old tradition of woman being a primary baby care giver is still alive due to basic biology and old traditions but the new world of a two member working household makes it very difficult. I doubt many roofers will be entertained with a woman taking breaks to breast pump and requiring private accommodations to store her milk. Regardless of those factors many trades are great money at a young age but some, in particular flat rate mechanics have little room for long term career advancements and are certainly hard on bodies long term. My good earning friends in the industry loved the money and hustle in their 20's and 30's but didn't want to be the 55 year old in the shop doing the same thing. This isn't a complicated matter, trades are often dirty, require travel, could be often associated with a health risk and are hard to sustain long term. Compared to office work they have to put up a LOT to lure people into them. Currently needs of employment and often union benefits such as retirement are two big things luring people, cost of college as an alternative is also enticing. Every time I help out my friends at his shop and spend just a few hours working on things I'm reminded of my construction days and vs what I do now. As my friends at the shop call it "pushing buttons" for a career. They deserve all the money they get. Come come with dirty clothes, dirty hands, tired, beat up, dealing with customers every single day. I would consider a career change but at the rate they could never afford that I would need to justify the switch and I wouldn't do it for what they offer. I come home clean, easy work days, amazing benefits, low stress work that's mostly computer based and some hands on. I just even passed on an opportunity to move to a different job within the industry for more money just because the life/work balance would suffer.

It's capitalistic in a niche world, not in a mass scale for mass public, hence there are few niche owners/individuals that compete and fulfill these needs for the niche customers. One can't be surprised that it's hard to find air cooled Porsche mechanics or old Ferrari specialists. These products leave mass market and the knowledge is no longer valuable for any mechanic that works by volume in a dealership on new cars. Every guy with an old Ferrari or Lamborghini "has a guy" that they will go to. He might even be a few states away. If "that guy" disappears there are very few alternatives competing for that market in this capitalistic world. For an average person "not spending money" desire almost always means it's cheaper to replace the part, especially when "troubleshooting" can't be promised to find a resolution and you're still stuck with old part. It's usually a choice made by people who don't have any other option such as the forementioned niche vehicles where replacement might not be an option and people have the funds to afford to pay labor rate on their toys, not to mention time without the vehicle as it's not a primary transport but a toy. If all of a sudden there is increase of demand for niche services for whatever the reason, one can't be surprised that inelastic labor market on the niche knowledge base can't all of a sudden keep up. A regular very knowledgable Honda mechanic can't all of a sudden be a replacement expert in an old Italian specialty shop for example, nor will many be willing to make the switch even if the money was there. I see you're drawing a distinction between techs and mechanics unless you're using those terms interchangeably. In either case mechanics are flat rate at dealerships and aren't hourly. The more skilled they are, the more money they can make. Not unusual for a busy dealership a good mechanic earning 80 to 100 hours worth of work in an 40 hour week of physically being there.

Coming from the other end of things I feel there is quite a bit of "old men yelling at clouds" situation here. I know lots of mechanics who went to their specific college mill degree programs and are very successful at dealerships who have no problem finding and paying for their skilled labor. A lot of what is described in this thread is people finding it difficult to find other competent people to satisfy their niche needs of working on old stuff which often requires a lot of trouble shooting and research and even making their own parts. Of course they would struggle to find other people in that employment. I'm sure even in 1970s it was hard to find people wanting to working on Ford Model Ts. Some of the wealthiest hourly people I personally know are trades man. A friend of mine makes $125hr being a linesman and that's without overtime or being sent on emergencies where he will earn double time and 17hr days. With that said not everybody is cutout for these kind of jobs and they are hard to do with a family and a gender bias alone is real, not to mention the sacrifices one has to make to keep that kind of schedule. Troubleshooting things isn't rewarded by the capitalist market so nobody bothers to do it, so shops replace things. It only gets worse as the labor rate goes up. Makes no sense to spend two hours troubleshooting $100 alternator at $150hr, not to mention labor to put it back in. Are there useless degrees out there? Most certainly. But when almost every job requires you to have a degree on the application and AI robots will deny your resume before a person will ever see it if you don't match the credentials certainly makes one want to get a degree just to be a player in today's market, no matter what it is. As far as people branching out and staring their own things, this kind of mindset typically comes from a position of privilege where failure is an option that can be tolerated by either a safety net of already acquired funds or with help and support from family. Not to mention the capital investment to start almost anything. Are there exceptions to all these rules? Of course. But when we are talking macro scale we aren't counting ends of the bell curve.