A couple of months ago the battery in my 2022 iPhone 14 Pro Max bit the dust, so I replaced it with the iPhone 17 ‘air’ – which is a pretty nice phone all things considered.
Unfortunately the ‘air’ has so many feeping creatures in it that it kinda fails to do the thing I need it to do when I need it to do it…
Take this evening for example; I needed to get the part number off of the supercharger belt tensioner on the Hellcat, so I figured I’d just take a picture and then pull it up back on the computer… Basically the sort of thing having a camera in your pocket was intended to do.
This turned out to be impossible.
I needed to hold a flashlight with one hand and manipulate the phone with the other, and the camera would either get bored and flip to the photos app while I was maneuvering everything, or I would inadvertently touch the screen with my palm and the phone would go into some other mode that made the camera useless.
The phone tries to do so many things and has so many ‘features’ in the camera application that just taking a basic picture became impossible because of the fiddly nature of the thing.
I eventually resorted to old-school techniques and scribbled numbers on a scrap of paper with an old bic pen I had laying around… And if I’d just done that in the first place it would have been quicker and way less frustrating.
Lesson learned I suppose.
Anyway, the reason I was pulling part numbers in the first place was because my roommate finally got approved for disability. So some time in the next 30-90 days he will be able to pay half of the rent and utilities again – and I’ll go back to having a few spare bucks every paycheck. This, coupled with having the garage to myself, has prompted me to make a list of things I want to replace / upgrade in the car.
I already have a new set of RIPP coil packs coming as the coil pack on cylinder #3 is weak and it throws a code on occasion – and I have to do emissions this year and any code will fail the car… Those should be here Friday and I’ll install them over the weekend.
Installing coil packs in a Hellcat should be easy, but it’s not – I’ll have to move the A/C lines on the driver’s side of the engine and the intercooler lines on the passenger’s side just to get to the coils. And then each coil pack handles two spark plugs and it’s a hemi, so the boots on the coil packs are like six inches long – and there’s maybe three inches of space between the valve covers and the shock towers.
I’m sure there will be a lot of swearing involved, but I’ll git ‘er done. 🙂
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