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What are some of the tale tell or early signs of a possible cam/lifter issue?

Just making sure I’m not headed to that route, my truck the past couple weeks shudders alot when kicking down in different gears or when I suddenly mash the gas to kick down gears, going up a hill etc,. I tried driving it with mds off and still have the same issue. It’s not a violent shudder, but it’s definitely a spitter or some sorta imminent misfire and as I mash on the gas it tries to lags its way back up to speed

The check engine light has been on all this past weekend for p291b code bank 2 imbalance fuel/air and just went back off on its own today. Some places on the internet also suggested it could be the differential on the back? I’m just trying to fish out any common fixes and by the way it’s looking these trucks are pretty worrisome at this point

My truck: 2016 ram hemi 5.7 132k miles

Just as what the title says.

I only lift 2-3 days out of the week and is normally a full body heavy lifts. Heavy deep squats, 4 plates full range of motion leg presses, heavy leg curls, heavy bench, heavy everything. Saturday is arm day. Sunday is heavy deep squats with back and biceps. Monday is bench and triceps. All heavy intensity work true strenuous lifting. I promise all the lifting o do of heavy shit no more than 5-7 reps tops.

It’s been 3 days from my usual Sunday leg day with back and biceps and man my legs, back, and chest have been killing me all day walking around dragging my feet at work with DOMS, and when I’m at home the hunger is annoying I’m needing something to eat every 2 hrs. In the early a.m to work I usually skip breakfast but my stomach is on my back on the way to work! Seems as if for me to get good sleep something high in calories and sugar is the only fix. Seriously. I’ve tried a banana or apple, crackers before bed only for my body to wake me up in the middle of the night hunting for food!

How on earth am I’m going to continue gaining strength without turning into a meat ball!! I’m 190 @ 5ft 10 or 11

And yes I’ve tried chugging water instead of grabbing something to snack and 20 mins later I’m still hungry. No this isn’t rage bait I just fear becoming fat on the process of getting strength.

So Tesla in Houston Texas has been hiring welders left and right with a starting pay of 30 bucks an hr. I know 2 welders one with 2 yrs experience and the other one 7 months out of welding school and they got hired on. They all told me there’s no weld test and that the hours are mon-friday 8-10 hr shifts. It took them WEEKS to get a “start date”. What I’m skeptical about is that those 2 are about to start working there this upcoming week and they wasn’t told the type of process or what type of work they’re going to be doing which is alarming.

Idk about you guys but I never in my life heard of an opportunity that pays that kinda salary without a weld test and they also had to go through some sort of a.i interview lol.

Has anyone ever worked there or got hired on? any details? If so then I’m doing this welding thing all wrong.

I finally got this thing removed and I wanted to clear up some things I made a post about a few months when I had this junk in this post > https://www.reddit.com/r/intoxalock/s/CMRstrIe1D

I bonded out 2024 and decided to stop the shenanigans and turned myself in 2025 Jan to serve my dwi2nd. No way I was able to do probation I had a serious issue with alcohol at the time.

Anyways Several months later I found a job that required me to have a valid license or some form of “permission” from the courts to drive. So I applied for an occupational DL under the ODL program Well but my license remained suspended and here’s why.

Guys the state still suspended my license for 2 years for my right for a refusal to blow into the dam blower how redundant. So basically I was on probation, but I wasnt on probation if that makes any sense per se because I had already served my time for the DWI2nd case in 2024. No court dates, no randoms, no community service no nothing, just my hard earned money. It was more of a requirement to keep driving legal via the interlock. During this period I had got violations like missed blows, even got a full lockout because I forgot to recalibrate in people in my recent post SWORE I was going to have to “restart” or get an extension when that was not the case at all.

So my question is who was really my monitor? The state? Or the courts?

Currently: 33yr 5ft11” 185-190lbs

Was: 33yr 5ft 11” 220-230lbs

Last year I went on a major cut to lose fat but screwed that up and lost alot of muscle or was just misinformed at how much muscle I thought I had when it was just a bunch of fat being at 230lbs.

Anyways so I been strictly strength training since may. And I see great progress in the numbers, my muscles are getting bigger and I’ve picked up a lot of strength. And now, it’s getting even better and my body is on a narrow path but man the stronger I’m getting the more I’m finding myself just being hungry for no dam reason. I’m actually more hungrier than I was in the cutting phase which is surprising.

Despite how much I’ve been eating my physique looks the exact same if any just getting bigger in the right places. I’d say I’m 15-20% bf I can visually see my abs (which I’m okay with). But I do have a little water weight or fat around the backside of the love handles which id like to get rid of but at the rate I’m going the body is not allowing for any type of cut. It wants what it wants. I’ve tried cutting back “small amounts” and eventually the body will still get its calories back in the middle of the night by waking me up hunting for food or not being able to fall off asleep without and extra bowl of Raisin Bran ESPECIALLY on nights where I did leg days.

I’d got to at least be around 2500 calories or above but internet gym gurus argue that a “slight” surplus is key when the body is screaming something completely different. I promise my weight is remaining the same and the bodys overall shape appears and remains the same for about the last 5-6 months now.

Should I just leave things alone and keep pushing the number progress or seriously consider my diet and make some serious changes

I usually just eat big hunks of chicken breast twice a day for lunch and dinner with rice that’s it.

In between I’m usually just snacking an apple here and there

And before bed is when the feasting begins. I eat a shit ton of Raisin Bran it helps with me using the toilet and I have a big thing for candy bars. I godda have some kinda of dopamine here

Let’s see

33yr M
No kids
No wife
30k in student loans
14k in auto loan
57,200k a yr in salary

I’m a welder, and the whole working 6-7 days a week is getting to me. Being up at 5 am working 50-60 hrs a week is something I don’t think I can do by the time I’m 40. This work is physically demanding most folks call in at least twice a month due to burnout or becoming sick from being burnout, which is currently me as of now. Also not to mention the antics I have to put up with at work such as toxicity and ego I have to put up with overall in this field. They didn’t tell me all these things in welding school.

However, I’m already 30k in student loans and it just doesn’t seem wise (time wise) to go back to college. I’ll be starting all over again. I’m saving now for a substantial down payment for a house, and going back to college full time I believe would just put me further behind. In this day and age I see that the margin for error is small. So, I’m just trying to get some clarity as to what others would do in this situation. Yes, I can find a better paying job but I’ll be taking a risk of starting over again if things doesn’t work out.

What do you guys suggest?

In my 20s I wasn’t complaining as much rather than just making stupid decisions like I had all the time in the world.

But nowadays (33M) I’m finding myself really battling my thoughts and talking to myself in person and in the head all day. I have to constantly remind myself that I’m literally making progress, that things could be much much worse than it is, and that it’s going to be okay. My mind likes to wander off into these intrusive and what if I don’t make it scenarios and just complain and make up these failure end results all day long and It’s becoming a nuisance. I can’t even enjoy my music in my car going somewhere without having a 1 on 1 with my own self while driving. Yea, weird.

Or maybe this is just what being a man is all about out after all? Just shutting up and dealing with it? Taking that risk and throwing yourself out there for the better regardless of how bad your past looks? I dread having the nay sayers and my peers point out the chaotic embarrassing past I have. Oh and yea I do carry allot of guilty conscience these days.

Anyways I’m approaching this acceptance phase of “either you do it, or you don’t” “either put up or shut up” cuz it’s like no one cares to hear the sob story and the struggle. Society just wants to see progress and what you have to offer. Maybe I ought to get out of my head and get with the times? I’ve grew up and hung around much older men and I rarely ever hear them complaining about anything except their joints

For an open root pass, do you guys use a landing or no landing?

Yea so In still struggling to throw a decent root with mig in the 4g position. Settings are at 17 volts @ 185 WS.

Others have suggested that using a landing on plates that are not thick like 3/8” or smaller will prevent penetration. But using plates that are thicker such as 1/2” or bigger should use a 3-32nd - 1/6th landing.

What you guys suggest?

I been using both landing and w/o landing on 3/8” thick plates and idk the root and the puddle just doesn’t wanna cooperate. It’s either it goes in smoothly with no penetration, or it does penetrate well but it’ll either keyhole or shoot whiskers.

This is kinda tricky to explain, but if I keep edging myself and whack off for anything past 10-15 minutes my ejaculation turns out completely numb with no sensation at all. I also have a hard time pinpointing when I can orgasm and ejaculate, it’s like those two things aren’t working well together it’s out of sync if that makes any sense. For example Sometimes I end up ejaculating when I wasn’t even ready, and in some cases I can never find the right time to orgasm and end up jus giving in and end up having another numb ejaculation.
However, whereas I finish anytime under or within 10 minutes I definitely can 100% feel the sensation which is so odd. I’m not sexually active and I whack it every single day.

Reading up on google I see that Zyrtec can have an effect on this, which j do take yr round, and also maybe tight pelvic floor muscles? I tried the exercises and that doesn’t do much. Anyone else excessive these issues? Ironic how I didn’t have these issues when I was drinking and popping pills heavily everyday

I’m a 33 yr old “recovering” alcoholic. I got sober last yr June. I’ve been playing catch up and I’ve been making progress financially and physically.

However, I’ve noticed at this age (33M) a truck ton of intrusive thoughts and past scenarios are always playing out in my head all day freaking long while I’m at work, studying, hell even someone could be talking right into my face and my mind just wants to wander off into the past and wants to figure people and failed relationships and failures at the wrong time! I’m getting the feeling that this is just what it’s like being a man or should I seek medical attention? because there’s no way I should be reminiscing this hard about things that happened in the past. I honestly still feel like it’s 2021 and idk why, despite all the significant progress I made from getting sober last yr June, it still feels as if I’m the same drunk man, I just have better opportunity, and am in a much better position than I was.

Maybe this is life after all, and if so this scary.

Or maybe I just need to get out of my head?