Gas turbine engines work very well. The ones the Navy uses in a frigate are
reputed to drive like a speedboat.
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they are getting rare in good condition -- I sent mine to the junkyard due to
terminal rust. All the German cars of that age were terrible, Russian steel
for the most part. Ditto for W116s --- they were notorious for rusting away in
Germany too.
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77 is probably K-Jet or KE-Jet (my 75 Audi Fox was K-Jet).
Couple funky idle drop down servos and lots of hoses -- all of which have to be
completely sealed for it to run right. KE-Jet has a "frequency valve" to
control the mixture in the double chamber fuel distributor, and they can be a
Most of them use #2, not bunker. Bunker is a huge pain, has to be heated to
flow and makes a lot of smoke. Container ships use bunker C probably, it's the
cheapest
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Looks pretty puny for a lawn tractor. I'd wrap and tie a plastic bag over it
on the off-chance that keeping dirt out will make it last longer.
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That's because fuel prices are unregulated. They can charge you whatever they
please.
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Did you get the ball and socket or just the socket? A worn ball isn't going to
keep the socket on.
I'd get a new one and put a cover over it to keep dirt and grass clippings out.
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Well, the fuel in the station was crude over a month ago, it wasn't priced at
futures prices either.
Oil FUTURES dropped into negative territory today. Delivered oil was something
like $22 a barrel I think.
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Lol, I'm sure most typical wrench turners who can't set up a Quadrajet properly
(and yes, it can be done, a least temporarily) and NEVER going to get a pair of
Zenith's set right.
Biggest problem is lack of maintenance on the heat riser flaps, with the result
that the base of the carbs warps
The 280 had a Solex 4 barrel. According to my friend Hans, it's pretty much
impossible to make it work reliably, one of the reasons it was changed to D-Jet.
D-jet has it's own peculiarities, and these days I'm not sure it's possible to
find a working replacement manifold pressure sensor --
Nothing compares to wild blueberries picked in the hills around Sault Ste.
Marie. Takes a million or so to make anything, but they make wonderful pies
and jam.
Just have to watch out for bears while you are picking them, they are quite
fond of blueberries.
Peter
Sadly blueberries are a couple months out here. Early June as a rule.
Don't know if I will be able to pick cherries this year, depends on when the
restrictions are lifted. May have to buy pre-picked, which is much better than
none!
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I tend to believe academic researchers over stuff on the web.
Discounting Germany because the Depression there was both self-induced (the
runaway inflation was an attempt to get out of the reparations from WWI) and
external due to the rapaciousness of the French and British who didn't want to
Lol, you need to read Pikety's books.
Seems that economists mostly sit around doing imaginary "mathematics" making up
meaningless equations that prove whatever they want to prove.
Not news to me, I figured that out decades ago when our faculty sponsor for the
sailing club while I was in
Lol, I said nearly thirty years ago that desktop publishing (and by extension,
social media now) would be the end of civilization. Any idiot can publish
things now -- back when it cost a couple hundred thousand dollars to get
something in print, the trash got filtered out. If someone wanted
We drove the crap out of ours, and it lasted some years after we were done with
it.. 72 Beetle with minimal maintenance, affectionately known in the family as
the Nazi Nightmare.
Battery fell though the floor on both sides, ended up on a board I think. My
brother's floated it once in the
I was not aware that there was a TB vaccine..
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First, there is NO clinical evidence this stuff does anything against any virus
-- malaria is a PROTZOAN spread by mosquitos.
Second, chloroquinone and it's derivatives have very severe and usually
permanent side effect at effective doses and very severe side effects at double
the effective
You did better than I did with my mid 90's Quantum -- blasted thing burned oil
right out of the box and knocked badly. Total junk.
My cheap Chinese replacement from Rural King starts on the first pull every
time, never uses ANY oil, and the oil never darkens in use.
I will be getting a Honda
Better than needing adjustment, my brother gave me one from his days trimming
the graveyard next to his house. Wife didn't like it, ran OK, etc.
Got it over the winter and went to start it in the spring and about ruptured
myself hauling on the starter cord. Blasted thing would hit a couple
Never had the joy of driving a flathead -- my first car was a '62 Olds Dynamic
88 with a badly adjusted transmission (i.e. the famous "no reverse" option).
The only two things dynamic about it were the rate at which gasoline vanished
from the tank and it's propensity to run FAR too fast for
Only thing you need to do is rough up the surface of rotors shipped in
cosmoline after removing the "grease". This prevents the spiral grooves from
turning or the coarse grind from wearing the pads funny initially. No prep
needed for the coated ones, just install and drive.
Light pedal if at
One thing that can cause pedal pulsation is a hard spot in the rotor. Usually
happens when you make a panic stop and then hold the pedal down, there is
enough carbon in the pads and the rotor is hot enough you add some carbon the
the spot under the pads, making it wear less that the rest of
I'd replace the hoses too, unless done in the last 5 years or 50,000 miles.
Sounds very much like a failed hose lining acting as a one-way valve.
Nothing like fun!
Peter
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The likelyhood of passing away increases dramatically with age.
Sadly 81 isn't that much older than me!
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Seiko 7009 no matter what I'm doing except when immersion in water is part of
it. Take it off then.
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Rears are identical, clean the calipers well and use some anti-sieze on the
slots to help preventing brake drag (this is a real problem on the wagon for
some reason).
Fronts are easier as it's a single piston floating caliper. Remove one slide
bolt, rotate the floating half up and remove
4-5% of those infected, so far as the available data goes. May be lower due to
lack of complete screening and the fact that infections can be mild enough they
don't get reported. Given that Itailians are in general a little healthier
than US citizens (lower BMI, more exercise, etc) and those
Well, if we had used the WHO test for the novel coronavirus (Like South Korea
did) when it was offered to us in late January we likely could have prevented
the vast majority of the cases we have now because we could have actually
tracked exposure.
WHO is far from perfect, but so is the Senate.
More to the point, how many people will need hospitalization to survive, and
for how long. Doctors in Italy are being forced to decide who gets life saving
care already, and the case load is still climbing.
At the current rate of increase in caseload in the US we will hit 1.5 million
First thing that went. Nutso, they are all going to spoil and get tossed I'd
bet.
Ditto for buying all the bleach on the shelf, and TP.
One good note, the local farm supply was limiting people to two gallons of
bleach and one pack of toilet paper today.
I don't think the Health Service had any input on the political decision to
essentially do nothing.
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The 190 had an electric clutch if I remember correctly, while the W124 has a
viscous clutch.
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Roughly 80C at the fan clutch I think. Might be a bit warmer, but well below
"overheat" on the temp gauge.
I think I've replaced three over the years.
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The fan clutch kicks in around 80C and should keep you at normal operating temp
unless you have the AC on, in which case as long as there is high temperature
on the high pressure side of the compressor the fans will run at low speed.
They should NOT be on in normal driving.
You have a bad fan
Switches are in the hot side line -- receiver/dryer switch wire goes to a
resistor located close by, the engine switch wire goes to the 'far' side of the
same resistor for full fan speed.
If the hot side is hot, you have a bad ground. I'm guessing it's in the same
general area as the
I'm far more worried about the part of the "press" that turns science into
conspiracy theories. Every major societal issue is not a conspiracy to remove
Trump from office -- and you should be VERY careful of what you choose to
believe from anyone who finds a secret conspiracy in every single
I'm afraid it's too late. We just started restricting travel and banning large
groups in the last couple days instead of eight weeks ago.
Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling that we already have more cases than
Europe, we just don't know it yet.
No way to tell because we didn't start
This is actually real. Very contagious, more so that flu (3.5 persons infected
on average by every contagious person) and a death rate from 2 to 5%, heavily
skewed to older (60 +) individuals.
Serious disease rate is around 20% -- that, requiring hospitalization.
China managed to stop it by
No bioweapon here. The Covid 19 is a natural recombinant virus that appears to
be fairly common in bats in China (along with a number of other similar
viruses) that somehow started infecting humans and causes significant disease.
This is hardly an unknown phenomenon -- the "Spanish flu" in
Agriculture is a large part of the issue, especially in terms of phosphate
contamination from over fertilization.
However, a good deal of the water get used by things like DisneyWorld.
And it's all a moot point when the sea level comes up, salt water will displace
the fresh water heading
Won't take much to submerge south florida, most of the area south of Okeichobee
(sp) is only fresh water because the flow rate from the lake is so high. Cut
the water flow off, and the Everglades go salt.
I was in Ft. Lauderdale over Thanksgiving, and people are losing 50 year old
trees to
This virus spreads as easily as the flu, I think, or a common cold. Gonna be a
huge problem since we slept through the initial latency period pretending it
wasn't gonna be bad.
What can I say, epidemiologist have been trying to persuade politiciians for at
least 30 years that we are due for a
If you want to make your own sanitizer, it's better to start with EverClear.
Have to get the alcohol content up, and EverClear is 95% ethanol.
Peter
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Not taper no release -- a square end will just push against the springs.
Taper on the inside.
Peter
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Check the switch-over valves, they tend to fail and cause error conditions that
lead to no boost.
Ditto for perished vacuum lines to the servos.
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Three possibilities:
Low fluid from a slave cylinder leak (brakes work fine)
Bad clutch cylinder so no pressure to operate clutch
Bad slave cylinder (also low fluid but at the transmission end, not a brake
line or caliper) or leaking line
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Actually the corona virus problem has long been anticipated -- it was a subject
discussion back in the early 70's when we figured out how viruses worked.
The concern amongst biologists and disease transmission specialists was that an
animal virus would become human transmissible due to exposure
Easy. Open the bleeder, if the caliper releases it's the hose. If not, it's
the caliper.
Trapped air sometimes causes a caliper to drag, but only if it's in the caliper.
All brake hoses are subject to the "make a one way valve" failure, leading to
dragging calipers.
I tend to replace all
Wright-Pat is a great museum. It has been a while (20 years) since I've been
there, but unless they let it all go to pieces it's great. B-52 hanging from
the ceiling, B-36 inside, etc. Probably added onto since I've been there.
It's pretty big, plan on the whole day.
Liquor sales are now legal in indiana on Sunday from noon to four or something
like that. Doesn't affect me at all since beer or wine was available at any
place that sold food and bars have been open on Sunday night for decades.
Canada still had no stores open on Sunday except in border towns
Dan:
Did you have chicken pox as a child? This is the cause of shingles, the
chicken pox virus re-emerging from a long sleep. If you didn't, you won't
every get shingles! Might explain the very strong reaction to the vaccine, eh?
Everybody got it back in the day pretty much, but a few
I got the Hepatitis B vaccination when it first became available as I was
working as a Med Tech at the time. Three shot series, first one was no bother,
second one made me sick as a dog (hurt like crazy from injection on, fever,
sweats), third one I hardly felt.
I think it has something to do
Mine was sore too. Great week at work, one side sore from the shingles
vaccination and the other sore from a flu shot.
Vastly better than a case of either though.
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That module is the "hold the interior lights on" after you close the door.
Tends to run the battery down when it fails, I've replaced a few.
Some models activate the window switches when the driver's door is open, too
(two switches instead of one on the door frame). This allows the windows to
I have an engine for it, actually, if anyone is interested. Might need a
different oil filter adapter, it' from an SL.
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Battleships were obsolete in 1941, I really don't think anything has happened
since then that would return them to utility!
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The were not "bombing" Baghdad with shells fired from a 16" gun. The Iowa
class was upgraded with missile batteries during the 80's, different weapon.
Max range for might be a little more than 20km, but not by much for a gun.
Missiles are another story altogether.
One of the forward turrets on the Iowa was burned out by a cordite flashover in
the 80's, 86 or 87 I think. I remember it being A, but I could easily be
wrong. Killed everyone in the turret and damned near blew the ship up. Don't
know if they lifted the turret and set it back on the
Yup. Mechanical computers in the fire control station actually aim and fire
the guns. I don't believe they were upgraded to electronic in the 80's, but I
don't know for sure.
No, there are no battleships left in the fleet. They still exist in the
"mothball fleet" but I don't believe any are
I was told back in the day that one of those 16" HE shells did a fine job of
opening up a helicopter landing zone.
The AP shells, on the other hand, often went right through light ships
(merchant marine converted carriers for instance) and exploded in the water on
the far side. Bunker busters
Dredging back into my less and less reliable memory, I don't think a KC-135 is
actually the same as a 707 -- I believe I remember that the 707 fuselage is
wider (and hence a completely different design) and last time I looked,
admittedly many years ago, the engines on the KC-135 had not been
Eventually the fuselage or wings will get enough cracks they aren't economic to
repair as the pressurization cycles accumulate. At some point the risk of
massive failure will outweigh the cost to replace, and they will be broken up.
Very few DC-8 or 707's left, ditto for 727's and early model
Sure they can fly forever, but none of the metal may be the same.
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Airlines don't want DC-10s -- too expensive to operate compared to a 777 or 767
with similar capacity. However, that makes them 'cheap' by aircraft standards,
they fly reasonably well, and with a few exceptions, are well built and strong.
The design defects that cause issues with passenger
It was a mocked up "hybrid" -- and you are right, sure looks like a DC-7 or
DC-6 fuselage with jet wings and screwy rear engine setup.
Deliberately NOT anything recognizable as a production aircraft to avoid the
implication that some commercial aircraft wasn't safe.
And not flyable, with
It's amazing how long some of those old birds keep working -- someone hauling
freight crashed a Convair 240 last fall in northern Illinois I think, built in
1951 or so and still running piston engines!
The DC-10 wasn't the worlds best designed or most advanced aircraft for it's
time, but like
Could be why the Turks neatly dumped Iraq on the British after WWI.
It's stupid to play over there -- very little other than oil, and if we wean
ourselves off wasting petroleum, the inhabitants of the middle east can battle
each other over sand dunes forever with no impact beyond that.
We are still paying for allowing Churchill to talk us into overthrowing
Mossadeh (sp), the duly elected Prime Minister of a democratic Iran in 1953.
Not the only time he stabbed us in the back, either, in his drive to re-create
the British Empire. All he needed was for the US to pay all the
There was a recording artist a few years back (maybe a few decades now!) who
was recording choral and orchestral works the "old way" in stereo -- two mics,
one facing and and back angled in properly muffled auditoriums (draped to
simulate people in the seats). Unlike the modern habit of
Our band director in high school never did figure out that temperature has an
effect on the tune of brass instruments (all instruments really, but wood moves
less). He insisted on tuning up the band in the un-airconditioned band room
and then had them perform in the auditorium, with AC and
Peter is Batman -- indeed, I can also hear bats up close if they are agitated
(as in being held, we got one in the shop they other year, he was spitting mad
and cheeping). No one else heard it.
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22 kHz. No one can hear 222kHz!
Hearing like that has made for an interesting life. I used to shut off the
mower and go in the house to answer the phone in graduate school, drove my
housemate nuts (she was partially deaf and the phone had an extra loud ringer,
but it was still a mechanical
By total chance, I just replaced the suspension foam in my Pioneer HPM 500
speakers after a couple decades of procrastination. I bought them originally
because they have essentially flat frequency response from 50 to 50k Hz -- well
beyond "normal" human hearing range, but not that far from
This is different than the 87 -- circ pump is under the washer reservior on
that car, monovalve is by the battery.
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Probably. Will have hoses attached. Doesn't look like what I remember from
mine, but mine is an 87.
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Monovalve is on the right fender by the battery, it's on the return side of the
heater core.
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The rubber acts as a spring, if you clamp the links while they are hanging down
the rear will sit high with the wheels "tucked in". Drives very poorly. Jack
the wheel carrier to normal ride height before tightening.
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Since diesels produce very little waste heat at idle, I would suspect that
there is a bypass to prevent loss of cabin heat under low load -- the water can
cool off enough on the way from the head to the core enough to cause erratic
heat.
These are luxury cars, people complain of the heat isn't
I have had the front springs break on the TE, replaced them a few years back.
It was driven on the beach at some point -- tiny sea shells in the covers on
the links :(.
Up in Canada broken coil springs were common, along with severe body rot.
I definitely would not use that subframe if you
And no one to date has demonstrated it works at all, let along well enough to
produce electricity.
Along with blimps and flying cars, fusion energy systems pop up every twenty
years just like clockwork
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If you have aluminum wiring you must have spring loaded contact points, at
least in Indiana. Lot of house fires back in the late 50's when aluminum wire
became popular, my father investigated some. The spring contacts prevent loose
wires under fluctuating load.
Do not over-tighten copper
Windows 7 was acceptable in that everything we used it for was more or less
stable (depending on application, some of the custom instrument software was
easily broken by updates).
Windows 10 bites. Slow, buggy, gets massive updates weekly (so did they
actually develop and test it or just send
Oh, I forgot -- a bad transmission mount is a very likely cause of vibration
under acceleration and not under coasting -- the torque pushes the transmission
up off the mount, and drag pushes it down.
Easy job.
Peter
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Center bearing support bushing is bad. I'd replace the front flex disk if the
rear was bad too, they are under the same conditions and if one was iffy the
other is too. Worth the time to replace the center carrier bearing too.
What happens is that under acceleration the bad bushing will allow
We are having fits with W10 at work -- between the weirdness of 10 and problems
with Symantec (I think) anti-virus stuff we have endless issues with
instruments. Very annoying.
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I visited a friend over Thanksgiving that has one. Works great IF you have
wood or tile or terazzo floors and nothing that keeps them from roaming into
all the corners, etc.
Would not work at my house, way too much stuff on the floor and too much
carpet. Probably choke to death on cat hair
Lol, I got hit in my old 87 300D in the driver's door by a work van (Chevy 3500
series, fully loaded). Broke the starter off the engine, punched the strut up
through the still attached mount, bent the strut 45 degrees, and pushed the
front of the driver's door in over a foot.
The other three
Got the correct valve installed, and after a week or so and a few hard
acceleration runs in third gear on steep hills, it seems to be working
properly. Still get some boost hesitation cold, but once it starts working
right it holds all the way to or from work.
No CEL, so progress is being
Hot stamped will be hardened, cold stamp will be only work hardened.
There are other things to consider as well:
Heating to red hot softens the steel, which can easily result in opening up the
hole where the joint is pressed, usually making it slightly oval since you are
heating on one side.
I will be replacing the rear calipers soon on my 04 Golf, they both stick badly
once the piston is out very far. Huge pain to get them to retract.
Sadly the seal that fails is the one part nearly impossible to find, and there
do not appear to be any rebuilt calipers of this style, only new.
I will drop by my brother's tonight and check, it lives at his house these days.
Probably get some use soon, he's building rod using a Super CobraJet motor (the
real racing one, not the street CobraJet) and a '47 Buisness Coupe, plus
restoring a '67 Mustang for his wife.
The Harbor Freight tool and it's clones is too soft and bends when significant
force is applied, which then causes the joint to tilt and either get stuck and
refuse to move or become very difficult to get seated.
We ended up making a W126/W123 tool out of the one I bought -- welded 1/4"
steel
Channels for post-tensioning cast slabs.
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Sadly I have a spare for the ALH I'd send you, as I got the wrong one on the
first try. For the BEW you need to have all three hose connections on the same
side, make sure that's what you get.
Didn't completely fix mine, I'll have to find my MitiVac this weekend and test
the actuator and
My brother has a VW about the same age, to replace the 04 Jetta he had that got
sandwiched on the interstate and totaled. No complaints so far, although it
doesn't get the 50 plus mpg his Jetta did.
If it's much like the 04 Golf I have, they don't typically have too many
problems. Very few
Modern business schools don't address the notion of increasing revenue, it's
all about cutting employees and reducing product quality.
Never-never land is an improvement over modern American business management, at
least it's know to be a fantasy instead of being pedaled around as fact.
Ain't
One of my concerns all along with the de-industrialization craze (which started
in the 1960's, it's not new) was that without industry we are not a world power
in any way one might measure it.
Can't convert production to wartime use like we did in the 30's if we don't
have anything to convert,
Finally got around to putting the new N75 turbo boost control vacuum solenoid
on the Golf. Naturally, while it's the correct design, it's not the correct
part, the hose connections for vac source and turbo actuator line are on the
wrong side, and the wire isn't long enough to put it on
I recommended my favorite tire shop (and he plans to replace all the studs on
the front, both sides). I've been using my tire place for about 20 years now,
putting tires on four cars on a regular basis, so does my brother -- they know
us by name now.
Firestone dealer, although they will get
301 - 400 of 6199 matches
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