Hi All, What is that loud ticking sound coming out the bottom of my freshly overhauled transmission at cold idle, up near where it joins the motor? Is it normal, or are the torque converter bolts loose or something? It is definitely louder lately. I want to say about 2 ticks per second. You can hear it from above but it is loudest down at the open grate on the bottom of the transmission.
In other news the kkk makes 9.5 lb boost at max load at the intake port. I think that is pretty close to stock. Whoever said a loud turbo is a bad turbo shoukd have added "unless the intake seals are leaking". On Oct 12, 2014 4:05 PM, "WILTON via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Another non-political B-52 tale: > > RADIO HANOI - LONGEST 8 SECONDS > By Wilton Strickland > > My crew's target the night of 19 Dec '72, the second night of the > Linebacker II campaign, was Radio Hanoi just off the southwestern corner of > Hanoi. Approach to the target was from the northwest at 36,000 feet; true > airspeed (TAS) 470 knots. We had already been doing evasive maneuvers > (zigzagging), starting about 75 nautical miles from the target because of > the many surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) being fired at us. > At 60 seconds to the bomb release point, normal procedures called for > us to open the bomb bay doors. We had decided to keep the doors closed, > though, as long as possible to prevent the large open belly of the BUFF, > filled with of 42,000 pounds of iron bombs, in addition to 12,000 pounds on > two pylons under the wings, from suddenly showing a much larger return on > the air defense radar below. > At about 30 seconds from the release point, the crew electronic warfare > officer (EW) reported over the intercom, "SAM uplink, 2 o'clock!" (He could > see on his equipment scope the guidance signal of a SAM coming toward us > from the right and slightly forward.) > We immediately went into a HARD, shuddering (shuddering caused by the > wing tip on the outside of the turn in a high-speed buffet/stalling > situation), right turn at a very steep bank angle (much steeper than the > recommended max of 30 degrees) to try to make the missile overshoot us in > the turn. There was a bright flash and a muffled explosion. The aircraft > lurched slightly, as if driving over a speed bump. > EW warned again, "SAM uplink, 9 o'clock!" > This time, a HARD, shuddering turn to the left; again at a very steep > bank angle. 'Another bright flash and another muffled explosion, followed > immediately by the slight lurch of the aircraft flying through the > exploding missile's blast wave. We were now very close to the release > point, but in a hard left turn going way off the required release heading. > We quickly rolled back straight and level for the bomb release with the PDI > centered - that's the Pilot's Data Indicator, a bombing computer > instrument, showing number of degrees to turn left or right to fly to the > release point. > Nav, reading the time-to-go (TG) meter, reported, with his voice > getting high and squeaky, "10 seconds!" (Elapsed time was significantly > extended from the TG at the beginning of these maneuvers because of the > turns away from the release point.) > Meanwhile, EW was warning, "Two SAM uplinks, 12 o'clock!" (Two SAMs > launched directly in front of us and coming toward us.) > Co-pilot confirmed, "Two visual SAM's, 12 o'clock!" > With highly elevated pucker factor, we waited - aircraft straight and > level; PDI centered; EW watching the SAM guidance signals on his scope as > the missiles rapidly approached. The time-to-go needle seemed to take > forever to come off the eight-second mark. It quivered slightly and crept > ever so slowly downward. At 5 seconds, we opened the doors; it took other > eternity for the needle to pass 4, 3, 2 and 1. At zero, the aircraft > shuddered slightly, indicating bombs release - 108 500-pounders away in 3 > seconds - followed immediately by another shuddering, HARD, right turn, as > we closed the bomb bay doors and the two SAMs streaked past just to the > left of the forward fuselage. We quickly rejoined the other two BUFFs in > our cell and headed back to U-Tapao, continuing the evasive zigzag for > another five minutes or so as more SAM's were fired at us from the rear. > After things had settled down significantly - EW was no longer seeing > SAM guidance signals on his scopes, and the gunner in the tail was no > longer calling out visual SAM sightings - we gave each other "ATTABOYS" for > keeping things together so nicely. Otherwise, all was quiet in the > aircraft, except for the very loud scream of the slipstream and engines as > we kept the airspeed at bomb-run level of 470 knots to help reduce our > extended exposure caused by the 100 to 120-knot headwind from the west. It > was very hard for us to believe what we had just flown through. Many long > pauses were interrupted by exclamations of shock, relief, disbelief and > "OH, S**T's!" from all members of the crew. > If we had not turned at just the right moment after "bombs away," those > last two missiles likely would have scored direct hits. We all agreed that > we had, indeed, had our lucky day. (Actually a lucky day for all the BUFFs > - none were lost this night.) > After landing back at U-Tapao, we jumped out of the aircraft and ran > around looking for holes in it, just knowing it must have some. Finally, > finding none, I said to the rest of the crew, "Let's go; we're out here on > a black night, looking for black holes in a black airplane. Let's just be > thankful to make it safely back home; let's go to bed." (I think the > aircraft did have some holes in it, but we were busy making additional > trips to Hanoi for the next several nights and were not concerned about > what had happened in the past. I left Thailand a few days later and never > saw the airplane again to confirm any hits or lack thereof.) > For this mission, each member of the crew was awarded The > Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). We received another DFC for the rest of > our Linebacker II missions combined. > (I recently checked the area near the radio towers on GoogleEarth and > found several of our bomb craters still visible.) > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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