2020 .. What are you doing today?

[WZ JUNK]

My neighbor subdivided a field to the west of my place.  The road that connects these building lots makes a T intersection on the west side of my house.  We have a problem with drunks sometimes in the night, ending up on our street instead of the through street to the north of us.  I needed to protect our house and our propane tank.

I rented a Bobcat with a 12"auger and made the 4, 12" holes 3' deep.   Because of the amount of rocks that I have in the ground in my yard the auger did not drill the holes true.  I had to go back and do a lot of hand work with a manual post hole digger to get the holes true.  I used 6" pipe 6' long.  Then of course I had to get everything plumb, and spaced.  Big job for an old guy.  I am tired but the end result was worth the effort.

I will dress the tops of the pipes and paint them in the near future.

[kb426]

I repainted the hood on the 78 F150. It had some flaws that were bothering me. I finally decided that I couldn't sell it in good conscious with the flaws in it. The weatherman said I had a couple more warm days so I attacked. Mission accomplished.

[idrivejunk]

I repainted the hood on the 78 F150. It had some flaws that were bothering me. I finally decided that I couldn't sell it in good conscious with the flaws in it. The weatherman said I had a couple more warm days so I attacked. Mission accomplished.

What a guy.

Mission: Grape- also accomplished today. Changed that carb, works great but need to swap over old primary jets n rods to get back where I was. This carb gave me an inch of mercury I had not seen the 455 do before. I just never tried it until um... yikes... twelve years later.

[idrivejunk]

Seems like I recall this happening before, more than once... I make a post then everyone else stops for days. Like the other times but without asking first... I'll assume I haven't hurt the forum or it's members somehow and pretend it is not odd.

I would show the narrowed 56 grille but pics are fairly pointless at the uploadable size. I am unable to make my pics into anything worth posting. The last ones would even make crappy thumbnails.

Those things are nothing new. Whats new is my 69 has been down all week. One jet came out fine, the other stuck and I let the tool slip so can't change to those jets nor stick the old carb back on.

But the last time I drove it, Sunday, it felt good. Perhaps even %110. Made it about a mile and then it made a sound like a compression brake. Does that at a certain throttle position, won't idle or accelerate but I was fortunate enough to u-turn immediately and make it home without a wrecker. Each evening since, I have raced home to get a half hour of daylight with it but have not touched the problem.

Never heard any gas engine make jake brake sound before. :?

Don't know if it is going to be fuel related or not. You would not care to read further explanation of what I have been doing but my ride is down. Bummer.

[kb426]

Matt, is there a chance that an ignition wire is getting pinched in the throttle linkage somewhere? 1st choice is lack of fuel delivery.

[58 Yeoman]

Matt, you've killed the whole internet. I just got mine up and running today since your last post!

Just kidding. It's a coincidence that no one has posted after your posts. Nothing much interesting going on on my end so far. Waiting for bearings to come in for my 'new to me' Husqvarna mower.

[chimp koose]

Sounds like fuel Matt. Quadrajet???

[idrivejunk]

Hey, hey! Theres people. I never know if I've busted the dadgum interweb all to smithereens.

Its an EPS 750 and probably dirty or in need of new needles and seats. Fortunately for you all, I have not yet exhausted my mental resources. As indicated, I was out to shake her down with changes. First couple things I tried were backtracking on those and had no effect on the issue. I just slapped it on and ran it and was still in the midst of marveling at the wonders I have been missing with a miled out carb when it occurred to me...

I only touched the 455's carb to remove and stash. That was in '09. To best of memory the cool cat I stole it offa said it was built at least 15 years prior. The top had probably never even been off it since new and is over a quarter century old. I knew it was a time bomb needing rebuild but plopped it on and wow. Now, I'll need to go back in and do right. Rodding style, yes? (the slop lazy kind)

And on second thought I don't believe the jet I messed up is so bad that it won't serve. Third thought is that perhaps I can swap baseplates and keep the calibration by using the old body. Theres just no play time on weekdays but dang it has been some perfect evenings for a ride. While its warm out, I can't be missing no whole bunch of Pontiac driving therapy. Just working on it doesn't hold the same thrill for me that it do for some of ya.

[phat46]

Just returned from the U.P. getting camp ready for deer season. It was like being in the twilight zone....first after I replaced the waterpump on our '39 Allis Chalmers the radiator started leaking, badly, before I could even fill it all the way before starting the tractor. It had a very minor seep that we could live with before removing it. Then, we were putting a new entrance service line from the box on the pole to the trailer. Quick easy job. Took the old wire off, put the new #2 wire up, connected to the mains in the breaker box and voila, several circuits had 240 volts. Hmm, simple hookup, two lugs at each end of the wire plus the grounds. Fought with it till dark, then decided to put the old wire back on, but just laying on the ground. Everything was fine, normal. The next day we drove about 50 miles, each way,  to get a new wire, came back put the new wire on, laying it on the ground to test and it worked perfect. O.K. string it up the pole through the insulator, over to the trailer, through the insulators on the trailer, in the pipe to the panel inside and it has 240 volts on several circuits. Fought with it for hours, took it back out of the box, off the insulators on the trailer, back into the panel with that end of the wire on the ground....it works fine. 🤔 I raised it off the ground to the level of the insulator and tied it off and it's working. Completely baffled by this as was the guy doing the actual hook up, not his first rodeo and he was frustrated, to say the least. Then the propane delivery truck arrived, drove past our place on our two track "driveway"promptly got stuck, buried, in the muddy soil that had just gotten a few inches of rain on it. Took about an hour for the tow truck to get him out. BTW there is nothing past our camp, the grid ends at our place, we have no idea why this driver went past us, we are the only building on that "road" you have to come through our gate to get there. Since I got home I have talked to a couple guys about the electric situation and they look at me like I'm crazy......
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[kb426]

Murphy's law is always watching ALL of us.

[enjenjo]

they look at me like I'm crazy......

Just so you know, you only need two wires for 240V. If the wire in has 110 on each wire, and you have no neutral you will get 240V as long as the two hot wires are different phases. You don't need a third Neutral wire, if the power is 110V on each wire and they are out of phase, they will act as the neutral for the other wire when it's off phase.

I hope My explanation didn't confuse you. I worked in a shop one time that had really dodgy wiring. Am electrician came in to wire on a new compressor. There were only two wires to it so he wired it as a 110V circuit. I explained that both wires had to be hooked to power with no neutral, and he swore it wouldn't work, but it did. I'm thinking you may have a similar problem out at the pole., or your fuse box is wired wrong. And what you think is a power and a neutral are both power wires.

[phat46]

they look at me like I'm crazy......

Just so you know, you only need two wires for 240V. If the wire in has 110 on each wire, and you have no neutral you will get 240V as long as the two hot wires are different phases. You don't need a third Neutral wire, if the power is 110V on each wire and they are out of phase, they will act as the neutral for the other wire when it's off phase.

I hope My explanation didn't confuse you. I worked in a shop one time that had really dodgy wiring. Am electrician came in to wire on a new compressor. There were only two wires to it so he wired it as a 110V circuit. I explained that both wires had to be hooked to power with no neutral, and he swore it wouldn't work, but it did. I'm thinking you may have a similar problem out at the pole., or your fuse box is wired wrong. And what you think is a power and a neutral are both power wires.

I understand that Frank, but not the case here. We very simply replaced the wire that was there. two wires, each 120, coming from the electric companies line, into our disconnect at the pole,one wire on each lug in the box, one wire showed 119 volts, the other 120. That power passes through two buss fuses in our disconnect box to two lugs, our wire , now 8/2 w/ ground is attached to those lugs, runs to the trailer where each wire is attached to our main breaker, one wire on each lug. That shows 119 on one lug, 120 on the other, same as at the disconnect box on the pole. It was previously wired that way, I did it myself when we moved the trailer on the property. The problem is that two different things are happening when wired this way. It f the wire is temporaried, by just laying it across the ground it works, when it is raised off the ground and through the insulators on the pole and trailer it starts putting 240 volts on some circuits that should be 120.... we did this twice, with two different wires. The only difference between the two situations is that the wire is moved off the ground, the connections are exactly the same.

[kb426]

Over here in the land of boring, I changed out the oil in the gear box in the Grizzly mill and trammeled the head. I got the spindle to a half thou. That's over a 6" distance from center. After several attempts, I realized that unless I came up with a tool to tilt the headstock in minute increments, that I was done. I locked it down and moved on.

[chimp koose]

So KB , that means you have a depression in the middle of a 12" swath of .00025 over 12" . Sometimes when using a large Dia face mill it is an advantage to "hollow mill" especially when you are using a heavier feed rate as the back side of the cutter will not touch the work . I try to do a slight bit of that when milling a cyl head or anything that has a fussy finish so the back side of the cutter does not touch the work. I made a head milling cutter out of an old flywheel and because the cutter was so large(and limited amount of table travel) i could not pass the entire cutter all the way over the heads .With a slight hollow mill i just had to clear the opposite end of the head with the leading edge of the cutter. When covid hit I lost access to my mill and had to get my heads milled locally. I am not happy with the finish , and as it happened I got limited access to my shop right after picking up my heads. I have seen a setup that has a bar with 2 dial indicators equidistant from the centre . Bring the quill down and zero each indicator , spin it 180 and it shows how far off you are . Nice thing is it shows you how much closer you are getting as you tilt the head. My quill is not at the center of rotation of the head so gain/loss is not linear . That dial indicator gizmo would make tramming the head a bit less time consuming .

[idrivejunk]

I hurried home to tend to my carb yesterday and put the one that was on it back just like it was. Cranked her up, went for a spin. Normal. Slowly, about two miles in, the new issue returned and again I limped it home. I have no idea what can cause this. Trying to stay off the gas it starts popping like a rice burner. Give it a little more throttle and normal. I don't dare punch it. I dread both asking for ideas and taking off the distributor cap to look there. But the car is dead scrap if I don't embark on a full in-depth fault finding mission. I should never have touched it and should have written off the cousin carb.