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« on: April 15 2011, 06:09:06 PM »
ambling across one of my roads after lunch....he was about five ft long, I guess. I decided to run over him because he was such an easy target. Apparently, I missed because I saw no sign of him so he must have down shifted and got the heck out of the way. Saw no sign of him after I unhooked a gun and got out of the truck.
I hope he is not wrapped around my driveshaft waiting on my leg.....I hate those sobs. For some reason, they have stopped rattling their warnings and the number of bites is going up.
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« on: April 14 2011, 10:50:04 AM »
Anyone ever notice that on all these shows that they get down to two hours from having to deliver the car to auction or the owner and the brand new engine they installed will not start? Then they spend an hour trying to find out why, twisting the distributor, pulling on wires, looking worried, etc.
I wonder how many of these spit a cam out 150 miles down the road because they wiped all the break in lube off the lobes and scrubbed a lifter due to the low cranking speed on the starter and the lack of oil flow to the valve train?
Come to think of it, I wonder why they never break the cams in? They all stand around with big smiles on their faces, wiping the sweat of worry off, blip the throttle a couple of times and then start working on the leaks.
Surely, not all of these are roller lifters.
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« on: April 12 2011, 07:41:32 PM »
I bought a kit sometime back...decided to give it a try while ago. Damn thing works pretty well. I bled the fronts from the calipers backwards and talked on the phone with one hand while I pumped with the other...seems to do what they claim...have to do the rears again because the pedal does not feel right. Hope it is not that new rebuilt Cardone master cylinder I installed last summer.
Never has felt as hard as I think it should
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« on: April 12 2011, 04:03:20 PM »
Last week, I had all the practice I needed assembling torsion bars, struts, etc. and I was on the home stretch of rebuilding the steering linkage with oversize tie rods and sleeves.
That is when I discovered that being the dumb ass that I often am, I had only ordered one set of tie rod ends rather than two sets. I ordered the other pair from the Rock and, they arrived via priority mail to the post office on Saturday morning. I happily took them home and started assembly the last side. Suddenly I realized that the inner rod was smaller than the sleeve and larger than the original tie rod..but too small. The box had the right number on it, but, I found a number on the rod itself and discovered it was not a Moog end, but it was also a Ferd part for a Galaxy.
Looks like some one opened the Moog box and filled it with a Mcquade ferd part.
Being somewhat pissed, I decide to pop the old linkage (steering knuckle arm, ball joint, and both tie rods off the center link....I have already said how that ended...rocket to my foot that did not quite get out of the way.
Anyway, when I quit crying/cussing, I went in and decided to call Rock and see if anyone was there on a Saturday. To my surprise, there was a guy on the phone and he apologized, asked if I wanted my money back, or another tie rod. He said he would send it out Monday. Damn, he over nighted it and I had it at 9 this morning.
Told me to toss the wrong one instead of returning it.
I should have asked for a new toe.
Got it back together now except for bleeding the brakes and installing the front sway bar.
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« on: April 09 2011, 07:38:10 PM »
I merged some stuff together on the Combinations section of my site and also linked up the Tuning section.,
I am still struggling with Tuning....in the simplest form, assuming that the car is running correctly, it comes down to running as much boost as possible with as much timing as possible while using the leanest possible air/fuel ratio while being sure there is no timing retard due to detonation being incurred.
I think that is basically what most people want and many are confident they don't have any detonation because they would hear it if there was any. Yet the bearings, ring lands, etc are hammered when they show pictures of their torn down engines.....go figure...yeah, we don't need no steekin' scantools cause we got ears.... :supz:
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« on: March 23 2011, 11:44:55 AM »
Someone emailed me about a thread on another board regarding rocker arm layout...in essence, ChallengerMike gave the correct answer. See the shop manual pages at the bottom of this link. http://www.vortexbuicks-etc.com/rocker_shaft_assembly.htmOriginally, from the factory, all rockers were the same. Then GM issued service parts with a bit of offset in them to improve the geometry.
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« on: March 14 2011, 10:03:14 PM »
I can believe this
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« on: March 07 2011, 12:18:26 AM »
About two years ago, Texas was on the edge of a brownout for lack of electricity when the wind quit blowing one spring day. There are pluses and minuses to everything. There is always someone touting the miracle solution to our problems and you can generally wonder what they hope to get out of it.
Written by Jack Kelly
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
England is experiencing its coldest winter in a century. The cold has been all the more biting for some because many of the 3,150 wind turbines Britain increasingly depends upon to generate electricity haven't been working.
"With demand for power at record levels because of the freezing weather, there have been days when the contribution of our forests of wind turbines has been precisely nothing," wrote Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail Dec. 27.
"It gets better," Mr. Littlejohn continued. "As the temperature has plummeted, the turbines have had to be heated to prevent them from seizing up. Consequently, they have been consuming more electricity than they generate."
No nation has placed greater emphasis on wind and solar energy than Spain. On eight separate occasions early in his presidency, Barack Obama cited the "green" policies enacted by Spain's socialist government as the model for what he wants for America.
President Obama doesn't talk so much about Spain anymore. Could this because Spain has, at over 20 percent, the highest unemployment rate of any major country in Europe? (The average for the 27-member European Union is half that.) Because Spain has a debt so huge it is on the brink of default? Or because Spain has the highest electric utility rates in the EU?
When Gabriel Calzada, an economist at a private think tank in Spain, issued a report in 2009 which said each wind energy job the government created cost Spanish taxpayers $1.4 million in subsidies, and destroyed 2.2 jobs in the private sector, the Zapatero government went ballistic. But a government report leaked last May indicated the job loss has been even greater than Mr. Calzada feared. Spain is now cutting subsidies for wind and solar power.
The Calzada study also prompted panic in Obama appointees in the Department of Energy, who worked with wind energy lobbyists to craft responses to the study and to a column George Will wrote about it.
"What this shows is a shameless politicization of what should be a professional bureaucracy," said Investor's Business Daily in an editorial. "Instead of staying objective, they sought to scupper facts for ideologically motivated junk science."
I suppose it is natural for politicians to be attracted to wind power, since so many of them are blowhards. But if you think wind energy could replace a substantial amount of the fossil fuels we use, you must have slept through physics class in high school.
John Droz Jr. is an environmentali st who wants to find replacements for coal. But John Droz Jr. is also a physicist. All energy sources should be evaluated on their technical performance, the economics of the power produced, and their full environmental impact, he thinks.
"All independent evidence to date indicates that industrial wind power fails on all three of these critical counts," Mr. Droz says on his Web site, windpowerfacts .
Shivering Britons could give you an earful about technical performance. The wind doesn't blow all the time. Our Department of Energy assumes wind turbines will operate at about 30 percent of capacity, but actual experience in Europe and America has been much lower.
Further, the wind often doesn't blow when energy is needed most. Extreme wintertime cold comes from high pressure weather systems, which don't generate much wind.
According to the Energy Information Administration, the cheapest way to generate a kilowatt hour of electricity is to burn natural gas in a combined cycle unit. Clean coal is 43 percent more expensive; nuclear is 50 percent more expensive; wind is 88 percent more expensive.
The biggest problem with wind turbines is environmental. They're eyesores. They kill a lot of birds and bats. And they can make humans sick.
Dr. Nina Pierpont (an MD with a Ph.D in biology), in her book, Wind Power Syndrome, documents that "low frequency noise and vibration generated by wind machines can have an effect on the inner ear, triggering headaches, difficulty with sleeping, tinnitus, learning and mood disorders, panic attacks, irritability."
Industrial wind turbines require enormous space. The electricity needs of a city of 300,000 can be met by a 500-megawatt coal plant, which would cover about 300 acres. Science writer Kurt Cobb estimated the wind turbines needed to generate 500 megawatts of electricity would cover 55 square miles (35,200 acres).
The only thing "green" about wind power, Dr. Droz says, "is the substantial profit being made by the developers and their paid supporters" as a result of government subsidies and mandates.
How high do you think the odds are that the 112th Congress is going to put an end to the Great Wind Scam soon?
Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration . He is national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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« on: March 04 2011, 08:29:48 PM »
Bill Cosby has a great way of "distilling" things. Looks like he's done it again! AMERICA NEEDS A CANDIDATE WITH THIS PLATFORM!! I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE YEAR 2012.. HERE IS MY PLATFORM: (1). Any use of the phrase: 'Press 1 for English' is immediately BANNED!!!. English is the official language; speak it or wait outside of our borders until you can. (2). We will immediately go into a two year isolationist attitude in order to straighten out the greedy big business posture in this country. America will allow NO imports, and we'll do no exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' We'll make it here and sell it here! (3). When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it coming in here. (4). All retired military personnel will be required to man one of the many observation towers located on the southern border of the United States (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTH BOUND aliens. (5). Social Security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you AIN'T getting nuttin out. Neither the President nor any other politician will be able to touch it. (6). Welfare. -- Checks will be handed out on Fridays, at the end of the 40 hour school week, the successful completion of a urinalysis test for drugs, and passing grades. [Zippa-de-do-da!] (7). Professional Athletes -- Steroids? The FIRST time you check positive you're banned from sports .... for life. (  . Crime -- We will adopt the Turkish method, i.e., the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more 'life sentences'. If convicted of murder, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for the victim you killed: gun, knife, strangulation, etc. (9). One export of ours will be allowed: wheat; because the world needs to eat. However, a bushel of wheat will be the EXACT price of a barrel of oil. (10). All foreign aid, using American taxpayer money, will immediately cease and the saved money will help to pay off the national debt and, ultimately, lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask The American People if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision as to whether or not it's a worthy cause. (11). The Pledge of Allegiance will be said EVERY day at school and every day in CONGRESS. (12). The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc. My apology is offered if I've stepped on anyone's toes .... nevertheless.. ... GODBLESS AMERICA !
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« on: March 04 2011, 03:06:23 PM »
okay, the word is not wala, wahlah, or any other such spelling...
The word is voila
If you got to use it, then learn to spell it...otherwise stick with English!
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« on: March 02 2011, 04:30:42 PM »
when I go to bed and formulate a plan to do the seemingly impossible, then go out to the shop the next day, implement it to perfection and it works exactly as I had visualized it. It is a fantastic feeling to lay on the floor and absorb the sweet smell of victory.
Then I reached up to unclip a pair of vise grips that I was using to keep the strut rod from rotating and it seemed like an atomic bomb went off. Smashed the end of my finger top and bottom...I laid there about five minutes saying Oh Fuck that Hurts! Looks like the end of the finger is a miniature plum.
This kinda stuff normally happens to Sean. It may be a long year.
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« on: March 02 2011, 11:58:52 AM »
After a little research, I don't find anything to validate a subsidy for Llamas. I think that is the extended imagination of a reporter. Llamas are considered a normal agricultural animal like a cow and are a depreciable asset. Government pays you nothing for raising them. One could debate easily that there is no real market for them other than the hyped up dreams of a few that got in on the ground floor and have convinced the next wave of suckers that alpacas are the next big thing. Pretty much an animal pyramid scheme. Reminds me of the chinchilla farms of the fifties...or maybe that was the forties...or the emu touting of a few years ago. It takes a bunch of alpacas of the right wool quality to make one sweater and the price is so high that there is no real market for them except for the ridiculously ostentatious.. .sure is soft, I give you that 
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« on: March 02 2011, 10:26:34 AM »
Too bad, the entire llama was not included, but suckers are quite a bit bigger than the alpacas you see on tv or where ever.
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