Technical What did you do today?

Made holes for these, and pondered fuel line routing

 

@neilswheels did you get the 348 freed up? Firewall looks great by the way.

 

Me too, but I make it up on volume.


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Just for the record.
I’ve received information regarding this problem from MSD.


check rotor-phasing. Ensure you're using the correct Ignition Reference Angle for your distributor (inherent crank reference angle/rotor-phasing of the distributor). Rotor-phasing will be way off if it's wrong.
http://www.masterenginetuner.com/top...all-fails.html (Crank Reference Angle Importance)

https://forums.holley.com/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Danny Cabral
Testing the MSD CD ignition box.
Points Output - white wire & Magnetic Pickup - violet/green triggering:
https://www.msdperformance.com/suppo...ng_techniques/ (Troubleshooting Info)

Ensure the distributor's rotor-phasing is correct:
http://documents.msdperformance.com/8644_tb.pdf (MSD Rotor-Phasing Document)
MSD has a good video on why it's important:
(MSD Tech Rotor-Phasing Video)

For naturally aspirated engines, the rotor is usually phased halfway between minimum & maximum amount of timing advance used.
For forced induction engines, the rotor is usually phased at maximum boost retard, because that's when cylinder pressure is the greatest.

 

Serviced the mowers. Then spent a few hours on one.....damn, here it goes again. Love warm weather but hate all the mowing!

 

Brakes on wife’s OT car. Was a nice to spend in the garage, alone.


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finally dugout my old TV DVD/VCR player and installed in "Man Cave" - have a bunch of films have not watched in a long time, some never - have a Firestick set up on main Family TV for Netflix, etc - but, this is cheaper

 

That's not a bad idea, I have a stack of vintage hot rod dvd's I got from a fellow club member when I traded him a bunch of vintage NOS Henry Gregor Felsen books, many I have never gotten around to watching. HRP

 

This morning I made a new green lense for the blinker housing in my Ramp truck project. I hole sawed the bottom of a green pill bottle, cut it down some more by hand. Cleaned up the chrome and glued the lense in.

 

No those were fresh photos, I just got side tracked with something I found in there, details tonight.

Bob

 

Pretty cool. I just read that VHS tapes are making a comeback among the 80's kids in the same way that vinyl records are now popular. Of course, vinyl has always been popular with this 60's kid.

 

Buy a Hustler zero turn! You will love mowing, then!






Bones

 

Bob, I started cleaning my shop this winter I still haven’t got it completely done. The great thing about cleaning a shop that has been stacked upfront years is finding stuff you forgot yo u had!
I have been trying to find a drill motor thing for grinding valves, to complete my valve grinding equipment for several years, finally found one I liked last spring, at the Springfield swap meet! This winter, while cleaning my shop, I found a Souix box, under my work bench that had one in it! I have no idea where it came from! If you clean your shop..... I bet you would be in for some surprises ,like mine!






Bones

 

Why? He said in despair.
I have two very expensive VCR recorders that chewed up their cost in VHS tapes. This problem wasn't totally the fault of the machines, but were aided by the fact that if a tape was played a lot, it had to be taken apart and lubricated.
I was so grateful when the Laser disk player, and finally DVD happened. When the newer devices crapped the bed, at least you didn't destroy the irreplaceable medium on the disks. The hard part of archiving the VHS material to a hard drive, is that it is a real time manual operation, and requires constant monitoring.
Nowadays I backup everything onto a hard drive, and clone the drive as a backup when the drive is full. A person can set up almost any old computer as a player.
Bob

 

Snowing in central Indiana today. So I brewed 5 gallons of beer and added the yeast to 3 gallons of apple juice that will become a spiced hard cider. Work on my 51 Chevy SD will resume tomorrow.

 

Way up top in the center is a 10 foot long piece of clear 1x6 that I stained to replace a piece of trim on the back of the garage. Think it has been up there 2 years (Son in Law said 5), part of many unfinished projects. Not any more. Bob

 

Got 2 big Gravely ztr's. Still takes 4 to 5 hours of non-stop mowing with both mowers to get over it all. Usually weekly. Not so fun anymore.

 

went for a spin in my 36 3w before the rain comes back in... Then broke I the car on the way home..

 

Got out of the house, took the wife for a drive up the hills and had a side of the road picnic. Then back to quarantine....

 

Then you are mowing too much of your land, let some of it go, I do and that makes it a lot better!

 

Mounted the fuse box in my '50.

 

Changed my trailer from surge brakes to electric and re wired it.

 

Good advise!!

 

From the BillyBob Shop log

March 23rd 2020 Third pass over the cab exterior above the belt line. Scotchbrite cookies on two more dents I discovered and abrasive buffs in the Dremel motor tool in the cowl vent channels, door hinges and around the rear window. Another washing of the cab top with Dawn dish soap and I spied two more dents previously missed,

Finally, I was to the point where I could PRE paint prep the dent areas and slather them with some filler. Still waiting for ordered sandpaper for blocking. Have to make do with what I have on hand. Truckers, God bless 'em, have their hands full with more important deliveries.

 

Sunday's project simple rebuild on Saginaw steering box for the '64 Olds. Been a professional techniciam, for 35yrs, but never completely took apart a steering box.(first and last) Always got by, with pitman seals and the occasional sector shaft seal. (extracting using the hole drilled sheet metal screw method)
Spent the better part of the day, carefully taking everything apart, using my factory book and a wise ass on YouTube video. After struggling, finally got back into the chassis and fired it up. UGH!! Steering wheel started going to the right, all by itself.
...guess what I'm doing Monday??
Have to admit, it was a good experience and felt good cleaning all the crud, out of the inside. Been over almost every inch of this sled, so thought why not. Lesson learned.

 

From the BillyBob Shop log

March 24th 2020 South Florida's broiling summer is approaching and I'm looking for ways to mitigate the effects in the BillyBob Shop. I hadn't given much thought to a dehumidifier because the shop is not insulated and the two 12' x 12' overhead doors are big air leaks. There is a 24" diameter hole up high in the rear wall with a broken fan in it as well.

My friend, Dave Sexton, has a free-standing shop comparable to the BillyBob Shop and he reports that a dehumidifier drys it considerably, making it more comfortable for summer work. Based on Dave's report, I purchased a heavy-duty dehumidifier. I got one rated for double the area of the BillyBob Shop because of the sixteen foot ceiling height.

Set it up in the BillyBob Shop over the weekend and started it up. Within three hours, the humidity had dropped from 58% to 46% and the water container had topped out at 1.8 gallons, at which point, it turned itself off.

The next day, I searched the shop and found a garden hose I had originally gotten, way back, to drain a water bed and hooked it up to the dehumidifier to provide continuous drainage. It's running continuously now. Lowest observed humidity in the shop has been 42% thus far. I can feel a difference and it's too early to tell, but I believe it's relieving the heat rash on my forearms somewhat

 

Laroke, I am curious how this work's over time. Here in Alabama I could sure use something that would help with the heat that is coming fast. Thanks for any information you have...

 

You might consider a ceiling fan, or two, to move the air around for your dehumidifier. This was suggested to me by my furnace guy as I have a tall ceiling. It appears to work better.

 

Thanx