PhilA Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 Not right now, it's just a little bit* wet outside. I was previously worried that my fruit trees would be drying out. Nope. Stranded in the garage, I decided to tidy up. Clean workbench is a good thing. I hadn't properly cleaned it since the roof blew off. Phil *Noah called Mally, Tickman, Leyland Worldmaster and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 2 hours ago, hairnet said: mopar needs a phil walkaround Re rain comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 It's still raining. STUNO and Saabnut 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 Patched up as many of the holes in the roof as I could see. Phil BlankFrank 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 It rained again. Wipers work Phil Tickman, mk2_craig, DSdriver and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 20 hours ago, PhilA said: Patched up as many of the holes in the roof as I could see. Phil I thought you replaced that roof a few weeks ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, GeorgeB said: I thought you replaced that roof a few weeks ago? The next level down I did, you can just about see the white over the edge of the roof there. Only replaced the parts that blew away and got totally mangled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 14 minutes ago, PhilA said: The next level down I did, you can just about see the white over the edge of the roof there. Only replaced the parts that blew away and got totally mangled. Ah, yes, I see now you point it out. Why do they build houses in a hurricane zone out of wood and tin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, GeorgeB said: Ah, yes, I see now you point it out. Why do they build houses in a hurricane zone out of wood and tin? Because brick is prohibitively expensive. Plus, a tornado will relocate a brick house as easily as a wooden one. Rab 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, PhilA said: Because brick is prohibitively expensive. Plus, a tornado will relocate a brick house as easily as a wooden one. Tornadoes may lift the roof off a brick house (if they are badly built) but they won't do much damage to the structure. Why are bricks expensive? There must be plenty of clay in the USA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 49 minutes ago, GeorgeB said: Tornadoes may lift the roof off a brick house (if they are badly built) but they won't do much damage to the structure. Why are bricks expensive? There must be plenty of clay in the USA? Down here, bricks are expensive. The price varies with his far you have to move them. I take it you've not seen a brick house demolished by as tornado before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 3 hours ago, PhilA said: I take it you've not seen a brick house demolished by as tornado before? No I haven't. Have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 40 minutes ago, GeorgeB said: No I haven't. Have you? Yup. It's not the wind that does the damage. It's all the junk that it picks up and smashes into things that does. The roof was pulled off the house by the wind, then a tree that was uprooted on the next street smashed the front corner off the house and a good portion of the house then collapsed because it lost integrity. mercedade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 On 24/03/2021 at 23:44, PhilA said: Wipers work Bonus 👍 PhilA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 1 hour ago, GeorgeB said: No I haven't. Have you? Yep. My husband used to live in Iowa City. They had one come through there while he was there. Streets were levelled literally three hundred yards from his apartment. His car didn't even have hail damage...the surgical precision they can hit with is a bit mind boggling. One memory I have in particular of walking around there (this was a couple of months after the event) was seeing a church... largely intact aside from a corner of the roof. Except for the huuuuuge hunk of timber which went in through one wall, all the way through and out through the other wall. Quite a few of the buildings there were (unusually for the US) brick built...they were flattened just as thoroughly as anything else. When things like gas tankers are getting thrown around like matchsticks it's anyone's guess what survives. PhilA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 11 hours ago, Zelandeth said: His car didn't even have hail damage...the surgical precision they can hit with is a bit mind boggling. Very much so. I've experienced a clear-air vortex- in more arid areas would have been a dust devil; a warm 25+ degree day in the sun, then a sudden rotating breeze that was only a few feet wide, as frigid as opening a full height freezer. Watching waterspouts is intriguing also. The smallest one I've seen that actually joined to the cloud was maybe a foot wide all the way up, probably 300 feet. It remained stable for about a minute before collapsing inexplicably. Quite remarkable things, the larger ones are still pretty powerful even if they don't fully connect- I've got film of being amidst a nascent tornado on my YouTube channel, and the base of one is what ripped the roof off my workshop. I was watching them starting to form the other day, the hook circulation shown there in green. A little further away the V shape was quite visible of another that didn't quite make it. The dark gray top left to lighter gray bottom right is actually the shear line of the front that came through. Phil Rab 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 16 minutes ago, PhilA said: Very much so. I've experienced a clear-air vortex- in more arid areas would have been a dust devil; a warm 25+ degree day in the sun, then a sudden rotating breeze that was only a few feet wide, as frigid as opening a full height freezer. Watching waterspouts is intriguing also. The smallest one I've seen that actually joined to the cloud was maybe a foot wide all the way up, probably 300 feet. It remained stable for about a minute before collapsing inexplicably. Quite remarkable things, the larger ones are still pretty powerful even if they don't fully connect- I've got film of being amidst a nascent tornado on my YouTube channel, and the base of one is what ripped the roof off my workshop. I was watching them starting to form the other day, the hook circulation shown there in green. A little further away the V shape was quite visible of another that didn't quite make it. The dark gray top left to lighter gray bottom right is actually the shear line of the front that came through. Phil Ooh I've not seen a green one before PhilA and GeorgeB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 Did 84 miles today. Met a Studebaker Avanti, a Studebaker Hawk and a DeLorean DMC-12. Really hot day but the car did quite well overall. Phil vulgalour, loserone, LightBulbFun and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 I fitted my new gauges. Handy things to know; the vacuum gauge has already proven useful because it was rhythmically bouncing at idle, telling me it's time to look at the valve clearances again. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 witch one is turbo m9? PhilA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 7 hours ago, PhilA said: I fitted my new gauges. Handy things to know; the vacuum gauge has already proven useful because it was rhythmically bouncing at idle, telling me it's time to look at the valve clearances again. the tach is hilarious surely they make ones for diesels or something that only go up to 4K-5K so most of the gauge is not just sitting there twiddling its thumbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 48 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said: the tach is hilarious surely they make ones for diesels or something that only go up to 4K-5K so most of the gauge is not just sitting there twiddling its thumbs? They do, but I had that one in stock already. It works well enough. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: the tach is hilarious surely they make ones for diesels or something that only go up to 4K-5K so most of the gauge is not just sitting there twiddling its thumbs? Volvo B10 one wouldn't be far off! PhilA and LightBulbFun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 Quite a lot of older boats had a 3500-3700 RPM redline, so 0-4000 tachs are available. I just didn't want to pay for one. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, PhilA said: Quite a lot of older boats had a 3500-3700 RPM redline, so 0-4000 tachs are available. I just didn't want to pay for one. Having looked at quite a few listings for nautical kit when I was hunting for a cylinder head temperature gauge, I can understand that! LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, PhilA said: Quite a lot of older boats had a 3500-3700 RPM redline, so 0-4000 tachs are available. I just didn't want to pay for one. I wonder can you modify your existing one so at 4K it shows as 8K then you can just make a new backing for the dial to bring it back to 4K if that makes sense? (sort of like what you did to modify one for 2 Cylinder engines?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said: I wonder can you modify your existing one so at 4K it shows as 8K then you can just make a new backing for the dial to bring it back to 4K if that makes sense? (sort of like what you did to modify one for 2 Cylinder engines?) It's 4/6/8 switchable on the back, so setting it to 4 does that. Taking it apart necessitates un-peening the bezel, taking the needle off, making a new face, putting it all back together. That is a level of arse-ache I am unwilling to expend for a 2" tacho. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 I had a thought at work today about the increasingly rough running and it hit me. There's a couple paths the vacuum takes, the other is to the wipers but as they were working I didn't think much of it. I bypassed the booster pump. Result. Couldn't hear it but the booster pump was drawing in from the crankcase. That needs a rebuild, then. Tested, the car can now burn rubber (with the timing reset and the mixture correct) . Went for a drive as it's a pretty evening. Very very smooth and it'll pull 15-17 in/Hg at 45 on the flat which is highly respectable, even with that leak I managed 11.9mpg on the last tank so this should only serve to improve that. Phil vulgalour, Skizzer, puddlethumper and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 Gave the car a wash because it was covered in tree pollen. After that, I decided to see if high speed cruise was any different now the vacuum leak is remedied. In short, yes. Fuel economy is significantly better also. Phil LightBulbFun, somewhatfoolish, STUNO and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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