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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 15, 2018, 08:35:58 pm ---Good work on the light saber but what the hell do you yanks do to our British cars? Fords are very reliable over here, Hmm could it be that your grease monkeys don't know how to service small engines that extract a lot of HP from very few CC's?
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Thanks for the props; that hack was one of those where things were just on a roll; everything just came together and I didn't want to step away from it and break the flow. I didn't really wake up today until around noon; I had free-range kids daughter :scared: running around and jumping on my tits from about 8AM tho. :palm:
A lot of HP out of small CCs? Not from the engine in THAT thing... This was the original Cortina motor, a 4-cyl iron-head/iron-block pushrod dinosaur designed in the '50s ( I think for the Anglia :o ) that made about 85 HP in its prime. Add stone-age emissions control from the '80s and a Holley 5200 series electric carburetor... that thing barely made enough :horse: HP to get out of its own way.
The first thing we teenagers did on them was to deplumb the engine, core out the cat and bolt on a non-electric 5200; then the damn thing could be counted on to get you to & from work. When inspection time came around, we'd put the stock air cleaner with all it's hosiery & crap back on the non-electric carb so they couldn't tell it had been gutted unless they were willing to poke around a half an inch of grease and oil from all that crap.
I didn't do that to mine until it hit 80K and started sucking oil back through the EGR; what a stinking mess THAT made of things. :-- I was SO relieved to be rid of the three of them when I bought my first Honda Civic, I tell you what. :box: :palm: :phew:
mnem
*Veteran of a thousand psychic wars used cars*
tautech:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 15, 2018, 11:42:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: tautech on June 15, 2018, 08:32:52 pm ---Pretty keen on your bench mat mnementh. :)
Got a job for one just like that today to check a rifle......got a bambi hunt booked for tomorrow.
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It's the Fiskars 24" x 36" version; $20 @ Wally World. These are nice in that the flip side has the same exact graph and scales printed on it, only the dark grey and light grey are inverted. I caught mine on "we fucked up the inventory sale" for $8.00 last summer; somebody mixed it up in the online inventory with the SKU for the 12" x 18" version. When I was actually able to get mine for that price, I bought the other three they had; traded one to a friend for a $45 flight controller and ESCs and family claimed the other two.
A word of warning... just like the green ones, these things STINK. They reek of polymer and sulphur forever unless you lay them outside in the sun for a week (not exaggerating in the least bit here) before you bring them inside. Don't forget to flip it over sometime around Wednesday so the other side can pass outgas, BTW. |O Seriously; the only thing I ever had on my bench that smelled worse was a 3D printer fire. :scared:
mnem
*Currently rebuilding a Casio Watch while I wait for my new MisFit activity tracker*
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Seems too nice to put holes in. :(
Done my checks, POI 12-14" down @ 300 yds and just where it should be.
We might get some looooong shots tomorrow so need to on my game.
Bambi...yum !
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 15, 2018, 10:26:01 pm ---4 speed, high/low, overdrive. Had one myself. Ate wheel bearings once a quarter.
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Yup, a series 2 (not even 2a) Land Rover.
Didn't have any problems with wheel bearings, but...
* engine half fell out in a campsite car park. No problem since I just happened to have the relevant spare engine mounting (Doesn't everybody?)
* on the way home from that camping trip, the half shaft spider joint got distinctly "worn". That's still in my display cabinent (alongside the Tek 465 CRT), soon to be joined by bits of the front spring from my Madza 2
* fuel tank half fell off on the way to work. No problem, I had some spare bolts on board, so that was fixed in the car park
* the gear between the halfshaft and the rear axles disintegrated. Even the mechanics commented on the noise as that entered the workshop :)
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 16, 2018, 12:06:26 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 15, 2018, 08:35:58 pm ---Good work on the light saber but what the hell do you yanks do to our British cars? Fords are very reliable over here, Hmm could it be that your grease monkeys don't know how to service small engines that extract a lot of HP from very few CC's?
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A lot of HP out of small CCs? Not from the engine in THAT thing... This was the original Cortina motor, a 4-cyl iron-head/iron-block pushrod dinosaur designed in the '50s that made about 85 HP in its prime. Add stone-age emissions control from the '80s and a Holley 5200 series electric carburetor... that thing barely made enough :horse: HP to get out of its own way.
The first thing we teenagers did on them was to deplumb the engine, core out the cat and bolt on a non-electric 5200; then the damn thing could be counted on to get you to & from work. When inspection time came around, we'd put the stock air cleaner with all it's hosiery & crap back on the non-electric carb so they couldn't tell it had been gutted unless they were willing to poke around a half an inch of grease and oil from all that crap.
I didn't do that to mine until it hit 80K and started sucking oil back through the EGR; what a stinking mess THAT made of things. :palm: I was SO relieved to be rid of the three of them when I bought my first Honda Civic, I tell you what. :box: :palm: :phew:
mnem
*Veteran of a thousand psychic wars used cars*
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Sounds like you had a completely setup to us Brits then.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 15, 2018, 06:18:03 pm ---My second car was a brown cortina. I had that for three weeks. It died. When I say died, I hit the brakes and the engine came out. :-DD
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I presume you bolted it back in, and continued the journey. That's what I did :)
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