Ontopic The new car-seching thread
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I only use oetiker clamps on poly line. Usually wherever I put poly line is there for the long haul, though.
Oetiker clamps for poly line and generally everything that's not getting removed with any frequency, constant torque clamps for coolant lines with accessible tightening areas, spring clamps for coolant lines without accessible tightening areas, t-bolt clamps for boost hoses, fuel injection hose clamps for fuel hoses, and double wire zinc-plated constant tension clamps for the places where looking "vintage" is appropriate.
The ear clamps?
Yeah, those are nice.
I learned my lesson after digging up 6 locations, 4 ft down when i used cheap hose clamps and they rusted away
Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
Some people just have an unnatural aversion to worm gear hose clamps.
Sure they'll tear up hoses if you overtighten them, so don't overtighten them, seems pretty simple to me. I mean they worked just fine for close to a century. That tells me the problem ain't the clamp.
Sure they'll tear up hoses if you overtighten them, so don't overtighten them, seems pretty simple to me. I mean they worked just fine for close to a century. That tells me the problem ain't the clamp.
I like how the ford power steering pump is louder than the engine.
Glad to see it riding again!
Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
Usually is that loud when its completely empty. Should have turned it over a few times and checked fluid levels. I knew everything else was good though, so whatever.
Damn glad she's choochin again. Power is back, mileage is back.
Drove from Riverview to Dunedin where we've been working on it, 3/4 of a tank of gas. Drove back, took the long way to minimize highways and vary throttle position, also had OD off so there was some load on the engine when I let off the throttle. ~1/8th of a tank.
Except for some tiredness-related stupidity, the rear end is back in the roadster.
If you look closely you can see where I put the shackles for the rear leaf springs in upside down.
Regardless, it's in, and the car's on skates now, so the garage doors can get installed on Friday.
If you look closely you can see where I put the shackles for the rear leaf springs in upside down.
Regardless, it's in, and the car's on skates now, so the garage doors can get installed on Friday.
The shocks the roadster store sold me don't fit over the frame mounts. I had some old sway bar end link urethane bushes, so I had the boy chuck 'em up in the lathe and machined them down.
Outsides done to an interference fit:
Boring the center to size:
Outsides done to an interference fit:
Boring the center to size:
Local dude I know has a business manufacturing electronics hacking / fault injection tools. He had some fun with a Toyota ECU and recreated the "unintended acceleration" issue.
He creates a hard fault in the CPU by blasting an EM field into it with one of his tools, and it starts to act squirrely. Finally the throttle's stuck open and it's not responding to throttle pedal input, but the engine computer is still doing spark/fuel as it should and not detecting that anything's amiss. If this was in a car instead of on a bench, you'd have, well, unintended acceleration.
The Barr Group review of Toyota's ECU code was pretty bad, this experiment is a good demonstration of it.
He creates a hard fault in the CPU by blasting an EM field into it with one of his tools, and it starts to act squirrely. Finally the throttle's stuck open and it's not responding to throttle pedal input, but the engine computer is still doing spark/fuel as it should and not detecting that anything's amiss. If this was in a car instead of on a bench, you'd have, well, unintended acceleration.
The Barr Group review of Toyota's ECU code was pretty bad, this experiment is a good demonstration of it.
got the rotors for the kids' Datsun turned at O'Reilly's yesterday, after two false starts.
First time I delivered them the rotor + hub, because I've never had any trouble doing that before. The hub and rotor assembly was too tall to fit on the spindle of their brake lathe.
Second time, I delivered them just bare rotors, but they couldn't turn them because they don't have the minimum thickness spec in their database.
Third time, I showed up with the Nissan factory service manual that had the spec, and they almost turned me away again, but finally just cut them. FYI, minimum spec is 9.4mm, and they were at 11mm to start with.
First time I delivered them the rotor + hub, because I've never had any trouble doing that before. The hub and rotor assembly was too tall to fit on the spindle of their brake lathe.
Second time, I delivered them just bare rotors, but they couldn't turn them because they don't have the minimum thickness spec in their database.
Third time, I showed up with the Nissan factory service manual that had the spec, and they almost turned me away again, but finally just cut them. FYI, minimum spec is 9.4mm, and they were at 11mm to start with.
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