55 Minutes Shy . . .
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55 Minutes Shy . . .
. . . of breaking the Itinerant Air-Cooled record for stunning my hapless customer with a marathon of overwhelming wrenching late into the early morning hours.
Matterafact, just five hours ago we were still working.
Fuel injection switch-overs can be rendered intricate if the prior owner has removed the vehicle-side harness to the double relay, but more importantly, when you have to modify the CARBURETED AIR INJECTION TUBE to be come your NEW CYLINDER HEAD TEMP SENSOR mounting hole with just a drill and a SAE tap and a dab of JB Weld, well guess what? You'll be working at 3:00AM, won'tcha? you betcha. Oh, and FI fuel pump mounting, yaah? Was that not fun?
What was the other crazy thing, Belle Plaine? I cannot even remember.
Poor guy is still in the middle of the transplant surgery, but the doctor here had to go play golf. He Shall Prevail! He has great verbal little kids, (his five year-old son felt free to wade into our political discussion with "let me tell you what I think" about Congressional vulnerability to lobbyist money- "I think they want the money", a hospitable spouse who kept us fed (thank-you!), and a seasoned car-companion hund named Jack, friendly neighbors . . . I just remembered the other crazy thing, having to DRILL out the AFM wiper track from the sticky AFM to the other AFM, then that evil EGR pipe with the recalcitrant slippery little bolt that fought us tooth and nail at 2:55AM.
So this is the annual Missoula traverse, and I swore I would not rush it but here I am running 6 hours late. I drove from 3:05AM to 5:00AM, crashed in the parking lot at this Starbucks, awoke refreshed and raring to go (not) at 6:30AM, and now must scram to at least Bismarck North Dakota where damaging winds and heavy rain is forecast. How can you not love a job that beats the living hell out of you for 18 hours, and yet you and your customer-who-has-slogged-every-second-of-it-with-you are coherent enough to share that it was all well worth it.
Most Excellent meeting you, Bell Plaine!
Matterafact, just five hours ago we were still working.
Fuel injection switch-overs can be rendered intricate if the prior owner has removed the vehicle-side harness to the double relay, but more importantly, when you have to modify the CARBURETED AIR INJECTION TUBE to be come your NEW CYLINDER HEAD TEMP SENSOR mounting hole with just a drill and a SAE tap and a dab of JB Weld, well guess what? You'll be working at 3:00AM, won'tcha? you betcha. Oh, and FI fuel pump mounting, yaah? Was that not fun?
What was the other crazy thing, Belle Plaine? I cannot even remember.
Poor guy is still in the middle of the transplant surgery, but the doctor here had to go play golf. He Shall Prevail! He has great verbal little kids, (his five year-old son felt free to wade into our political discussion with "let me tell you what I think" about Congressional vulnerability to lobbyist money- "I think they want the money", a hospitable spouse who kept us fed (thank-you!), and a seasoned car-companion hund named Jack, friendly neighbors . . . I just remembered the other crazy thing, having to DRILL out the AFM wiper track from the sticky AFM to the other AFM, then that evil EGR pipe with the recalcitrant slippery little bolt that fought us tooth and nail at 2:55AM.
So this is the annual Missoula traverse, and I swore I would not rush it but here I am running 6 hours late. I drove from 3:05AM to 5:00AM, crashed in the parking lot at this Starbucks, awoke refreshed and raring to go (not) at 6:30AM, and now must scram to at least Bismarck North Dakota where damaging winds and heavy rain is forecast. How can you not love a job that beats the living hell out of you for 18 hours, and yet you and your customer-who-has-slogged-every-second-of-it-with-you are coherent enough to share that it was all well worth it.
Most Excellent meeting you, Bell Plaine!
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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And it was my sincere pleasure to take part in the IAC experience – live and in person. Colin kept his spirits high even as the sun went down. Even as he fabricated a new brake booster hose, a Temp II sensor mount, swapped AFM wiper boards (one of which required violating the screws to remove) and that damned EGR pipe which didn’t want to mount to the throttle body without a fight.
And here I was thinking that there would be ample time to clean and repack my front wheel bearings. Wha?
Let’s not forget, dear Colin, how smooth and buttery my shifter assembly is now. We did that job at what? Before lunch? But it feels like it was last week. Actually last night seems like it was all just a dream, in some ways.
Thank you for getting my FI swap project over the NoWayCanFinishThisMyself Hump. I am confident that I finish it on my own. I’ll report back with the results after I button up the little bit left to do.
I'll post more photos later.
1975 Riviera we call "Spider-Man"
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Re: 55 Minutes Shy . . .
This should make you feel better.. weather for the 13th in Missoula.. how rare for June! Lucky!Amskeptic wrote:So this is the annual Missoula traverse
'72 Sierra Yellow Campmobile
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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Re: 55 Minutes Shy . . .
At any rate, the Belle Plaine bus is running! I am relieved and happy to hear it. Congratulations! And Thank You to the AFM for putting up with us, Thank You to the CHT for playing along with our bizarre mounting, and Thank You to Belle Plaine for getting his bus running so I can sleep at night now without being plagued with questions . . .
Oh, and his shifter is now tighter and more precise than the BobD. Phooey
Colin
Oh, and his shifter is now tighter and more precise than the BobD. Phooey
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- BellePlaine
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- dreadnotmusic
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Re: 55 Minutes Shy . . .
WHAT!!!???!!!! I knew we shoulda replaced those bushings on my bus!!!Amskeptic wrote:
Oh, and his shifter is now tighter and more precise than the BobD. Phooey
Colin
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66 Split Riviera Camper
73 Westfalia Camper
66 Split Riviera Camper
73 Westfalia Camper
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Re: 55 Minutes Shy . . .
Oh dear . . . what have I done? Yours is lovely too.dreadnotmusic wrote:WHAT!!!???!!!! I knew we shoulda replaced those bushings on my bus!!!Amskeptic wrote:
Oh, and his shifter is now tighter and more precise than the BobD. Phooey
Colin
It's just that his was so terrible to begin with, and so much better when we replaced the coupler, we replaced your coupler too
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- dreadnotmusic
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Re: 55 Minutes Shy . . .
Ok....I'm whole again.Amskeptic wrote:
Oh dear . . . what have I done? Yours is lovely too.
Happily Nomadic
66 Split Riviera Camper
73 Westfalia Camper
66 Split Riviera Camper
73 Westfalia Camper