Adjust the accelerator cable to have too much slack and drive it "floored" like ChloeAmskeptic wrote: If I can bear it, I should run a tank at 55 mph.
Colin
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- asiab3
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1969 bus, "Buddy."
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
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Very good idea.asiab3 wrote:Adjust the accelerator cable to have too much slack and drive it "floored" like ChloeAmskeptic wrote: If I can bear it, I should run a tank at 55 mph.
Colin
My first compression test within minutes of pulling the BobD out of storage was a (new stupid use of the word- coming up > ) "concerning" 105/135/110/135.
Pondered all the way down here to Pensacola the fact that an opposing cylinders were sharing the same low compression figures. That would, of course, mean a flat camshaft lobe, most likely an intake.
Here, 400 miles later, I did a compression test again. 142/147/142/147.
Moral of the story: don't do a compression test fresh after sitting for a year.
Colin
(p.s. I no longer trust my 35 year old compression tester's actual numbers - the Lexus was also unusually high. Where/how do we calibrate these things?)
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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is the BobD doing the tour out west as well?
back in 2001 when I took my 76 Westy from SF to the Grand Canyon and back, I drove 55 the entire way through the desert. (which sucked since the speed limit was 75 and everyone went 10+ that)
22MPG for one full tank at that pace. that motor had 190K miles on it at that time... (it eventually threw a rod through the case, which was probably my own doing in my novice days.)
back in 2001 when I took my 76 Westy from SF to the Grand Canyon and back, I drove 55 the entire way through the desert. (which sucked since the speed limit was 75 and everyone went 10+ that)
22MPG for one full tank at that pace. that motor had 190K miles on it at that time... (it eventually threw a rod through the case, which was probably my own doing in my novice days.)
1979 California Transporter
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I shall pop some 'ludes and toke up, settle back with with my throttle cable flopping, and let you know how we do on my trip to Miami.airkooledchris wrote:is the BobD doing the tour out west as well?
back in 2001 when I took my 76 Westy from SF to the Grand Canyon and back, I drove 55 the entire way through the desert. (which sucked since the speed limit was 75 and everyone went 10+ that)
22MPG for one full tank at that pace. that motor had 190K miles on it at that time... (it eventually threw a rod through the case, which was probably my own doing in my novice days.)
"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Offalsure, yer crashin my buzz."
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
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Amskeptic wrote:. . . in the saddle:
I've been waiting for a picture of those two beauties together. Somewhere in the middle of Arizona I passed this sign post than encapsulated both their itinerant spirits:
1969 bus, "Buddy."
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
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I like that sign. It is Good to see humor sprinkled about . . . :asiab3 wrote: I've been waiting for a picture of those two beauties together.
Somewhere in the middle of Arizona
First meeting of Chloe and BobD in Battleground WA:
First Re-Meeting of Chloe and BobD in Atlanta GA:
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