Recent content by teletech

That seems to have done the trick! About half a fair size spray-can of some old tuner-cleaner I had on the shelf followed by a little deoxit. Just a few hours runtime with loads from near idle to 75% and an A/C unit starting and stopping in there as well as a bit of an overload and it ran...

I know I need to RTFM on the TMs, but I'm juggling an awful lot so hoping for a little luck and grace here. Recent purchase of a 2005 unit in non-working condition (so they say). Filters, oil change, fuel, batteries, replace some return fuel line and the incomplete holder for F1, and it starts...

There do exist "starter" LiFEPO4 batteries, but the cell construction does do a lot to determine the rate you can usefully and safely draw power from the cells. I have a "jump pack" a friend made with Headway cells that only weighs about 30# and will do 1000A for minutes with a 5-second surge...

I just scored a set of four rigid shelters down at Yermo, now I have to move them about 400 miles north. I'd like them to wind up in Santa Cruz (or Scotts Valley), but if it happens that somebody has capacity to take them to Fresno on the cheap, I've got a staging area that I could use. The move...

SPI (Southern Polyurethanes, Inc.) makes all sorts of automotive paint products and they seem to specialize in quality products for the hobbyist and small shop market as their products seem to have larger recoat windows and such. Anyway, I bought some of their DTM epoxy recently and in...

OK, now that the engine is running well, time to get back to the fuel system. The banjo fittings for the pickups are at the *very* bottom of the tank, so they silt up with rust and whatever else finds it's way into the fuel tank. I think this is my third or perhaps fourth time draining the tank...

I have several of these chargers in different applications, they charge each 12V separately which does assist in maintaining balance. I've got them on my 24v stuff and also on my 36v forklift. Apparently 48V is the max they are rated to so maybe don't go buying several to maintain your 120V...

I gather that motor was used in some other vehicles, I'd love to find a head gasket and other parts so that when I do eventually need to do a valve job I'll have parts on-hand. I see reference to how the engine is designed to burn some oil. I suspect a fair part of that oil use would be that...

So much better. About 20 miles of local and freeway traffic (cruise at 51 to go easy on it) and it's running better than any time I've owned it. It's a huge relief to have reasonably consistent and reasonable compression as I'd had visions of needing to pull the engine and find enough parts to...

straighten out the cup on the pushrod and reinstall, another cylinder pushing at least 90PSI. Started and ran better than ever in the time I've owned it. Next I'll put the rocker cover on and hit the road to see if it holds up.

PROBLEM FOUND. Inspect the plugs, one was oily and nasty, clearly fowled and not one that had previously had low compression. Hmm... Compression test showed the five other cylinders had increased and much more consistent compression: 90-105PSI, very reasonable for such a low-compression motor...

Ha-ha, the joke's on me. it was sucking air from the selector, but that's mostly because the tank pickup was plugged up for the third or fourth time... usual Ferret things. In an effort to do something about the lack of power, low compression on a couple cylinders, and just generally not...

The front feet on the mounts are a pretty good match, but that's about the only thing that is. I unbolted the rails from the plate, now I'll make a new plate, new back feet, and then mount the new feet and plate to the rails so I con mount the radio. I get front mounts that look the business...

Gentex makes the AMP headset with detachable downlead "connectorized", so fine. They also offer up a couple different downleads: U174 in mono, U174 stereo, MPU5, or one in airframe ICS. The stereo U174 is said to allow different signals to each earcup, but I've no clue how they can do that. I...

I ordered a pile of additional Clansman gear, it's a mixed-bag for sure. Ordered a cable tester, received a radio test-set. It's an interesting hulk of a thing. Ordered 10x as-is ANR headsets, got 1 ANR(that doesn't work) and 9 non-ANR (some work, some don't). It would be great to have the...