Tony D

Disappointing, I guess you got an answer where to find the OEM piece, but I directed you to HBZ to look for another thread with the alternate non-oem piece and complete photos of a guy totally rebuilding the system in question.

At least I bought the OBD Scanner and drove it for 300 miles watching it online before SMS'ing you! LOL I'm kinda the opposite: Either fix it and I pay you once...or....ELSE! And if I ask it's only because chances are I'm going to do it myself and depending on the story I get depends on wether I leave it because I don't want to be bothered and don't think I have the time. Those Isolator Bolts on the 4.2 plenum was a good example. The service writer was telling me "We're booked, can't say we'll get it done" and I could HEAR the tech in the back going "I can do it, get it in here!" Kinda told me there was a "flat rate beater job" on my hands, and if I was smart probably could do it in the 'book time'---and I did, 5 hours start to finish, perfect OBD Scan results for the next 4,600 miles, and a scarily clean CA SMOG for initial registration.

Yeah, I may have to change mine. As much as I love the preprogrammed preheat and cool period, it only accommodates an 'away' time of 30 days before it resumes normal heating schedule. I may have to get an internet integrated thermostat with a wifi link. Then I can just turn it off.... Which is what I do most of the year anyway. From about MSA to Empire Z Show, the thing isn't even turned on! Ditching the pilot light saves $11 a month.... Same on the cooktop in the kitchen. Got rid of both pilot lights and huzzah! Last item is the water heater. And debating on that one. Only about 10 yrs old now, but still has a pilot light. If I could go to hot wire ignitor, and put some 110V preheaters on the faucets in the far bathroom and kitchen I think it would be ideal for savings. You have seen my FB on the electric shower I just added to my place in the PI, right? And "I reserve the right to sitebash."

The valvetrain makes noise. PERIOD. If it's quiet, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM! They are noiser cold than once warmed up. Purpose of adjustment is to ADD clearances that close up as valves pound into the head. After an adjustment unless something was way wrong, you will ALWAYS be noisier than before the adjustment. Check them again to be sure,but don't delude yourself into thinking a valve adjustment QUIETS a properly running engine. It does just the opposite. Quiet Valves are valves without enough seat time on the head, that run hot, and burn prematurely. Run an Air Cooled VW and this dynamic gets into your being and soul. It's no different for an L-Engine. Valves need to be on the seat to cool down. You make them 'quiet' and you remove lash---this increases time open, and decreases seat-time to cool. You alter the valve event timing considerably due to the ramps on the cam. As little as 0.002" maladjustment can mean significant changes in valve timing events. You don't have to believe me, get a cam degree wheel, and do it. See for yourself!

I run straight 40 weight in the summer, and straight 30 weight in the winter, as the temperature never dictates the need for Multi-Vis. Well over 100,000 miles on my 260, most of it at highway speeds with a 5 speed and 3.7 rear gear above 3,000 rpms. Look at your manual, single-vis IS acceptable and on the top when it comes to areas without a change in temperature. The Zinc Additives are far more important than the 'mileage saving' you get from Multi-Vis. This engine was designed around single weight oils, why switch if you don't see any advantages. Plus, it lets you run just about the cheapest oil on the rack... Single Vis oils just don't cost a lot. They don't "do" a lot to the oil to make it act like something it's not. Remember a 0W-50 is a 0 Weight oil made to act like a 50 weight when it gets hot. If it breaks down, your viscosity goes back to the base stock. Straight 40 is straight 40, straight 30 is straight 30. If it overheats, the viscosity starts dropping. Got straight weight synthetic, and you're covered to ridiculous temperatures....where the Babbitt melts out of the bearing journals! Multi-Vis... pfffft!

Beerman is correct, you can make one out of some strap steel or angle iron as well. If you have the flywheel off, a 4' piece of 1 1/2" or 2" x 0.250" angle iron should be MORE than enough to punch a couple holes in there and use flywheel bolts to lock the crank from turning while you torque the front bolt. Remember to use the THICK HARD washer for the front, and to LOCTITE BLUE the threads at least. If you use that thin stock washer, and not the later KA24 one (with matching longer bolt) chances are good the washer will deform at torque, embed, lose torque, and come loose even with Loctite Applied. Loctite Green Cylindrical Parts Locker/Bearing Mount on the crank snout will hold the pulley nicely in place as well. Do it right the first time, and it will stay on there. Using a propane or MAPP Gas torch on the head of the bolt will heat everything enough to release it later. I've actually Loctite Red'd the crank bolt and have not had an issue removing it later. Good Luck.

Many times you can reclaim these plugs by burning off the fuel with a propane or MAPP gas torch. I go till the ground electrode is glowing red an no more orange flames are present. Then I move to the next plug. Bare handed. It shouldn't take that long to burn em off... Usually at that point, I put a flame blast into each plug hole and usually get a healthy "woooshbop!" out of a few. Then I screw em in and fire it off post haste!

At Band Camp?

Alfa owners accept catastrophic component failures as the searing pain that goes with owning The Marque...

Back up in th' haller... Things go on cityfolk will never understand... They swap more than cars up there...

3-in-1 Oil every season, later supplanted by "Mouse Milk"! Blower died finally... 1975-2011. Replaced whole furnace with one of them newfangled ones. My heating bill is now lower, with the temperature 10degrees higher, and the temperature is more consistent than with the old furnace. Plus I got one of them bitchin' new programmable thermostats that drops the house to 40 degrees when I'm away!

It wasn't a technique of teaching digression as much as an example of people who dealt MUCH MORE STERNLY than a "snarky" comment or banishment to the tool shed. People whine about how they're treated online....but NOTHING here compares to getting something thrown at you! Nothing!!! Grow a sac, for gawd's sake... What it digressed into was exactly how does one identify the people too lazy to THINK... Which really is, at it's core, the ROOT issue here. There have been PLENTY of "answered a thousand times" questions posted by raw noobs where I personally have answered in detail. Not because of charity, but because the guy asked it cogently, showed his work thus far, and most importantly drew a conclusion that he was seeking confirmation/assistance in determining if his logic was correct! No thought and a brainless repetitive question...you deserves what you get. When THEY put effort into it (not a BS "I searched and searched, honestly don't flame me!" Claim) then I'm thinking most here WILL assist. Even at ZCar.com. But the corollary point is those individuals are seriously few and far between!

EFI idles via throttle bypass... Carbs need to be cracked off closed, or have a hole drilled in the throttle plate...

Define "overheated"...

And don't use more than half the tube...

You're running a Holley 390 aren't you? Pumping SU's does absolutely nothing other than show you the linkage doesn't bind...

My bro had a used engine in his Honda when it blew up...or more aptly seized. Had about 1.5 qts in it, doing 115 down the Lodge Freeway in Detroit. Complained to me that the guy that put the brakes on the car the week before 'should have checked it out'... He brought the brake pads and told the guy to install them because he didn't have a place to do it at the house. I was not charitable with my brother for his ignorance.

No bigger than go through the existing holes in the radiator core support used for fresh air ventilation of the footwell...

I can give another example of SSGT Cox is FTD 911. An instructor people hated or loved. The prior instructor was a 'good time guy' -- followed the book, every formulaic. Not a lot of imagination in his teaching style---everything straight out of the manual. (Yawn) You got a bit of information out of him. Exactly what was in the teaching syllabus. Just the way Uncle Sugar wanted it. It met the standards. It did not exceed the standards. Going to class was like a vacation, 6 hours teaching time...easy peasy lemon squeasy. I don't remember his name, Tsgt James I think it was... Then SSgt Cox replaced him. He gave you homework. Oh god, you had to work after class. Having taken Jame's TTU228E1A Class, and then taking SSgt Cox's class it was like night and day. I understood WHY things in the equipment did what they did, instead of rote memorization. But back to the teaching style. SSgt Cox would say at the beginning of class "There is always one, after you take this class, you will appreciate this bit of knowledge I give to you---there are people who can't think, who WON'T think, and they will always give classes like this a black eye. People are depending on you to come back and be THE expert on this machine. Some people they send simply are not going to be capable of absorbing that knowledge in the time they give us. Over the years I have figured out a way to tell who these people are. And once you see it play out in one class, you will see it too! You will come to see they stop YOUR learning because they refuse to THINK. They have been programmed. That is fine, we need programmed people to do what they're told, but that is NOT what makes a leader, a technical expert. I leave it to you to take hold of these people and not let them hold you up in learning. I don't teach to the lowest common denominator, I teach to give the people who CAN absorb all the knowledge necessary the most I can convey, but more importantly not to teach you how to fix this machine, but ANY machine. I teach troubleshooting through system knowledge, and if you follow these principles, they will work on ANY machine, not just this one. I want you to be able to go back to your shop, to a piece of equipment you've never seen before, and fix it with nothing but the tech data, and test instruments." We started with electrical circuitry. He took out a yellow marker and said "First we will start with the Battery circuit, I'll use Yellow" AND THERE IT WAS: Sgt Cox's surfire identifier! "But the battery circuit is RED!" Why? "Because the Battery Circuit is RED!" But I'm using yellow. "But the battery circuit is RED!" Why? What difference does it make? As long as you have a legend, and understand the colors used for each circuit it could be ANY color you want. "No, the battery circuit IS RED!" And he knew this would be the wheel that slowed the rest. The guy that couldn't get it through his head to THINK on his own. These were ALWAYS the guys who HATED Sgt Cox, because they were the ones that asked the "stupid questions"---the ones that made the other guys in class roll their eyes. But rather than blurt out an answer (like James would do) Cox would say "Well what do you think?" And try to walk this guy through the logic to answer his own question. And the guys who said RED was ALWAYS for the Battery Circuit, they ALWAYS howled and eventually came up with the same thing we get today "WHY DON'T YOU JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION?" They were so upset they were made to THINK and be INDEPENDENT, to find their own answers after being instructed on the basics that would let them do this....REFUSED! He gave you homework. But didn't ask you about it. Each night you came up with 5 problems in the circuits you were instructed on that day, you would come up with where the problem occurred, how it might happen in the real world, and what symptoms it might have. Then came troubleshooting. James would go out, 'break something' then in pairs, guys would go out, troubleshoot it and 'fix' it. Sgt Cox? He said "All right, you and you are one pair. Take your homework, go out to the machine and break it. You and You two (other guys) will go out and fix it. He would approve your problem, then let you go do it. The guys REALLY got into it for the next class they went to. But some guys....oooooooh! "That wasn't fair!" It was 'stupid'---usually because they skipped doing their homework! Yes, teachers who make people THINK (especially about things mechanical) are despised by the lazy. But they are a valuable resource to those who are willing to expend effort. Like one Airman who made a plate to slip in a -86 Genset to simulate Wet Stacking. First thing in the troubleshooting matrix from Detroit Diesel. VERY distinctive symptoms. Can't mistake it. But someone spent a day troubleshooting it. I believe it was the first 'fail' grade given to someone in FTD Class at FTD 911... There comes a time when you have to THINK some things out for yourself, but if you refuse to read the manual, or read the manual, see the symptoms CLEARLY STATED in black and white, then DISMISS THEM with a 'can't be that!'.... Then maybe paying someone else to do the work is a better alternative. Just because you can spin a wrench doesn't mean you SHOULD! Cox was another guy who believed in teaching people to THINK their way through a problem, rather than just puke up an answer and hope someone remembered what they said. Expertise comes through repetition. Isn't it better to teach people to think, and have them repeat that deduction process, rather than simply give them an answer, which they will forget and then have to ask about again in 2 years time? If they THINK, and continue to THINK to solve problems...when the issue comes up, even if they've forgotten the solution they were told 2 years prior, they will be equipped to THINK IT OUT. And they will solve it on their own. If I get that to someone and they never have to ask another question again of anybody. If they have been made truly independent and able to think their way through the problem... Isn't THAT the goal of the teacher, of EVERY teacher? I posit it is. Then all you need is the library, and to go there once and a while to get reference material.

What most are missing is the stated purpose of the site. While it's all well and good wanting to learn about your car, the POINT is THIS is not the place to be doing it. A little is tolerable, but there comes a time when it has to be nipped as it's taking away from the purpose of the site. Just because Rudy had a hard apprenticeship doesn't make it the "best" way, because there is no "BEST"---but it is a documented and PROVEN way that doesn't waste THE MAJORITY of people's time who are there to LEARN. Yes, a MINORITY may be offended, if you get butthurt because you can't see you're being intellectually lazy---then find someplace else! "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime." Rudy's METHOD may be objectionable, but his POINT: That you should be able to figure things out YOUR SELF is the essence of teaching. A teacher is not there to belch out answers to people too lazy to think them out for themselves. His METHOD for making people THINK wouldn't fly today. But then again, teachers who make kids think usually aren't popular, because a lot of kids don't want to think. And if someone MAKES you think, they get upset. If the dog just refuses to learn, you put it down or sterilize it. It keeps the breed strong. There is NOTHING wrong with being a library, this was NEVER intended to be a popular "make money and sell-out" site. That is also kind of the point. The OWNERS of the site don't care if there's a lot of traffic. What they want is traffic that is QUALITY. "Sorry Charlie, we want tuna with good taste, not tuna that tastes good!" If you want this place to turn into ZC.C, which drives away quality contributors (watch them leave every summer as the high school kids flood in, curiously the Moderator's worst time of it here I posit...same as Easter Break and Winter Break)....this is likely not the place for you. Go there instead. Ignoring a post is as easy for the reader as posting it in a proper site is for the poster. Why should everybody have to endure posts which add nothing? That ask nothing, that hasn't been asked and answered before? WHY? WHY can't the POSTER respect OTHER PEOPLE'S TIME and take it to the appropriate place? Why do they feel ENTITLED to answers HERE? FOLLOWING THE POSTED RULES is incumbent on all. And that is a corollary point. There are plenty of places for BASIC information. Some people miss the point that it's not important in everybody's mind to be "the popular site".... Some people care about their quality and competence. That's what differentiates here from there.

We always joked about how good we got it with Rudy... "In his apprenticeship, they probably had SS guys with Lugers out back..." Apparently overhearing us once got us the story of national heroes fighting at Stalingrad, serving their country, and then returning to do their part to pass on their trade..."with a passion honed from that ring of fire" After that, I respected the intensity of his focus, as well as his teachers. It was a trait I saw in many of that generation wherever I encountered them...form both sides of the conflict! Subsequent generations were decadent and weak...and don't appreciate how easy they get by!

You missed the point getting hung on ego. Asking a stupid question is not the same as saying a person is stupid. Rudy's point that, INDEED there ARE stupid questions has been lost in today's Barny-Enriched world. To define a stupid question as Rudy did was this: "A stupid question is one in which you have not searched yourself, and your knowledge to answer first, before asking someone else." To ignore them on the interwebs...might work. But will they learn faster if it is pointed out to them? Look at the reaction of people who end up in "The Tool Shed"! Some guys need more than subtle hints. And here generally people are VERY CIVIL about this type of thing... Remember Rudy's Technique was honed from over to 30 years work experience hands-on before becoming a Voc-Ed teacher. It was within a framework where basics were clearly taught and to a known standard. Asking what the plug gap on an R44TS in a 77 Impala would get a 1/4-20 tossed your way, "that is what your tuneup guide is for, you can read, read it!" And he's right, it wasn't appropriate to ask that question in classroom and waste the classes time. Similarly question about torque for the plug... "That is what the book is for!" Asking what you should do as precautions when the plugs were out, what the plug can tell us? That would be what was considered "a good question"... Even though the Champion and AC plug charts were on the wall. Curiously, asking for reinforcement on the particular manual skill required to remove the plug or install it would always get a detailed response. As this was "the art", the "learned skill which differentiates us from a monkey" and he would take great pains to reinforce technique whenever possible. The whole class would be taken 'round to the questioners vehicle, and EVERYBODY would see the proper way to hold the torque wrench, how to brace the extension and break the thing free... But that differentiation between "stupid question" and "stupid person"? I guess I just was never so insecure or ungrounded to think that someone telling me I asked a "stupid question" that it somehow implied I was a stupid person. Far from it, I recognised I was being intellectually lazy in my question, indeed each time when I reflected, I could admit to myself that indeed, I was taught the answer, and simply DIDNT want to think through the process to get my own answer. Learning to come up with the right answer is far more important in the working world than anything else outside of research skills. It's not being a "know it all" nor is it claiming to be, though being independent and having answers and the ability to elocute why tends to intimidate many people. And that is sad... And that's the problem with the youth today.

You mean like this? Yes. Not knowing platform, I wouldn't know where to begin! Uploaded from my iPhone (same procedure with my iPad)

Were.... As stated, some don't post at other sites often now as there is really nothing but aggravation when you do. Some places embrace excellence, and the pursuit thereof, others eschew excellence in the form of an egalitarian existence stressing a star for participation rather than for valid and factual information. The more eyes to the site, the more you make. You don't get any more residual for Einstein posting, than for Forrest Gump, so why discourage Gump's Theory of Relativity on Chocolates? It IS about the money, right? I don't get that impression here though. At another site, the direction became crystal clear long ago. I'm at both Ratsun & Classic Z I'm persona non grata at ZC.C. You can't give a direct answer there. Kids have no tolerance for truthful prognosticators, or people who don't apologise when they're correct.

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