Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Washington
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:35 am
Up at the very north west corner of the country, I hosted a squatter-with-attitude:
Ostensibly, the day was to check out a Vanagon that was in very nice condition to begin with. Nonetheless, we put the customer to work centering the valve guides while I decorated the timing scale and pulley:
We found some seriously advanced timing, but the fuel injection was inperturbable, no adjustment seemed to shake it from its own idea of what was appropriate, regardless of whether or not the oxygen sensor was connected.
So we went to the rear brakes to check out howling and low pedal:
Here's your Vanagon self-adjusting rear brakes. I am not a fan of self-adjusting brakes, they like to adjust on hot expanded drums sometimes, then, when the drums cool, they are adjusted too tight. The little blade that moves the adjuster when the shoes get sloppy looks a little punk:
Ask if the cat cared . . . . . . . :
The test drive proved that it was actually the front brakes that were howling.
Microbusdeluxe is a world traveller and has traversed the African continent in a 1970 VW bus, and has had to prevail past mechanical breakdowns and environmental challenges. His house is testament to his considerable wood-working skills, including on that 1916 upright piano that I just had to play . . . it was in tune! Thanks for enduring my rusty reuinion with keyboard. Excellent little dinner and I was on my way.
Bellingham in the evening light:
Colin
Ostensibly, the day was to check out a Vanagon that was in very nice condition to begin with. Nonetheless, we put the customer to work centering the valve guides while I decorated the timing scale and pulley:
We found some seriously advanced timing, but the fuel injection was inperturbable, no adjustment seemed to shake it from its own idea of what was appropriate, regardless of whether or not the oxygen sensor was connected.
So we went to the rear brakes to check out howling and low pedal:
Here's your Vanagon self-adjusting rear brakes. I am not a fan of self-adjusting brakes, they like to adjust on hot expanded drums sometimes, then, when the drums cool, they are adjusted too tight. The little blade that moves the adjuster when the shoes get sloppy looks a little punk:
Ask if the cat cared . . . . . . . :
The test drive proved that it was actually the front brakes that were howling.
Microbusdeluxe is a world traveller and has traversed the African continent in a 1970 VW bus, and has had to prevail past mechanical breakdowns and environmental challenges. His house is testament to his considerable wood-working skills, including on that 1916 upright piano that I just had to play . . . it was in tune! Thanks for enduring my rusty reuinion with keyboard. Excellent little dinner and I was on my way.
Bellingham in the evening light:
Colin
