This car is bringing tears to my eyes, it is driving hard, running flawlessly, and the wrecked ripped rear window seal hasn't leaked a bit through this ridiculous rain in New Mexico.
(EDIT 08/12/19 - oh yes it has, YES IT HAS! It has leaked a "bit" and then some)
Burbank Visit Here:
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The drive down to Encinitas from Burbank was epic. NaranjaWesty was rarin' to mix it up with the pick-ups and SUVs and little hot Hondas and WRXs. Started off slowly enough at sundown, I was trying to get shots of the Los Angeles skyline and overall ambience:
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(this is titled: A Study In Wires - how many fricken wires have to invade every shot?)
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A lot going on here at the train/truck interchange:
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Now that it was getting dark, I put on my now trusty and appreciated blue-blocker sunglasses, they have given me back the night driving I used to adore:
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I try to amuse the hordes on Facebook with pithy little pictures and subject headers. This one was,
"Here is what a 10.2 earthquake looks like from the driver's seat .... I almost spilled my coffee."
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So, I did field a serious question about that photograph. The sharp vertical jiggles are because CA freeways are getting rougher and rougher, especially at 70 mph. Naranja was just all into it, 103 miles of lickety-split:
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I did not camp in a parking lot that became a car show this year ...
(2018)
https://www.itinerant-air-cooled.com/vi ... 55#p229596
No, I drove until I was exhausted, and retired up some Encinitas Blvd corporate park. Next morning, look. Pacific Ocean:
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I made xyzzy walk with me to "Coffee" and we walked back and dove into uber-arcana Dual Carb Bus Theory:
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We had visitors. I was curt. Dreams of driving a bus across the country? Oh please:
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Another bus pulled out of a garage near by. I do not believe the engine was below 2,500 rpm all the way out to the street. Somebody taught her poorly, and xyzzy and winced in sympathetic pain.
I have a whole nuther career waiting ... Teach You How To Drive And Survive So Your VW Survives Too. :
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xyzzy does valves:
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No really, it is about the "feel", "Feel the contact, Luke, be the contact ..."
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We lapped our test track down 2nd or 3rd or something, several times, trying to discern the cause of a hesitation under acceleration. The engine would seriously lean out at mid-throttle. Well OBVIOUSLY that points out to EGR valve diaphragms without those little "air leak blocking" screws. We used HVAC tape. xyzzy will hopefully chime in here on driveability.
"Now what?"
What about rust bubbles on this pristine 1973 L90D Westy? So we took out the sliding door window .. .. .. :
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.. .. .. and I attacked with a chisel:
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Didn't seem to faze xyzzy, not at all ... :
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No, he believes that paint protects metal from rust, so paint already:
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I'm cool with that:
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I think your bus is appreciative, xyzzy:
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I am being thrown out of here. Must fill you all in on that unique visit to San Diego then ScottInLasVegas in Las Vegas 103* before blasting two states over yesterday. Good grief. Two Los Alamos calls then the Taos Gathering.
Thank-you, NaranjaWesty:
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