Spring Here At The 27th Parallel!
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:32 pm
This morning. This morning:
Oh yes, it was 70* and sunny today. It was 70* and sunny today. It was 70* and sunny, but don't worry, I am sure that I froze my creaky joints and bones more than you did last night. Was your bedroom 42* at 6:00AM?
It is quite wet down here at the 27th parallel, the water table is high enough to flood all low-lying areas, that is all water up to the upper edge of the outside mirror:
Today I drove through the source of all of your winter orange juice.
Yeah, down here we have to work in the soft warmth of the delightful sunshine so you all can have refreshment after coming in from cavorting in the slushy snow on your ravaged roads:
Had a Vanagon Diesel Extravaganza at weisswurst's Floridian German hillbilly compound. I was met by guinea hens and chickens and two Volkswagens that blended perfectly with the surroundings, here the single cab-with-tarp Vanagon and visitor James' 1959 beetle:
Here, the double cab Vanagon that againes503 and weisswurst and I drove last year:
We ran around and started all the diesel Vanagons. Hmmmm, which one? The single cab? The double cab? The yellow/brown seven passenger (currywurst)? The other seven passenger in cool blue with white exterior (weisswurst)? They all started fine. Someone needs to tell weisswurst that if the owner's manual gives you up to a minute to warm up the glow plugs, then thirty seconds is OK if it is cold out.
I love those little diesels. They are superbly engineered. We had so much fun doing the currywurst timing belt last year,
h[url]ttp://www.itinerant-air-cooled.com/viewtopic. ... 29#p207481[/url]
that we decided to do a) another timing belt, this year on the single cab:
and b) adjust the timing of the injection pump to see if we could make it peppier. We used fancy dial indicators and stuff:
Which required reading complicated manuals with directions and everything,
too complicated for you . . .
. . . and definitely too complicated for us:
Started right up when we were done. When were we done? At about "darkness."
I am being told to leave. "We closed thirty minutes ago!"
Will get back to this.
Colin
( James, great to meet you and your family. I want to find some time to get the beetle running better!)
Oh yes, it was 70* and sunny today. It was 70* and sunny today. It was 70* and sunny, but don't worry, I am sure that I froze my creaky joints and bones more than you did last night. Was your bedroom 42* at 6:00AM?
It is quite wet down here at the 27th parallel, the water table is high enough to flood all low-lying areas, that is all water up to the upper edge of the outside mirror:
Today I drove through the source of all of your winter orange juice.
Yeah, down here we have to work in the soft warmth of the delightful sunshine so you all can have refreshment after coming in from cavorting in the slushy snow on your ravaged roads:
Had a Vanagon Diesel Extravaganza at weisswurst's Floridian German hillbilly compound. I was met by guinea hens and chickens and two Volkswagens that blended perfectly with the surroundings, here the single cab-with-tarp Vanagon and visitor James' 1959 beetle:
Here, the double cab Vanagon that againes503 and weisswurst and I drove last year:
We ran around and started all the diesel Vanagons. Hmmmm, which one? The single cab? The double cab? The yellow/brown seven passenger (currywurst)? The other seven passenger in cool blue with white exterior (weisswurst)? They all started fine. Someone needs to tell weisswurst that if the owner's manual gives you up to a minute to warm up the glow plugs, then thirty seconds is OK if it is cold out.
I love those little diesels. They are superbly engineered. We had so much fun doing the currywurst timing belt last year,
h[url]ttp://www.itinerant-air-cooled.com/viewtopic. ... 29#p207481[/url]
that we decided to do a) another timing belt, this year on the single cab:
and b) adjust the timing of the injection pump to see if we could make it peppier. We used fancy dial indicators and stuff:
Which required reading complicated manuals with directions and everything,
too complicated for you . . .
. . . and definitely too complicated for us:
Started right up when we were done. When were we done? At about "darkness."
I am being told to leave. "We closed thirty minutes ago!"
Will get back to this.
Colin
( James, great to meet you and your family. I want to find some time to get the beetle running better!)