Left this promising new dual carb era in San Diego:
... drove past the San Onofre Nuclear Plant glowering there on the shore:
Fourteen lanes of traffic. Build more lanes and they will come . . . :
Lovely refinery to the southwest left of the northbound freeway. Sorry you can't see all the festive nighttime lights:
Yay for advertising all over buildings. If heaven has one stupid vapid ad, I am asking to go to Hell:
The 405 corridor and I-10/405 interchange is one of the busiest in the world:
Mel's Diner in Santa Monica, the city of my birth! Where I would go to lunch with Phil and Ken and Glen when I worked at Hill&Vaughn:
The building where Hill&Vaughn was stationed, getting clobbered by "improvement":
Sad to see Norm's Diner torn down. I knew developers would win over "historical significance". Phil and Ken went there a lot, too:
Phil's house is still in the family, but it is neither respected nor cared-for in the spirit that I remember Phil cared for it, and that is to the good. We need to tear down the old and hope that the new has greater integrity and purpose:
The garage! Here is where I learned a bit more about ultimate quality and Phil's demand that any objet d'Art automobile actually work as intended. You can thank him that I have the full fire within me too:
And here is an objet d'art Type 4 engine, built by tommu from a rusty hunk of a used engine:
He put his all into this engine rebuild:
Said the clock . . . . . :
We were having FUN, taking care of little things carefully, like re-aligning the front tin and using phillips screwdrivers to re-index the pressure plate to the flywheel since the BALANCER GUY only had one of the three dowels inserted:
Look at that damn beautiful thing:
So why did we have to shut it down within ten minutes, it's DONE? I don't yet know. The idle started to slow and the rotation tightened up, and a little deep knock began to occur, and the oil light came on at about 600 rpm, and I think it needs to be carefully investigated.
a) did our installation difficulty cause a jam up between the input shaft and the flywheel?
b) was the endplay actually tighter than the recorded .0035"?
I did not want this result so bad. I still hope that it is something easy.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . . . . . . .115,063 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . . . . . . 219,045 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . . . 185,060 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . 55,630 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . 99,705 miles