The Daily Yardman Thread

[BlazNT]

Valentine's Day

On a different note. All the men and women (mostly men) following this thread. You need to have purchased Valentine gift and card by now. I hope no one has forgotten their sweetheart.

 

[Boobala]

Re: C10 Update: Knowledge Learned

I continue to acquire knowledge by way of the C10 project.
They say that knowledge is power; I say....it ain't cheap !
The aftermarket heads I am using have the intake and exhaust ports relocated a touch for bigger valves.
This caused the rocker arms to splay as they span from the pushrods to the valves.
Ordinarily not a big deal.
But.............
The roller rocker arms I had were nice USA manufactured full rollers.
They were aluminum and vert pretty, but they were very rectangular in shape.
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Due to the aforementioned splay, the pushrod ends of the rockers formed an inverted chevron (very shallow angle "V" Boobot...)
This placed the outer corners of each pair very close to the walls of the valve covers, touching,even!
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Not good.
The rocker arms were not of the "self aligning" variety, and I needed to use pushrod guide plates.
Unfortunately, the c 10 c for the pushrods was insufficient to provide proper rocker arm to valve stem contact.
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So, options were these:
Get adjustable guide plates or self aligning rocker arms.
I opted for the latter.
so I got arms shaped like these:
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That would alleviate the interference with the valve covers.
THEN, I discovered another fly in the ointment:
the screw in rocker arm studs provided me by the machine shop were badly eccentric!
I noticed the upper stud wobble when screwing them in,
Placing a straight edge down the row of installed studs revealed out of line studs by as much as .025" !!
Also, not good.
So I purchased a set of higher quality studs and took care of THAT problem.

Now I move on to the "art" of checking for the proper pushrod length......
Too long or short will cause the rocker roller to valve stem to be off center, again, not good.
I am awaiting arrival of a tool to check that.
HOPEFULLY I won't need some different pushrods.
BUT, if this goes the way the rest of the project has cone...............mo' parts,mo' money and mo' tome!

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AND WHAT'S THIS SCHITT ??? NO MSD Ignition... at the minimum, U BETTER yank that FAT-WALLET bak out and git some respectable lightning in those cylinders .. WE want MAXIMUM explosion in there !! .. :thumbsup:..:laughing:

 

[Boobala]

Re: Valentine's Day

On a different note. All the men and women (mostly men) following this thread. You need to have purchased Valentine gift and card by now. I hope no one has forgotten their sweetheart.

Got the wifey a card ... N some sexxxxxeeeee FUNDERWARE, (for my pleasure) .. :laughing:..:laughing:..:laughing:

 

[Boobala]

Re: A Plea for Help.....

Well, most of the post was intended to be a spoof..........
Sure, he wants to sell the Dream 305 (pressure from above :wink: )
MH asked me to spread the word, so to speak.
But all that jazz about being poor and living in a poverty strickened area and driving an "old" Stude
was just embellishment on my end to "enhance" the sales.
I think we all know the Lad's situation........

Sometimes .... U R a Dickhead !! ..::laughing:

 

[Ronno6]

Re: A Plea for Help.....

Sometimes .... U R a Dickhead !! ..::laughing:

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And this surprises.............WHO ??

 

[Ronno6]

No wonder the USPS is losing $$$$$$

Interesting tracking routing:

Feb 7, 2019
19:13pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
MOBILE AL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 7, 2019
18:42pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility
MOBILE AL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 7, 2019
18:09pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
MOBILE AL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 7, 2019
16:29pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
PENSACOLA FL PROCESSING CENTER

Feb 7, 2019
11:47am

Departed USPS Facility
ATLANTA, GA 30354

Feb 7, 2019
10:03am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
MOBILE AL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 7, 2019
09:26am

Arrived at USPS Facility
ATLANTA, GA 30354

Feb 7, 2019
03:53am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
NASHVILLE TN DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 6, 2019
20:14pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
NASHVILLE TN DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX

Feb 6, 2019
18:59pm

Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
GOODLETTSVILLE, TN 37072


Arrives in Atlanta, then Mobile without leaving Atlanta, Then leaves Atlanta without leaving Mobile or arriving back at Atlanta,
Than to Pensacola, never leaves Pensacola but arrives, then leaves, then arrives back at Mobile again.............

I wonder if the USPS is paying an Uber driver to chauffeur this critter around..............

 

[BlazNT]

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[Boobala]

Morning Ted, Stayers and Newbies.

Hinder

MMMMmmmm ...MMMMmmmm .... MMMMmmmmm .... What a cute lil "set-down" she has !! .. :thumbsup:

 

[Boobala]

Well Mr. Finder..... F.Y.I. ...
Yesterday the GODS smiled upon my young arse ! ... I FINALLY got the "Bug" that kept "waking" my puters out of sleep mode, ( I found the new laser printer likes to check with the puter every so often to see if there's anything ready to print, the fix was in the printers programming settings ) DONE !!
then removed all my Cable TV schitt, ( I have OFFICIALLY .. CUT THE CORD !! ) got 2 Roku devices all hooked-up & workin beautifully, a Roku Ultra in the livin room, & a Roku Streaming Stick Plus in our Master Bedroom, purchased an account with Hulu LIVE ( $44.00 monthly ) thru Roku, saved APPROX. $60.00 + a month ... which is approx. 1/2 of my Electric bill !! ME, is a REALLY HAPPY CAMPER this Mornin, !!! .. :thumbsup:..:thumbsup:..:thumbsup:....

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[Pumper54]

Ron,
I feel your pain. Last year I ordered some parts from Rock Auto, they arrived only to discover I had ordered the wrong parts. No worries, I called and got the return authorization which I printed out and shipped the parts back via USPS. Now the fun part begins, I paid extra for the "quick ship" or what ever the postal service calls it. I get the tracking number and am told it will be about 6-10 business days to ship from Conroe Texas to Long Beach, Cali. I am good with that. Few days go by and I start tracking the package, Conroe to Houston to Long Beach, things are looking good. Then it says out for delivery, then it says Long Beach sorting center, then it says out for delivery, then it says Long Beach sorting center, then it says out for delivery, then it says Long Beach sorting center. TWO WEEKS of this stuff. I look up the address the box was going to and it is less then 2 miles from the Long Beach sorting center. So I do what I can and I call Rock Auto and talk to a very nice Lady there who says 'we never got it, but you might try calling this Lady" gives me the number at the Long Beach sorting center so I call her. Total run around. Now I am a bit pissed off at the USPS. I fired off an email to the Post Master General at 4:30 AM on a Sunday and danged if I didn't get a "read by" notice at 6:30 AM. That afternoon I got a phone call from the HEAD of the Long Beach sorting center asking what they can do to help. I gave him the run down on what is going on and he said he would have someone call me the next day with more info. Very nice Lady called me the next day and said they had people looking for my package and that they would keep me up dated. Each day that week someone called me to update me and on Friday the Head guy called me to say they were declaring the package "lost" and would pay me for the value of the items, the shipping cost and would over night me a check. Dang I am impressed. So Saturday no check in the mail in "Over night express" letter, oh well screwed again by the post office. MONDAY afternoon I get a note saying I have an package at the Post Office I need to pick up and guess what it is???? The damn over night letter. 5 days after it was sent from Cali I get the clearly marked "Over night express" letter. I cashed that check real quick. 2 months later I get an email from Rock Auto saying they received the return and would be crediting my credit card the refund amount. Good grief.
Tom