The Daily Yardman Thread

[Roger B]

Hey Goomba, fergit it, Pumper's an ol farm-boy that's used to "rough-things" his sweeties even slap the schitt outa him on occassion, he don't care for all that purty "whistles & bells" fandangled custom schitt .. he puts things together with beeswax & balin wire, to git home when he breaks down on the road.. :laughing:..:laughing:

BUT on occassion, ... he does like to ogle a really luscious lookin sweetie !! .. :thumbsup:

As they say Boo - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..

Rog

 

[Roger B]

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........

Ahhhh, I see! All a sales pitch. I shudda known..

 

[Roger B]

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.
View attachment 42762
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!
View attachment 42764
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.
View attachment 42765
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:
View attachment 42763

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!

Ron,

I am so proud of you, I could schitt! Four gold stars for you today.. (FIVE later on if that damn thing actually runs!)

Rog

 

[Roger B]

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.

Thanks Chuck.. And chocolates! If appropriate, get chocolates!

 

[Roger B]

Re: 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..............

Ron,

You know how they have a 'name' for each generation and a 'name' for various periods of time. Well I think we need to come up with an appropriate name for the current 'time' we are in. Your following the routing for that part, is indicative of the way most everything gets done now-a-days. Nothing ever seems to be done correctly, Nobody ever does their job right. Everything seems to get lost, screwed up, or just not done at all! We are living in a time of ineptness! The music sucks - (People actually think Taylor Swift can sing!!??) - and mediocrity in all things has come to be accepted as the norm...

The "Slip-Shod" years... The "Half-Arsed" era..... The meek haven't inherited the earth, the "Numb-Nuts" have! Tis a pity when "Piss-Poor-Preformance" becomes the expected outcome of every endeavor...

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!

Rog

 

[Roger B]

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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Boo,

You gonna be a teck-nition yet!

 

[Boobala]

Re: No wonder the USPS is losing $$$$$$

Ron,

You know how they have a 'name' for each generation and a 'name' for various periods of time. Well I think we need to come up with an appropriate name for the current 'time' we are in. Your following the routing for that part, is indicative of the way most everything gets done now-a-days. Nothing ever seems to be done correctly, Nobody ever does their job right. Everything seems to get lost, screwed up, or just not done at all! We are living in a time of ineptness! The music sucks - (People actually think Taylor Swift can sing!!??) - and mediocrity in all things has come to be accepted as the norm...

The "Slip-Shod" years... The "Half-Arsed" era..... The meek haven't inherited the earth, the "Numb-Nuts" have! Tis a pity when "Piss-Poor-Preformance" becomes the expected outcome of every endeavor...

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!

Rog

OH YEAH Goomba I'm behind ya on that, I'm gettin a BIG BANG outa the new "GREEN DREAM" .. in 10 years NO cars or Aircraft, NO Fossil Fuel ANYTHING .... Etc., Etc.,Etc.,Etc.,Etc..... THIS generation ( and some DERELICT & DEFICIENT in the brains Dept. elders, who R on board with em, really got their schitt 2gether don't they ?? ) I'm bustin a gut .. FREE EVERYTHING & & & & ya DON"T have to be willing to work ....RIGHT !!! FREE at LAST !!

 

[Ronno6]

Re: No wonder the USPS is losing $$$$$$

Ron,

You know how they have a 'name' for each generation and a 'name' for various periods of time. Well I think we need to come up with an appropriate name for the current 'time' we are in. Your following the routing for that part, is indicative of the way most everything gets done now-a-days. Nothing ever seems to be done correctly, Nobody ever does their job right. Everything seems to get lost, screwed up, or just not done at all! We are living in a time of ineptness! The music sucks - (People actually think Taylor Swift can sing!!??) - and mediocrity in all things has come to be accepted as the norm...

The "Slip-Shod" years... The "Half-Arsed" era..... The meek haven't inherited the earth, the "Numb-Nuts" have! Tis a pity when "Piss-Poor-Preformance" becomes the expected outcome of every endeavor...

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!

Rog

Thing is, for all the trials and tribulations of this shipment, it DID arrive on time...pretty much as soon as possible.
I don't understand all the goofy scannings it underwent, but all is well that ends well.

Maybe the appropriate term for the generation is"The 'It all comes out in the wash' " generation....
However, I think the better term would be the "Let somebody else do it" generation..

 

[Ronno6]

Re: C10 Update: Knowledge Learned

Ron,

I am so proud of you, I could schitt! Four gold stars for you today.. (FIVE later on if that damn thing actually runs!)

Rog

Thanky, Skipper.
I am learning a lot thru this exercise (and spending a lot,too!)

 

[BlazNT]

I have ideas for lots of what has been said.

"Most important person in the world" MIPITW

I read more than one report on Electric cars. All of them said that if 15% of gas cars went to electric our electric grid would colipase. I do not see in the near future electric cars becoming the norm. The only viable replacement for gas cars is hydrogen cars. I say a program that had a way to increase the fuel economy of existing gas cars with hydrogen. They removed the spark plugs and put a little chamber in before the spark plug and injected hydrogen into the chamber and ignited the hydrogen with the spark plug. It made an old v8 gas gusler get 100 or mile to the gallon and reduce emissions by 95%. Now with this, the hydrogen needed on board was around 1 quart. That could be protected well. No one wants a bomb in their car.