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All in due time! :evil: Geezers

Well it was seized up and I tore it apart and the oil was just, tar really. I can't remember what all else I did to it, think I got some power service er, acetone and dumped it all over and let it eat the crap out. I will take some pics of it all apart. It has a little oil pump that goes off the cam and everything.

Oil-less ones seem to be the most exaggerated thing on ratings I've ever seen. We had one and it was junk. The pistons are only like 2.5" diameter and are just plastic crap. They sure don't provide any cfm. I have a little compressor I been wanting to rebuild but it's so old I doubt they have parts. I got pics of it, I think you guys will find it as neat as I did. It's only maybe 10" long, just a little 4 cyl. http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t303/ISXX/100_3190.jpg http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t303/ISXX/100_3191.jpg

I have a high idle thing but that doesn't do enough. I don't see why I can't take advantage of the heat from the exhaust. I'd really like to try it out and don't want to mess with little things like idling for longer periods at higher rpm or messing with expensive exhaust brakes. It's an idea I've been tossing around for a long time so I really hope you guys would help me with it rather than suggest other things that won't really achieve what I really want. And I kinda enjoy the one of a kind part of it. I wanted to hear your alls thoughts on things because I know no one person can possibly see all the things that can go wrong.

Pulling air from around the manifold. Now theres a good start!

As winter sets in, I continue to freeze until I have passed the 10 mile mark at which time the truck finally puts out heat. I drive very light pedaled until it heats up, making the time it takes to heat up take longer, but I do not want to be hard on a cold engine. Now I have noticed several hundred degrees of heat being blown out even idling which could be used to heat the engine up very quickly. Just look at your EGT gauge and you will know what I am talking about. Now how do I transfer that heat to the engine water but be able to completely close off the exhaust heat transfer once I reach 200f? I have thought of 2 ways of doing it but both have limitations. 1. Run the heater core hose through a copper water block on top of the exhaust manifold which has some kind of high heat thermal transfer compound between to get the heat really moving into the copper.2. Hit off the exhaust after the turbo and run it through a heat exchanger, I'm thinking this is the basic principle behind the EGR cooler crap but I have no desire to feed the cooled air back into the intake to reduce pollution or NoX or anything. Now what I have ran into is idea #1 seems almost impossible. I would have to shut the flow of water through the water block off but bypassing it would leave coolant in the water block to boil and therefore would steam out my antifreeze causing me to always have to add more.Idea 2 on the other hand seems much more plausible. The exhaust can simply be butterfly valve'd off and then all the hot air would cease to flow through my heat exchanger. This seems rather simple if I could get a hold of an EGR cooler that everyone is throwing away, but I am not quite sure on how they govern the flow so that the truck doesn't overheat. I was hoping you guys would inspire me with some more info on the EGR coolers people throw away or give me some other ideas. I am hoping to get it from 0f to 200f in 5min. :confused:

The Dana 80 only offers down to 3.31. I keep trying to find a 1st gen 3.08 axle.

Never heard of chains on a 4 wheeler :eek: All they do here is sink them, drive them through ponds, anything like that. I'd like to see the people around here's impressions if I drove through town with a chained 4 wheeler Probably think I was dragging logs or something.

More reason I need to move

You're having too much fun I've never rode a 4 wheeler on snow. Looks like you get a lot farther than dirt bikes get.

Thats the sites I was going by Then I found other sites saying vista doesn't support tcp/ip over firewire. I guess XP is the only OS that ever did, and I only have one firewire card and all the laptops with it built in are vista. I wish there was a way.

Think I am going to try and connect the 2 computers with firewire, seeing as how nothing will go at 1gbps other than the xp computer. Or more or less I just want to see if it can be done..by me

Figured I would try out an old network hub. Works flawlessly. Its a netgear ethernet hub model EN104TP and I don't understand what this uplink/normal button is for. One of the jacks says link on it so I think that has something to do with it but the internet works no matter what mode its on be it normal or uplink so I don't understand what it does. :confused: Nevermind http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081031210022AAtNykd

Check this crap out.

Guess thats one way to get your blood and gore.

So I have my internet connected to a router then to this computer. This computer has 3 ethernet jacks and I hate wireless connections and cannot hook another computer up to the internet in here unless I utilize that wireless. Well after tinkering off and on for months, I finally figured out how to get one of those damn vista laptops to get internet by going through my xp computer and then the router and then to the internet. I got the XP computer all set up and then I couldn't figure out how to get vista to see that it was the internet provider. It would just say it had an unrecognized network. I clicked on a bunch of things and figured out the XP one was set sending out everything at 192.168.0.1. So I got on vista laptop and pinged it, hmm, now the end of the tunnel is seen, network type settings pop up and it is on the internet. Not sure why it decided to work like that but this is kinda a HUGEEEEE personal achievement for me :lmao:Ahh crap, I have to ping the XP computer every time the laptop sleeps or turns off or anything. DamnitOk now vista will connect to xp's network but it wont go on the internet. The only thing that happened was the vista went to sleep and so it dropped the ethernet. Now it just wont see the internet.

I can get B20 here locally and it is definitely a mileage dropper. I think it drops me to borderline 20mpg instead of the usual 23 I always seem to get. As for B20 vs. 2 stroke, I cannot tell any difference. I think I lose some power with the B20 though, but I would say it's negligible. So the only thing bio is good for, is lubricity. It drops mileage, costs MORE than regular diesel (here anyways) and you surely have a slim drop in power. So to keep your mpg's up, your pump happy, and you wallet full, 2 stroke is the way to go.

So it's the sun's fault! I don't know what to think of the whole ordeal. All I know is we have been having a lot of very hot days followed by very cold day (for the time of year). A couple days ago it was 72f, last night it was 28f and the hi yesterday was 40. We've had weather like that for a couple years now. This year we have probably got as much rain in this year as we have totaled up for the last 3 years.. It has just been raining at least once a week lately. The last couple years you wouldn't be able to tell anyone when the last time it rained was, that's how long in between rain showers it was. I don't think the rain has much to do with anything but the huge temp sways are very strange.

That reminds me, also put a piece of cardboard over the radiator so when you are taking the fan off and working all around in there, you wont be bending all the fins constantly. It might be longer than half hour, anyone else would know how long it takes better than me. You review what you gotta do a few times though, and I don't think it would take very long.

It's very straight forward and simple. I think I piddled with it for an hour or two, but I tend to stare at things I never seen before (under the timing cover ) I think you could do it in a half hour if you went fast and the fan came off quickly. Just follow the directions and take your time and you'll see that there isn't really much that can go wrong. Make sure you are tedious about putting it back together, you would hate to find out you created a new oil leak :ahh:

I'd say its in the VP somewhere. What kind of gremlin problem are we talking about here?

You think that means the politics will start taking over?! More so than they already are :shocked:

:ahh: I had to make sure :biggrin: Wonder where he came up with that though :punish:The year 2009 in the Chinese calendar is the Year of the Ox. It lasts from January 26, 2009 to February 14, 2010. 2010 is the year of the Tiger.

Must have sold them all that quick lol

Dead link.