MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Click EWE TOOB
Little loading wheel on FireFox browser goes round and round and...
5 minutes to the restroom.....round
8 minutes to buy a cold soda.....round
15 minutes to chat about a sluice box.....Site not found window.
A one inch chain with a broken link tows less weight than an intact 1/4" chain
OK, gramps. I get it. The dreaded loading wheel. I should have shot the video in Mexican quality, but your connection speed wasn't foremost on my mind at the time.
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I wish my Mitsubishi Zero engine had an HEI quality ignition module. Although back in '95 I suspect Mitsubishi made stuff in Japan and not in the shadow of the Great Wall.
You would think the ONE company that wouldn't outsource to China would be Mitsubishi. 70 years is a long time, I guess.
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
This week China is on my ---- list.
Man, or what!!!
So I should probably pull that module, inspect the mounting material (for drill,) clean and remount with zinc oxide, eh?
Also...
In all the Hell I went through... I forgot to mention the insult to injury.
On our return trip home... BEFORE I noticed the knocking... I noticed the voltage meter was reading a little lower than usual. I pulled over and put the multimeter to the bank of 4 that are bonded together by the solonoid and... 12.8 with the engine running. Normal is mid 14s.
Thank God the genny was already running to run the roof air. So I hooked up my 25A Vector/B&D charger and hoisted anchor.
Then later on... the fan clutch began to stick on... and put added strain on the belt, causing it to squeal above 50 mph.
So the situation became...
Motor runs at higher rpms.
Fan clutch causes belt to squeal at higher rpms.
Driver must walk a fine line between the 2.
Oh.. and... not to mention the double pedal action when pulling off the road to refuel. I'm sure the brakes and tranny loved all that.
But I digress...
Since I'm pretty good at scanning gauges and never noticed a lower reading until this return trip which was long after the initial problems... and since all 4 batteries were running the ignition and thus the voltage on the return trip never went below 12.8... and the situation later degraded, even with the charger keeping the bank around 14.6... I can't imagine the alternator had anything to do with the broken distributor. Could it have?
Or could the failing distributor have somehow fried the alternator, fuse or....?
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