From: mendo_recce@off-road.com Subject: Digest for mendo_recce: 2/22/1997 Errors-To: owner-mendo_recce@off-road.com Reply-To: mendo_recce@off-road.com Precedence: bulk This is the digest for the mendo_recce mailling list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 12:17:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New use for dirt! No matter how pristine you want your Rover to appear, I urge you not to clean that combination of dirt and grease off the bottom of it! I am beginning to discover all kinds of wonderful uses for the stuff! First of all, it's a great rust preventative, next, well, next....ya see, I was replacing the speedometer cable on Daisy this morning. Like many of you, I installed a new OD last year. Now, there's these three little bitty screws that hold the cable in the rear of the tranny, right? Boy, that OD certainly makes it fun to get the screws back in. It's not that you can't see where the little devils are supposed to go, it's that you need spider-like appendages to hold the screw in place so you can tighten it in. I know, you're asking "what's this got to do with dirt?" Hold on, I'm getting to that. Using a long shanked, wide flat tipped screwdriver, I was able to get the bottom screws seated and tightened down. That left the top screw. Now you can look down from above and see exactly where that little bugger is supposed to go, but not many of us have 12" long fingers, right? Even if you did a screwdriver and said appendages just don't fit well together in the limited area available. So....you have to crawl back under the beastie and attempt to install that d@#$g screw from below. I attempted several times to balance the screw on the blade of the driver with little success. Oh, I could get it to the hole, but the speedo cable blocks one's vision pretty well, so every time I got it there, it would either fall off on it's own, would get started at the wrong angle, then fall out, ugh! That's when I noticed this most excellent supply of dirt/grease attached to the metal parts surrounding the U-joints. Um, good stuff! A little dab of the goo on the screw head and the driver blade stuck to it like two teenagers at the drive-in! First try and the screw seated and turned right in! So that's why I say don't clean the bottom of that old Rover! That's good stuff sticking up there! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 12:22:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New use for dirt! No matter how pristine you want your Rover to appear, I urge you not to clean that combination of dirt and grease off the bottom of it! I am beginning to discover all kinds of wonderful uses for the stuff! First of all, it's a great rust preventative, next, well, next....ya see, I was replacing the speedometer cable on Daisy this morning. Like many of you, I installed a new OD last year. Now, there's these three little bitty screws that hold the cable in the rear of the tranny, right? Boy, that OD certainly makes it fun to get the screws back in. It's not that you can't see where the little devils are supposed to go, it's that you need spider-like appendages to hold the screw in place so you can tighten it in. I know, you're asking "what's this got to do with dirt?" Hold on, I'm getting to that. Using a long shanked, wide flat tipped screwdriver, I was able to get the bottom screws seated and tightened down. That left the top screw. Now you can look down from above and see exactly where that little bugger is supposed to go, but not many of us have 12" long fingers, right? Even if you did a screwdriver and said appendages just don't fit well together in the limited area available. So....you have to crawl back under the beastie and attempt to install that d@#$g screw from below. I attempted several times to balance the screw on the blade of the driver with little success. Oh, I could get it to the hole, but the speedo cable blocks one's vision pretty well, so every time I got it there, it would either fall off on it's own, would get started at the wrong angle, then fall out, ugh! That's when I noticed this most excellent supply of dirt/grease attached to the metal parts surrounding the U-joints. Um, good stuff! A little dab of the goo on the screw head and the driver blade stuck to it like two teenagers at the drive-in! First try and the screw seated and turned right in! So that's why I say don't clean the bottom of that old Rover! That's good stuff sticking up there! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 12:23:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New use for dirt! No matter how pristine you want your Rover to appear, I urge you not to clean that combination of dirt and grease off the bottom of it! I am beginning to discover all kinds of wonderful uses for the stuff! First of all, it's a great rust preventative, next, well, next....ya see, I was replacing the speedometer cable on Daisy this morning. Like many of you, I installed a new OD last year. Now, there's these three little bitty screws that hold the cable in the rear of the tranny, right? Boy, that OD certainly makes it fun to get the screws back in. It's not that you can't see where the little devils are supposed to go, it's that you need spider-like appendages to hold the screw in place so you can tighten it in. I know, you're asking "what's this got to do with dirt?" Hold on, I'm getting to that. Using a long shanked, wide flat tipped screwdriver, I was able to get the bottom screws seated and tightened down. That left the top screw. Now you can look down from above and see exactly where that little bugger is supposed to go, but not many of us have 12" long fingers, right? Even if you did a screwdriver and said appendages just don't fit well together in the limited area available. So....you have to crawl back under the beastie and attempt to install that d@#$g screw from below. I attempted several times to balance the screw on the blade of the driver with little success. Oh, I could get it to the hole, but the speedo cable blocks one's vision pretty well, so every time I got it there, it would either fall off on it's own, would get started at the wrong angle, then fall out, ugh! That's when I noticed this most excellent supply of dirt/grease attached to the metal parts surrounding the U-joints. Um, good stuff! A little dab of the goo on the screw head and the driver blade stuck to it like two teenagers at the drive-in! First try and the screw seated and turned right in! So that's why I say don't clean the bottom of that old Rover! That's good stuff sticking up there! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 12:15:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New use for dirt! No matter how pristine you want your Rover to appear, I urge you not to clean that combination of dirt and grease off the bottom of it! I am beginning to discover all kinds of wonderful uses for the stuff! First of all, it's a great rust preventative, next, well, next....ya see, I was replacing the speedometer cable on Daisy this morning. Like many of you, I installed a new OD last year. Now, there's these three little bitty screws that hold the cable in the rear of the tranny, right? Boy, that OD certainly makes it fun to get the screws back in. It's not that you can't see where the little devils are supposed to go, it's that you need spider-like appendages to hold the screw in place so you can tighten it in. I know, you're asking "what's this got to do with dirt?" Hold on, I'm getting to that. Using a long shanked, wide flat tipped screwdriver, I was able to get the bottom screws seated and tightened down. That left the top screw. Now you can look down from above and see exactly where that little bugger is supposed to go, but not many of us have 12" long fingers, right? Even if you did a screwdriver and said appendages just don't fit well together in the limited area available. So....you have to crawl back under the beastie and attempt to install that d@#$g screw from below. I attempted several times to balance the screw on the blade of the driver with little success. Oh, I could get it to the hole, but the speedo cable blocks one's vision pretty well, so every time I got it there, it would either fall off on it's own, would get started at the wrong angle, then fall out, ugh! That's when I noticed this most excellent supply of dirt/grease attached to the metal parts surrounding the U-joints. Um, good stuff! A little dab of the goo on the screw head and the driver blade stuck to it like two teenagers at the drive-in! First try and the screw seated and turned right in! So that's why I say don't clean the bottom of that old Rover! That's good stuff sticking up there! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: Granville Pool Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 12:42:23 -0800 Subject: Re: New use for dirt! Dale, The proper name for that wonderful stuff on the undercarriage is "grud" which is a combination of grease and mud. Granny ------------------------------------ From: smthengr@sirius.com (Jeff Smith) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 12:59:28 -0800 Subject: Rangeco plastic sliders Kevin Kelly proved the critics wrong. He successfully installed my plastic disco sliders on his Range Rover and I must say they look rather snappy. So for all you rock-slider-disco-owners that were considering sending your plastic sliders to the same bone yard that all the Harley stock pipes end up at, you now have another option. And if you are lucky you might even get something for them. I happened to get 1/6 gross of Guiness and Sierra complements of Mr. Kelly. Jeff Regards, Jeff Smith. S.E. phone: (415) 543-8651 fax: (415) 543-8679 email: smthengr@sirius.com Smith Engineering 27 South Park San Francisco, CA 94107 ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 15:12:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: GRUD >Dale, > >The proper name for that wonderful stuff on the undercarriage is "grud" >which is a combination of grease and mud. > >Granny > Grud!?! Um, I'm just a novice at this land rover stuff. But don't worry, I'll get the verbiage down yet! BTW, got a new jet for the weber from BP today. The 170 replaced the 165 in less than 5 minutes, and seems to have taken care of much of the "surging" problems, just as Kelly said it would. The new engine is a cold blooded bastard though. Chugs and pops like mad unless I leave the choke out until it's nice and warm. The old engine purred like a baby after a couple of blocks, and was content with the 165 to boot! Granny, I'm getting scared! Besides the gas tank sender unit that seems to have suddenly decided to die at about the same time the dome light decided to come to life, I'm running out of parts to replace! Pretty soon, I'll be replacing parts that I've already replaced! AND I think Daisy wants to run well! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: twakeman@scruznet.com (TeriAnn Wakeman) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:05:43 -0800 Subject: Re: Come uppance At 6:01 PM 2/21/97 -0800, Dale W. Avery wrote: >>>What do you know about Canon AE-1's? >>What are you really asking? >I just was given one. Cleaned it up (it was filthy) stuck a roll of film in >it, and am about to shoot some pictures of Daisy. Was just wondering if it >took half way decent photos (miniture camera, miniture film, and all). I'm sure the Nikon people will take offense but I think the Cannon lenses are pretty good and as good as the Nikon lenses. If your camera is clean, working properly and light tight and as long as your lense is in good condition an AE-1 should be able to make the maximum use of that little postage stamp size film (I'm sure the Lica people will take offense at this). If it doesn't take the camera to a camera repair shop & have it and your lense checked out then cleaned. What lense(s) came with the camera? >Have you ever had a carb that frosts over when first started? The Weber is >doing that at its base just above the phenolic spacer. Steve is giving me >the idea that that is what's causing my poor drivablity problems. I doubt >if it happend on the old engine, why the change now???? Vapourizing fuel lowers the air tempreature. Water vapour can freeze at the base of the venturi. Thats why the Solex carbs came with a heater element. It also has to do with why carburated aircrast engines have carb heaters. The ones I know of are a duct that when on draws air off the exhaust manifold. If you're going to use a Weber in your climate you may have to ether wait for the base of your carb to warm up, or build a carb heater. Set fuel mixture, turn on carb heat, turn on both magnetos, CLEAR PROP! > >----- > Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" > "No matter where you go, there you are." TeriAnn Wakeman "Large format photographers look Santa Cruz California at the world upside down and twakeman@scruznet.com backwards" ------------------------------------ From: twakeman@scruznet.com (TeriAnn Wakeman) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:15:39 -0800 Subject: Re: New use for dirt! At 12:17 PM 2/22/97 -0800, Dale W. Avery wrote: > Now, there's these three little bitty screws >that hold the cable in the rear of the tranny, right? Boy, that OD >certainly makes it fun to get the screws back in. It's not that you can't >see where the little devils are supposed to go, it's that you need >spider-like appendages to hold the screw in place so you can tighten it in. I replaced mine with allen head screws back when. You just put the screw on the allen wrench and insert. Its much easier. TeriAnn Wakeman "Large format photographers look Santa Cruz California at the world upside down and twakeman@scruznet.com backwards" ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 19:36:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New use for dirt! >I replaced mine with allen head screws back when. You just put the screw >on the allen wrench and insert. Its much easier. > >TeriAnn Wakeman > Ah, spoilsport, that's no fun! It certainly doesn't aid in developing the fine art of cussing! ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: davery@on-ramp.ior.com (Dale W. Avery) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 19:46:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Using a Weber, was "Come uppance" > >If it doesn't take the camera to a camera repair shop & have it and your >lense checked out then cleaned. > >What lense(s) came with the camera? > It came with the traditional FD 50mm 1:1.8 typical of this camera. Thanks for the info, I'll let you know how "light-tight" the camera is as soon as I finish shooting the first roll. If you're going to use a Weber in your climate you may >have to ether wait for the base of your carb to warm up, or build a carb >heater. > >Set fuel mixture, turn on carb heat, turn on both magnetos, CLEAR PROP! > Now let's see, I do have some starter paste left from my Svea stove....um, squeeze tube and put line of starter around base of Weber, ignite, step into car, pull out choke, start engine, get out of car and close hood, get back in car......is this right so far? Oh, wait, jump out of car, raise bonnet, run for fire extinguisher, put out burning noise insulation..... Hey, where can I see some digitized views of you green machine??? ----- Dale W. Avery KC7MM & Ms Daisy '73-SIII-88" "No matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------ From: "Walter C. Swain" Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:18:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Octane On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Dale W. Avery wrote: > > >This, of course, does not explain why unleaded is cheaper in the UK than > >leaded fuel. > > > Could there be less demand for unleaded than leaded?? Could it be that the government is putting a higher tax on leaded to discourage consumption? Rgds, Walt * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Walter C. Swain | wcswain@dcn.davis.ca.us * * Davis Community Network | 1969 LR Dormobile- "Bertha" * * Davis, California | 1988 Range Rover- "Lady Jane" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------------ From: "Walter C. Swain" Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:24:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Hippo motors Hi Steve, This custom motor service sounds quite interesting. What do you know about replacing a 2.6 Litre 6 with a 2.25 Liter 4? Is the bell housing the same? Is it done routinely? Any special problems? Rgds, Walt * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Walter C. Swain | wcswain@dcn.davis.ca.us * * Davis Community Network | 1969 LR Dormobile- "Bertha" * * Davis, California | 1988 Range Rover- "Lady Jane" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 BRITPAC@aol.com wrote: > In fact, we are close to offering complete, finished versions for sale. > We have acquired a bunch of ex-MOD rebuilds to use as cores (although > they are sound), and we will either offer these engines outright or > custom built to 'Hippo' specs. ------------------------------------ From: Granville Pool Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:27:28 -0800 Subject: Re: Hippo motors Walt, >This custom motor service sounds quite interesting. What do you know >about replacing a 2.6 Litre 6 with a 2.25 Liter 4? Is the bell housing >the same? Is it done routinely? Any special problems? The six has a different bellhousing, the same as the one used on the Series I f-head four-cylinder engines. The six is that engine with two more cylinders added, which is a kind way of saying just how seriously obsolete that six is. I mean, an f-head? Good grief! I assume this is for your Dormobile. Wouldn't you really rather have a more powerful engine to pull around all that ponderous weight? Like a Chevy 250 six or a Jag 4.2-liter? I have always wanted to put a Jag six in a 109. A mechanic here in Ukiah had one for a while in his--you ain't gonna effin' b'lieve this--Ford F-250 4x4 pickup!! Damned thing had too much torque!! So he put in a big Caddy V-8 instead. I know, I'm not altogether sure I believe it either and I've known him for years. Cheers, Granny ------------------------------------ End of Digest