Good Morning
59°, grey and drizzling, not supposed to change much throughout the day. Rain hasn’t amounted to anything, less than 1/10” since yesterday, just keeps it damp outside.
Yesterday’s breakfast was good, daughter kept us entertained. Jeep went ok, I had to reclaim the charge that he put in without evacuating it, suck it down to 500 microns and weigh the correct charge into it. Worked like it was supposed to when we were done.
Next project was to replace the pump on my diesel tank. It was a 12v pump that I ran off of a battery that stayed on a battery minder in the shed next to the tank. The motor became intermittent, and I was tired of dealing with it. The new pump is 115v and connected in the shed. I hate spilling Diesel fuel on myself because the aroma lingers for a long time, so I wore disposable gloves used catch pans, and didn’t spill a drop- until I placed the removed pump into the carry all, while it was still connected to power, and suddenly came to life, spraying fuel everywhere from the outlet where I removed the hose.
When I finished up, the next chore was to was to wash the carryall with Dawn, soap cannon and pressure washer so it wasn’t like a skunk in the shop.
When I went to start the pressure washer, it tried to yank the rope out of my hand like it was angry with me. I remembered that when I installed the homemade valve rotator, I didn’t really set the valve clearance properly on the exhaust valve, and figured that was messing with the compression release. I think that I was right about that, after I set the clearance properly with a feeler gauge, it started happily without fighting back.
Last chore was to cutout a revised bucket ear for my buddy’s excavator and take it over for a trial fit.
I cut it out of a piece of an old 14ga oil tank that was cut up for scrap. It fit pretty well, but I did tweak the drawing slightly afterwards, trying to make them perfect when I cut them out of new 3/4” material.
Great to hear that Bill is removing and will likely keep his license.
