Good Morning!!!! 63F @ 6:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High near 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Damned squirrel in addition to costing a box of towels almost gave me a heart attack when came scrambling out of the box and up my arm before jumping to the floor.
I think I forgot to mention that almost the same thing happened to me when I was looking for popped fuses on the firetruck last week. I found a mouse nest in the glove box, and when I opened the ash tray a mouse jumped right into my lap. It's next hop was to the floor, and I was a second too late trying to stomp it with my boot. Instead it made it out the door to live and restore its home in the glove box again.
OK, valve tap gone at idle, but still present at the 2K rpm range. Not good.
What engine is it? If it's the 7.3L Diesel, it won't start or run if it looses oil pressure. At two quarts, it wasn't completely out, but if the oil level was below the pickup, could be the cams and lifters suffered some damage.
We're dry and hot here this week too! Make sure you close the doors and windows......
I haven't had any doors or windows open for ventilation for at least a month because the temperatures have been so hot, and for the last week, because there's enough smoke in the air to make it unhealthy.
I'm wondering if I can get take out from there, good food but in a very quiet rv.
I was warned away from The Big Texan by the locals in Amarillo, Drew. They said the food is not very good. Lincoln Steak House seemed to be their favorite.
I was very happy when the Honda generator started up after only a few seconds of cranking yesterday. I installed a propane conversion on it a few years ago, and haven't used it much since. It ran for most of an hour up at the gate powering a medium size hammer drill I'd hoped would make short work of the concreted in and burned off at the ground fence posts there. No such luck, as I only got about a foot down on one post in all that time. Gonna need the full sized electric jackhammer for this job, and it's down south. But the list of things to do here keeps growing, so I'll need at least one more van trip before I can start driving the Toyota up here again.
While I had the generator hooked up, I ran my neighbor's pipe wrenches back to him, and we hooked his 120VAC welder up to the generator so I could fine tune the propane mixture while it was under load. He didn't have a replacement 1" PVC shut off valve, so when I mentioned I was just going to the local rip off hardware store to save me a trip to town, he decided to ride along and pick up a roll of stamps. The big van got his stamp of approval, too. Mine, too, as it made it up both of our steep gravel driveways loaded with half a ton of firewood with no trouble at all.
Back home I made a bad cut on the PVC when I went to replace that valve, but fortunately had a fitting in the box that would work. Doing it that way didn't let me re-route and simplify like I'd intended, but it ended up being less work.
Once the sun got lower and it cooled off a bit I dumped the water out of the Kubota side-by-side's radiator and mixed up a gallon of 50/50 antifreeze. Left it to drain overnight and called it a day.
Today will start with filling up the Kubota radiator, then spraying another tank or two of glyphosate on the yellow star thistle that always comes in this time of year. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring, but there are lots of choices.
