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    A Smart ForTwo, a Datsun 1200, a Dajiban, a Honda N600, and a DLR Sting-Krate bicycle
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  1. We geeze fellas. After those last four posts, I kinda don't want to show y'all the latest thing that "followed me home." I mean, I am going to, but I feel a little embarrassed. *Deep breath OK, here goes. I was thinking that I "needed" a .22lr revolver. I couldn't find a modern one, and had just about decided on a Heritage Rough Rider for $150 (6 shot but with the caveat "Always leave an empty chamber under the hammer"). So when I found a 9 shot Diamondback .22lr/.22mag... I went ahead and paid twice as much for it. I was pleasantly surprised when I got home and discovered it was double action as well!
  2. I will pre-apologize for not taking any pictures, sorry. Anyhoo, it occurred to me that we never checked to see if the front wheels were in the same place fore/aft in the wheel wells. I took some measurements and it looked like the passenger wheel was 3/4" to 1" further forward than the driver's side wheel. John crawled under and said that the passenger lower control arm looked askew as well. He measured the T/C rods and they were not the same length. We confirmed that the cross member was straight in the frame and put a few turns on the passenger T/C rod. With both T/C rods the same length, the wheels are now similarly centered in the arches. The steering wheel is cocked just a bit, but that can be fixed with toe adjustment. So, I think we're making progress.
  3. I never was a fan of the fake suppressor/barrel shroud on my Panzer BP-12... So I took it to the chop saw, then Datsunfreak made it into a nut by filing some castellations in it... We then hit the new nut with some wrinkle black paint... and "baked" it with a heat gun ... to get a nice wrinkle going... Back on the gun... and I think it looks a lot better... A T.H.O.T from the Instant Grams asked me what I plan to use it for. I told her, "I plan to use it for 'having a cool-ass gun!'"
  4. Interesting... and by "interesting" I mean, "SHUT UP NERDS!" Back to me now. I finally got around to taking pictures of the purple Bride gaiter installed... Since I sewed the uncircumcised reverse lockout into this gaiter, I had to run the "carbon fiber" knob instead of the purple one. I think it works and this one doesn't get as hot as the anodized aluminum one did.
  5. So, I have been navel gazing over this and think I have an idea of what happened. It might not be barrel shaped cylinders after all (I hope). As a recap, Dodge Magnum intakes have a stamped steel plenum cover closing off the intake runners from the lifter valley. These notoriously leak and cause oil to be sucked into the intake. When we swapped the Manuel transmission in, we created a situation where the engine could produce WAY more vacuum through engine braking and REALLY sucked the oil into the intake. We're thinking that since the gasket blew (or sucked to be more accurate) on one side, it caused only one bank to get the massive oil soaking and therefore only the driver's side has the issue. We're hoping that by eliminating the oil ingress, the rings will re-seat and all will be well again. It's possible we just didn't give the repaired F/I Kegger manifold enough time to clear up the issue. Or... I could be full of shit and am trying to convince myself that it's going to fix itself.
  6. Wait, original? I'm referring to "Mote in God's Eye" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven... aaaaand looking at the Googles I see that "The Gripping Hand" was a sequel. I don't think I read that one.
  7. Wasn't he a DJ on KEGL in the '80s?
  8. I would have shown a picture of the label maker itself, but it was so old and fragile (and I may have been a little ham-fisted) that it actually broke while I was making that test strip. Fortunately, John has one at home and is making the actual labels for me.
  9. Today, we "replaced" the ramps with cinder blocks... and put some plastic sheets with grease in between them... under the tires so we could set the toe. The tape measure says we have 1/16" toe in, and the wheel is straight ahead. so I'm sure there is not a single molecule of "Whack" in this alignment. We'll see. Also, the label tape test seems to be positive (but we took no pictures, sorry). We're going to move forward with this method.
  10. I remembered/realized why we inserted the bolts this way originally... It was to put the shear plane at the yellow line... Said shear plane is now at the red line, which is still on the shank of the bolt. And yes, I realize the spacer makes bending more likely than shearing. We shall see.
  11. This makes perfect sense, and I wonder why I never realized it before. It also "proves" to me that the previous owner just slapped a junkyard motor in rather than a reman. Having said all of that, I came to the decision that I can't afford either option of replacement engine at this time. I have told them to reassemble it the way I brought it in and make it run as well as they can. If they can set up the carb so it doesn't smell like it's pig-rich, and runs well, I'll be satisfied... for the time being. Of course, since I have a cam, lifters, and timing set, I will build a donk as funds allow and figure out how we're going to swap them later. So, to make a short story long, I hope to have my Dajiban back by this time next wee... DAMN IT! I just jinxed it, didn't I?
  12. So far, so good... Since the label stayed on this long, we decided to try another sample on the actual material of the switch panel... We'll know more on Saturday. John raised concern about the grade 5 bolts we had securing the steering tie rods to the struts (and I always hated the direction we installed them)... So we bought some grade 8 bolts and spacers to replace the washer stack... Now the ends look like this... We "set the toe" so that the wheels are now pointing (more or less) where we want them to, but we'll do proper measurements and such Saturday.
  13. Oof! The donk is about to get a lot more expensive. Apparently my cylinders are more barrel shaped than cylindrical. As the pistons come up the bores, 4 of the cylinders start making compression, suddenly drop compression, then start making compression again. No, I've never heard of such a thing either. We're weighing the options on how to move forward... have this block bored for oversized pistons or pop for a reman from work. Overboring my block could be cheaper, but the reman would be a shorter time frame to completion. On the gripping hand, we won't know how much the reman is overbored, if any... and being the geek that I am, that's important! Is that reman a 0.030" over 322 or a 0.060" over 327?
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