Quick Bits

[Master Hack]

l have the ability to machine that taper to a straight shaft and cut a keyway.

just curious, turn it 3/4? 1.0? .843?

Easy Isn't always the right decision, but an adaptor vs. tearing the motor down and removing the crankshaft. I know you know this, but just saying.

no tear down, start it up and use the angle grinder!

 

[Grizzlymi]

Even Mo' better! Gas powered lathe!

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

I would at least open it up and look inside.
He supposedly took the heads off too. Who knows what was wrong.

 

[Edwin Spangler]

Im not buying another damned one-time-use puller. I have at least 10 that have only been used once!

-And I already have a solution to the problem you may or may not see...

 

[Edwin Spangler]

Goteem

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

You win

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Hey Grey beards.

Made me a Miller C-3826 mopar gauge testor.

10, 23, 74 ohm resistors.

Should make the gauges read low, mid, and high scale.

What'd ya think.





Ill make you one for $49.95 and a case o beer.
Send checks to middle of nowhere.
Please be advised im 2 weeks from anywhere so shipping will be 4-6 weeks accordingly.

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

Does it work?

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Does it work?

Haven't tried it yet. Ill report back.

 

[Kartorbust]

Just applied to a welder apprentice at a metal shop closer to home than what my current job is. Pay would take a bit of a cut, but hours would be consistent, plus the option for over time.

 

[Grizzlymi]

Just got back from a 4 day trip upnorth for turkey hunting opener and trout fishing opener. 0 turkey between the 3 of us and 0 trout. The rivers were all unwadable do to record rain and flooding from the a couple weeks rain up there.. We still fished from shore in muddy waters and had zero luck. We hunted the property my buddy has and state land. All the damn turkeys were trotting around on everyone else's private property. My turkey calls need a vacation after all that use. Never been skunked before between all of us. First for everything, but we still managed to have a blast and now I need to rehydrate and get back into the weekly grind.

 

[Kartorbust]

Most of the times I go hunting or fishing, I get skunked. But if this is the first time in years, yeah that sucks.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

My office for the day.



A pic driving back home.



The info board.

 

[Edwin Spangler]

You win

Nope... Oil started pouring out the cylinder/crankcase mating surface.

I guess you really do need a torque wrench for this. Whodathunk?

LOL You cant just hand tighten with a crappy wrench, strip one of the head bolts and be good.

 

[Edwin Spangler]

...In my defense, Ive done so on a 212 once. Minus the stripping part, thats what probably got me.

 

[Kartorbust]

Still no call back about being a welder apprentice. But got an updated jobs listing, looks like it got filled.

 

[Hellion]

Alright guys, it’s so cold lately that my Genie screw-drive gayrog door openers are balking, slowing down and giving me a hard time. I think it’s the white lithium grease I used that is stiff, perhaps literally frozen in this weather. Modern, 1st world problems, eh?

What’s a good low temp grease I can use that‘ll stay nice and gooey?

It’s possible that the openers are just old (they are circa 1996) and tired and are picking this winter to die, not sure.

I finally tinkered with the garage door opener today after doing it manually for a while. I queried the A.I. assistant on the Genie website about the issue. It replied back that it's likely to be the motor coupler, basically a $5 part. The coupler is a tubular steel sleeve about 3/4" long with a plastic insert that has a rectangular recess on both ends. Further research on YT suggests it is a sacrificial part as the plastic "gives" and gets egged out to save the motor, maybe.

Anyways I ordered the part and proceed to pull the old coupler out expecting it to be egged out on one or both ends but it's not. What the heck? So I reassemble it with the original coupler, reconnect the door to the trolley et voilà! It's working again.

I applied some Lubriplate Low Temp grease just in case it was frozen grease the first time.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Was it 2 plastic inserts in a metal tube or one piece covered in a metal sleeve?

Perhaps if 2 pieces, one or both are slipping and spinning in the tube.

 

[Hellion]

Was it 2 plastic inserts in a metal tube or one piece covered in a metal sleeve?

Perhaps if 2 pieces, one or both are slipping and spinning in the tube.

That is a very interesting question. The new coupler (and the old) have the rectangular socket on one end "clocked" 90° from the other. Like on one end and on the other. Both ends on the old coupler seemed intact in that way but it's possible it could have spun. It's working fine (knock on wood) at the moment so that hypothesis seems unlikely. Bizarre!