Quick Bits

[Whitetrashrocker]

Brought home another trophy.



And small world. The guy with the blown camaro is the guy who owns westech. He was parked next to us and we had good conversation. Talking about all the cool MotorTrend shows he was involved with. He hangs with Dulcich an Friberger still.
Dave was at his house/shop just a few days ago.

The white Riviera is a newer car to another friend of ours. It was sweet. Had the big 445 nail head in it. Ive never seen one in person.

 

[Denny]

Had the big 445 nail head in it.

425 was the biggest nail head engine Buick made. I’ve got a couple of 401 nailheads.

Fun Fact: To start a SR-71 Blackbird, 2 Buick 425 or 401 engines were hooked together in tandem to drive a right angle gear box to start the engines of the plane. They blew up so many of them that they exhausted the supply of them in junkyards at one time. Then they had to switch to Chevy 454s.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Wasn't that the torque rating on the wildcat?

 

[Denny]

445 I’ve heard of for the 401s. But the 425 was closer to 465 I believe.

 

[Kartorbust]

Ended up with limited house power last night. Was annoying, had no heat overnight, temps were down to 28⁰. Ended up being one of the BUSS fuses outside at the shutoff switch blew out. It was a BUSS FNR-60 amp fuse that blew, I suspect. The other leg had a BUSS FNR-R-60 delay blow fuse, which is rated 500% above 60 amps for 10 seconds.

The screwed up thing was, had the dryer going and was on my treadmill per doctor's orders. Had been on the treadmill for about 15 minutes, listening to Data and Riker (TNG actors) talk on their podcast about the passing of Patrick Stewart. Lights went out for a moment then came on flickering. Soon as I turned off the dryer, none of the lights came on. Turning it back on, lights were on, low power and fans were struggling.

Thought we were having a brownout. Had put in a power outage on our power companies system late last night, in case something went wrong. They never showed up.

Somehow the dryer was only taking in half the power (just the nature of single phase 240v) and was causing a back feed into the house. Only the fridge, stove, dryer, garage, and microwave had any power. Used my outlet tester and found only 1 leg had power at certain places. Turned off all three 240v breakers.

Had to wait until 11am this morning to get new fuses, since ACE Hardware didn't open up until then. $30 for a 2 pack of the time delayed fuses. Cut the power at the shutoff fuse box outside, verified no power with a DMM, and removed both fuses, installed new fuses and turned the power back on.

Kept all the sensitive electronics unplugged and plugged the dryer back in. Turned the dryer breaker on and started it up, made sure the lights did not flicker again. So now everything works. House is warming up again. And my PC did not get nuked.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Wonder if you had a power drop on the supply side and you were sitting close to the 60a load threshold. Voltage dropped and amperage spiked. That fast blow went while the slow blow r type held on.

Did you buy extra fuses for next time?

 

[Kartorbust]

I'll get some extra fuses next time I'm near there. They only had the one twin pack. Could buy some off Amazon and keep them. But we do need to update it to a higher rated fuse box. Or abandon it and install a 200 amp panel in the basement. Currently have a 125 amp Square D panel in the basement with no main breaker. The 60 amp fuses are the only things that cut power.

 

[Hellion]

What in the wOrLD? It walks! No tracks....