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    Howdy from WA

    It ain't the Wenatchee [or East Wenatchee] we grew up with. I live an hour plus away now (Mattawa - Desert Aire), but my brother is still off Sunset, near Bob Philes. . . . He has a few late sixties and a few seventies rigs. Just dropped off a new key and tumbler for my brother to give his...
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    Electrical Load Causing Weak Blower Motor?

    As I pointed out in the past, not always on the relay thing. Many systems, like mine, do not have and never did have a relay. Schematics and wire diagrams bear this out. Too, there is the absurdity of putting a relay only on the high speed circuit. All three [or four] speeds should have the...
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    Electrical Load Causing Weak Blower Motor?

    However, qualify that with, one terminal of the resister plug, essentially, acts as a terminal block. The switch high speed feeds into it, and a second wire from the same terminal feeds on to the motor. Thus, as we noted, bypassing the resistor. But it leaves the rare potential for corrosion...
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    Electrical Load Causing Weak Blower Motor?

    That, obviously, won't hurt anything, but blower resistors tend to be all or nothing creatures. That is, they are working or they aren't (they open up). Said another way, resistors don't tend to increase in resistance, instead, they just open [while caps tend to short, then really blow out]...
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    Electrical Load Causing Weak Blower Motor?

    If your addtions lowered the power to your blower, it suggests: (1) Everything is running at the same time; (2) You're running too much load for the wire size feeding everything; and, (3) You, likely, are running too big a fuse. You could do some simple tests: (1) Run a power line from the...
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    electric choke/ operating in reverse at start up

    When I got my rig home, after it sat for a few days, the battery would be dead. Pulled the negative cable and put a light between the cable and the battery. The light lit, indicating a drain. I isolated the drain to the choke. Someone had tied it straight to the battery. This meant the...
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    Drop in bed liner

    AND hold moisture under/behind them. . . .
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    I can, the value of my time 3-D drawing it aside. One advantage of printing my own is, I can modify to my want and need.
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    Tire Pressure Monitors [TPM's]

    The TPM on our Subaru is just above a joke. Kind of like the warning lights that tell you, "you just let your engine be killed." About all it does is, give you a general warning the tire is low, OR all four of your tires are flat. For example, when you swap summer/winter tires and their...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Hmm. Was wondering what I should do with the ash tray slot. It might be a good place to put a tire pressure readout AND USB ports. . . . Actually a pretty simple 3-D print. SIDE NOTE: May try some ASA filament. Got in the truck yesterday and noted the prototype PLA prints were molding...
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    Tachometer 6 cylinder

    Had a long post about my tach install, then it dawned on me, you're dealing with the stock dash components and the limited room that comes with that, versus the entire dash I built (mahogany) and was able to modify to do everything I demanded of it. No reasonable way to install most aftermarket...
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    Have you checked your ground?

    Best shock I ever woke up from: An RF shock when the two watt bulb I was working with keyed a transmitter I was working on. Never found my aluminum screwdriver, or hints of the roll of electrical tape I'd wrapped it with. We were across the big ponds. They made us take down our antennas during...
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    1977 K30 draining battery

    The simple start: (1) Charge the battery. NOTE: Don't let a battery get and stay discharged for long, because that causes what is called sulfation That is material forming on the plate and ending or at least reducing the battery's life. (2) Disconnect the ground. (3) Put a 12 volt test light...
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    New-ish from Washington

    Ditto on the welcome back fellow Warshingtoner.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    We took a vote and decided that's too purty to put tires on, so your plans of driving this when done have been vetoed . . . .
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    Need advice on what to do.

    It's been interesting, watching the Columbia (a few blocks from me). First there is that snow has been wholly absent here in the desert near Central Washington, rain has been limited, but the water levels of the river have been up a lot of the time. Good thing. Someone has to keep the Pacific...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Snort. I have a box of usable bench seat, seat belt holder versions/variations I need to find a home for. I'd already flipped the belt on one, and added round-overs.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Swapped the driver's door pin and bushings. The trick of hanging the door off ratcheting straps thrown over open ceiling trusses was game changing. My trusses ran the wrong way, so I had to throw a spare 2x 90-degrees to the others to get it where I could swing the door in to start the bolts...
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    Looks like bad news for me

    SIDE NOTE: On the 71 I had out on the coast, I started having power issues and isolated it to the fuse box. All the terminals that held fuses and relays were rusted. Jeweler's files took care of the relay terminals. For the curved fuse holders, I put a somewhat tame grind head in a Dremel and...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Too funny - a door key under the dash. . . .
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    Do I need a block heater?

    My 57 step side had a manual choke. I added the capacative discharge system NAPA sold back in the 70s so it dropped the point amperage down from around 7 amps to about 2/10's of an amp (200 milliamps) across the points, among other things. The lower amperage meant the points stayed like new for...
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    E85 conversions considering gas prices

    My buddy makes fuel for his tractors from the cooking oil businesses have to dispose of (his tractor smells like fresh cooked popcorn, as it goes down the road). I envy him those big 40 gallon teardrop shaped separators he uses. They'd be perfect for removing the water from otherwise dependable...
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    E85 conversions considering gas prices

    A side note: FIRST: I always run my equipment out of gas before storing it long term. Still, when I fired up my 12 horse, 4,000 PSI pressure washer, it was popping, cracking and, generally, running crappy, after sitting a couple years. I dropped a teaspoon of lacquer thinner in the 2 gallon...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Same here. Thus the declarations mentioned.
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    Have you checked your ground?

    Electronics/Electricity: 1.0 We have three choices for circuits, series, parallel and a combo of the two (series-parallel) 2.0 In a series circuit, every thing is one thing connected after another. 3.0 In a parallel circuit, things are connected side by side. 4.0 Much of what we are...

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