| Trip Report 2 & 3 [message #220594] |
Fri, 30 August 2013 22:57  |
George Beckman
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA
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Well, so much for nice cool trips through the mid West. It is hot here.
We are in Pratt, Kansas, at a little man made lake with piers made of rock that you can drive out on giving you the feeling of being in a boat. $5 a night without hookups. Nice. The only down side is it is Friday night and the kiddies are out to watch the Submarine Races and it seems to be a place to "cruise" if that is still the word.
Last night we were in Green River, CO. Nice little place to change an alternator. Yeah, I am not having much luck with them. This was a warranted item from NAPA. At least it was free but only lasted 1100 miles before it began to charge irregularly and then finally not at all. I am now the proud owner of O'Reily's 100 amp job. It has worked fine one day in a row.
Still plagued with a bit of vapor lock. As Ken Henderson reported, filling with gas cures it for about 90 minutes or so. Sure is funny because we have nothing but Ethanol in CA and have driven all over in hotter weather than this... mountains and valleys. We don't have 85 octane in CA.
This time I simply kept going. It just surges a bit now and then.
If all goes well we will be with the Van Winkles tomorrow afternoon.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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| Re: [GMCnet] Trip Report 2 & 3 [message #220600 is a reply to message #220594] |
Fri, 30 August 2013 23:41  |
Ken Henderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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George,
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Yesterday we moved from Le Grande, OR to
Boise, ID. On the long steep grades, approaching the summits, I'd have
vapor lock symptoms. Once it got so bad I had to park for 30 minutes only
a few hundred yards from the crest. Later in the day I discovered that
with the battery boost switch ON (the combiner quit back in May), the fuel
pressure gauge began to fluctuate and the engine run rough. Boost OFF,
stable pressure and engine!
Today I did careful load tests of the batteries, suspecting the house golf
carts mighty be failing and loading the electrical system down -- though
the dash voltmeter didn't show it. All batteries are good. There's got to
be a high resistance circuit somewhere downstream of the voltmeter takeoff
but before the fuel pump.
But I haven't figured out how the house batteries can cause the fuel pump
to falter. Maybe they're loading the alternator just enough to drop the
pump voltage below its minimum -- incorrectly above 13 VDC? Suspecting
that the fuel pump I just installed at Sulley's in Seattle might not be
quite up to snuff, I replaced it today with a new spare I picked up a
couple of days ago. (SHE was reminding me every time SHE saw a parts store
that we no longer had a good spare.) Parked test run was OK, proving
almost nothing. At least my mind can be at ease until we
hit the road again on Tuesday.
Ken H.
Well, so much for nice cool trips through the mid West. It is hot here.
We are in Pratt, Kansas, at a little man made lake with piers made of rock
that you can drive out on giving you the feeling of being in a boat. $5 a
night without hookups. Nice. The only down side is it is Friday night and
the kiddies are out to watch the Submarine Races and it seems to be a place
to "cruise" if that is still the word.
Last night we were in Green River, CO. Nice little place to change an
alternator. Yeah, I am not having much luck with them. This was a warranted
item from NAPA. At least it was free but only lasted 1100 miles before it
began to charge irregularly and then finally not at all. I am now the proud
owner of O'Reily's 100 amp job. It has worked fine one day in a row.
Still plagued with a bit of vapor lock. As Ken Henderson reported, filling
with gas cures it for about 90 minutes or so. Sure is funny because we have
nothing but Ethanol in CA and have driven all over in hotter weather than
this... mountains and valleys. We don't have 85 octane in CA.
This time I simply kept going. It just surges a bit now and then.
If all goes well we will be with the Van Winkles tomorrow afternoon.
--
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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