 oil in coil and cloaking devise [message #288967] |
Sun, 18 October 2015 19:21  |
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This weekends 400 mile jaunt brought me a couple of observations. The first happened on the way up to north Florida, I knew the old style external coil had oil in them, but not so much that when it overheated and/or leaked the oil actually pushed the coil wire out of the top, in the middle of traffic. The oil was still in the top of the coil. Thank goodness the big backfires out the back, sorta warned everyone to back off and I was able to safely move over 3 lanes and kept rolling to a parking lot, the auxiliary vacuum pump really helped to. I had a spare and was going after a change. Has anyone come up with an ideal how to help keep the coil a little cooler short of moving it under the dinette seat. Or is there one that is more heat resistant. This is the second one in 2 years, the first died in the driveway. I think a heatsink would just attract the heat not disperse it. I have a marine type blower in the motor area to pull the heat out of the motor cover penthouse put on for the edelbrock manifold. The moral of that story is stay in the right lane in heavy traffic if you can so you can exit easily. I guess that wasn't very funny but just trying to laugh it off.
Next comes the Klingon cloaking device the PO must have installed. I had at least 6, lets be nice and say vehicles, pull out unsafely in front of me. I call "unsafe" is if I have to put on the brakes so they don't become speed bumps. I know the physical mass was there, even if they couldn't see me, because the wind gave me fit coming home. I even tried to see if turning the headlights on turned off the cloaking device but it seemed to attract them like a light bulb. I guess they just can't believe that I could be doing the speed limit, and can't stop as good as them.
On a humorous note I read what Jim Galbavy said about the passenger seat is scary to ride in and I agree, I rode a few times there and it is especially in the right lane on high bridges. My wife drives it fine and can if she needs to but prefers to leave it to me. Lets tip our hats to our spouses and SO's for sitting there and not saying anything, I guess they're used to it.
Just a few things I notice this weekend.
Skip Hartline
74 Canyon Lands, FiTech,
3.7 FD LSD, Manny Tranny,
Springfield Distributor,
2001 Chevy Tracker Ragtop Towd
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