Snautzer01
Honourably banned
- 40,208
- Mar 26, 2007
Open mouse and clean it. Lot of dirt can get under buttons.
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cvairwerks
Senior Airman
Used to freak out the office gals, when they were told they needed to clean their mouse balls..... 
You wouldn't believe the amount of scum that collected on them and the little tracking rollers that they drove.
You wouldn't believe the amount of scum that collected on them and the little tracking rollers that they drove.
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Bad expansion valve on the van's a/c. $1000+ to fix and recharge system .
DBII
Senior Master Sergeant
Double ouch
special ed
1st Sergeant
- 5,144
- May 13, 2018
And then, once I had their full attention, I would ask if they knew the proper, safe way to smell moth balls.Used to freak out the office gals, when they were told they needed to clean their mouse balls.....
Hold them by their tiny wings.
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 1,611
- Feb 27, 2020
I can feel your pain. Early in May had to change the EGR valve for the exhaust and after a week delay it turned to be some 850 EUR.
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Gone are the days you could fix your exhaust with a soup can and some solder.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Remember tuning your engine with a matchbook?
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 1,611
- Feb 27, 2020
I do remember when my father's Ford Escort Mk. II had a leak in a cooling sleeve that went straight to the alternator and coming at night from a party (very early when I obtained my driving license) the S.O.B. left my down. After some time (when the alternator dried enough , just I didn't know that then) I managed to start it again and made some kms more, only to be left down again. It was just close enough to arrive home walking and in a place good enough to park the car.
Next morning (very early indeed) had to go back with my father to get the car, that of course started pretty well at once.
Good for me, my father decided to made a road test (to show me that it was my fault of course) and then he was left down in the highway!
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
No but I remember magneto timing using a cigarette paper.
Always ran Mallory duel points back in the day when I worked the machine shop.I ran them on the 351W and the 429 but we had a Sun Machine in the shop and the Boss man would dial them into the camshaft of course .......Free,
I wish lol, quick little car thou, headers, Weber carb, Ansa exhaust, free flow air intake. Tranny was crap as were the rear leaf springs. Otherwise fun.Always ran Mallory duel points back in the day when I worked the machine shop.I ran them on the 351W and the 429 but we had a Sun Machine in the shop and the Boss man would dial them into the camshaft of course .......Free,
manta22
Banned
Even more fun--- a Ferrari Colombo V-12. It had two distributors, each distributor had dual points.
cvairwerks
Senior Airman
Try an early R-4360 with 7 mags.....
special ed
1st Sergeant
- 5,144
- May 13, 2018
The 1955 Plymouth 260 cu.in. V-8 replacing the 217 cu.in. flathead 6 in my 1948 Plymouth had a dual point distributor stock. Had no trouble adjusting points.
Manta had a Ferrari engine come in once for a valve adjustment the other shop pulled it and brought it in had a case of these disc different thickness you dropped in between the cam and the top of the spring if memory serves me right...took up the valve lash.
Torch:Mine was a 1970 GT Torino with the 351W first balanced 11:1 flattops 4 valve relief .560 lift/.308 duration.The heads were some 302's triangle chamber port/polished guide plates and screw in studs with roller rockers.The intake was an Offenhauser with a 750cfm Holley trick to open the secondaries from an idle.The tranny was a close ratio racing 4/speed Top-loader a brute attached to a blow proof bell housing.The back end was the typical 9" Ford Limited slip with 456 gears hence the reason the secondaries need to open quick.I coild drive at 10/15mph in first gear almost 3K on the Rpm and rev dump the clutch hit 2nd and do a burn out but like any hotrod stuff luvs to break.I eventually had to get rid of those heads (302) and go factory was running 210lbs p/cyl roughly went factory and went to 180/190 p/cyl.I always said like going from a savage beast to a cultivated beast it breathed better. The 429 was last engine that car saw barked the tires in all four gears one early morning heading to the shop the only time.
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
Multiple postings by myself due to weak internet connection!!!
DBII
Senior Master Sergeant
The same lady has been cutting my hair since 2005. It should not be so hard to get a good haircut. I had walked out of two other places for their bad attitude. I pulled on to a place 20 minutes away passing several other places. I walked in not a happy camper and nice young lady drew me. She looked like she was in high school. She did not stop talking to entire I was in the chair. I told her what a wanted and she did it right the first time. She the only one in the place that can cut it. She will till me who is authorized to cut when she is not in.
I finally got a 5 G phone last year. For the first time I checked in through the portal. 60 minutes wait. Usually it is 90 minutes. Thought I was lucky. Go grab lunch and then show up. I arrived 30 minutes early only the see the wait time was was now 58 minutes. So much for high tech...
I finally got a 5 G phone last year. For the first time I checked in through the portal. 60 minutes wait. Usually it is 90 minutes. Thought I was lucky. Go grab lunch and then show up. I arrived 30 minutes early only the see the wait time was was now 58 minutes. So much for high tech...
