bought some new tires for the scooter
too bad everything I want isn’t available in stock sizes (or DOT legal but whatevs)
Yeah, and propane is a byproduct of gas and diesel refinement. So you can’t just switch over, nobody would be using gas and diesel + the limited propane supply would cause massive price inflation (I heard you only get a 2-3MPG boost with added propane injection anyways)
Your engine will run cleaner though.
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Renting a Bronco Sport
Surprisingly bulbous pillars within
Less accommodating second row, than it should be
Not a confidence inducing i4-T, without leadfooting the throttle
Wind + Road Noise / Engine clatter–> Far noisier than any diesel I’ve been in recent
Watching the fuel gauge basically bleed down, during some bad city stop-g-STAHP-crawl
Stupid fecc!n start-stop mechanism, has such lag before re-driveable [from stop]
Hitchy-stuttery transmission, cannot just steadily go through gears [more offensive at low speeds]
… I don’t like this timeline
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Well knew that S2000, wouldn’t get a viable successor
I didn’t know, that Acura was plotting a V8, only to bin it
… I h8 that I learned this
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So that’s what that weird noise on the road is lately
Please sir- I need some more fuel
Y- you WHAT?!
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CAFE sucks so hard
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forbidden tires: received
Ridiculous that the only decent rain tires for scooters are illegal, but we used to run dirt track tires on grudge cars (before everyone started running slicks(WTF?!))
I know they won’t last the season, but Continental, whatever I have wipes out at any turn over 10 mph in a downpour.
I see dudes run these at 150mph in flood conditions so if I wipe out: skill issue
C.A.F.E. and C.A.R.B. and Chikin Tariffs, ruined good times
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Sometime ago, Sbarro messed around – shovelling a 911s H6, into a VW Golf
… Tasteful functional misfittery
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I upgraded the factory locker solenoid in my truck. They are prone to one or both solenoids failing. The vacuum from the alternator is supposed to be switched to one or other tube that runs down the truck and pulls or pushes the lock in and out of the diff.
I had to dig through some forums to find out how to hook it up cos it didn’t come with instructions… turns out A and B is the lock/unlock side, then the IN is hooked to the vacuum and EX is filtered to atmosphere.
I soldered the new one into the existing plug after carefully unscrewing the solenoids and rotating them 180 degrees so the wires come out the right way. Came out nice I thought.
(used a brake hose clamp to hold the cable shroud out of the way)
I secured it with double sided foam tape, which I’m gonna see if it lasts or not. I do have some real tough 3M double sided tape that I’ll probably switch to.
Got a new hose cos this one didn’t reach.
Now I just gotta figure out how to get vacuum back cos I noticed since the engine swap I simply routed it direct to the clutch and brakes only. I’ll have to pull out the diesel vacuum kit cos I still have the petrol one in the truck. I hope it has a place for diff lockers cos the old truck didn’t have them.
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Have this kit on the way. No its not the greatest but its this or big $$$$$ to do it custom with much higher quality parts. I’ve had the GE equivalent kit on for a while now without issues (at least not issues caused by me not tightening things right).
Should be a decent start before doing things like changing the BOV, wastegate to better stuff, eventually the turbo to a much better unit when the original blows etc.
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At least you’d get to feel [the potential] its drive, along with experience working room
all before committing some [serious] green, to such select part-shopped endeavors
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y’all are fancy as hell
us rednecks just cobble some scrap together cause posi-lok is too expensive
OR lock the front diff before the first snow and leave it til spring
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I agree in principle: if you live (or drive) where there are significant chances of snow during the winter, make sure you change your tires in good time.
Me, however, I live in the Netherlands, and judging by the last 8 winters, we’ll have a few days with light snow at most. Significant snowfall is rare enough in this country that it doesn’t make sense to be overly preoccupied by it. My all-season tires will be good enough.
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I managed to snap the clutch cable on my bike while out riding this afternoon… it was only a 3 year old cable.
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Time for a hydraulic conversion
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I’m looking at a magura unit that I think might work, I’m just not sure if it’ll play nice with the pneumatic clutch assist that basically wants alot of lash/play in the clutch to smoosh it down more.
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