Car Thread

[webenda]

You will have enough money left over to buy a smaller house.

http://inhabitat.com/worlds-tiniest-tin ... tucson-az/

Wayne,

I distinctly recall several structures of that size in this area in years past. They all had quarter moons carved into the front door!

Rich

World’s Tiniest Tiny Home Constructed in Tucson, AZ is 2′ long by 2′ wide,
A standard Porta Potty is 4' wide x 4' deep x 7.5' high.
Check out the words under the image of the tiny home,

[E7]

Check out the words under the image of the tiny home,

Once I saw the feet sticking out of the bottom, I didn't need to read the caption.

[healey36]

A lot of the antique shops around here are loaded with furniture from France and the UK, yet they tell me you can't sell a stick of domestic antique or high-end reproductions...what's up with that? A lot of nice stuff is going into the land-fill if these dumb kids don't figure it out soon.

Who has room for furniture?

The dumb kids don't know and don't care about furniture like we do. They're fine with used Ikea that they grabbed curbside before the trash guys picked it up. They can't afford an oak table and chairs set, or a nice Federal period chair,

Yeah, I don't get that. They want everything for free. Buy a newspaper? Oh hell no, I can read it on the internet for free. Buy a car, car payments, insurance, oh hell no. Much rather spend that money on zip-lining and then slather pictures of myself "having the experience" all over Facebook...

Actually, zip-lining does sound better than sitting around the house reading the newspaper, but still...

[robert.]

Savage Maryland antique center has Both. Antique furniture and a zip line.
http://www.savagemill.com/merchants/the-antique-center/

[webenda]

Savage Maryland antique center has Both. Antique furniture and a zip line.
http://www.savagemill.com/merchants/the-antique-center/

Here is the link for zipping down a line:=> http://www.savagemill.com/merchants/ter ... dventures/

[robert.]

Once a month i go to the mill. For 25 years i have rearranged a vendors space. One day he may notice . They have a great railroad bridge there. I'll let you find that one on google earth.

[healey36]

I used to go to Savage Mills three or four times a year, but it's a husk of what it once was. A lot of the vendor spaces are empty now. Haven't been down there for a couple years, but I saw the zip-line behind the parking lot last time out.

The bridge is a Bollman truss. Wendel Bollman was a cool dude, a self-taught engineer. Built a bunch of bridges while working for Latrobe and the B&O (most famous one crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry...must have been a half-dozen spans in length, at least). He left the B&O to found his own company, Patapsco Bridge & Iron Works, in Baltimore. Later he did a short stint as President of the Western Maryland Railroad. Eventually cast and wrought iron construction fell out of favor for bridge components and Bollman's business began to suffer. The bridge at Savage Mills is, I believe, the only remaining example of a Bollman truss.

One of his small road bridges is preserved at Union Mills homestead a few miles up the road from me:



Healey

[Mitch]

Oops! My bad! I thought we might wanna fix the car here on the Car Thread.

[healey36]

Oops! My bad! I thought we might wanna fix the car here on the Car Thread.

Hey, I'm up for that...have run out of things to check.

I've got an intermittent miss at speed. Diminishes as the car warms up but doesn't totally disappear. I've checked all of the regular suspects. Points, rotor, cap all look good. Reset the timing. Fuel flow looks good, Floats/jets are clear/clean. Fuel filter is clean.

Sarge suggested a ground issue which I've checked for cracked wires and connection...looks good but will replace as a precaution. Also suggested it could be the condenser...can replace as a precaution. Plugs spark appropriately but will renew. Plug wires are just three or four years old. Conditions are dry. Lead from the coil looks good.

I've never had a coil fail...could that be a cause of an intermittent miss?

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yet, my wife and I have such low mileage ,traditionally, on our cars (her E-class, 2012 has total of 2,000 miles, to date; my 2015 ML has only 7,200, which includes a trip to a client in Kansas from NJ, to date) that perhaps depending on the traditional longevity of Benz would supersede worry over parts wearing out?

I'm guessing that the 2 of you very rarely actually drive much at all? I put better than double your combined total on my Outback every year.

When maintenance is due (the dashboard tells us ), the cars go right in, just like the ML did today (for no charge. )

At 7200 miles how do you have more than maybe 2 maintenance events? 7500 was the 1st for my Outback, and back when I had a 450SE it was every 5k miles. 2012 E with only 2k on it? I guess you change the oil to make sure it has not congealed to tar from lack of use?

[Tom Dempsey]

I've never had a coil fail...could that be a cause of an intermittent miss? Healey

Yes, and if the condenser isn't the problem, that would be the next place I would go.

[healey36]

Sarge suggested same, so I guess I'll figure out a way to check it. I woulda thought a coil is either full-on (okay) or dead...no middle ground (no pun intended)...

[robert.]

Does your car have an electronic tachometer? If so unplug it. See if that makes it run better. Your tach could ave a short. On a happier note i just replaced a muffler and tailpipe on my Exterra. It is a one piece unit. I did this laying on my back in a stone driveway. When i saw 6 Ft. of exhaust pipe with a muffle welded to it i thought for sure no way. Not from the ground. I'll need to have this car up in the air. Whole job took half an hour. Remove the old replace with new. Not a skinned knuckle, broken bolt or out of place hanger tab.

[robert.]

Friggin muffler guy wanted $680 to do this job. I did for $ 165

[Mitch]

Certainly, a coil can fail. But the only way you have an intermittent from the coil would be an open inside, and as the engine and coil warm up, it would come together for full spark. Nah! No Way! If it's open, it's open, and there's no spark. But think on this. Where does the coil get the signal to fire? From the points and condenser. As I said earlier, a weak spring in the points that don't allow them to close fully and then break, or a condenser that don't load properly. And don't rule out ignition cables only because they're 3 or 4 years old. Carbon wires can and do fail. Broken or weak valve springs, or a valve dragging in the seat, that expands with heat and begins to move more freely as clearances increase. Lot's of stuff to check. Good thing it ain't a 16 plug HEMI.