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Yeah, that voltage reading is either a measuring error (digital meter confused by ignition interference for example) or an indication of a very...
Miles per gallon may be important, but smiles per gallon is importanter. :cool:
Loads of ingredients in oil. No surprise if a few show up in UV.
The problem about using the wrong oils is that it rarely punishes us right away, if at all. If we got a broken down engine the next day, the next...
The basic idea should work just fine, although I think you may want something that can move faster. Some sort of servo (look at the ones in radio...
That's still risky. Different additives affect each other, I think it's already been mentioned that the extra detergent in diesel oil reduces the...
You could always get rid of all the nitrogen. Not very practical, but effective!
Sounds like you're not getting power to the ignition system while cranking, but that's easily checked by hooking a light bulb to it, if it goes...
You don't want the coil type insert for spark plugs, you want a solid version with a collar preventing it from going in too far. With the coil the...
If we look far enough back, not everything was built to be perfectly sealed. It may not even be possible to stop all leaks without extensive...
Not sure very many local auto electric shops exists anymore. I wouldn't know where to find one.
When it comes to voltage it's mostly a matter of the insulation and distance between metal parts to be good enough to handle it, and if something...
Does that distributor use one coil to fire four cylinders?
There's nothing that will provide good filtering AND good flow in that small area. panty hose may flow well enough, but will not stop any dust,...
Yeah, if you want things to work well and be easy to tune you don't want any cylinder to draw air through multiple carbs at the same time, you...
A gauge AND a bright idiot light is probably best. The gauge to check what's going on in detail from time to time, and a light to scream DANGER...
Indeed, as far as I know all alcohols (glycol is an alcohol) burn. But glycol is far harder to get to catch fire than methanol and ethanol for...
Got an old book from the 40s, the section on coolant lists alcohol (ethanol), glycerin and two variations of glycol. They seem to mean that...
Look at the motor size on those pumps, compare to the motor size on electric wipers. Add the extra losses of going electric->vacuum->movement...
Quick cooling from high temperature (cherry red or hotter) hardens spring steel to a very hard and very fragile state. This means that a weld...
Unless you're running under water I wouldn't expect the copper to oxidize so badly it makes the cables unusable before the insulation has aged and...
Fair enough. Yes, older tachos will indeed be more or less basic analog electronics. For a modern one I'm not sure, micro computers have become so...
Maybe. But I wouldn't get my hopes up too high. If you are going to make more or less complicated solutions perhaps it's worth looking at...
I'm not sure a meter movement is strong enough to handle a belt drive. It's built to handle a needle moving with almost no resistance.
Sounds pretty advanced, for the time.
A domestic sewing machine has the power to do that. I figured that out when I was getting an old machine back to work, running it watching...
As others say, fan shroud. The fan does little good if the air going through it isn't forced to actually go through the radiator too.
The cobbler machines such as Singer 29K are interesting ones. Very optimized to do ONE job, and that job is sewing in hard to reach places - such...
You'd only be charging one of the batteries. Why don't you fix whatever issues you have with the starter instead? I'm pretty sure it worked fine...
That looks like it actually regulates to the desired voltage. This means it will give you the correct voltage even when the load changes, the...
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