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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: I am finnally Back!! Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:04 pm | |
| Wow, after so much going on and then computer issues I am finally back. It took getting an new computer. I lost almost everything.....I miss the most is my Bookmarked web sites. I had so much great info. Any how I am back, not much change to the car other then I need to pull the tank out and clean it. think its full of crap from this great fuel we buy these days. I am getting itchy to work on so many things, but I have so much going on too. Tough to find time and cash flow, even tho my new job is about double the pay it seems to be just enough to balance our living costs. Doesn't help I have Dad's '61 Thunderbird in my shop. We put in our own version of a hydro boost kit. He was talking of doing it but had no idea where to start. I did some research and found a kit you can by for $600.00 and so I found parts out of a few vehicles and went looking for them. After $50.00 we had 3 hydro boosters and all the parts to go with. So we had 3 choices to work with and boiled down to which one would mount the easiest. We had it done in no time and it was so easy. Has me thinking about it for my car !!!!! | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:24 pm | |
| wowzer hydro boost on an old-t-bird, must have been interesting. | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:46 pm | |
| Yes, and it works great on the 4 wheel drums. The old set up was just not enough for the heavy car. He now has control. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:15 am | |
| Welcome back! I'll need you to go study all 11 pages of my "update on this year's projects" thread, so you're up to speed, thanks. Â | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:06 pm | |
| Hahha! I did read most of it. We need to get together, I need to see the work you have done thus far. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:57 am | |
| Haha.
I'm up for that. Shoot me a text. There's beer in the keg... | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:20 pm | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:52 pm | |
| I fired up my Futura the other day.......the smell.....the sound......ahhhhh come on Spring get here soon!!!!! | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:41 pm | |
| I'd settle for ABOVE FREEZING. Â Â Or maybe tax refund time. Our tax guy isn't taking appointments until March though. (SSSSIIIGGGHHHHHH)!! Then at least I can buy tires and get my suspensions project going. | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:43 pm | |
| We are getting our taxes done this weekend......we called yesterday to set it up and got in fast. Fingers are crossed for big $$$$$$ | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:47 am | |
| how do you guys preserve your fuel, or do you just fill the tank? | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:09 pm | |
| Uhhhh, I don't really think about that.  I had to pull the tank one more time after I took it off the road this year, so it's pretty empty. Hasn't caused me too many problems in the spring. I have a dead battery more often than I have problems with gas. | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:21 am | |
| yeah, I was wondering what you do, I suppose it would be ok, but you have to keep those batteries charged, it's a bad thing for a battery to discharge slowly on its own, they can gat sulfated and difficult to bring back to a full charge. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:14 pm | |
| Yeah, I usually bring my battery in. It's the years that I forget that I have a problem. Good thing the guys at Auto Zone like me. They've been willing to warranty me a new one despite it being my mistake. | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:32 pm | |
| Currently, my car runs like crap because of shitty fuel and now I need to drop the tank and clean it, rebuild the carb too. I even had Fuel Stable in the tank. best thing ....run it and run it often. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:22 pm | |
| Sometimes I worry about the coolant freezing and that causing problems if I want to start it up, but I guess that doesn't make a lot of sense because if it did freeze, you'd have much bigger problems to deal with. Â Â | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:40 pm | |
| As long as you have 50/50 coolant mix, you will be fine. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:41 pm | |
| Yeah... I was never sure I learned the right way to read those hygrometer thingies. | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:05 am | |
| I prefer using the "Thexton" hydrometers, they are also temperature compensating. you can get the from Matco or Snap-on. I have been using them for coolant & batteries for years. when held towards the light, you get a clear view of the coolant, offering and opportunity to check for corrosion or contamination. Another thing you might want to do is use distilled water when you mix the coolant solution, not only does it make the coolant look cleaner longer, it cuts down on electrolysis. you can check for electrolysis using a volt meter..... | |
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Stymees'mont
Posts : 406 Join date : 2008-11-08 Age : 51 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:37 pm | |
| Not as cheap, but I buy the 50/50 premixed......easy and ready to go. | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:17 pm | |
| I've never seen pre-mixed, who makes it? | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:25 am | |
| I know Prestone does.
Back when I worked in a shop, the way we used to do flushes, we'd do it forward, not back. Just opened the radiator drain and stuck a hose in at the cap and started the engine. Let the water pump do the work. So, what I usually do is add a full bottle of 100% after doing that the theory being the block is still full of water, and then let it bubble and top it off with 50/50 after that. Do you guys think that's a sound method? | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:35 am | |
| there's loads of different ways to do a drain & refill, however you still need to know the current mixture in the cooling system when mixing the replacement coolant, otherwise you could end-up with a diluted mixture. quite often people just add water to the cooling system when doing a service. over period of time this will weaken the mixture as well as offer opportunity for corrosion. you can LOOK at coolant and think all is good, this is totally inaccurate, and the colors can be influenced by light. green coolant can look great in the radiator, but when you use a hydrometer, and expose it to light, weak solutions and contamination soon become apparent. there is more to coolant than just freeze protection. | |
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ZephyrEFI
Posts : 860 Join date : 2008-11-10 Age : 48 Location : Shakopee, MN
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:10 pm | |
| Yeah... I've been lazy about that. I've just driven the car so little, I don't really think about regular maintenance. | |
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fangar150-ex
Posts : 853 Join date : 2008-11-10 Location : AZ
| Subject: Re: I am finnally Back!! Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:29 pm | |
| well I suppose that when the weather is that bad like you guys have it, it's not really worth cruising a 30 year old car around so somebody can run into it. it just seems to me that my luck is crappy, and it's always the small cheap things that take a dump and cost a fortune down the line. you guys must have some pretty good rustproofing measures over there.... | |
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