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topadultseo
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Drove the car today! The water leak appears to be fixed. I just went up the street and back; there are still things to be done before I can take it out on the highway. But will post a video soon. The FAST EZ-EFI is working great. It starts, it runs, the little handheld unit tells you the AFR and a bunch of other info. And it will be learning as I drive. I'll try to describe that experience later.
I suspect that fasteners switch from SAE to metric and vice-versa in the middle of the night. I swear the oil pan bolts were SAE yesterday and they are metric today. Remember when the USA was going to go metric back in the '70s and it just kinda flopped? Today the USA stands proud with Burma and Liberia as the only countries that still haven't adopted the metric system. The World Tool Foundation (WTF), not wanting to show favoritism to either system, has announced a new standard based on the ancient Egyptian cubit system. A cubit is about 20 inches, so bolts and wrenches will be marked in fractions of a cubit, but not in decimal (base 10), but rather in octal (base 8). The system will still use 6 and 12 points, so you won't realize you picked up the wrong tool until you've rounded off the corners of the bolt.
I suspect that fasteners switch from SAE to metric and vice-versa in the middle of the night. I swear the oil pan bolts were SAE yesterday and they are metric today. Remember when the USA was going to go metric back in the '70s and it just kinda flopped? Today the USA stands proud with Burma and Liberia as the only countries that still haven't adopted the metric system. The World Tool Foundation (WTF), not wanting to show favoritism to either system, has announced a new standard based on the ancient Egyptian cubit system. A cubit is about 20 inches, so bolts and wrenches will be marked in fractions of a cubit, but not in decimal (base 10), but rather in octal (base 8). The system will still use 6 and 12 points, so you won't realize you picked up the wrong tool until you've rounded off the corners of the bolt.
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fletcherson
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Shhh! Don’t give em any more ideas. I hated the mid 80’s cars. Had to drag twenty tools under the car to pull a transmission when it only should require 3 or 4... then came torx and over torqued high tensile knuckle busters. Progress... SMH.
Uh...this post was lifted from my thread Big redo of the old bucket
Don't know why. Spanky...? Topadultseo?
Don't know why. Spanky...? Topadultseo?
fluidfloyd
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No metric welding done in my shop ever! Only funny math crap here is my English engine lathe. All Whitworth!
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"All Whitworth!" Oh my god.... It's beginning to be a plague of "different ways to the same place sort of, Whitworth barely qualifies in my rodeo.. I hated working on beezers with all that funny numbers... I personally have forgot more than I ever knew about Whitworth and I am leaving it buried...
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