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Rattlecan

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  1. Don't think I would be able to talk my wife into it. We are closer to each other at home.
  2. We are in Highlands Hammock State Park near Sebring. Here until the 27th except for a couple or three days when we are going to head over to Bradenton to visit wife's brother. Not sure yet what days we will be gone from the site. Tizeye visited us at Lake Kissimmee park on Wednesday.
  3. Good morning. Just spent the first night at our new campsite. We got set up yesterday before the rain started and it rained all night. Not too impressed with the park so far compared to the one we just left. We went from having one of the best sites in a beautiful park to the absolute worst site in what so far appears to be a mediocre park at best. Guess we will have to make the best of it for ten days.
  4. Rattlecan

    Vermont

    Derby Line is as close as you can get to Canada without actually being in Canada. There are buildings that straddle the border and there is even a street that is in the US eastbound and Canada westbound. I had a good friend, now deceased. Who lived right on the Canadian side of the border, and I spent a lot time there in the 70s. It is a beautiful area.
  5. Thru axle levers are often on spring loaded splines. You just pull outward on the lever once you have it tightened to disengage it from the spines and rotate to the desired position.
  6. Saturday is moving day. Leaving Lake Kissimmee State Park and moving to Highlands Hammock. The month is going by too rapidly.
  7. My wife got to meet another one of my imaginary friends yesterday. Thanks to @Tizeye for making the trip out to our campsite for a nice visit.
  8. I just listened to Neil Degrass Tyson explain why life on earth would not have evolved if water did not expand when freezing.
  9. If that was true, it would impact the tires and drive train more than the road. If that was a concern, you can bet cost contious fleets would deactivate them. Heavy engines pretty much come with the engine brakes integrated nowadays.
  10. Good thing the 70s had something going for it because the cars and clothing fashions were at about their lowest point.
  11. Don’t know where you heard that but it is nonsense. Retarding power doesn’t exceed pulling power by that much.
  12. That would have been before they spun off the vehicle systems as a separate company. In 82, I was field testing a new model brake and had occasion to call Jacobs a few times. When they answered the customer service line they would ask chucks or brakes.
  13. The short version is that the exhaust valves are mistimed to open at the top of the compression stroke effectively causing the engine to act as an energy absorbing air compressor. The long story is how it is accomplished. Originally designed to work on engines with cam actuated injectors, a master piston actuated by the injector push rod hydraulically actuates the exhaust valves on the same cylinder when the solenoid valve closes the oil gallery between them. On engines with Bosch type injection, it is a bit more complicated
  14. Very sad to hear that. I do hope he gets the care he needs and recovers fully.
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