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Post by toshtego on Mar 18, 2023 19:19:04 GMT -5
Diesel engine woes again. I let the fuel tank get too low in combination with the cold, no start. Added "911 Diesel Rescue" to the tank, added five gallons of fresh fuel. Drained and filled the fuel filter bowl with a mix of 911 and diesel fuel. No ignite. So, I have to trouble shoot the block heater and then the glow plug relay. The Landcruiser runs fine but the glass in the driver's window fell out in a pile. So, hard to drive far with the window open in Winter. I don't know anything about diesel engines, but I do know driving without a windshield is probably not a good time. Not the windshield, the driver's window. |
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Post by toshtego on Mar 18, 2023 19:20:43 GMT -5
Zero ohms Resistance wiht Multi Merter. Zero amps flowing with Clamp-On Meter and line splitter. Appears the Block Heater has shorted out. Probably from being left plugged in for too long during the snow storm. I knew better but was not paying attention. Well, dang. I hope you can get that sorted. Ain’t winter fun? 👎 Ordered a replacement part. Hope the ground dries out enough to get under the truck and soon! It could be the power cord from the plug. Perhaps if tomorrow is a little sunnier, I can get under the truck to take a look? |
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Post by urbino on Mar 18, 2023 20:26:28 GMT -5
I don't know anything about diesel engines, but I do know driving without a windshield is probably not a good time. Not the windshield, the driver's window. Ohhh, that's easier to deal with. |
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Post by toshtego on Mar 18, 2023 20:38:32 GMT -5
Not the windshield, the driver's window. Ohhh, that's easier to deal with. Windshield has a few long cracks in and should be replaced at the time I replace the drivers window. |
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Post by urbino on Mar 18, 2023 20:44:46 GMT -5
Gotta keep an eye on those, yeah.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 18, 2023 20:53:56 GMT -5
What amazes me is that DOT officers will cite a commercial driver for obstruction with a 7 inch Garmin suction cupped at the lower side of the windshield.
However a 12X 12 unit hanging down from the center of the windshield that houses a camera is not obstructive somehow is compliant.
Total bullcrap, that unit does obstruct your vision, but it suits their purposes.
Glad my days on the road are few, sucks to be a new commercial driver.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 18, 2023 21:14:41 GMT -5
What amazes me is that DOT officers will cite a commercial driver for obstruction with a 7 inch Garmin suction cupped at the lower side of the windshield. However a 12X 12 unit hanging down from the center of the windshield that houses a camera is not obstructive somehow is compliant. Total bullcrap, that unit does obstruct your vision, but it suits their purposes. Glad my days on the road are few, sucks to be a new commercial driver. So many regulations. So little time to enforce them all. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 10:02:29 GMT -5
More nostalgia, fueled by boxes of family pix. Dad, age 10, 1926.  |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 19, 2023 10:31:15 GMT -5
  Relative spinning brown cotton into blankets, I have 3 made by my Father and his Mother, Smithsonian wanted the blankets, I said No they are for my 3 children.
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 19, 2023 10:42:09 GMT -5
And yet more rain...
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2023 10:57:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I am headed to Vegas tomorrow, it looks like three days of wet. I am just glad that I am not headed to the snow. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 19, 2023 13:30:11 GMT -5
No rain for the next week.😁
Cold and sunny today.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 19, 2023 13:31:51 GMT -5
More nostalgia, fueled by boxes of family pix. Dad, age 10, 1926. Great picture! My dad would have been 26. Unfortunately, the family couldn't afford a camera back then. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 14:10:28 GMT -5
Your dad was born in 1900?
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 19, 2023 15:37:15 GMT -5
Your dad was born in 1900? Yep. To an Indian mother and a Scots-Irish father. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2023 15:53:39 GMT -5
My grandma was born in 1899.
I remember shouting from her front yard in the sixties to some neighbor kids...."my grandma was born in the 1800's! As I was bragging about her being older than everyone else on the block.
She gave me a good talking to!
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 16:16:30 GMT -5
Mu mom’s dad was born in 1881. Her grandmother lived to 101 and was a young teen during the Wawuh. These signposts are important in our family histories. Blood may be thicker than water but it sure does leave one helluva trail, too.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 19, 2023 16:32:56 GMT -5
My grandma was born in 1899. I remember shouting from her front yard in the sixties to some neighbor kids...."my grandma was born in the 1800's! As I was bragging about her being older than everyone else on the block. She gave me a good talking to! My mother's mother was born in 1878. She came to Texas in a covered wagon from Louisiana in 1886, adopted by a doctor. Her family was too big for her dad to support in Natchitoches. She was a nurse and knew all the pre-penicillin cures. She built coffins in Galveston in 1900. She lived to 1975, having flown on a 747 and seen a man walk on the moon. I was always in awe of her. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 19, 2023 17:46:50 GMT -5
My Fathers father was born in 1885, in the very early 1900 he traded a good horse for a fine pocket railroad watch. I still have the watch.My Mothers Father was born around the same time, his grandchild my fathers godchild hit it big as a Marine offshore lawyer, he bought a jet, came down to the little town of Erath, got Moms Dad up and flew him across the state, 2 weeks later my Grandfather on Moms side died, all the old Cajuns were saying That Damn Airplane killed Mim, that was his nickname!
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 17:59:08 GMT -5
I have to wonder if anyone but Southerners keep such close tabs on their forebears. It’s almost a Shinto thing.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 18:10:00 GMT -5
 What a great day t’day was! Almost made 60° and the dogs and I spent a very pleasurable couple of hours just rambling. Tuckered them plumb out— well, Jack anyway. Eli cannot be tuckered. I find myself sliding back into landscape photography. Instead of a 4x5 view camera I am using a 14 Pro Max iPhone. The camera array on it is nothing short of amazing. It allows RAW images to be captured and a pic I made y’day (not the one here) wound up at 82 Megabytes! Incredible. It’s like using a pint-sized view camera, on a tripod of course or it would be heresy! Life is good! |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2023 18:35:16 GMT -5
My grandma was born in 1899. I remember shouting from her front yard in the sixties to some neighbor kids...."my grandma was born in the 1800's! As I was bragging about her being older than everyone else on the block. She gave me a good talking to! My mother's mother was born in 1878. She came to Texas in a covered wagon from Louisiana in 1886, adopted by a doctor. Her family was too big for her dad to support in Natchitoches. She was a nurse and knew all the pre-penicillin cures. She built coffins in Galveston in 1900. She lived to 1975, having flown on a 747 and seen a man walk on the moon. I was always in awe of her. Simply amazing what changed in the lives of that generation...probably the biggest leap forward in the history of man. "May you live in interesting times" was written for that generation...that is the way I see it. |
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Post by urbino on Mar 19, 2023 18:50:13 GMT -5
What a great day t’day was! Almost made 60° and the dogs and I spent a very pleasurable couple of hours just rambling. Tuckered them plumb out— well, Jack anyway. Eli cannot be tuckered. I find myself sliding back into landscape photography. Instead of a 4x5 view camera I am using a 14 Pro Max iPhone. The camera array on it is nothing short of amazing. It allows RAW images to be captured and a pic I made y’day (not the one here) wound up at 82 Megabytes! Incredible. It’s like using a pint-sized view camera, on a tripod of course or it would be heresy! Life is good! I just realized I completely forgot to send you all those 4x5 film carriers! Still want them? |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 18:58:20 GMT -5
Well, yes, if it suits with you. There will be a reward in it for you.
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Post by urbino on Mar 19, 2023 19:26:56 GMT -5
Well, yes, if it suits with you. There will be a reward in it for you. Okay, I just checked and I still had your address in my messages. I'll most likely get them out on Tues. or Wed. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 19, 2023 19:36:13 GMT -5
🙂
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Post by toshtego on Mar 19, 2023 20:24:02 GMT -5
I have to wonder if anyone but Southerners keep such close tabs on their forebears. It’s almost a Shinto thing. I kept up with my family history. My mother, rest her soul, spent much time at the LDS archieves researching her father's family. Came to these shores in 1635, Massachusets Colony. Two of us at Bunker Hill, including a Seargent! Moved on to Maine after the revolution. Then on to Minnesota in the 1830s or so. Fought in The War Between the States under Colonel Hatch of Hatch's Battalion of Independent Cavalry. Fought the Sanee Soux in Minnesota. Unfortunately, my Dad's family history as complied by his father was lost years ago. Generally believed they arrived on these shores Belgium via the UK sometime after the W.B.S. My great uncles Joseph and Paul were in France in 1917. Joe with the US Army and Paul with the USMC. Here is a photo of Uncle Joe in France. He was always a tough guy as was Paul. Joes is the littlw guy with the Model 1917 six-gun.  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2023 20:45:01 GMT -5
kind of cool.
My granddaughter brought a Duncan Yo-Yo and asked if I had ever seen one.
“Sure”, I replied, and showed her how to freewheel, walked by the dog, and around the world.
She was stunned an amazed at my proficiency.
I was stunned that 30 years I could pull it off.
I will be mentoring, I suppose.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 19, 2023 20:46:53 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure that I’ve posted this pic before. This is my maternal grandfather and who I am named after. We was born in Switzerland and immigrated by himself to the US. Joined the US Army to gain his citizenship. He ended up chasing bandits in Mexico and then going to France for WWI. In France, he was stationed about 50 miles from home in Switzerland, but couldn’t go visit since he was a US soldier and Switzerland was neutral. Somehow, he ended up in the Upper Pennisula of Michigan and met my grandmother. Unfortunately, he passed away before I was born and I never got to meet him. I've obviously inherited his pipe gene as almost every picture I’ve ever seen of him, he has a pipe in his mouth.  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2023 21:10:55 GMT -5
I barely remember the bloke with a smoke picture, John.
Looks like a cool old cat there!
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