1967 International COE, Small Adventure

mazdeuce wrote: I should have pictures. I don't have pictures. Piston #8 is mobile! Not out, but moving. Partial success. Imagine if you will, a dark Grosh because the power is out in the neighborhood, inside the Grosh is an engine tilted at a rakish angle so that one bank of cylinders is facing up. The frontmost of those cylinders has about 3/4 of an inch of evapo-rust with paper towels holding more to the cylinder walls. That's how things sat for three hours. When the power came back on I cleaned out the cylinder (less rusty) and whacked the piston with a hammer/wood and it moved down 1/2 inch. I stopped. The piston has to come out the top. I spent some time removing stubborn flakes of rust with a pick (gently, like a dentist) and a lot of it just popped off. It's more rust ON the cylinder than rust OF the cylinder. It still needs to soak so I filled things back up and it's resting. I'm hoping that the remaining rust gives up it's grip on the walls and I can remove the piston tomorrow. Maybe hone and rings? I mean, it's already broken, it's not like I can break anything by trying.

Hone first, then check cylinders for ovaling and pitting, if they clean up and aren't out of spec, then re ring it and run it.

Not the world's best picture, but that stuff you see at the back of the intake port is winter mouse food. Oldopelguy many be able to indentify the specific grain. Unsurprisingly this is on the cylinder I'm fighting. I should probably ask you guys about disassembling and checking heads.
And three of the five exhaust manifold bolts rounded off. I'm getting good at bashing smaller sockets onto bolts. Useful skill.

I recently bought a 16/9 20" monitor with DVI input at the thrift store for $12. Seems to be pretty common there, as long as it's under 23".

There are dvi to vga adaptors,(and hdmi to vga) which we use for our older projector.

You need a Go Pro and helmet or a body cam like the police use so you can just video it all, then take still shots from that to share.

as far as PC build, use an SSD for the OS and a regular drive for storage.... just saying.

In reply to csmith1510:

Deucekid#2 was pretty insistent this summer that I needed a time lapse go-pro. The problem is that 70% of the footage would be me drinking coffee poking at stuff, and so far most of the rest would be me hitting things with a variety of hammers.

Speaking of which there are 8 empty bores and 8 pistons sitting in their labeled spots.

We wanted to see you beating it out!

And you can do like 32 frames a second at 2 min intervals. That's a lot of coffee drinking

just make sure to drink it "out of frame", and then set the cup down "in frame" from time to time ...

actually, this gives me an idea for when temps around here cool off

java230 wrote: We wanted to see you beating it out!

Phrasing!

The outer rain bands of Hurricane Harvey are sprinkling here north of Houston. The storm track is right now is ridiculous with rain for the next six days and the storm passing over us Wednesday of next week. We're going to hope that changes. In preparation I slotted the cab support back in, lowered the cab, and gave the truck a shower cap. Not sure how much it will help, but it probably won't hurt. Biggest danger in my yard is always falling trees. Not much can be done about that.

I like the idea of an old dslr, an intervalometer, and some cheap lens that can go reasonably wide. Stop the lens down, turn off the autofocus, and let the camera run the exposure out as long as it wants.

How are those panning time lapse vids done? I'm assuming some sort of track, but what drives the camera rig along it? It seems smoother than if the camera mer just moved by hand a 1/32" along every time.

In reply to bluej:

Camera track/dolly, some are powered to move on their own very slowly....

See your trees and raise you......see you found an eyeball....lookin' gooood!

In reply to 759NRNG:

I put the eyeball back in a while ago. It's not in all the way and would fall out if the truck could move under it's own power, but the blank spot was bugging me. I like looking at it with the cab down. It's handsome.

why yes it is in COE kinda way......

Love the shower cap. That truck exudes personality!

But it's bum is showing .....kid's don't look!

Hope the weather calms down over there!

Unrelatedly, another one for the opportunity to play along with the charismatic old truck game! Nominally runs, drives, and is a Mack to boot, for $2500...

https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/d/1968-mack-gold-series/6245593340.html

Echoing Ransom's wishes on the weather! Just turned on the TV to see Jim Cantore getting his butt kicked in Corpus Christi by this storm!

SaltyDog wrote: Echoing Ransom's wishes on the weather! Just turned on the TV to see Jim Cantore getting his butt kicked in Corpus Christi by this storm!

Never a good sign when Jim "harbinger of the apocalypse" Cantore shows up in your town.

You mean like this?

I pulled the other exhaust manifold off. Broke one bolt. I'll get to play with an ez-out later and then drill and tap anyway. Another exhaust port full of food. Then I dragged the valley cover off the pile of parts. Whoever sealed things last seems to have used clear sealant. Silicon bathroom caulk? And then a bit of wire brushing. Hard to get it perfect with the current lighting. Everything will get painted before it goes back. I'm excited to make it look pretty. More crappy pictures. Duecekid#2 is using the memory card from the camera to try and load Linux onto his computer. He's close.

Bonus points for Linux experience, whatever gaming comes (or doesn't) of it!

Looking good on this project as well.

Make sure to use paint for engines on the internal parts don't want cheaper stuff rolling off and clogging the oil return ports. ( don't ask me how I know that)

Broken bolts are part of the game. Do you have a torch and welder? You can weld hex nuts on the end of broken off bolts and get them out. EZ outs are a pain and I try and avoid them unless it is a last resort. You can also drill out the offending part until it gets very thin, then it will unwind like a spring usually, be gentle as it breaks off as well. Bolt will give you some bolt removal ideas.

Many flavors of Linux out there. I have run Linux of some sort since 2010 on my computer and am now. The CEO runs win 10 on the one she uses. Let him have a look at distrowatch.com for reviews and examples.

Good luck with the weather.

Scott

Mint is stupid easy to get started with.

Gentoo is intermediate.

Slack is very manual.

He'll need winex if he wants to do any gaming.