Since this is our only roadworthy vehicle I am pretty diligent about maintenance Marty. Cables are good. I drove it a few miles today to top off my gas cans and it ran fine. I’m pretty sure it will only screw up when the wife is driving it. The very thing I hate about computer controlled vehicles. I do not feel like I have any control. I have kept a fair amount of old school vehicles running long after they should have be scrapped just because if they had gas and spark, the engines ran and if they didn’t there was only a hand full of things required to remedy them. Maybe a coil, points and condenser, new plugs, clearing clogged jets, timing. I’m pretty much out of my element now.
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Yes, never underestimate the destructive power of the opposite sex. My wife has special powers able to make any electronic device malfunction (mostly computers). I then get a dope slap when it works perfectly for me. 
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Wondering if you wouldn’t try a reader for the car, even if it works now, the error codes may remain in the computer. I have 2, a simple one for the s10 and a slightly better one for the volvo, there are similar ones for your nissan, there are some videos on youtube as well. so you can learn a little anyway.
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I’ve been thinking along the same lines Jan. I really don’t like being in the dark about such things. I’ll do some research and see if anything is available for fairly full diagnostics at around 300 dollars. I don’t think I’d go higher than that.
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The one for the s10 costs about 25 dollars, the one for the volvo about 100 dollars, but it only fits the volvo, there are similar ones that fit the nissan and subaru.
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50-year-old Slovenian forklift in working order, but needs some care. Mechanical transmission, a good old classic, full of mud and some oil… cleaning, changing bearings, arranging shift levers, gears… ready again for the next 50 years.
Next up is the engine which is the same as my Fergie, looks like it’s in good shape but still going to take it apart to see what it’s like inside, maybe I’ll also prepare a drive for a spark or magnetic distributor ignition …
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outdoors dark, but in tones workshop is brightness…
the chairs in the background seems not very consumed…
great work, nice robust engine pieces!!
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Tone, beautifull and not for me to go outside with a forklift. It is a 1.5 ton truck? And a stupid question, is there a reason why the trucks are standing with the forks up?
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The first picture, testing the lifting height,… otherwise I drop the forks to the ground.
This orange forklift is said to have a load capacity of 2 tons, or even 2.5,…
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Nice! I envy your park. I am looking somewhat to a old Toyota forklift, works forever. But first other projects must be finished.
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Slow day at DOW. How about a heart warming story…
A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by
a sheriff’s deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than
the deputy because he is a lawyer from New York
and is certain that he has a better education than
any cop from Nowhere, Tennessee . He decides to
prove this to himself and have some fun at the
Tennessee deputy’s expense.
The deputy says, ‘License and registration, please. . .’
‘What for?’ says the lawyer…
The deputy says, ‘You didn’t come to a complete
stop at the stop sign.’
Then the lawyer says, ‘I slowed down, and no one
was coming.’
‘You still didn’t come to a complete stop, says the deputy. License and registration, please.’
The lawyer says, ‘What’s the difference?’
‘The difference is you have to come to complete
stop, that’s the law. License and registration,
please!’ the Deputy repeats.
Lawyer says, ‘If you can show me the legal
difference between slow down and stop,
I’ll give you my license and registration;
and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me
go and don’t give me the ticket.’
‘That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir,’
the deputy says.
At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick
and starts beating the daylights out of the lawyer
and says, ‘Do you want me to stop,
or just slow down?’
God Bless Tennessee
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While we are on the topic of traffic stops -
A cop stops a driver and says, your eyes look bloodshot- have you been drinking? The driver answers, your eyes look glazed- have you been eatng donuts?
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While we are on the topic of traffic stops -
True story (I think) from an old work mate of mine -
He was a teenager at the time, riding down the road with his moped on a Saturday night when the cop stopped him.
- You smell beer, the cop said. We would like you to follow us to the station for a blod sample.
- I’m not drunk, my friend lied. I’m willing to prove it to you. If I manage to walk on my hands to the next lamp post and back - will you let me go?
The cop laughed and said: - OK, deal. I’d like to see that. You could always try.
To the cop’s surprise my friend walked with ease in a straight line on his hands, all the way to the next lamp post and back. Little did the cops know about all his medals back home - in gymnastics.
A promise is a promise and they let him go
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Not all blondes are dumb but this blonde female cop stops a blonde female driver and asks for her license. The drver fumbles around in her purse and asks what it looks like. The cop says it has your picture on it. The driver finds and looks at a small mirror and says “this must be it” The cop looks at it and says “oh I didn’t know you were a cop, you are free to go”
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I am always impressed by these old engines, massive construction, quality materials, after 50 years of operation it still worked well, well, the piston rings are quite worn and the cylinder also has some edge, so I will change the cylinders and pistons. The prices of spare parts are very reasonable, a set for one piston costs approx. 30-40 Euros.
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Bore the cylinder or a new sleeve? How does it work?
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Wow, I have never seen a ring gap that big. Must not have had much compression at all.
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November full moon known as the Beaver Moon. I thought you should know this if you didn’t already, Marcus. Last super moon of the year. Signals the Beaver beings that it’s time to quit chewing wood and head for the lodge.
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