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NASkeet
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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| Erik G wrote: |
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That's a lot of driving, just to get to and from work! 
Wouldn't it have been better to commute to & from work by railway train!?!
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me thinks you've never been to the americas |
During a two-centre holiday with my parents in September 1981, we visited Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada (stayed with two retired Canadian army nurses that we had met in Ethiopia in 1972) and southern California, USA.
In California, I drove a hired (rented in USA parlance!  ) Luton-bodied, Ford Honey motorhome [circa 23 feet long x 8 feet wide x 10~11 feet high] with a gutless V8 petrol engine which gave ONLY 10 miles per US gallon of petrol, and whose cooling system boiled up at the least suggestion of a hill.
https://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/advice/equipment/types-of-motorhomes/
https://www.wikimotors.org/what-is-a-luton-body.ht...uck%20cab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_truck#Luton_body
https://www.smartrvguide.com/rvs-for-sale/ford-honey
www.viewrvs.com/motorhome/honey/honey-motorhome.php
I was appalled to see massive chunks of truck tyres, littering the side of the Pacific Coast Highway, at regular intervals.   I have never seen this in any other country in which I have travelled, of which there have been more than a few! I suspect that even the bus & truck tyres in Albania in the mid-1960s and in Russia & Baltic States in 1993, were probably in much better condition!
We travelled on one of the public-transport buses in the San Diego area and found a carton of Valvoline molybdenum sulphide grease, plus paperback copies of J. R. R. Tolkien's books "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" in a thrift / charity shop. I still have those books and there is some of that grease still remaining.
Strangely, the local populous never seemed to walk anywhere; preferring to drive instead, even if it were only a few blocks away! Perhaps it was the fear of muggings or drive-by shootings that seem to be so common in the USA!?!
n.b. sulphide is spelt the proper way, in preference to sulfide!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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| I think if there was truly a superior plug design it would be proven already and everyone would have a version by now. |
Bingo!
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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| Yes a Ram is an American pick up and a 2276 is a big capacity type 1 vw motor. |
I have never heard of a truck manufacturer by the name of RAM, although I am acquainted with a large number of truck manufacturers (past & present) in Great Britain, Europe, Asia & North America; including : AEC, Albion, Ashok-Leyland, Atkinson, Austin, Bedford, Berliet, Commer, Dennis, Deutz, Dodge (UK), ERF, Foden, Ford (UK), Guy, Hannomag, Isuzu, Iveco, Karrier, Leyland, Mack, Magirus, Magirus-Deutz, MAN (part of the Volkswagen Group), Mercedes (i.e. Daimler-Benz), Mitsubishi, Morris, Nissan, Opel, Oshkosh, Peterbilt, Puch (part of Steyr-Daimler-Puch), Renault, Saviem, Scammel, Scania (part of the Volkswagen Group), Seddon, Seddon-Atkinson, Steyr (part of Steyr-Daimler-Puch), Stonefield (i.e. Scotland’s very own 4 x 4 & 6 x 4 trucks, dating from circa 1979) Tata, Tatra, Thornycroft, Toyota, Volvo and White.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_truck_manufacturers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_truck_manufacturers#North_America
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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| ps2375 wrote: |
| Erik G wrote: |
| NASkeet wrote: |
That's a lot of driving, just to get to and from work!
Wouldn't it have been better to commute to & from work by railway train!?!
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me thinks you've never been to the americas |
LOLOLOLOL
I have customers that I support that are 14-16 hours apart, some even more (driving mostly 84mph). Thankfully I don't see them in the same week or even month. I have driven 8 hrs in the same day one direction and never left the state I was in. The American west is vast and not conducive to public transit nor travel by rail, the same trip by rail could take 12-36 hrs since cargo trains literally OWN the tracks and take priority. |
One of my local female acquaintances (works on the checkout, at the local branch of Iceland supermarkets), whose husband works as a consultant safety inspector on the railways in the USA, relayed his comments that railway safety standards in the USA are much inferior to those in Great Britain! I have seen video footage of railway lines in the USA which resemble fairground rides!
When I travelled in November 1994 by InterCity 125 (introduced in the early-1970s) overnight sleeper train from London to Aberdeen, for a job interview at Robert Gordon University's Department of Architecture & Built Environment, several hundred miles away, it took only about 7 hours to get there.  We also have freight trains.
https://www.thetrainline.com/train-times/london-to-aberdeen
https://rail.cc/night-train/london-aberdeen-caledo...0%20hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_125
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_125
https://british-rail.fandom.com/wiki/InterCity_125...erator%29.
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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| jeffrey8164 wrote: |
| I think if there was truly a superior plug design it would be proven already and everyone would have a version by now. |
That is probably true.
In my other topic thread on the Triumph Dolomite Club forum in Great Britain, a former resident of the USSR, mentioned a similar product to the "Autoflash", which was said to have been manufactured by a Ukrainian company called PLAZMOFOR.
https://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=37831#p345321
https://plazmofor.prom.ua/ua/
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 12:46 pm Post subject: Re: "Autoflash" - Alternative & Updated "Spark Plug" Options |
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Here is the original "article" about Autoflash & Unipart which appeared in the PULSE newspaper. I stumbled upon it in my automotive technical-literature archives recently. I think that they might be too heavy as ear-rings!
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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