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airschooled
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Hey dudes, I'm parking near Salt Lake City for the night, and my internet connection isn't good enough for much photo posting… So here's this from my phone, of last night's camp site. Wait until the camera pictures come out this weekend…… 
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| ... do you think I should stop and remove my rev-limiting rotor and peg 5,000 RPM trying to outrun a tornado? Or should I save five seconds and leave it in, and just nurse it at 4,600? |
It's not the engine you have to worry about at that speed so much (although it beats the snot out of the center main, without the counterweighted crank, and valve float with stock springs takes its toll), it's the cooling fan! They explode - and take out the fan housing in the process (ask me how I know). There are welded/brased fans which supposedly solve this problem, but I worry about the heat zone side effects on something spinning that fast...
Besides, if it's gonna get 'ya, it's gonna get 'ya... |
Robbie - the argument that you can't go that fast because of the rev limiter won't work in Illinois, I can tell you that. If you push it to a sustained 6,000 RPM which the 1600 will do well, 20,000 - 40,000 miles will be the longevity of the engine. |
Oh, the rev-limited currently shakes me up around 4,600, so I can't go any faster. My single port with unknown cam maxes out around 5,000 in neutral anyway… Not that I've tested it………… 
My fan was "welded and balanced" by the Gene Berg shop a few years ago. No balance marks on it at all…  I got it because I wanted to run the proper 900mm belt with my 38-amp pulley. And damn does that belt ride low (fast!) in the cast iron generator pulley. It took so many washers to fit, I used a fan spacer washer and two shims! 
Robbie
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telford dorr
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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| My fan was "welded and balanced" by the Gene Berg shop a few years ago. |
Well, if that doesn't hold up, I don't know what will. Been running one of their "welded" counterweighted 69 mm cranks (NLA - too expensive to make) for years with no complaints at all. Last pass through the engine (the bad center cam bearing problem) showed no main bearing or case issues at all - looked brand new.
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Brian
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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How is your cap holding up?
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KentABQ 
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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You are being mighty quiet during this trip, Robbie.
It is uncharacteristic of you to be so uncommunicative. 
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wcfvw69
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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You are being mighty quiet during this trip, Robbie.
It is uncharacteristic of you to be so uncommunicative. |
So, what are you saying about Robbie, Kent? Something like this?!?
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Tram
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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| telford dorr wrote: |
| asiab3 wrote: |
| ... do you think I should stop and remove my rev-limiting rotor and peg 5,000 RPM trying to outrun a tornado? Or should I save five seconds and leave it in, and just nurse it at 4,600? |
It's not the engine you have to worry about at that speed so much (although it beats the snot out of the center main, without the counterweighted crank, and valve float with stock springs takes its toll), it's the cooling fan! They explode - and take out the fan housing in the process (ask me how I know). There are welded/brased fans which supposedly solve this problem, but I worry about the heat zone side effects on something spinning that fast...
Besides, if it's gonna get 'ya, it's gonna get 'ya... |
Robbie - the argument that you can't go that fast because of the rev limiter won't work in Illinois, I can tell you that. If you push it to a sustained 6,000 RPM which the 1600 will do well, 20,000 - 40,000 miles will be the longevity of the engine. BTW, when you come across one of those snaky twisty things at 2am in the morning in the pouring rain in Oklahoma and homes around you are disappearing you won't be so snide about someone suggesting you leave if you don't like the way the weather looks.... two days later when you see a huge 200 year old heritage Oak tree in Texas moved from somewhere else just lying in a field with cows grazing around it, root ball and all but there is no hole nearby where the tree was plucked from you will be thankful you were late to that party too.
That said - the neat thing is that now at night when you have nothing to do you can sit in the bus, think Lego while watching Tram in old TV reruns on the laptop.
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KentABQ
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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| KentPS wrote: |
You are being mighty quiet during this trip, Robbie.
It is uncharacteristic of you to be so uncommunicative. |
So, what are you saying about Robbie, Kent? Something like this?!? |
Ummmmm... yeah. That's pretty much the idea. 
I was practicing my unpresidential-like diplomacy.
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SGKent
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 5:56 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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A Maserati passed us on the freeway yesterday, I can give you his license plate number. Going after a VW bus owner won't yield much these days. 
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wcfvw69
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Ummmmm... yeah. That's pretty much the idea.
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LMAO!
I ALMOST can't handle Facebook anymore. It's always the same people who post three or four times a day with most being selfies. Those folks just scream "look at me, look at me"..  The most habitual attention whores new posts are blocked, so I don't have to feel sorry for them due to their constant validation seeking...
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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You want selfies? I can give you selfies!
But my cell service is limited, so here are some pics I had on hand. Still no “real camera” pics... considering I left my laptop in a different time zone...
From the flat part of the country, having out-run one lightening storm already,
Robbie
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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did I hear that 95 F got you down?
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 10:39 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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| did I hear that 95 F got you down? |
I’m so over the heat. Colorado was so charming with its 35* nights and 55* days. Here I am parking under a leaky Joplin gas station roof as I wait out THREE different lightening storms on different sides of me...
Generator light came on as I pulled into Tony’s driveway. Upper brush was WELL below the wear line, so it was replaced with much darkness in the cabin.
And my generator light is on again.
Robbie
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Hell hath no fury like replacing the lower generator brush in a thunderstorm.
But how polite of my bus to need both at the same time! At least the soft-as-hell Wolfsburg West brushes have SOMETHING going for them. My NOS set went 50k miles, and this set barely went 10k......
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SGKent
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 6:48 am Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Joplin MO? I think that city was almost wiped off the map May 22, 2011. Whoa - the seven year anniversary is only seven days.
Weather looks nice right now but there is an expression in that part of the USA - if you don't like the weather just wait 10 minutes... .
I had brushes go out on a trip in my 1971, and drove 200 miles on the bus as I did not have a spare pair. Destroyed the generator internally. Good thing you have spares.
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SGKent
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 11:22 am Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Glad you made it through, dude! |
Look Ma - Conjoined twins!
How quaint - a truly Southern "Aw Shucks" moment with the eyes closed and the foot turned out.
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 11:25 am Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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with the eyes closed and the foot turned out. |
That’s hilarious SGKent. 
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 7:07 am Post subject: Re: Fourteen States in Seven Weeks? |
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Robbie,
Please check out his super great Champagne ash tray that was in the intricate three way swap we had a while back. I love it when a win-win-win comes together.
See you soon !
We'll have two beauties waiting for you. By that I mean buses - not travelers - but I think the travelers are beauties too!
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