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Troubled Child: Off-road Adventures
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Four wheeling, fishing and other outdoor adventures and mishaps in my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, "Troubled Child" And also knuckle busting wrench turning fun.
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T Minus One Week
Next week is the big Ouray trip! But with a lot of irons in the fire, I've had to drop a lot of things I thought I'd get fixed on TC before the trip. Forget A/C, forget window tinting. Ju...
More Fuel Starvation
Working on fixing the blog so I can post new entries. Hopefully this will work and the new entries will show up along with this one...Anyway, the fuel starvation problem resurfaced. I had added a seco...
TC Health Update
TC's fuel starvation problem does appear to be fixed. Pulling the carter electric pump revealed, of all things ... sand caught in the mesh filter screen. The problem hasn't recurred since r...
Passed Emissions!
WHEW! That is one giant, earth-friendly monkey off my back. TC is green again, passing with the lowest readings ever on CO -- 13 gpm with a 40 limit! Not bad!How? Part of it was the tester was smo...
TC is mad
TC likes to get attention. He likes being driven around, especially in winter, summer, spring, and also fall. Whenever he doesn't get driven and sits around he tends to get a bit angry. It get...
Runnin
TC's battery was dead again so after charging for awhile, I was able to start up the truck for the first time in months today. Driving around the block was another reminder of how much I've...
Thermostat Swap
Did a super zippy 30 minute thermostat swap last night. There was a 180°F in there, factory calls for 195°F.My understanding is that higher combustion temperatures, in addition to increasing NOx em...
Hibernation
TC has been hibernating for the last few weeks. Meanwhile, I got the garage door opener installed and cleared a space for Amy to park fulfilling a promise I made to her when we got married. Gee, it ...
Bye Datsun, Hello 2008!
Once again, Happy New Year everyone! At the Shimniok household we start the new year with a farewell to my previously mentioned 1968 Datsun 2000. With a bay free in the garage today's project i...
Happy New Year
I'd like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year! Aside from lots of snow the big development here is that my '68 Datsun 2000 Roadster that has been taking up space in my garage for the ...
Winter begins!
Finally we have some winter weather here in Denver! I haven't taken TC out since this past Saturday to help a fellow CFSJA member swap a motor (more on that later), but had no problems with the ...
Not Green
Unfortunately TC failed emissions testing today. Not cool to be un-green like this. I guess I still don't have the carb adjusted right. Tags expire at the end of the month. At a minimum, lean...
Robbed
TC was broken into a couple weekends ago. The thief took my old Alpine stereo and the Kenwood amp I bought abut a year ago. Fortunately the subwoofer was in the garage; I took it out for hunting and...