Good Morning! 65F @ 5:00AM. Lots of sunshine. High 88F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Good to hear Whipper's wound is healing well, Don, but those copperhead and wasp encounters don't sound like any fun at all.
Well there sure are a lot of different kinds of wagtail out there, Eric, but I'm guessing yours was a bird, since CMSs usually don't fly round the ceiling. :laughing: After sitting unused for years, even though it made the move up here, my Sony was finally recycled a few years ago. It was difficult, knowing what it cost, and how little money I made back then. But in this day and age of iPods, there's not much chance of hearing flapping sounds at the end of a song.
Safe travels, Drew. Most tire manufacturers can recommend pressures, and are easy to reach through their web sites.
Spend the morning spraying weeds again yesterday. Got most of the way through a 2 1/2 gallon jug of concentrate, and even though that would have filled the little 15 gallon tank five times, it sure seemed like it got filled many more times than that. Regardless, the upper meadow is done, and a bit of the west one, too. On what's left of the lot the weeds are thin enough I can just spot spray. So that means fewer fillups, and maybe I can get it done this morning.
Made up some drawings for machining the Subaru cylinder heads after lunch. It seems that using 2.2 liter heads on a 2.5 block results in too much compression, so a bit of metal needs to come out of both the heads and the pistons. I'm doing the heads, while the mechanic has tooling to enlarge the valve pockets on the pistons. But making a drawing will help ensure that the cuts are made correctly the first time, even though I have a scrap head to practice on. We'll also use that head to figure out how much material is left between the bottom of the cuts and the water jacket inside. We'll find that out by milling down through the cuts until we hit the passages. None of this would be necessary of the California Air Resources Board just used emissions tests to approve engine swaps, but instead they've institute a grueling list of requirements that have nothing to do with clean air. Worse, apparently those in charge of approving variants are somewhat capricious in their decision making, and spending thousands to build up a motor may not result in a green light even though what comes out of the tail pipe is clean as the driven snow. So this Frankenmotor will have bits chosen to meet what's already been approved, not for either performance or clean air.:confused2:
