Wow...an actual morning thread!
Up early as usual here. Only one spoiled cat here, but that's all it really takes to wake a human.
Watching most of the storms that Cleo mentioned go everywhere around us without getting any rain on us here.
Update: Forgot to post the above before deciding to go put some gas in my '86 Jeep. Usually that be a 15 minute errand if that's all I was doing. And it was supposed to be. But that was a few hours ago, and I just got back.
My local station was out of regular and mid-grade fuel, so I had to run down to one of the nearby islands to get it. There are other stations nearby, but it's near the end of the month when the gas points I get from food shopping expire, and only certain stations accept that program.
On the way there things were fine, but on the way back I couldn't get it to drop down into normal idle speed when I got to our one traffic light. Usually if an idle set screw on a old Jeep gets loose the opposite would happen, but when I got home I opened the hood and started to see if that was the problem.
Nope, it was the hooked end of one of the external springs that had just snapped off due to age. There was plenty of spring still there to heat and make a new hook if I was out in the woods and had to do it to get home, but since I was home I just set the idle low and drove over to Napa to get a new spring.
Napa...where they laugh when you ask for an exterior spring for a carburetor. Sure, they can order a kit that contains several springs, or order another part of the carb which comes with a spring "that might be the spring you need, but there's no picture."
Finally I got them to cross-reference and search other vehicles from around that year that used the same Carter carburetor and soon was on my way home with a couple of new springs of the correct length and strength.
I still need to fine-tune the idle speed later, but it's hot out there and the garage isn't air-conditioned, so that's a small project for later.
Time to make more coffee and restart the day.
P.S. When I tried to post this message the board said my token had expired and I should go back and reload the page. When I went back the message field was empty. Good thing I've learned to always copy before posting. Would have been a real shame if you hadn't gotten to read all this. 'Cause I sure as fuck wasn't going to type it twice.
Good day so far.
