superhawk996

I can barely slip a bicycle into the garage, and wouldn't have room to work on it. I've been wanting to build a shed along the wall of the garage and move the machinery into it, maybe some day. The only person I know who knows how to do it who I could probably trust wants to build it to 'house standards' which would be quite spendy even at a buddy price.

And it's fairly small, should be able to do the whole thing without getting tired.

The title showed up a few days ago, but the rain hasn't let up long enough to get it out to the driveway to clean it up and take photos. I have to roll it backwards through a muddy area, it'll probably take two people to pull it off. Since the weather's been shitty I've been working on indoor stuff, one project was getting the front room re-organized so I can bring the chopper in and be able to work on it when it's cold/raining out. Moving it and the lift will be at least a 2 man operation.

I tried searching for it and can't find it. Maybe someone with better skillz can.

I think I piggybacked on the thread Carlos had started about it. Pretty sure 1972 R5 was in the title. After trying a few things I settled on very fine steel wool and oil. Being a 2 stroke I had to use castor oil, you'll have to use Italian olive oil. Where the rust was really thick I first scraped it off, probably with a screwdriver.

Some neglected chrome will clean up surprisingly well. "Everyone" says that the chrome on 70's Jap bikes is junk, yet the R5 cleaned up pretty well considering how bad it was. There are chrome paints that supposedly look very close to the real thing. I don't know if any of the cans of spray chrome paint qualify, I haven't tried any in decades, but everyone says they've come a long way. "Pro grade" chrome paints are said to be very good.

Too slow, use one of your Dewalt drivers.

I hadn't thought of it, but yea, seems to be a thing...but not really. The 6.4 Ford was destined to blow up, it's what they do and I was surprised it went as long as it did. The Chevy he had before that I think had a billion miles so it's natural that it would have problems.

If you get a chance, and fucks to give, check and clear the computer before you shut it off. I'm curious to know if it'll still flag the code at startup or if it'll take another start/run cycle to set. I'm also curious to know if it'll have a pending code for the cat or if the hole 'cured' it.

"Hit or miss" You certainly didn't miss the hit of the crackpipe.

Guessing around $1100/mo, unless she has a Mexican cook and Chinese nutritionist.

Price not listed= free. I'll take it!

The tuner on my Excursion gives it better MPG which should be lowering its emissions, at least some of them.

That bill creates what I think is a reasonable exemption, and by that I mean balancing the argument between environmental protection and letting people have a bit of freedom. The requirement of having collector car insurance means that won't allow everyone to circumvent emissions testing for their dirty old beaters, it'll only exempt cars that are nice enough to qualify for collector insurance. It might create a new market for insurance companies allowing shitty old cars to have a 'collector' policy, but currently I think they have to be pretty nice. There's also talk about Trump dismantling CARB, and possibly the EPA. Some people are saying that smog testing will end entirely, but I find that hard to believe. I think it would be 'reasonable' to dismantle CARB and AQMD and have us under the thumb of Federal EPA emissions standards. I think any modifications that keep a car's emissions within the limits for that car should be allowed, but Commiefornia disagrees. They also won't allow mods that make an old dirty engine cleaner unless those mods have an approval by CARB.

The 5.4 3valve is somewhat notorious for killing cats. I don't know if ford is using junky cats or if it's because the ignition system is able to fire neglected plugs well enough that they get neglected far too long and that kills the cats. The last one I did plugs on had 135K on the plugs and only missed under load. A couple days later he had a fault code for a cat on the same side that had a misfire code. The plugs were so worn out that they'd started firing to the side of the outer electrode instead of the center. I've never come across a 2 valve with a bad cat or a 3 valve with good cats, clearly something has changed.