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I'm not sure what the point is, even before the ridiculous inefficiencies, converting diesel to electricity, and electricity back into motion. THEN, you have to include that you have both an engine AND an electrical system to maintain. With a diesel-electric loco you're doing it because you can optimize the diesel to run at one speed and you need the insane torque of electric motors to shift loaded freight trains. This epitomizes the WORST of BOTH!

Yeah, the PDFs never load on my phone. I have to suspect, that like Gary's photos, there's just too much there for them to be of any use to me. I'm not really sure why we are even pursuing this at this point. I told Gary what I was dealing with -years ago- ... and I'm not going to bother with it today. (or tomorrow)

The PDF only prompts a download. Useless for me.

I think what I said, or meant to say, is that it is how I know to do things. I'm open to a better way, and maybe Jeff's found one. I've said many times before "I got nothing" If I can't offer a better alternative, it's time for me to "shut up and sit down"

Gary, I don’t think that the issue is about embedding. I think it’s more about Word and Excel documents. Let’s take Manuals and literature as example. The table works well on a desktop computer, but is very annoying to navigate in from a mobile device (iPhone or iPad in my case). In this table, if I click on "open link", I get a long delay before it opens the document. And if the target document is a Word or Excel one, it takes forever to open it… Just for testing purpose, here is a PDF copy of the same table. Don’t know for others (Jim?), but on my Apple iGadgets, clicking a link is much faster to reach the target document. Manuals_&_Literature.pdf I suspect that using PDF format for tables and documents would greatly accelerate the library navigation, and this format would be more "friendly" for mobile devices. I don't even attempt it from an older (non premium) Android. Occasionally, I'll click some link or tab that brings me to this type of stuff. I've got better things to do than waste my time with any of that Gary's already told me that this is how he does things. 🤷‍♂️ Constructive criticism is one thing, but criticizing someone for the effort they make is completely counterproductive.

🙄. There may have been a reason I linked this....

Personally, I like well detailed documentation Gary! I think you like too, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a perverse pleasure. Maybe? I too feel that, the more I am getting in age, the less crisp is my monitor resolution. Jim, are you telling me this is not a hardware issue? Back in the day we would say the problem was the meatbag between the monitor and keyboard. Humans haven't changed much in 40 years...

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Chris, What could have happened to your garage door? Did the track fall out of the door frame? I've been doing carpentry/cabinets since highschool in the '70's and am having a heck of a time grasping what would keep the door closed for 2 months...

Take forever, if they finally do load at all. If I'm sitting here watching a blank page with a "W" ord logo for 5+ minutes it does nothing but piss me off, and I know that if I reload the page things are going to be the same. Instead of enraging myself any longer, I just quit. And ignore the thread until the pg# changes. It's that way with some of your photo packed posts too. I think you take perverse pleasure in making as much detail as possible. But 99% of us are not looking at a 32" monitor, we're looking at a 720p screen in our pocket (ok, probably not 720 in this day & age.. but you get what I'm saying) Eta: definitely not my connection, when I'm on ac wifi, a business class router w/ FTTH.

Cory, this is all very good info. I'm glad to see you're back, with all the things.... I didn't know what was going to happen when I tagged you in that other thread.

You are technically correct . The best kind* of correct....

Jim, I didn’t. As far as I can remember, Big Bro was as is. Maybe when my wife’s father was the owner? You are teaching me that this strap is supposed to stay there, complete. Listening at the guy’s video, I said to myself «hmm, ok, these little plastic chips were part of a strap in the past… maybe just there for the installation process.» So, I understand that this plastic strap is supposed to stay in place? I'm one of those people that think ahead. I can guarantee that you are going to have a hell of a time getting it back together if there comes a day you want to R&R your existing slave (to install the proper clip on it, perhaps?) It's simple enough to push the throwout arm forward, and slip the little tabs out of the notches in the frame. It's plastic, and they will hang out forever, without causing any problems., but remain, for you to use them to hold the spring loaded piston in the slave come your next clutch change. Yes, I do believe the instructions tell to just step on the clutch and break the straps. I'm logical, and my sense of how things fit together makes me acutely aware of why it comes that way to begin with and the struggle id have if I'd actually followed the instructions

Why oh why did you cut the retaining strap? The slave end of the throwout arm only has to move 3/4 at most to fully dose gage the clutch

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I have heard of the dressing but never used it. When I was part of a street stock pit crew racing at Waterford Speedway I dont think they even used it. If they did it was kept from me and the rest of the crew and we had 2 cars so I would think someone would have slipped at some point LOL Is the Gunk a powder? You wet the floor, spread the powder and scrub it in and rinse it off? If so I have used that before, school or buddies shop? Dave ---- Yep, it's a powder that will clean oil right out of concrete. To use this way, wet the chassis, sprinkle a little on and scrub with whatever kind of brush. Then rinse....

Imbedded docs are the bane of my experience here on the forum. YOU make like it, but it causes me to close the tab and note never to go there again. Often, if it's a post, I will refuse to return until the page rolls over.

I think you've got it now. Maybe some more neurotypical human can better explain the differences for you?

The springs in the distributor pull the advance back towards zero. The restriction keeps the plate from being able to move too quickly. But the restriction also must provide some kind of limit to manifold vacuum. We see that in how it's implemented in the system

The diaphragm couldn't resist that. We're not talking about an electron microscope, it's a dang distributor found in hundreds of millions of vehicles

About the only way you can tune a distributor, is on a Sun machine. The restriction damps the changing vacuum. But there has to be some kind of bleed.

I can't really blame you.

The catalog has mistakes and omissions, we all know that. It's something we've come to accept I'm sure Mryl had all kinds of annotations and crib notes during his 30 plus years behind the Ford parts counter

Have a look at this guy (Mike's) video where I start at about 15:26 Can you see where the water pump was? Does it look all ribbed with voids behind the impeller?

Is that going to prove that you can pump fast enough to keep up with the restriction? Jets are jets. It's pretty much all about how much it can flow at a given depression. And that's dependent on the size of the hole. (and how smooth it is)