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I still wouldn't run 30A in, to the cab fuse box, and back out to the blower... Somewhere Gary has all the drop tests and stuff when he picked up some relays from Texas Industrial Electric. I suggested that he measure actual fan output, but I guess having real data is too much. 🤷‍♂️

With the truck "rewired" it's hard to know or understand what someone else has done (and now it's impossible to UNdo) You need serious key on fused power to the blower motor, and hefty grounds. (I'd suggest a relay somewhere between the starter relay and blower motor) If you don't have A/C you can ignore the compressor clutch and throttle kicker wiring. What more do you need to know?

I wish my truck looked that good! I'm sure the effort was worth it.

∆∆∆ And that is why I'd rather spend $150 and have him do it right, on a Sun machine, than scrape around for parts and guess at what I'm going to end up with. It's a blessing to have someone as knowledgeable as him still in business.

If the bushings are replaced it won't rub. You need to set the distance when you tighten it into the advance plate. (I think I used an index card?) Scotties Duraspark recurve instructions will show you how to R&R it, but not what curve it needs. Re: slot size and which springs.... Like I've said it's a Bronco, not a Mustang. And I have no idea the gearing, but assume a 8 or 10L slot width and all in by 3k. The instructions will have you weld up the narrower slot or bush the pin with a piece of hobby brass tube. https://www.reincarnation-automotive.com/Duraspark_distributor_recurve_instructions_index.html https://www.reincarnation-automotive.com/Duraspark_distributor_recurve_instructions_page-2.html

You can get components:.bushes, gears, pickups, springs... But you can't get a new harness with the odd 'grommet' molded on, nor new slotted advance plates or reluctor wheels. If you read Scotties recurve instructions you want to change the slot and be incredibly careful with the reluctor.

LCD.....

Imagine. There would be no infrastructure. No gas stations, tanker trucks, depots or refineries. There would be no stores with spark plugs, wires and ignition coils. No air filters, oil filters or oil to speak of. No mufflers. No radiators or coolant to eliminate all the wasted heat. No starter motors, fuel tanks or injectors to be had. People would resent having to travel to a special, smelly, place a few times each week just to keep driving... Nobody would want them because of astronomical maintenance costs and fuel per mile... And petroleum exploration would be just as disastrous as it has already proven. Santa Barbara, the Gulf of Mexico, Prince William Sound, Cadiz, Atlantic Empress, Nowrus... There would be war. Like in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and much of the Middle East and North Africa. Millions dying for the chance to all over themselves and their environment. Sounds like utopia to me!

Yeah, I stopped taking their mind control drugs. I don't get vertigo or the kaleidescope visuals any more. I also don't feel like slaughtering everyone I see.

Plug- in hybrids are necessarily a thing. Automakers won't abandon them because the dealers demand that recurring service bay revenue stream. I, personally, would never want to deal with BOTH a battery+charge controller and electric motors -AND- a ineffective gas or diesel engine driving an alternator/generator on the go. When the Prius and Insight first came out a generation ago they were relevant and trailblazing. Today the Prius is just another consumer appliance.

I have a Nikon stereo dissecting microscope "somewhere"... It's from before filmless photography was a thing, so it lacks any kind of video output, but the optics are good 👍

Welcome! Glad you've joined.

Good for cutting wafers. But more valuable because of marketing and some perceived rarity. Guess what used to come in these boxes??? 🙃

When my dad worked for AMF Atomics, making the me the rtgs for satellites they used to have to inspect the housings for hydrogen imbrittlement. Did you know that if you were irradiate a diamond, it will change colors from Yellow to Blue to Pink????

He certainly did! I know people who have plenty of access. I know people who have them in their garage! But I don't know if I want to ask them to bother with a bolt from a truck.

TTY will ALWAYS have a smoothly radiused wasp (or necked) section.

You keep saying that, but I don't believe it. Send it to Bill Vose for testing. NDT is as simple as sticking it in a STEM

The module is screwed to a plastic fender.....

The clamp and block are plenty. Remember, you're switching a transistor...

I'm glad to see you've come back so well! They tried putting me on ssris a few years ago. I had vertigo and nausea like you couldn't believe, even after 6mo. Ladders, or behind the wheel of a vehicle, are not good places to be. 😳

For totes -endwise- with a library ladder it makes total sense!

I'd imagine 10.9 Not that it's needed, when the aluminum (and even an insert) would pull long before the steel broke.

One thing I perhaps need to clarify is that the first video I linked is not representative of the level of "extreme" that I will be leading Big Blue on! As I said, I wasn't willing to drive Pluto up that, and I have a lot more experience than Gary. I included that video because it's a good example of why starting in gear can be important. The second video is closer to what we'll be doing (although we'll be pushing comfort zones a little more than that). If the guy in this video hadn't started it in gear he'd have probably rolled his back tires back off the ledge and stopped there. It wouldn't have been at all dangerous, but it would have been a little spooky (especially for his wife if she was in the passenger seat!) and he'd have to climb the ledge again, which hadn't been a piece of cake the first time. That's what this mod will buy for Gary: insurance toward a little lower chance of freaking out his passenger and a little easier time climbing a ledge. You guys are going to have an EPIC trip! (at least, Gary will)

Regular steel, especially in iron, won't ever weld itself in place. That's the chrome and nickel...