Hey, Folks,
well, Bob Danielson asked how we were doing. I'm up in Santa Barbara
County in California, and the fires start at the southern edge of our
county and extend sporadically all the way down to the Mexican border.
We have been spared the Santa Ana winds that are blowing hair-dryer-hot
wind into the areas affected by the fires. Still, my home is in a canyon
much like those currently being burnt to a crisp in San Diego, and I
have made a few preparations in case I would have to grab my family and
bail out. Scary. The images from farther south are certainly bleak, and
the shocking and scary part to me is I've been to most all the places
I've seen on TV and the fire line starts about an hour south of here.
The speed that the fires cranked up is perhaps the most alarming.
Saturday was a beautiful day. We've had smoky skies since then.
Randall is down there in the L.A. basin somewhere, perhaps he'll give us
a man on the street report.
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Unfortunately ol' CT 7468 LO is undergoing periodic maintenance and
isn't going ANYWHERE for a couple of weeks.
Per recent list research, I did send my rocker assembly to Rocker
Specialists and had them rebuilt. The cost was $140. That's LESS than
what they have listed on their website. ( How often does that happen? )
Their website: http://www.rockerarms.com
They replaced the rocker shaft with a new, harder one, rebushed the
rockers, reground the tips and replaced the adjusters and lock nuts.
They disassembled and reassembled the rocker assembly. I dealt with a
guy named Blaine and he was very pleasant.
The assembly looks nice, but I haven't run the car yet because I also
sent out my distributor to be rebuilt by Robert Samara
(lucasdistributors@yahoo.com) who put my dizzy on his machine and sent
me this really cool excel spreadsheet with my curve on it before any
work started. I was somewhat surprised to find that my vacuum advance
wasn't working at all, and that my mechanical advance springs had become
weak and all the advance was all in by 1600 Engine RPM. This is too much
advance too early. It will be very interesting to see how the recurve
affects performance.
I'll let everyone know how the rockers and dizzy work when it all comes
back together, and hopefully we'll be through this set of fires by then.
-jeffrey
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