Sounds like a story my father-in-law likes to tell about he and a buddy
when they were young me driving a 40's decade car down to the valley
from the Sierra's and they were losing oil.   Well, they took turns with one
standing on the running board pouring a somewhat steady flow of oil
into the engine to keep it from losing all oil.   They almost made it home
but
a cop finally pulled them over....

Steven
91 Westy

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:02 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:

> Watched two kids recover a 1950's something flat bed truck out of the
> bush in Alaska. Been parked in the woods so long a bush had grown up
> through the floor board and occupied the interior - and a 8 " dia. Tree
> was growing up through the flat bed in back. They cleared all that, and
> wonders of wonders - got the engine to turn over. Poured gas down the
> carb and it started. Fuel pump didn't work,, and hoses were rotten.
> Since the glass on the passenger side was broken out - a hose was tuck
> into the top of the carb, and one kid drove while the other poured gas
> from a can into the hose and they drove it out of there and into town.
> KISS principle worked real well in this case!!
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On 11/14/2013 10:45 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
>> about all I could ever wish for is a toggle switch that would give me a
>>> 'slightly faster idle' on rare occasions when I wanted or needed that.
>>> A switch to one of those vacuum valves, if you have any on your van
>>> there....would accomplish that nicely.  I should try that sometime.
>>>
>>
>>    Semi-Friday editorial content early
>>
>>     How about an old fashioned choke cable connected to the throttle
>> body....Gasp!...mechanically?
>> I like stuff like that, stuff that won't fool me by letting a few ohms
>> go astray at times and causing me undue puzzlement..."What's wrong
>> now?" can be solved with hand and eyes....
>>
>>     Just today as I prepare my van for another southern journey I was
>> making sure the engine was taking full throttle....I had my S.O. stomp
>> on the gas pedal and I looked, with my eyes and twisted, with my hand,
>> the throttle quadrant on the intake after she floored it.....just to
>> make certain I had the cables adjusted properly following recent top
>> end work......Yep, it was adjusted correctly, no ohms needed, no OBD,
>> no relays or micro switches.... just "look and feel" mechanical stuff.
>>
>>     My first ever van, a 36hp 1957 splitty, had ice issues with it's
>> throttle tube when I used to drive it to work in Jackson Hole in
>> waaaay sub-zero temps.  It was often the only vehicle in our tiny town
>> (then) that would start, on  some of those -40f degree days, so I
>> ended up creeping along with a full load of hitchhikers...my fellow
>> ski-workers who's fancy pick-ups wouldn't start...anyhow...I would
>> either just shift with the throttle stuck wide open as we slowly
>> slowly got up to top speed....or I would use my special patented
>> throttle return....a length of 50lbs test mono fishing line attached
>> to the other side of the throttle on the carb...I ran it through eye
>> bolts, from the engine bay up front to the package shelf under the
>> dash,  just ahead of my shift lever.  I hung a big washer on the end
>> so I could grab it with my ski gloves on and my ice scraper still in
>> hand......As I got ready to shift, I'd just reach down and pull the
>> string to 'release full throttle'..then bring my hand back to the
>> lever and shift, then stomp down and wait for the next shift point
>> (usually  a minute or so, as I went up through the gears) and of
>> course,  I had to quickly get that ice scraper back in action on the
>> windshield to keep the little peep hole through the interior ice  open
>> enough to see (sort of) where we were  headed at 45mph......
>>      Now I am told there are Ski Corp furnished worker busses to bring
>> the workers across from Idaho where most of them now live...  "Back in
>> my day, we had to walk ten miles through the snow to
>> school...."...wait, wrong story....
>>    Happy Friday in a few hours...
>>    Don Hanson
>>
>>