New Engine Follies - Final

> A number of years ago, I had relatives in Santa Fe. We traveled to the
> Southwest several times, and each time saw something different. Carlsbad
> Caverns and the dusk bat flight. Indescribable. 2.5 million bats flying out
> of that cave in a huge Vortex.
> Grand Canyon, both North and South rims. Takes your breath away in
> the changing light of dusk, then the clarity and silence of the moonless,
> starlit, night sky.
> The KODAK moments of the Hot Air Balloon Festival at Albuquerque,
> New Mexico, Maria's Cantina in Santa Fe, where we tried to sample her
> selection of over 100 Tequilas. (Didn't make it, not even close),
> The whole enchilada festival in the middle of the Hatch Chilie
> harvest at Los Cruces, New Mexico.
> White Sands National Monument, can't miss that one. Alamogordo, and
> the Trinity Site. The little Ali-en Inn, tourist trap for sure.
> Cottontail Ranch, we drove by and did not stop. Nuff said.
> You could easily become a desert rat, and disappear. No one would
> miss you, and you would never be bored. When you die, you could just
> shrivel up and dry, and the ever present winds would blow you up against an
> old barbed wire fence like countless other tumbleweeds.
> Well, I had better get my butt moving, got stuff to finish in the
> shop. Restoring a 50's Airco AC/DC 200 AMP STICK WELDER/generator to go on
> my 1969 Dodge D-200 shop truck, which is at the body shop for some rust
> repair and a fresh coat of Desert Turquoise paint. Going to be a semi-show
> truck, with cutting torches, welder/generator, utility boxes, corner hoist,
> signage of my shop. JBH Products.
> Jim Hupy
> Salem, Oregon
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:23 PM D C _Mac_ Macdonald via Gmclist <

>
>> Bryce Canyon is my favorite National Park!
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>> Wow! More travel stuff to consider. Last time we ventured East, we did a
>> rolling rally from Wilsonville, Oregon to Detroit, Michigan, back to
>> Chicago, Illinois to Madison and Michigan streets, the starting point of
>> the OLD ROUTE 66. Retracing the "mother road" back to the Santa Monica,
>> Pier in California, then up through California back to Gods Country
>> (Oregon). That took over 6 weeks, and covered over 6500 miles. So, Judy
>> wants to do the GREAT AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, Arches, Zion, Canyonlands, etc.
>> Ohhh, the things we saw, and the fine people we met. Fond Memories
>> are made of that. The Houston stopover at Scott Nutters place is a HUGE
>> inducement all by itself. We know lots of GMCers along that Southern
>> Route.
>> Could easily turn that 5 day trip into 10 or 12.
>> Jim Hupy
>> Salem, Oregon
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 7:55 AM Emery Stora via Gmclist <

>>
>> > How many people do you have in addition to the 3 dogs and 2 cats?
>> > I used to travel with my four children and wife in my GMC.
>> > Do the dogs and cats take up that much room?
>> >
>> > Emery Stora
>> >
>> > Emery
>> >
>> > > On Dec 27, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <

>> > >
>> > > Natchez Trace and The Blue Ridge are two of my faves. I manage to hit
>> > them every four or five years going someplace. My problem is, I need
>> > something
>> > > big enough for us, three dogs, and two cats. I looked into a bus
>> > conversion and after looking at the cost to maintain, looked elsewhere.
>> > Anything I
>> > > can afford to buy will need more loot than I have, even if I were to
>> > sell the GMC for value (which never happens anyway). When we gat down
>> to a
>> > dog
>> > > and a cat or threwe, I'll reconsider travel.
>> > >
>> > > --johnny
>> > > --
>> > > Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
>> > > Braselton, Ga.
>> > > I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to
>> > me in hell
>> > >
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I had a '67 D-200. LEaf springs at the corners, solid front axle, pretty much unbreakable. Like my curret Ford - not real fast but it got there with
whatever you could load into it.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
> Emery, two of us plus the menagerie. You met one of the dogs' sires at either Patterson or Dothan I believe. Big white curly guy. The current
> Big White Dog is 120 pounds, which wants a large crate. The two Border Collies are fifty pound, and can use medium crates. We need them because
> we feed in crates, although I can get away with one large and one medium and feed one guy uncrated. Maybe remove the bunks/couch and put the drates
> and the litter box for the cats there. This would cost a LOT of storage, particularly for heavy stuff. Ain't convinced Her it's doabloe yet.
>
> --johnny

Johnny,

All you need is a good rear hitch and a 16' "Stock Trailer" for the others. If you are worried about the heat, put a roof unit on it and run an
extension cord from the coach.

We now regularly travel with 120# of dog in two packages. The both like riding on the back bed, but one or the other will come forward to see us from
time to time and/or tell us that it is time for a "grass stop". Neither is a crate dog. The big one ripped open the crate we got for here.
Honestly, they are most of the reason we don't fly any place these days.

Matt
--
Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
 
Ours will sleep in their open crates or beside our bed. No dogs on the bed, that's cat country. During the day the bed has a dog proof quilt they
can lie down on. Can't haul a trailer, the toad's back there. The best way to crate train your dogs is to feed them in their crates. The crate is
his 'den'. It's a place of safety and lack of stress. Sam and predecessors wander about the RV and flop wherever's comfortable unless they want Out,
in which case they come ask, and we find somewhere to stop. Doors are NEVER unlocked until the dogs are leashed and the loop is around a wrist.

While I'm on dogs - and I can go on for hours - if you use what's called a 'Flexi' lead (a spring retracted thing) do your dog a favor. Deposit it
in the nearest trash recepticle and go get a proper 6 foot lead and a 20 foot lunge line. (There's a reason AKC doesn't allow 'Flexi' leads on show
grounds). Walk on the six footer and teach proper walking procedure and play on the lunge line with the other dogs, or just roam about the RV park
grassy areas. And, PICK UP AFTER YOUR DOG! I realize GMCers do so, but repeating it keeps us from being barred from more and more places. I've
always got a couple of rolls of poop bags, ask for one if you're short. But, pick it up.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
FINALLY got the bleeder to seal to the master cylinder. Bought some 1/8th inch mat from Tractor Supply, cut a piece and drilled it to fit the bleeder
and ronked it down. It holds 60 lbs with little or no leakage. However, it's cold as a frog and there's a 15 mph wind wistling through my RV shed,
so I will continue tomorrow. The release pin on the new proportioning valve is fluch not depressed, so I need to modify my valve tool
just a bit. Since it's merely a C-clamp, I'll put a BB between the shoe and the pin so the clamp presses it in. I'll make it to Patterson at this
rate.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
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Good on ya Johnny B.:
Keep it going - Hope to see you there!
Mike/The Corvair a holic

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> FINALLY got the bleeder to seal to the master cylinder. Bought some 1/8th inch mat from Tractor Supply, cut a piece and drilled it to fit the bleeder
> and ronked it down. It holds 60 lbs with little or no leakage. However, it's cold as a frog and there's a 15 mph wind wistling through my RV shed,
> so I will continue tomorrow. The release pin on the new proportioning valve is fluch not depressed, so I need to modify my valve tool
> just a bit. Since it's merely a C-clamp, I'll put a BB between the shoe and the pin so the clamp presses it in. I'll make it to Patterson at this
> rate.
>
> --johnny
> --
> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
>
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I got the bleeder plate sealed nicely. Bled the bejesus out of everything. Went to put everything back togwether on the brakes, and it's damp with
fluid in the rear on the booster. Maybe the back of the bleeder didn't seal? No such luck, MC upper sides and rear 'dry as the morning after mouth
of a dissipated desert' and I have a bottle of good whiskey for the first person to properly attribute that piece of prose, author and work. If you
cheat and goo9gle it I'll never know. Please don't. New master cylinder on the way. Sigh. Meantime replacing the front wheels and elevating the
rear to check adjustment back there.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
Archy and Mehibatel don’t know a thing about brakes.

Rick “whose thumb is less coordinated than Archy” Denney

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 3:34 PM Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <

> I got the bleeder plate sealed nicely. Bled the bejesus out of
> everything. Went to put everything back togwether on the brakes, and it's
> damp with
> fluid in the rear on the booster. Maybe the back of the bleeder didn't
> seal? No such luck, MC upper sides and rear 'dry as the morning after mouth
> of a dissipated desert' and I have a bottle of good whiskey for the first
> person to properly attribute that piece of prose, author and work. If you
> cheat and goo9gle it I'll never know. Please don't. New master cylinder
> on the way. Sigh. Meantime replacing the front wheels and elevating the
> rear to check adjustment back there.
>
> --johnny
> --
> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me
> in hell
>
>
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Northern Virginia
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Even though you misspelled ( should be archy and mehitabel, lower case) I'll give you winners. Payable in Patterson?

--johnny

--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
Johnny,

I was going on memory from my youth—you said no peeking. I think that
wasn’t my only typo. And, yes, a cockroach can’t press the shift key.
There’s a story behind my awareness of that work that goes right back to
childhood, but I’ll save that for the next time we see each other.

I won’t be in Patterson—too far and I need to take an old traveling buddy
on a vacation in the desert while he is still able. Story there, too. And I
promised the Redhead that we would take the coach visiting in Maine this
year. So, my extended vacation time is already spoken for. Maybe we’ll find
a way to get down your way for a Dixielanders thing.

Rick “a pour from your favorite bottle next time will do the trick, and
I’ll bring my favorite, too” Denney

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <

> Even though you misspelled ( should be archy and mehitabel, lower case)
> I'll give you winners. Payable in Patterson?
>
> --johnny
>
> --
> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me
> in hell
>
>
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'73 X-Glacier 230 "Jaws"
Northern Virginia
Offlist email: rick at rickdenney dot com
 
I remember that book from my junior year in college (1958-1959)!

D C "Mac" Macdonald​
Amateur Radio K2GKK​
Since 30 November '53​
USAF and FAA, Retired​
Member GMCMI & Classics​
Oklahoma City, OK​
"The Money Pit"​
TZE166V101966​
'76 ex-Palm Beach​
k2gkk + hotmail dot com​

________________________________
From: Gmclist on behalf of Richard Denney via Gmclist
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:13
To: gmclist
Cc: Richard Denney
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] New Engine Follies - Final

Johnny,

I was going on memory from my youth—you said no peeking. I think that
wasn’t my only typo. And, yes, a cockroach can’t press the shift key.
There’s a story behind my awareness of that work that goes right back to
childhood, but I’ll save that for the next time we see each other.

I won’t be in Patterson—too far and I need to take an old traveling buddy
on a vacation in the desert while he is still able. Story there, too. And I
promised the Redhead that we would take the coach visiting in Maine this
year. So, my extended vacation time is already spoken for. Maybe we’ll find
a way to get down your way for a Dixielanders thing.

Rick “a pour from your favorite bottle next time will do the trick, and
I’ll bring my favorite, too” Denney

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <

> Even though you misspelled ( should be archy and mehitabel, lower case)
> I'll give you winners. Payable in Patterson?
>
> --johnny
>
> --
> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me
> in hell
>
>
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> Even though you misspelled ( should be archy and mehitabel, lower case) I'll give you winners. Payable in Patterson?
>
> --johnny

Wow,

I haven't heard of them since we assisted mehitabel in Stonington harbor. It would have been 64 or 5. She had lost the top of her mast in the sound.
A family crew and some were my age. During everything, I asked after the name (their dingy was archy) and was introduced.

Matt
--
Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
 
Marquis was a character of no small proportion. Unfortunately, he appears to have done his liver in long before GMCs came out. We named the cat
three cats back mehitabel in his honor. Denny, lemme know next time you get close and I'll hit the bottle shop for you. No time limit save my
lifetime on the payout.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
Removed the master cylinder, and noted the leak around the piston. I get a new one from Advance in the morning. I used their bench bleeding
procedure on the one I got for the pickup and I don't think it works well - 'slowly press the piston all the way in and back till it quits bubbling up
through the port at the bottom of the reservoir'. I'm going back to old style, a hose out of each port curved back into the reservoir and pump the
piston slowly until only fluid circulates.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
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