Tim <tschnautz@gmail.com> wrote in news:7e6b6b40-3ade-4572-917c- fe6ef8fb9662@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
Evenw ith the old Generator, I never really had any proble with mine.
But To note, that the "gen" light in the dash always did glow. I never
figured that one out....
A DC generator, unlike the alternators used today, only generates power after a certain RPM threshold, caused by the counter EMF of the battery. There are no blocking diodes, so a generator is actually a LOAD with current backing up through it at low speed....or, worse yet, not turning at all, which cooks whichever rotor and commutator core it happens to be sitting on at the time.
This is why old people are always so crazy about NOT leaving the key on when their car isn't running. The modern car, it makes no difference. The old cars, it cooked the generators and contact ignition systems, killing the battery in the process.
My Guzzi Marelli problem was always switches, in the handle bars. They corroded in the rain and you rode in the dark or it wouldn't run...or it wouldn't crank, and had no foot crank on it. Replacing the entire handle bar assembly including electrics with one from a wrecked Honda 750 cured this problem for the rest of their lives.
I lost a starter, once. It's core came apart. Being in rural SC, my only choice was an auto electric shop that looked like it had been in business since rewinding Ford coils in the 1920's. The owner, a nice old guy, pulled it apart to look, shook his head we weren't gonna fix that one and said, "This is just a Fiat starter running backwards. Let me pull the gear off the end of it and put it on a rebuilt Fiat starter and you'll be fine. You can't beat expertise in any field. He instructed his worker what to do, an hour later they had it mounted back on my Guzzi and she cranked right up. It was on there when I sold it years later. The points in its little distributor were also the same as the Fiat rear engine Spider I also owned at the time.
Tim <tschnautz@gmail.com> wrote in news:7e6b6b40-3ade-4572-917c-
fe6ef8fb9662@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
Evenw ith the old Generator, I never really had any proble with mine.
But To note, that the "gen" light in the dash always did glow. I never
figured that one out....
A DC generator, unlike the alternators used today, only generates power
after a certain RPM threshold, caused by the counter EMF of the battery.
There are no blocking diodes, so a generator is actually a LOAD with
current backing up through it at low speed....or, worse yet, not turning at
all, which cooks whichever rotor and commutator core it happens to be
sitting on at the time.
This is why old people are always so crazy about NOT leaving the key on
when their car isn't running. The modern car, it makes no difference. The
old cars, it cooked the generators and contact ignition systems, killing
the battery in the process.
My Guzzi Marelli problem was always switches, in the handle bars. They
corroded in the rain and you rode in the dark or it wouldn't run...or it
wouldn't crank, and had no foot crank on it. Replacing the entire handle
bar assembly including electrics with one from a wrecked Honda 750 cured
this problem for the rest of their lives.
I lost a starter, once. It's core came apart. Being in rural SC, my only
choice was an auto electric shop that looked like it had been in business
since rewinding Ford coils in the 1920's. The owner, a nice old guy,
pulled it apart to look, shook his head we weren't gonna fix that one and
said, "This is just a Fiat starter running backwards. Let me pull the gear
off the end of it and put it on a rebuilt Fiat starter and you'll be fine.
You can't beat expertise in any field. He instructed his worker what to
do, an hour later they had it mounted back on my Guzzi and she cranked
right up. It was on there when I sold it years later. The points in its
little distributor were also the same as the Fiat rear engine Spider I also
owned at the time.
There are rumors that FIAT is planning to re-enter the American market...again.
I had a FIAT Abarth 850 for about three months once. Used. Awful car. Now they are collector's items and fetch big bucks. They're still awful cars.
But the prettiest awful car I ever had was an MG-A. Gorgeous, white with red leather. Looked very pretty sitting in the driveway where I lived in Kansas City. That's where it spent most of its time, too, sitting in the driveway. It was a mechanical and electrical P.O.S. It was sort of like the girl I was dating at the time...very pretty, with really nice upholstery, but it was damned hard to start her up and keep her running.
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message news:Xns9AF15D1111123noonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
The points in its
little distributor were also the same as the Fiat rear engine Spider I
also
owned at the time.
850 Spider?
We've had two of those. The first was while living in Italy .... the little 2 seater "sports car" convertible version. The second we had later back in the states ... a hardtop, sorta fastback version.
I wanted to bring the one in Italy back with me but it didn't meet US safety standards. It was a fun car.
My mother owned a red Fiat Spider convertible in the early 70's. It had some minor problems but that was her version of the male mid-life crisis. She had always wanted a sexy sports car, so she figured it was now or never. She kept it for about 5 years when it started to show it's age. Cars of that era didn't hold up as well as they do today.
hk <payer33859@mypacks.net> wrote in news:d9GdnQzIDrlMzwXVnZ2dnUVZ_tvinZ2d@comcast.com:
But the prettiest awful car I ever had was an MG-A. Gorgeous, white with
red leather. Looked very pretty sitting in the driveway where I lived in
Kansas City. That's where it spent most of its time, too, sitting in the
driveway. It was a mechanical and electrical P.O.S. It was sort of like
the girl I was dating at the time...very pretty, with really nice
upholstery, but it was damned hard to start her up and keep her running.
Isn't it interesting this is the same English company that made the Morris Minors I always loved. I had a little green saloon, a drophead coupe and always wanted the little woody wagon but never found one I could afford on sailor's pay.
My 37hp drophead, with its white racing stripes to match the 6 light and 8 badge bar, not to mention its 37hp monstrous 4-cylinder powerplant, was my favorite. A little '41 Ford convertible, made in 1964.
The only thing it lost was the master cylinder in the hydraulic brakes. The hand brake worked good until I saved up enough money to buy a new master cylinder on my measily $100 Navy check....
There's a towtruck company downtown that has a lot of Morris and Austin Minis....the real ones not the new BMW fake ones. They are pretty proud of them when you ask the price....(c;
"Eisboch" <rce@nowhere.com> wrote in news:1NOdnd-LFOW0yAXVnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@giganews.com:
The 850 Spider we had in Italy looked just like this .... same color
even ...
Mine was a horrid orange, but what can you expect for $1200...(c;
Someone told him it needed an expensive radiator, so he dumped it on me. The radiator shop guy shrugged and said, "Come back on Wednesday." when it was ready to go for $65...??
But the prettiest awful car I ever had was an MG-A. Gorgeous, white with
red leather. Looked very pretty sitting in the driveway where I lived in
Kansas City. That's where it spent most of its time, too, sitting in the
driveway. It was a mechanical and electrical P.O.S. It was sort of like
the girl I was dating at the time...very pretty, with really nice
upholstery, but it was damned hard to start her up and keep her running.
Isn't it interesting this is the same English company that made the Morris
Minors I always loved. I had a little green saloon, a drophead coupe and
always wanted the little woody wagon but never found one I could afford on
sailor's pay.
My 37hp drophead, with its white racing stripes to match the 6 light and 8
badge bar, not to mention its 37hp monstrous 4-cylinder powerplant, was my
favorite. A little '41 Ford convertible, made in 1964.
The only thing it lost was the master cylinder in the hydraulic brakes.
The hand brake worked good until I saved up enough money to buy a new
master cylinder on my measily $100 Navy check....
There's a towtruck company downtown that has a lot of Morris and Austin
Minis....the real ones not the new BMW fake ones. They are pretty proud of
them when you ask the price....(c;
I trace my love for British cars to a grammar and high school chum in New Haven, where I grew up. *His* father was rich, so while we were too young to drive, his older brothers each got an Austin-Healey when they reached driving age, and we younger guys got to wash the cars, sit in them and drive them up and down the driveway. Big deal, huh?
And my father had a lot of summer employees at the boatyard, including a young guy whose father had a Jag XK-120 the kid sometimes drove to work.
Those cars just hooked me. Then when we got to be 16, the rich kid's dad bought him an XK-150 and then one of the first XK-E's I ever saw. Now that was one beautiful car.
Well, the hook was set. But when I finished college, all I could afford was an ancient MG-A. When it ran I loved it. But it didn't run a lot.
"Jim" <jim@boatnet.net> wrote in news:g79lts$k5k$1 @registered.motzarella.org:
She lacked motivation?
I made errors on two of my Hondas. I traded in my 305 Honda Dream on a Triumph 650....I was young. The other mistake was selling my Honda 600 sedan: http://www.honda600coupe.com/Honda_600_Sedan_at_Route_22_Honda.html I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't think it was ever on the road!
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't think
it was ever on the road!
I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream. Used and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served me well for a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure looked sweet compared to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had, because...my Honda started when I wanted it to...and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.
hk <payer33859@mypacks.net> wrote in news:gd- dnYK7sORs5wXVnZ2dnUVZ_t7inZ2d@comcast.com:
and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.
Triumphs had a special thermometer in them built into the distributor cap. At a certain temperature, the thermo element must have pulled the points permanently away from each other because you couldn't start it in the cold....
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't
think it was ever on the road!
I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream. Used
and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served me well
for
a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure looked sweet
compared
to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had, because...my Honda started
when
I wanted it to...and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.
My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.
Eisboch
winter-motorcycle-Illinois? You are a daredevil,aren't you?
It's not so bad once you pound the seat with your fist in the morning
to break up the ice.
And riding in 6-8 inches of fresh snow isn't too bad once you get used to it. I used to stick my feet out like ski poles and wooble down the road, back to the apartment.
<LoogyPicker@gmail.com> wrote in message news:0a05bb65-1025-432d-a79a-6c127b4624c7@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com... On Aug 5, 9:34 am, justwaitafrekinmin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 5, 9:26 am, "Eisboch" <r...@nowhere.com> wrote:
I owned an Austin Healey (sp?) Sprite for a while when I was traveling
in the south.. Cute little car...
True Sprite story:
I bought this bug eye, I was 16 at the time. It was pretty much junk, seats out and such. Well, to two it home, we towed it behind my brother's car. I sat on a bucket with a pair of Vice Grips to steer it, as the steering wheel was gone. Can you see where we're going with this? Yep, go around a curve in the county road, bucket tips over...... Not done. When I go to fall off of the bucket, I yank the vice grip/ steering mechanism right off of the stem! Luckily, I had thought to slam on the brakes, my brother noticed, and we came to a stop in the ditch! Man, we used to have fun! It's too bad that Harry and JimH and people like that had to stay in there hermetically sealed rooms to avoid any danger. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't think
it was ever on the road!
I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream. Used and
just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served me well for a
couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure looked sweet compared to
the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had, because...my Honda started when I
wanted it to...and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.
My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.
Eisboch
Ahhh...the smooth fendered Honda. The fenders on mine looked like they
came from an early Japanese horror movie.
???
You've never seen the fenders on a 250cc Honda Dream? The fenders came with a "crease" in the center and looked like some sort of Japanese cartoon art.
But the prettiest awful car I ever had was an MG-A. Gorgeous, white with
red leather. Looked very pretty sitting in the driveway where I lived in
Kansas City. That's where it spent most of its time, too, sitting in the
driveway. It was a mechanical and electrical P.O.S. It was sort of like
the girl I was dating at the time...very pretty, with really nice
upholstery, but it was damned hard to start her up and keep her running.
Isn't it interesting this is the same English company that made the Morris
Minors I always loved. I had a little green saloon, a drophead coupe and
always wanted the little woody wagon but never found one I could afford on
sailor's pay.
My 37hp drophead, with its white racing stripes to match the 6 light and 8
badge bar, not to mention its 37hp monstrous 4-cylinder powerplant, was my
favorite. A little '41 Ford convertible, made in 1964.
The only thing it lost was the master cylinder in the hydraulic brakes.
The hand brake worked good until I saved up enough money to buy a new
master cylinder on my measily $100 Navy check....
There's a towtruck company downtown that has a lot of Morris and Austin
Minis....the real ones not the new BMW fake ones. They are pretty proud of
them when you ask the price....(c;
WAFA's tale follows:
Sometime in the early 1960s, I was driving back from Ft. Leonard Wood to Kansas City in a nice old MGA I owned at the time. About halfway home it started raining heavily, I turned on the wipers, and EVERY SINGLE electrical accessory and light in the car flashed on, there was a large popping sound and it all blew out at once. And the car caught fire. I pulled over to the side of the road, watched the fire, removed my license plate and hitched on home. For all I know, that old MGA is still there.
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't
think it was ever on the road!
I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream. Used
and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served me well for
a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure looked sweet compared
to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had, because...my Honda started when
I wanted it to...and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.
My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.
Eisboch
My buddy is driving his 305 on Sir Francis Drake Blvd, in Marin County and loses it. Big time, goes sliding down the road, to come to a stop as it touches the front bumper of a CHP car. And talks his way out of a ticket.
You have to wonder what the ships social committee made off those
deals.
"Ship's Social Committee"?
What the hell is *that*?
You Canadians have a strange Navy.
Correction - there isn't a Canadian Navy as such.
It's the Canadian Armed Forces - they are all in one service.
You mean they have Jarheads that know how to drive a boat?
Piffle - just like our Navy - bus drivers for the real military.
Must be smart ones up there.
HEY!!!! :>)
some of us were smarter than Jarheads. We dealt with the taxi service and did not get a lot of purple hearts in the process. Did miss combat pay being stateside in an airconditioned electronics shop.
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I don't
think it was ever on the road!
I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream. Used
and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served me well
for a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure looked sweet
compared to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had, because...my Honda
started when I wanted it to...and their bikes sometimes ran and
sometimes didn't.
My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.
Eisboch
winter-motorcycle-Illinois? You are a daredevil,aren't you?
Illinois has a variety of weather. Northern IL is very different from S.
IL.
We lived briefly in Zion, IL. Just a couple of miles from the Wisconsin
border. Interesting little dry town. No booze or beer sold.
Eisboch
I was there many times when I was in sales. Ever heard of Benton Lumber?
You are a badass if you rode your bike in that area. I used to live in Crystal Lake and my motorcycle was on the trickle charge from Oct/Nov to Mar/Apr.
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