Friday, December 13, 2019

Because It's Friday


The Brits can sure make valve gear complex.

9 comments:

  1. Aw, shoot. Now I'm stuck trying to remember the SF story that had a spaceship named Bellerophon...;-)

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  2. That is an amazing piece of work!

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  3. The Brits engineer everything overly complicated. It seems to be a Brit thing. At that, it is a relatively simple valvetrain still. I've seen worse on other steam engines, especially from the Brits. .

    You should see the progressive carburation on my dads Jag v-12.

    I think the Brit design goal for nachinery is to first make it work, then add 3 extra levers, a bellcrank and, if possible a set of right angle gears.

    But their shit works, even if it takes a LOT of adjustment.

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  4. Two notes, B.

    If you have to adjust it, it will always take at least a whitworth and an SAE or metric spanner.

    The shit works, unless produced by Lucas between 1920 and 1990.

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  5. Ah Lucas electrics, from the Prince of Darkness. Ensuring a single digit MTBF. Now the Italian cars, with ever so slightly better electrics, would get two digit MTBF.

    But...have to say, when I wuz a kid, '50's and 60's, the Bugattis (what country? Italian designer building in Alsace Lorraine...French or German depending) never ever failed to start and run...and run eagerly. Driving them would plaster a shit-eating grin across your face. Acourse you had to be able to double-clutch the howling straight cut gears gearbox, deal with choke and spark...along with right hand drive and the original Eyetalian pedal arrangement: clutch, accelerator-brake. Hot damn!
    http://sdean.net/bugattis.htm
    In those days, you had to special order metric tools from Snap-on and the only way to buy metric nuts and bolts was from the VW dealership....and then only if they used that size in a Bug.

    You can never go home again.....

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  6. Stewart--A gas station mechanic once did some work on my '72 240Z. Tried to find a wrench for one bolt, then muttered "Ah shit, it's metric." Went in the back, got a metric wrench, then tried to turn another bolt. "Ah shit, this one's metric too." On the third time, he yelled "I think this whole damn car's metric!"
    Hadn't the heart to tell him the oil drain was 9/16...;-)

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  7. Why didn’t the British ever develop a TV?
    They couldn’t make one that would leak oil.

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  8. Lucas Prince of Darkness, lord of the positive ground.

    -Doug in Oakland

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