Not burning oil before 19 years of sitting, now it is?

[movenon]

I also have a small exhaust gas analyzer and it is hard to use on an FJ.  You really need a 4 probe unit and set it up to each cylinder to tell you much and they are old school  There is an art to reading them also.  I just use the blip method. There is a little learning curve (practice) using that method but now I can zero in pretty good.  Close enough anyhow.
George

[Dan Filetti]

For the petcock, what caused mine to come apart was the pulling and twisting to remove the fuel hose.  That eventually loosened the outlet pipe enough to where it would fall out.

Perfect lead in for my yearly safety announcement:

Read this thread for my tale of woe, that lead to the untimely and fiery death of my '85 FJ1100, all due to that little outlet pipe coming loose while riding:

http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=7647.msg68686#msg68686

Twist-tie and glue those outlets folks!   

Dan

[JoBrCo]

While I admire your quest for perfection and the truth, I also wonder how you sleep at night.  Being the father of 3 teenagers is more than enough for me to worry about. (JoBrCo: Now you're on to something, I don't much, and I and my wife are empty nester's.  It's the state of the human, so called, civilization/societal construct, that has me tossing and turning.)

You don't need a full error budget of the idle mixture circuit tolerances to know what works for adjusting it.  Is it perfect?  No!  But this isn't brain surgery.  (JoBrCo: spoken by a man that has figured it out and is now comfortable with it, to a man that is, as he once was, unknowing, and uncomfortable.)

For the Colortune, I have not personally used one but based on the opinion of people that I trust I decided that they aren't worth it.  Maybe they redesigned them but the original ones were very hard to read.  It had to be at night with the lights out in order to see the flame.  If it gets me 100% perfect it's probably still not worth the cost or effort to me when I can get ~98% there with the blip test.
(JoBrCo: Thanks for the facts Hooli, for me, they shed far more light, than your previous comments on the gizmo.)

I once paid a dealer to set my mixture screws using an exhaust gas analyzer.  That should have been perfection.  Unfortunately it was just a waste of $50.  Motor surged and stumbled at low throttle.  Went straight home and readjusted them to what works in the real world. 
(JoBrCo: Aware of it well, once bitten twice shy, especially when it comes to money, I'm no rich man by any American measure.  OK maybe to those living in a box under an expressway overpass, I'm rich, and that's about it!  So I'm lucky; {<-relativity}?)

For the petcock, what caused mine to come apart was the pulling and twisting to remove the fuel hose.  That eventually loosened the outlet pipe enough to where it would fall out.
(JoBrCo: I have found something else at work too, shrinking/growing tolerances, it was actually quite uncanny, that she doesn't fit together as closely as she once did. I'm now quite sure it's to do with those components that once contained far more VOC's than they now do, i.e. plastics and rubbers.)

Again Hooli, you deliver without obvious discontent, a good man in my book, with much tolerance for the differences between us, no one's perfect.  I'm certainly not, though as I'm sure you've guessed by now, I am a perfectionist:  One that, although not perfect, always seeks it, as that's the only way they believe they can do what's adequate.

The ones eating popcorn, say both something good and bad.

The good:  That they believe "they know" the "common" disposition of the "group," and that "loose cannons" are being tugged at, by one just being "themselves."  A "heads up," if you will, for the one merely being themselves, with absolutely "no" pointedness aimed at anyone.

The bad??  "Often" a "preconceived, unenlightened notion" that "anyone" is a "standard" human with which "all" others "must" be "compared," and that "often," they themselves "exemplify" such a human, when in fact "there is no such thing," as there are "only ever," "ever varying differences" between us all, it's just that, on any one "particular" point, it would "seem" some of us agree, but what does that "really" say, "only" a psychologist "might know" for "certain," or maybe a very wise philosopher.

So then, should the "mob" really rule?  Or is it just "fear" supreme?

Some of my favorite lines, from one of my favorite songs: "Witch Hunt," by Rush:

"The mob moves like demons possessed.

Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
Confident their ways are best."

"The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill."

"Those who "know" what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves."

"Quick to judge,
Quick to anger,
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand..."

And that about sums up the truth of things.




FJ Forever! 

JoBrCo

[JoBrCo]

explaination: "first 17 years of my life"

Come on arnie, with that popcorn in hand, you're certainly not ready for a PTSD since the age of 4 diagnosis from a VA Psychologist as well as another one of suffering from anxiety these days, because of the PTSD, and apparently a belief of no purpose.  And certainly not ready for the story of a 13 year old experiencing the ramifications of a 44 magnum and someones head at point blank range, with brains and skull fragments spattered all over the room. Certainly not, as it shall surely taint the flavor of that popped corn.  Of course spectators at a safe distance are certainly disconnected, just like a drama on TV, requiring no empathy whatsoever.



A spectacle, crunch, crunch!  Something to be amused by?  Easy, the spectator, with no actualization of the spectacle at hand, as they can't "know" it for themselves. The laughter of fear, to stave off the deamons.

FJ Forever! 

JoBrCo

[JoBrCo]

I also have a small exhaust gas analyzer and it is hard to use on an FJ.  You really need a 4 probe unit and set it up to each cylinder to tell you much and they are old school  There is an art to reading them also.  I just use the blip method. There is a little learning curve (practice) using that method but now I can zero in pretty good.  Close enough anyhow.
George

Yes George, you got it, you experienced with the blip, me where you were when you first heard it's name uttered, uncertain, wondering if there can be anything more certain, so my bumbling hands don't screw things up any more than 19 years has caused, I the inexperienced of blip, full of regret, and uncertainty, and she couldn't be more important to me and my wife right about now.

But the oil thing is much better, only dripping on the exhaust now, due to flattened o-rings in the OEM oil filter assembly.

FJ Forever!  

JoBrCo