The wind was gusting pretty good out there today, so I checked to see if anymore avocadoes had fallen off the tree and I found these four that I beat the chickens to. I left them a couple that had some bites out of them from the squirrels nibbling on them.
Looking for parts for the old van
I spent a good deal of time looking for parts for the van’s spring shackles without much luck, mostly
I did finally find some parts that had measurements that looked pretty close to what I needed. One set for 43 bucks so I took a chance and ordered a set. I’ll see if that first set fits before ordering another set for the other side. That was just for the bushings and I really wanted the metal hangers too, but I thought I could go with the old ones if need be.
Google AI helps me out
While checking the local news online this morning they popped an add that looked like the set I’d been looking for. I checked on the ad and it took me to a web page that had what looked like what I wanted and a chat box popped up so I asked for the dimensions of the parts. They said they’d send me an email with the dimensions tomorrow and the price was only 30 dollars for the one full set that included all the parts I needed for one side.
Hopefully that all works out. There’s plenty of parts around for these old vans. In those days, most all Chevy stuff used mostly the same parts, but for some reason the old vans aren’t supported with old parts books or online lists either, for that matter. And the parts they do have for the old trucks don’t usually have dimensions on them which complicates things even more.
Forest exercise
With the days getting longer it gives me a chance to go up into the forest and get some work done at a later time of the day so I headed on up into the hills and walked out this trail to move some dirt for a couple hours.
I worked on making this little piece of the trail a little bit wider.
The day was starting to darken as I walked back down the trail to the dirt bike.
No start, what the?
It was starting to get dark. I pushed the start button and nothing happened. And this bike doesn’t have a kick starter. Fortunately I was on a hill and I got the bike rolling down that trail and it started right up. Not sure what was wrong. I shut it off and tried the start button a couple times while headed down the hill and it still wouldn’t start with the button. I made it home and shut it off and tried the electric start and it started. Hummmmmm? I’ll see what it does tomorrow.
I’m thinking there’s more parts available for the old van than say a five year old RV. Glad you got a few avos.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
I’m thinking there’s more parts available for the old van than say a five year old RV. Glad you got a few avos.