The part I’d been waiting to arrive for the van finally showed up yesterday. It’s a new oil dip stick and tube. My old one was a bit too small and leaked oil some.
I got the covers off the engine so I could work on it.
The new oil tube has to be installed down in all that.
Not so easy
I thought this would be an easy job but when I tried to put the new oil tube into the engine hole where it goes, it was just a tad too large and wouldn’t go into the hole in the engine.
My only option was to sand and file the new tube down a few thousandths of an inch. It was a tedious task with much checking to see if it fits and file some more. I also had to bend the tube just right to fit the van type installation, but I got it eventually.
That all took a lot longer than I thought it would, so I canceled the work I was going to do up in the forest and sat around chair hopping around the yard for the rest of the day.
Column shifter
Just before dark, I did have a look at the van’s column shifter as it’s been a little bit on the sticky side lately and is a bit hard to shift. I could see where it was sticking but I couldn’t see much I could do without taking it all apart, except to try oiling it up, so I put some 30 weight oil on it. It does seem a bit better, but the test will be when it gets used again.
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.
