I needed to make a parts run to Santa Rosa today to get some more stuff for the van engine install. I had ordered an air cleaner for it and it was in, so off I went.
I stopped by to visit Steve a bit on the way to return the engine tilter is all I can think to call it. He had also been up to Usal Creek for the last three weeks so I got a report on that and we shot the bull for awhile before I continued on to Smother’s Auto parts.
I needed a few other things too, so I shopped around in their store for a bit before seeing Jake about the air cleaner and an O2 sensor. We found what I thought I might need and I went on home.
Installing the air cleaner
The air cleaner looks good and like it might fit under the engine hood cover.
But it has a little problem that wasn’t unexpected. The air cleaner hits the distributor on the left side just a bit.
I though it might clear and it almost does, but I need a spacer to rise the air cleaner up a bit. I was going to get one, but this air cleaner was raised up a bit already when I had a look at it in the store and I thought it might work. It almost does, I only need about another eighth inch or so. So I need to improve on that.
You wouldn’t think the oil dip stick would be such a problem
I’d been trying to get an oil dip stick to fit into the engine and have been having some trouble with it doing what I want.
Here’s the nice looking one I got today, but I didn’t check the length of it and I forgot to take the other one that is the right length. But it sure looks nice.
The problem is it’s too short to fit up above the engine cover once I put it on. you can see some of the engine cover to the right and it has to clear that on the back half cover too.
So I’ll use this ugly one
This picture shows it better. This is one of the other dip sticks I’ve been working on. Trying to give it just the right bend to get it up high enough to clear the cover. I almost have this one bent to fit, but right now it’s hitting the exhaust manifold which isn’t good.
So, this is the dip stick that wins I think. If I don’t get the stick up high, I would have to remove the engine cover to check the oil and I’d rather not do that.
I spent the rest of the day studying what I need to do to finish this up and mostly took it easy and enjoyed my yard.
Hi Ed,
Hummm, hadn’t thought of using a transmission stick but as I remember they are longer for sure. I think I can get the longer one I have to work as I almost have it bent properly. I’ll check it out tomorrow as I didn’t get time to check it out today. If what I have doesn’t work, I just may find one of those tranny dips.
Thanks for the tip,
Bob
If you find a Chevrolet transmission dipstick ( there a lot longer )you could switch your automotive one to that and you could raise it up higher closer to the top
But would need to cut the existing transmission stick to the appropriate level and put 2 notches in it and attach it to the the a higher point on the engine cover
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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.
Hi Ed,
Hummm, hadn’t thought of using a transmission stick but as I remember they are longer for sure. I think I can get the longer one I have to work as I almost have it bent properly. I’ll check it out tomorrow as I didn’t get time to check it out today. If what I have doesn’t work, I just may find one of those tranny dips.
Thanks for the tip,
Bob
If you find a Chevrolet transmission dipstick ( there a lot longer )you could switch your automotive one to that and you could raise it up higher closer to the top
But would need to cut the existing transmission stick to the appropriate level and put 2 notches in it and attach it to the the a higher point on the engine cover