I tried to start my old Toyota that’s been sitting around, a couple days ago. I got it started but it was a lot of work. The manual choke was stuck so it needed some repairs to try and free up the choke so the engine would start much easier. Today I was going to free up that stuck choke.
I removed the choke cable from the carburetor as it seemed to be stuck. That’s the throttle cable you’re looking at there and it works ok.
I had to bang on the cable some and worked a bit to get it out of the cover. It had some corrosion on it and that’s why it was stuck. I oiled it up and put some grease on it and installed it back on the rig.
Headed up into the hills
That worked and it started much easier with the choke working. I got my gloves and a sledge hammer loaded up to head up into the hills to move some rocks.
Rock slide
I drove on up to here where some rocks had slid down on the road. They weren’t in the way, but I could use them somewhere else.
Big hammer
Some of them were larger than I should be lifting so that’s why I brought the big hammer with me.
They broke up pretty easily with the big hammer and I started to load up.
Loaded up
Nothing quite like getting a bit of exercise loading up rocks, eh. :O)
I threw my big hammer in the rig and got turned around and headed back down the hill to a place I needed some rocks.
Rocks needed here
I hauled the rocks to this road crossing at this drainage ditch that had been washing out.
The plan
My plan was to use the rocks to make a dam here that would catch the silts and gravels that will flow down the ditch, with the water, when it rains hard. If I wait for that to happen I don’t have to fill it up, Mother nature will do the rest of the work.
Better solution
It’s easier unloading rocks, than loading them and I soon had a small rock dam build across this ditch. This is a much better solution than installing a culvert that would plug up. No plug ups this way and no costly culverts to buy and transport back here. A win, win, deal with some exercise to boot.
This method will fill the hole up on the other side of the dam, when it rains hard, making the road nicer to cross and prevent any more erosion.
I’d gotten enough exercise doing this and was tired out so I went on home for a nap.
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 LOVE your Toyota!