... as it does with a million bugs all over the front of the car.
Anybody else been out driving the twisties through the woods lately?
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... as it does with a million bugs all over the front of the car.
Anybody else been out driving the twisties through the woods lately?
Anybody else been out driving the twisties through the woods lately?
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The twisties in the east Texas Piney Woods are great! We call it the East Texas Bug wars. We haven't found a gas station anywhere in the area that has window washing facilities.....Go figure
Jay
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What are "Twisties through the woods"? There are few if any of those around here.
Actually I have been enjoying the one and only twisty that I know of around here, despite the unseasonable heat.
Actually I have been enjoying the one and only twisty that I know of around here, despite the unseasonable heat.
Lane:
Remember that ride from our Grafton place to Chris' house?
When the local constabularies aren't out there, THAT's what we mean by "Twisties"!
Remember that ride from our Grafton place to Chris' house?
When the local constabularies aren't out there, THAT's what we mean by "Twisties"!
I drove a road yesterday that has now displaced Bear Camp as my all time favorite. It's a cutoff from Highway 1 over to 101 called Naciemento Road. The garmin adamantely denied it as a viable passage but I had heard rumors...
So I did it! The dang thing was so steep and twisty (and very narrow) that I scraped the spoiler a couple of times just making the turns. Very steep, some spots were probably well over 15 percent. On coming traffic requires "cooperation."
It drops you out on the west side of Fort Hunter Ligget and you continue through the base and exit on the east side. Then on to 101.
When the garmin finally gave up and accepted it as a road, the over view map looked like it had been drawn by someone in a fit of epilepsy. I can't wait to do it again!
angela
So I did it! The dang thing was so steep and twisty (and very narrow) that I scraped the spoiler a couple of times just making the turns. Very steep, some spots were probably well over 15 percent. On coming traffic requires "cooperation."
It drops you out on the west side of Fort Hunter Ligget and you continue through the base and exit on the east side. Then on to 101.
When the garmin finally gave up and accepted it as a road, the over view map looked like it had been drawn by someone in a fit of epilepsy. I can't wait to do it again!
angela
Excellent discription Angela....
A few years ago, I learned (the hard way - naturally) that one does NOT want to drive a yellow car thru the dessert, in the spring time, when the flowers are in their very brief bloom, and the air is filled with about one hundred butterflies per cubic yard of air.
Try Love Bug season in the south little black B(&^&%%$#$%^&)'s do not clean off easy. You have to soak them with wet towels to get them off if you leave them till the next day they start eating into your paint.
Cory,
You want Dupli-Color Red Anodized (look) paint for that clear lens or you want to mail it here to me and I'll do it for you.
http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalCast/
You want Dupli-Color Red Anodized (look) paint for that clear lens or you want to mail it here to me and I'll do it for you.
http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalCast/
Brilliant. If I can't find it, I'll mail it.
Check back here in a couple for a photo ... Gotta upload one first ...
It's going to look like my stuff usually does at first, but it'll be good to go after a little adjustment.
Check back here in a couple for a photo ... Gotta upload one first ...
It's going to look like my stuff usually does at first, but it'll be good to go after a little adjustment.
TC, this is the intended use of the light.
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Hey, that thing looks real Flash Gordon-ish. Does it kick out sparks and smoke upon re-entry into the atmosphere of Mingo City?
We'll see if it shoots sparks or not before too long, Rich.
This little light is a fender marker/turn signal by Lucas, used on Morgans and Rolls Royces from what I've seen. Apparently, the MG TD crowd can use them also. I want to use it as a third brake light, and asked TC offline if he still had his lens-coating recipie (which is why it now appears here in the 'Bugs' thread).
I will be frying another fish between now and when I install the light. It IS a Lucas, and it has had a significant negative impact on my car already -- and it was only SITTING on the tonneau when I took the picture! Maybe that was an omen?
I have two brake light switches in my master cylinder; one is a long-dead German one which has been plugging the forward outlet for a while, and the other is German also -- and died this morning. I believe the Prince of Darkness (Lucas) might have been responsible.
My spare brake light switch -- unused, kept in the tool bag for just such occasions -- is Chinese. I installed it today, only to find it DOA.
While re-wiring the entire brake circuit, I fried a fuse. I use the little ceramic guys everybody but me hates, since they're uber reliable and I can clearly see if they're blown or degraded, and usually keep a stockpile of spares in the toolbag as well ... But I took them out of the bag last week. Verdampt!
Wolfgang was on site for some of the effort today, and brought me a brake light switch from an old master cylinder he had lying around (shocking!), but it also failed to perform when installed. It was a long shot anyway; I think it came from a Beetle so old it was sold new with stone tires. Barney Rubble's old ride, maybe.
Nonetheless, I ordered a new German switch from a local parts place, and they said it would be in tomorrow. Hopefully, they'll have an 8-amp fuse or two there also.
Wolfgang, thanks for donating your afternoon to the cause. I used most of that yellow wire for the rear section, including the shorty going to the bulb. It's now brown-to-yellow, instead of brown-to-red, but it's consistent.
When this stops being fun, I'm buying a Miata -- but don't hold your breath. ;)
This little light is a fender marker/turn signal by Lucas, used on Morgans and Rolls Royces from what I've seen. Apparently, the MG TD crowd can use them also. I want to use it as a third brake light, and asked TC offline if he still had his lens-coating recipie (which is why it now appears here in the 'Bugs' thread).
I will be frying another fish between now and when I install the light. It IS a Lucas, and it has had a significant negative impact on my car already -- and it was only SITTING on the tonneau when I took the picture! Maybe that was an omen?
I have two brake light switches in my master cylinder; one is a long-dead German one which has been plugging the forward outlet for a while, and the other is German also -- and died this morning. I believe the Prince of Darkness (Lucas) might have been responsible.
My spare brake light switch -- unused, kept in the tool bag for just such occasions -- is Chinese. I installed it today, only to find it DOA.
While re-wiring the entire brake circuit, I fried a fuse. I use the little ceramic guys everybody but me hates, since they're uber reliable and I can clearly see if they're blown or degraded, and usually keep a stockpile of spares in the toolbag as well ... But I took them out of the bag last week. Verdampt!
Wolfgang was on site for some of the effort today, and brought me a brake light switch from an old master cylinder he had lying around (shocking!), but it also failed to perform when installed. It was a long shot anyway; I think it came from a Beetle so old it was sold new with stone tires. Barney Rubble's old ride, maybe.
Nonetheless, I ordered a new German switch from a local parts place, and they said it would be in tomorrow. Hopefully, they'll have an 8-amp fuse or two there also.
Wolfgang, thanks for donating your afternoon to the cause. I used most of that yellow wire for the rear section, including the shorty going to the bulb. It's now brown-to-yellow, instead of brown-to-red, but it's consistent.
When this stops being fun, I'm buying a Miata -- but don't hold your breath. ;)
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Did you fill the little hole in the replacement switch with bake fluid before installing? That's a way to kinda bench bleed it.
"Prince of Darkness" I had forgot about that one. And so it is.
Some while back, in an effort to play nice w/ our NATO supporters, to whom we sell a good many missiles, a US missile manufacturer, who will remain nameless, agreed to second-source some significant internals having to do w/ how the missile steers to a British supplier. Much ado, a lot of trans Atlantic travel, meeting w/ the Brits, interface drawings, analaysis and so forth. Then we found out that the Limey sub-contractor who was going to supply the goods was Lucas. What could possibly go wrong, I recall asking . . .
I suppose it all went through, but frankly I do not recall ever hearing one way or another.
Meanwhile, as to the Hoopty/MG third brake light, could you not put a red bulb in there and get what you want? Would it be possible to re-wire w/ red LEDs? Just wondering.
And PS: Went to the beach over Mem Day week-end, used Babs' car to haul all the this-and-that. Upon returning she politley informs me that it would be ME that would have the pleasure of washing the front of her car, now plastered with many species of insects. She had just completed washing and waxing her car the week prior. I can say that the application of a good wax over the paint helps in the removal of these little critters. And that reminds me: do you know what is on the mind of a bug when he hits your windshield (or bumper) at 60 mph? Ans: his asshole.
Some while back, in an effort to play nice w/ our NATO supporters, to whom we sell a good many missiles, a US missile manufacturer, who will remain nameless, agreed to second-source some significant internals having to do w/ how the missile steers to a British supplier. Much ado, a lot of trans Atlantic travel, meeting w/ the Brits, interface drawings, analaysis and so forth. Then we found out that the Limey sub-contractor who was going to supply the goods was Lucas. What could possibly go wrong, I recall asking . . .
I suppose it all went through, but frankly I do not recall ever hearing one way or another.
Meanwhile, as to the Hoopty/MG third brake light, could you not put a red bulb in there and get what you want? Would it be possible to re-wire w/ red LEDs? Just wondering.
And PS: Went to the beach over Mem Day week-end, used Babs' car to haul all the this-and-that. Upon returning she politley informs me that it would be ME that would have the pleasure of washing the front of her car, now plastered with many species of insects. She had just completed washing and waxing her car the week prior. I can say that the application of a good wax over the paint helps in the removal of these little critters. And that reminds me: do you know what is on the mind of a bug when he hits your windshield (or bumper) at 60 mph? Ans: his asshole.
Ha!
You're on today, my good man. Very funny!
Lane, I'll try that. Thanks.
You're on today, my good man. Very funny!
Lane, I'll try that. Thanks.
Mine both worked (the brake light switches, that is) when I replaced the spade connector. Just a thought.
Every single piece of my electrical system which has anything to do with my brake lights has now been replaced.
A handful of spades, the bulbs and brass bulb contacts, the trailer-hitch connector, the wires for the back two-thirds of the car and the connections for the front third, both switches, the fuse and the power wire have ALL been replaced.
Somewhere in there was the right answer.
I suspect, since I did all that in stages, that it was the spades at the master cylinder.
Thanks to Lane for the idea and Wolfgang for the switch I'm using. That's a pair of Egg Sammiches, fellas!
A handful of spades, the bulbs and brass bulb contacts, the trailer-hitch connector, the wires for the back two-thirds of the car and the connections for the front third, both switches, the fuse and the power wire have ALL been replaced.
Somewhere in there was the right answer.
I suspect, since I did all that in stages, that it was the spades at the master cylinder.
Thanks to Lane for the idea and Wolfgang for the switch I'm using. That's a pair of Egg Sammiches, fellas!
I always heard that spraying the front end with 'pan' or something like it would help during the bug season. I heard this from a guy who lived in the SE.
Cory:
A while back I got fed up with screwing around with those hydraulic brake switches and converted over to a mechanical switch, mounted on the floor just behind the brake pedal arm and actuated by the forward movement of the pedal. The actual switch is one from a 1937 - 1954 Chevy Pickup, and readily available at NAPA (and about $10 bucks). Takes about an hour to install it and run a couple of wires and then you never have to worry about brake lights again (it's bullet-proof).
If you need pictures, now that I'm reunited with Pearl, let me know.
gn
A while back I got fed up with screwing around with those hydraulic brake switches and converted over to a mechanical switch, mounted on the floor just behind the brake pedal arm and actuated by the forward movement of the pedal. The actual switch is one from a 1937 - 1954 Chevy Pickup, and readily available at NAPA (and about $10 bucks). Takes about an hour to install it and run a couple of wires and then you never have to worry about brake lights again (it's bullet-proof).
If you need pictures, now that I'm reunited with Pearl, let me know.
gn
