Floriduh: give me a break!
Panama Canal transit hike; $$$$$$$
Chasing an over heating engine
Finally got around to taking apart our exhaust system to see if there was any build up that would account for the Mighty Perkins running hot. There was. Not a whole lot, but enough to make some back pressure that would impede the cooling system from working properly.
To clean the hardened soot and carbon is going to take elbow grease, a screwdriver and wire brushes. This will be tedious, sweaty work in this Guatemalan heat. Oh, I also broke the gasket removing the exhaust elbow.
The barbs that the exhaust hose slid on, connecting the elbow to the muffler were corroded, still serviceable but in the next year or two I am going to have to replace both items $$$$.
Getting the get up and go to get up and work is hard. This heat just beats you down. Two minutes in and you’re a pile of sweat, glasses slide off your nose and tools slip in your hands.
After I get this done, I want to remove the injectors, put a few drops of oil down the cylinders and turn the engine over by hand to free up the piston and any frozen rings, after all, the beast has been sitting idle for 9 months now.
On the plus side, I found a program that allows the laptops Linux system to download books to our 2 kindles. With over 4000 books on the laptop it is good, and I mean really good to get some of them on an easy to use platform we both can use. I am reading “The Forever War”.
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