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What did you do to your Gen 1 today?

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Old 07-06-2019, 12:04 AM
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Resealed the vacuum pump, changed the oil and drove it after a new spring and fuel pin.
Hey, if you have resealed the vacuum pump, did the Cummins kit come with the right O-ring, the large diameter real thin one. That O-ring in my kit was thinner than the 26 year old original and there was no way it was going to seal. So my pump has a 26 year old o-ring still in it! Cummins, you got an email coming! Not happy.
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Old 07-06-2019, 07:45 AM
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Alcatraz in May looked like this...


Alcatraz 2019 May
Never knew how cold it stayed out there!
Old 07-06-2019, 08:18 AM
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Never knew how cold it stayed out there!
Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he had ever spent was a summer that he spent in San Francisco
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Nothing because I'm in the hospital. I had a valve job, and the timing fixed (AFIB) put back together with baling wire and duct tape.
Old 07-09-2019, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by edwinsmith
Nothing because I'm in the hospital. I had a valve job, and the timing fixed (AFIB) put back together with baling wire and duct tape.
Ok Edwin, as an admin, you are not going to get away with this. How are you doing? I hope that it is nothing too serious and you will be your usual self shortly. Take it easy buddy, I need you to keep my liberal tendencies under check otherwise this place goes blue...Mark Did they do an ablation? Replaced the Mitral valve?...
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Old 07-09-2019, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by edwinsmith
Nothing because I'm in the hospital. I had a valve job, and the timing fixed (AFIB) put back together with baling wire and duct tape.
Quick recovery, Edwin.

Keep us posted, otherwise we'll assume you went the route of other members who've passed.
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Wishing you the best on your recovery Edwin!
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Wishing you the best on your recovery Edwin!
Ditto dat......Ben
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Yes brother, thinking of you.
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Today I washed the brick, including the undercarriage. This past winter I tried the diesel fuel / gear oil mix on the frame. They must use an inordinate amount of that destructive brine than elsewhere, because it ate through the film and there's more rust than ever.

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First they did a *** maze procedure for the Afib. Then they replaced the mytral valve with a tissue valve.
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Originally Posted by edwinsmith
First they did a *** maze procedure for the Afib. Then they replaced the mytral valve with a tissue valve.
When I was a paramedic, probably the most common thing that we saw was A-fib. As you know, the danger is a blood clot caused by coagulation of non-flowing blood. I bet I saw 1000 or more of these patients. Were the procedures done through a scope? In the old days they split the sternum and then stapled it back together, ouch. Hang in there buddy, hopefully this takes care of the problem for good and you live to be 110...Mark
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Cleaned my new old,fuel reservoir from Oliver. Let's hope this stops the fuel starvation issues
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Originally Posted by edwinsmith
First they did a *** maze procedure for the Afib. Then they replaced the mytral valve with a tissue valve.
Thanks for still being alive.

We need to keep you old farts alive, so we can have intellectual discussions in the future.
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Okay.... Oliver is broken down in Scranton PA. Apparently his truck liked the idea of pulling an Edwin, and filling the engine with diesel fuel. Well, at least he's safe where he is, and his daughter is having a blast being broken down in a craphole truck stop.

I offered to come up and transfer them, and he said that it was just too nice of a truckstop to leave so quickly....


Oh well. Hope to see them in Carlisle after the flooding rains make it a big mud bath.


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