Hey that looks like my drink of choice, only replace the rum with gin and the Coke with tonic water, diet of coarse! Oh yeah, and a splash of lemonade, just waiting for Leonard to chime in on this one.
Alex some shots of house remodeling, etc after 164 repair session
Just to show you guys I do multitask on occasion here are some shots of end to a perfect Alfa 164 repair day and how remodeling project coming along.
Happy hour, food on the bar and soap by the sink, living in high cotton.
Happy hour, food on the bar and soap by the sink, living in high cotton.
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Isn't this the house with the kitchen piled high with Alfa parts. Only one plate and one drink? Wish I was there to "help" you out
Same house but as you can see Mary slowly moving remaining car parts to back bedroom that I haven't been able to hid in closets and actually find room for in garage. What is an alfaholic to do?Isn't this the house with the kitchen piled high with Alfa parts. Only one plate and one drink? Wish I was there to "help" you out
I wish you were here, too I miss you guy! We had fun in Florida didn't we?
Thanks for the post especially for me
I'm not familiar with the term 'living in high cotton', but I can certainly guess from the opulence evident in the pics.
The single dining option (and no plate for the bread
) actually looks rather like one of my concoctions - I find that less time spent in the kitchen leads to more time spent in the garage (and vice versa).Your living room and dining areas appear to have a Tardis quality, no doubt helped by the upstairs location of the bedrooms. I couldn't make out a single Alfa part in the pictures (except possibly in the Priority Mail bag), so it seems that you have won the war (or lost, depending on your viewpoint).
What is the highly-futuristic-looking device installed in the wall where one would expect an open fire to be?
I won't get into the topic of drinks (I don't, except once a year or so) but let's just say that my chosen mixes have the appearance of meths (and probably taste similar), or, the more Campari the better.
One day I might have to post a response showing my place, but right now the volume of junk would horrify (e.g. the two windscreens leaning against the couches, various giant cardboard boxes, old Commodore computer collections).
Michael, I liked your choice of words, particularly 'recalcitrant' (one of my favourites). Why is it that the average Internet-forum tends to attract the sort of people that have difficulty with spelling "blow of valve", but the Alfa Romeo forum has people like you aboard...
Cheers,
-Alex
Thanks for the complements on my remodeled digs! Actually this one is a rancher with everything on one floor bedrooms down the hall and only two of the four finished right now. Bedroom 3 is my office and Alfa library and master one now under construction/destruction so it has overflow Alfa parts and construction debris.Thanks for the post especially for me
I'm not familiar with the term 'living in high cotton', but I can certainly guess from the opulence evident in the pics.
The single dining option (and no plate for the bread
Your living room and dining areas appear to have a Tardis quality, no doubt helped by the upstairs location of the bedrooms. I couldn't make out a single Alfa part in the pictures (except possibly in the Priority Mail bag), so it seems that you have won the war (or lost, depending on your viewpoint).
What is the highly-futuristic-looking device installed in the wall where one would expect an open fire to be?
I won't get into the topic of drinks (I don't, except once a year or so) but let's just say that my chosen mixes have the appearance of meths (and probably taste similar), or, the more Campari the better.
One day I might have to post a response showing my place, but right now the volume of junk would horrify (e.g. the two windscreens leaning against the couches, various giant cardboard boxes, old Commodore computer collections).
Michael, I liked your choice of words, particularly 'recalcitrant' (one of my favourites). Why is it that the average Internet-forum tends to attract the sort of people that have difficulty with spelling "blow of valve", but the Alfa Romeo forum has people like you aboard...
Cheers,
-Alex
Only last week we got the $28 Pick-N-Pull Range Rover windshield out from behind living room couch and installed in my son's RR before state inspection due.
I am now 4 years into my 6 month remodeling project but who is counting?
In answer to your futuristic question that is a red brick fireplace I did a www.BrickaNew.com make over on and installed a set of glass doors to keep the cool in with a/c running. May never get a fire going in it but have installed a propane log set just in case the mood moves us later on.
Jim,
I wish I had been there but no, I'm in New Zealand
I think the post was in response to my dig at Steve in a different thread before about "how's the house remodelling going?"
Cheers,
-Alex
Yep, when you take out a .020 gasket (compressible to .017 at 15 ft lbs of torque on cam box bolts) and then try to use original shims you get close to 0.000 valve clearance. We went from .116+ shims down into the 90s on some of them.
You can see we got belt back on and checked valve clearance with new cam box gaskets but clearances still off so have to start again next Thursday.
Please note how wide that "killer clevage" is on a 90 degree Maser Biturbo motor!
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I guess the question I have is, does the housing-with-compressible-gasket have to come off to adjust the valves? Is there not some special tool to depress buckets and pop out shims? EDIT: I guess from diameter measurement that the shims are under the tappets... oh dear.
When I built my SOHC 1498cc engine for my 128 coupe, you could possibly have said the same thing - the cam housing had a gasket where it bolted to the head (pictured) - the paper gasket leaked at the front corner so I replaced it with something rubbery of unknown thickness. Plus, I had about 1.5mm taken off the cam housing base as a 'seat of the pants' judgement based on the reduced base circle reground cam I was going to use; I guessed that I wanted to use thinner shims rather than thicker.
This is when everything taken everything apart again after the head gasket blew (second pic), maybe the 10.8:1 compression wasn't such a great idea.
But the point is that the gasket thickness didn't matter because valves could be adjusted easily after the housing is torqued down - tappets depressed with special tool A60421 (how I remember that, long story as I broke the only one belonging to the specialist and had to get a replacement) - not so easy when cam too close to buckets as a result of 1.5mm off the housing (that's why the tool broke), but anyway. Because we have all been saving these 'coins' since we were little boys, it's just a matter of swapping them from a supply of, oh, about a hundred, to correct measured clearances (so, gasket not an issue for the FIAT engine, and milling - no way!)
That's the FIAT engine as in 128, X1/9, Uno, Tipo, Punto etc. There must be 15 million cars out there with that motor... Our original 1969 128 saloon had the earliest 1116cc type, while a close friend has a 1995 Punto 90 (1580cc MPI version) which is perhaps the last of the type. My personal favourite is the 1301cc small-bore version in my Uno Turbo.
I think it was just as well that I learned on simple engines like the FIAT's, at least parts were plentiful when I broke things! Third pic shows shims being removed from Uno 1301cc 'big-bore' non-turbo engine. With 14psi boost in my Uno Turbo, I think you can see why I'm happy for the head gasket to have the bores a little further apart.
I'm still trying to get my head around how to adjust inlet valve clearances on the Alfa V6, so maybe the Maserati is just too difficult for me to comprehend... It seems a pity that the design genius of the FIAT SOHC and DOHC engines, in terms of serviceability and durability, could not be scaled-up to the performance engines...
-Alex
When I built my SOHC 1498cc engine for my 128 coupe, you could possibly have said the same thing - the cam housing had a gasket where it bolted to the head (pictured) - the paper gasket leaked at the front corner so I replaced it with something rubbery of unknown thickness. Plus, I had about 1.5mm taken off the cam housing base as a 'seat of the pants' judgement based on the reduced base circle reground cam I was going to use; I guessed that I wanted to use thinner shims rather than thicker.
This is when everything taken everything apart again after the head gasket blew (second pic), maybe the 10.8:1 compression wasn't such a great idea.
But the point is that the gasket thickness didn't matter because valves could be adjusted easily after the housing is torqued down - tappets depressed with special tool A60421 (how I remember that, long story as I broke the only one belonging to the specialist and had to get a replacement) - not so easy when cam too close to buckets as a result of 1.5mm off the housing (that's why the tool broke), but anyway. Because we have all been saving these 'coins' since we were little boys, it's just a matter of swapping them from a supply of, oh, about a hundred, to correct measured clearances (so, gasket not an issue for the FIAT engine, and milling - no way!
)That's the FIAT engine as in 128, X1/9, Uno, Tipo, Punto etc. There must be 15 million cars out there with that motor... Our original 1969 128 saloon had the earliest 1116cc type, while a close friend has a 1995 Punto 90 (1580cc MPI version) which is perhaps the last of the type. My personal favourite is the 1301cc small-bore version in my Uno Turbo.
I think it was just as well that I learned on simple engines like the FIAT's, at least parts were plentiful when I broke things! Third pic shows shims being removed from Uno 1301cc 'big-bore' non-turbo engine. With 14psi boost in my Uno Turbo, I think you can see why I'm happy for the head gasket to have the bores a little further apart.
I'm still trying to get my head around how to adjust inlet valve clearances on the Alfa V6, so maybe the Maserati is just too difficult for me to comprehend...
It seems a pity that the design genius of the FIAT SOHC and DOHC engines, in terms of serviceability and durability, could not be scaled-up to the performance engines...-Alex
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