Morning coffee

[fdlrc]

Rich, you did good getting out of Dodge when you did. Had some wild thunder storms yesterday. It is suppose to get bad again today, with them building along the front range and heading east. 2" hail predicted east of I-25.

When I was behind you for a very short time, I did see some wispy blue smoke out of both pipes.

Anyhow good to see you made it back okay. Les

[gasman826]

The high side pressure will give more information than the low side.  Gen IV uses stepper motors controlled by a little processor.  Upon completion on the install, there is setup that requires grounding the gray wire (I think it is gray...you might want to confirm).  With the gray wire grounded, you are instructed to cycle the switches to set the limits.  It can't hurt to do the setup again.  Another performance issue is that the + and - power wires need to be home runs to the battery.  Electrical 'noise' will screw up the CPU's performance.  Just a couple of ideas.

[fdlrc]

It is the gray wire. I just did that a couple weeks ago when I got mine up and running. That sure wouldn't hurt Rich. I have the instruction sheet on how to calibrate, or in your case re-calibrate, your switches to the Gen lV ECU.

[RICH MUISE]

Thanks guys. I'll check to see if I have those instructions. I honestly don't remember doing a calibration of the switches, but that doesn't mean I did or din't.
I may ask for the instructions, Les.
Thanks for the head's up Gary!

[fdlrc]

Rich,
I posted Gen lV specs and switch calibration procedures on my project post.

[RICH MUISE]

I'll check it out. Thanks Les. I did make an appointment with an A/C place that works on classics/aftermarket A/C. Not sure I'll have time real soon to check my wiring/switches out, as I've got my hands full with finishing up the bathroom remodel and dealing with insurance co. on cars and house hail damages. I do want to have  info/specs ready for them though.

[fdlrc]

Goodyear supplies their Wrangler tires for Ford's new Bronco. Because Ford didn't want Wrangler on their tires, Goodyear has agreed to remove that name on tires going to Ford. I love this "behind the scenes" stuff.

[djfordmanjack]

music anyone?

boy there sure s a lot of influences in that song. 1943, and still sounds a lot like starting Rock n Roll already.
Gospel, Spiritual, Bluegrass, Irish, Blues, Country. and Western ! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDpodo_tJ1I

Roy Acuff - Night Train to Memphis

[fdlrc]

Rich and I during his visit to Colorado Springs.

[mustang6984]

NICE! Looks like a couple of very nice rides! Good to see Rich's back on the road. Last time I saw it, well, it was suffering from major stomach pains!
Like the old school blue and white too!   

[djfordmanjack]

nice pics ! absolutely beautiful Customs !!! WOW !

[RICH MUISE]

Tonight at our Saturday get together, I found out a lady friend of the guy who owns the '54 Lincoln I had posted pics of, and who has been at our meets for several months now, is the widow of the late Joe Balon (sp?). I recognized the name right away as on of those famous builders from the 60's on, I just can't remember any specific cars, so I'm wondering if any of you guys have any pics of a Joe Balon build. I've got a famous '55-56 Chev in mind, but she doesn't remember him building one.

[mustang6984]

Here are somethings I found...

https://ahrf.com/joe-bailon/
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https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Joe_Bailon
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https://public.fotki.com/Rikster/11_car_photos/beautiful_custom_cars/joe_bailon/
Appears he did one each of '55-'56'57 Chevs...among a host of others including a T-Bird of 50's vintage.

Enjoy!   

[RICH MUISE]

Wow..great reading. Thanks, Hugh. I googled, but was spelling his name wrong. I think the car I was remembering in my head wasn't a Chevy at all, but the '52 Mercury Conv. I had talked to Marie, his widow, 3 or 4 times at our Saturday meet, but had no idea who she was until last night. Apparently my friend Gary knew Joe for many years and had bought "stuff" from him. Sometime after he passed, Gary contacted Marie to see if she had stuff she needed to sell, and from there it was frequent telephone conversations for several years, Texas to Nevada. She moved here 4 months ago.
I also met a Goodguys Southwest division rodder's rep at the get-together last night. He doesn't live here, but was in town and knew about our Saturday night group, so he found us.

[RICH MUISE]

I now finally have cold air..........yahoo!! A/C shop I brought it too got it down to 45*.
Now on to my next projects on the '57 of lots of maintenance. I'm wearing this thing out driving it so much! I ordered new upper and lower ball joints, new front and rear shocks, new front wheel bearings, new front brake pads, new front seals.
My ball joint boots have disintergrated, and for a year or more now, I'm greasing the ball joints once a month or so just to keep them working, but they're starting to talk back, so time to replace. Before I get the ball joints from Concours installed , I'll get some measurements and order some new boots from Energy suspension that hopefully should last. My bearings and brake pads may be ok, but I figure as long as all that stuff is off, and has over 38k on them, might as well replace.
While I'm waiting for parts to come in, I need to find out why my engine is running crappy. May be bad gas, I'm at less than a quarter, so I'll run that off. It may be that I had to remove power from the computer a few days ago, so it's in a relearn mode. After eliminating those, if it's still running bad, I'll look for fowled plugs for an indication of a bad COP, and get my fuel filter changed.