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[Mark_17]

I just don't get why they can't make a run with plug in hybrids, seems silly to think everyone is going to be all electric all the time. At least make that the way forward not eliminating combustion engines.

You would appreciate Toyota's viewpoint.

Enter Toyota: A leaked document reveals the automaker told its dealership network that the lithium and other rare materials required to build an EV could also be enough for six plug-in hybrids. Or, it could make 90 hybrids. What’s more, swapping 90 internal combustion cars for hybrids is much better for the environment than building one full EV. Much, much better. Toyota: “The overall carbon reduction of those 90 hybrids over their lifetimes is 37 times as much as as single battery EV.”

Toyota's Controversial 1:6:90 Rule: Prioritizing Hybrids Over EVs

Toyota's 1:6:90 Rule is a controversial strategy the company has outlined to prioritize hybrid vehicles over fully electric vehicles. According to the leaked internal documents: The 1:6:90 Rule states that the raw materials required to manufacture one battery electric vehicle could alternatively be

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[Strouty]

As far as I am concerned a Toyota Prius is damn near perfect. I haven't driven newer ones, but I have driven older ones and they have serviceable battery banks as well as an engine that last forever if maintained. You average about 45 MPG, now that isn't zero like an EV, but you also don't have to produce electricity for the charging.

 

[86turbodsl]

You would appreciate Toyota's viewpoint.

Enter Toyota: A leaked document reveals the automaker told its dealership network that the lithium and other rare materials required to build an EV could also be enough for six plug-in hybrids. Or, it could make 90 hybrids. What’s more, swapping 90 internal combustion cars for hybrids is much better for the environment than building one full EV. Much, much better. Toyota: “The overall carbon reduction of those 90 hybrids over their lifetimes is 37 times as much as as single battery EV.”

Toyota's Controversial 1:6:90 Rule: Prioritizing Hybrids Over EVs

Toyota's 1:6:90 Rule is a controversial strategy the company has outlined to prioritize hybrid vehicles over fully electric vehicles. According to the leaked internal documents: The 1:6:90 Rule states that the raw materials required to manufacture one battery electric vehicle could alternatively be

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Yes, 100%. There aren't enough materials in the ground to replace the fleet with 100% EV's.

I'm in the industry. A lot of us see it, but there's a bigger agenda driving the move. And it aint good. And it's going to hurt a LOT of people. But i'm just a cog and trying to feed my family. I keep my head in the sand just enough to not be p*ssed off all the time.

Back to your 75F degree day...

 

[Strouty]

You will own nothing and you will like it!

 

[86turbodsl]

You will own nothing and you will like it!

That is part of the plan yes.

 

[86turbodsl]

What kind of car is that? A new purchase?

That is my new car. the running one.

 

[86turbodsl]

Ah the joys of springtime in Michigan. In the last 2 days, i've pulled 4 ticks off me.

 

[86turbodsl]

So yesterday, we took the morning to go get hay bales from our supplier. Truck and trailer, 4 bales. Got home, unloaded and stored hay, then hooked up truck and trailer and went to retrieve a couple of couches from about 50 miles away. We got literally 1/8 mile down the road before the truck dies. Crank for a while, nothing happens. Maybe one cylinder fires once or so. Check the gauge on the engine, no fuel pressure. Walk back home, get the forklift, drive up the road and lift the trailer and haul back into the yard. Go back to truck, shove it up the road a little and then yank back into the driveway and to the stable. I think the filters are plugged. I go to move it this afternoon to mow where it sat, full fuel pressure and starts right up. I think it's the old dirt in the filter thing, it slowly plugs up until it won't flow, then the **** falls off overnight and it's fine again. Anyone else ever have that happen?

 

[Strouty]

Had something similar, definitely can happen.

 

[Mark_17]

So yesterday, we took the morning to go get hay bales from our supplier. Truck and trailer, 4 bales. Got home, unloaded and stored hay, then hooked up truck and trailer and went to retrieve a couple of couches from about 50 miles away. We got literally 1/8 mile down the road before the truck dies. Crank for a while, nothing happens. Maybe one cylinder fires once or so. Check the gauge on the engine, no fuel pressure. Walk back home, get the forklift, drive up the road and lift the trailer and haul back into the yard. Go back to truck, shove it up the road a little and then yank back into the driveway and to the stable. I think the filters are plugged. I go to move it this afternoon to mow where it sat, full fuel pressure and starts right up. I think it's the old dirt in the filter thing, it slowly plugs up until it won't flow, then the **** falls off overnight and it's fine again. Anyone else ever have that happen?

Yes on a 12v 6BT cummins. Buddy kept thinking it was a lift pump (or something else expensive). When we took off the fuel filter housing a ton of sand dumped out. He bought the truck from someone who lived down the shore....

 

[bulletpruf]

So yesterday, we took the morning to go get hay bales from our supplier. Truck and trailer, 4 bales. Got home, unloaded and stored hay, then hooked up truck and trailer and went to retrieve a couple of couches from about 50 miles away. We got literally 1/8 mile down the road before the truck dies. Crank for a while, nothing happens. Maybe one cylinder fires once or so. Check the gauge on the engine, no fuel pressure. Walk back home, get the forklift, drive up the road and lift the trailer and haul back into the yard. Go back to truck, shove it up the road a little and then yank back into the driveway and to the stable. I think the filters are plugged. I go to move it this afternoon to mow where it sat, full fuel pressure and starts right up. I think it's the old dirt in the filter thing, it slowly plugs up until it won't flow, then the **** falls off overnight and it's fine again. Anyone else ever have that happen?

I've had something similar happen with a car. I used to drive my '69 GTO Judge beater (Ram Air III 400, 4 speed, 3.55's) to work once in a while and sometimes it would act up on the interstate - start surging badly. I'd pull it over to the shoulder, kill it, wait a minute, and then fire it back up and it was fine. Had trash in the gas tank that eventually would clog the pickup. After letting it settle, it ran fine.

Remind me what year is your truck?

 

[SilverJimmy]

A friend of mine had a 66 Chevelle that would die at the most inopportune time. Would be running great and just die. Finally pulled the tank and cleaned it out. He found an old locking gas cap that someone must have lost the keys to, and to fix that some master mechanic just punched the inner guts right into the gas tank. Every once in a while it would end up perfectly against the pickup and starve the engine of fuel. If only these things could talk!

 

[86turbodsl]

It's a 97 F350 powerstroke. Fuel system is all custom, it's got a prefilter, superduty electric pump and a 5micron post filter. I'm going to swap filters and see what happens. It fired up after sitting a day like no problem.

 

[86turbodsl]

So an update. Put new filters on the truck, it seems to be much better. Back to the old nagging problems, which hopefully can get addressed sometime this summer.

And the big update is on the mower. I've been trying to get the lawn mowed for what seems like weeks. Not doing very well at it with the constant rain here. And when it's not raining, i'm working the day job. Add in the fact that the mower doesn't work worth a damn in tall grass, and it's gotten unbearable.

Soo, after mom's day duties were over yesterday, i broke out the mower and swapped the lift pump for a new ebay one. Result was exactly the same, mow 5 ft, near stall. Stop forward motion, wait until it sputtered a few seconds and revved back up, move forward again until sputter, repeat. I just resolved to do that for a while and mowed for 1.5 hrs. I made it around the front yard about 6 times.

At this point, i'm fit to be tied. i quit mowing, moved over to the shop, and hacked off the fuel line to the tank. Got an electric pump out of the pile, and zip tied that onto the mower. Some quicky wires to the battery, and had to prime the pump since it was a vane pump. Once i got it primed, i saw lots of bubbles in the return line to the tank, and it cleared up quick.

Started it up and took it out. Engaged the deck and went to town. Completely different mower.
Picture if you will, the old mower was Pee Wee Herman. the new mower is Arnold Schwarzenegger. At his prime.

The grass is about 8 inches tall, THICK and very lush. That diesel will shove that mower thru it as fast as you can go.
Not even breathing hard. What. A. Beast.

I ordered a new electric pump rated for diesel use, i will mount it permanently to the frame, and wire neatly to the key switch and call it good. Who cares if it's not stock. Whatever is wrong with the stock lift pump system will remain a mystery.

I'll report back how fast i can get the yard done once i've gotten a normal run at it.

 

[zanyad]

I'm sure it's a relief to finally lick that problem.

 

[bulletpruf]

Awesome news.

 

[Strouty]

You do realize it is "no mow May" right???

 

[86turbodsl]

If I didn't mow for the month of May I would need a scythe for June mowing.

Or a hay baler.

 

[86turbodsl]

I'm sure it's a relief to finally lick that problem.

For sure.

 

[86turbodsl]

I can report the front yard was knocked out in 20 mins. It's a zero turn bushog.

 

[bulletpruf]

I can report the front yard was knocked out in 20 mins. It's a zero turn bushog.

Excellent!

 

[86turbodsl]

Spent tonight permanently mounting the new diesel pump on the mower. Wired into key switch, put all the nicer touches on everything and put it back together. I am short like 6". Fuel line. Get your head out of the gutter...

I'll grab some more fuel line on the way home tomorrow and it'll be done. For now. I want to put better gauges on it, so that'll be a thing down the road. But for now, i need to get it mowing.

I'm off the week of memorial day. Maybe i can get something done this time. We shall see.

 

[bulletpruf]

Spent tonight permanently mounting the new diesel pump on the mower. Wired into key switch, put all the nicer touches on everything and put it back together.

Pics or it didn't happen!

 

[86turbodsl]

Have to be tomorrow. I'm recreatin'.

 

[86turbodsl]

Well i took photos and it didn't end well. I was trying to get the final assembly done and had to pull the fender to get the light connected. There's just no room to work under it with the fender installed. While reinstalling, trying to get the fender aligned right, i had to bang on it from the side and the fuel filter must have been hitting the frame, and the bottom of the pump broke off. So i quit for the night. New pump on order. Two steps forward, one step back.

 

[Spareparts]

I can't remember was the Z-turn a Grasshopper and if so are the blade spindles steel and able to rebuild???

 

[86turbodsl]

It's a Woods 6215. Grasshopper clone. I have no idea about the blade spindles. Those work fine anyway.

 

[Spareparts]

Maybe this might help, we had the GH 72" mowers Model 329 and the spindles were steel not cast Alu.
we rebuilt them every year, the bearing's were sealed one side and greased weekly but on the rebuilds
the upper bearing's were always loose. To solve this problem I used bearings that were sealed on both
sides for the upper and the original on the bottom they lasted over 3 yrs before we replaced them and they
were still in good shape. Seems that with the single seal on the top they would get warm and the grease
wouls drop out, even with constant greasing it was a problem. Granted they were on a Golf Course and in
action over 30hrs a week each.

 

[86turbodsl]

So i started work on my daugher's brake job last night. It quickly snowballed. Summary: Its the worst shape i've ever seen for a disc brake.
The rotor was worn to half thickness, almost down to the fins. The brake pads were completely gone, and the backing plates were about half thickness or less. the piston was almost completely out of the bore in the caliper and seal was gone. I don't know how anyone could drive it and not hear that. To top it off, the brake lines are completely seized. Good times....



Note - this is the "good" backing plate. The other one isn't full perimeter anymore, it's so thin.

 

[Strouty]

It is always amazing that people will disregard noises like that, especially when it could be "expensive".

 

[86turbodsl]

The life tear-up is the big thing. Daugher driving wifes' car, wife driving my car, i work from home. Wife got tomorrow off, daughter got Thurs off. Nobody wants to drive the truck to work. Can't say i blame them.

 

[83VillageRepair]

After multiple instances with my step son like this I made him a deal where he had to drive to work one day a week with no music playing. It seemed to help but mechanical sympathy doesn't come easily to some. The one I had like that he wore the brakes through to the fins which were throwing rusty particles off that embedded in the paint around the wheel wells.

 

[86turbodsl]

it's hard for me to wrap my head around such disregard for safety. We both tried to tell her how dangerous it was, how a little more wear the piston could fall out of the caliper and ALL braking would be lost, she said she didn't care. My question to her was - Well maybe you don't care, but what about the person you are going to hit? Are they going to care? SMH.

 

[86turbodsl]

Picking up the pieces. I hurt my back again and it flared up into a big thing where i ended up in bed for a week. Happened from not taking care of myself, bent over in my kids' pickup engine bay, hunched down working on my daughters car brakes. By that tuesday i was at work for an hour and told the boss i just couldn't do it. Went home and worked the rest of the week from bed on laptop. What a drag. So the lawn is really long, i can't mow it until the car is moved, and can't move it until the brakes are done. The line is so hosed i am trying to get it off the abs block and make all new. The line wrench won't move the fitting. It's steel in aluminum. Do i dare try to get it out? I have special crow foot line wrenches on order. Show up tomorrow.

Anyway, that's all i've got for today...

 

[Mr.zippy]

Picking up the pieces. I hurt my back again and it flared up into a big thing where i ended up in bed for a week. Happened from not taking care of myself, bent over in my kids' pickup engine bay, hunched down working on my daughters car brakes. By that tuesday i was at work for an hour and told the boss i just couldn't do it. Went home and worked the rest of the week from bed on laptop. What a drag. So the lawn is really long, i can't mow it until the car is moved, and can't move it until the brakes are done. The line is so hosed i am trying to get it off the abs block and make all new. The line wrench won't move the fitting. It's steel in aluminum. Do i dare try to get it out? I have special crow foot line wrenches on order. Show up tomorrow.

Anyway, that's all i've got for today...

Hang in there and keep fighting! I've seen you push through some sketchy situations.

 

[86turbodsl]

Thankfully i'm mostly healed up just to start my vacation this week. I was REALLY nervous i was going to burn 4 days on bed rest.

 

[Johanfpa]

I sadly suffer with back issues from time to time and sorry to hear you do as well.
What helps me is using a back brace/support that not only supports my back but forces me to keep my posture correct. This all combined with sauna, swimming & listening to my body (which I never did when younger and now pay the price for to a certain extend) results in fewer bad back episodes.
Enjoy your days off and I hope you can put a dent in your list of stuff needed to be done.

 

[bulletpruf]

I sadly suffer with back issues from time to time and sorry to hear you do as well.
What helps me is using a back brace/support that not only supports my back but forces me to keep my posture correct. This all combined with sauna, swimming & listening to my body (which I never did when younger and now pay the price for to a certain extend) results in fewer bad back episodes.
Enjoy your days off and I hope you can put a dent in your list of stuff needed to be done.

My last bad back episode was over 10 years ago. I'm smarter now, but stretching and strengthening exercises have made all the difference.

 

[Spareparts]

10-4 on the stretching and exercise, my last bout with back was racing dirt cars, hit the wall "concrete" in my brand new Late Model
first heat and running 2nd. BIL was a Chiropractor and poped me back in place, but told me in the mornings before getting up
to lay flat and take your knee and pull it up into your chest and hold for like 10 seconds, do the other one and repeat that about
6 times. I do that like clockwork for the last 20 yrs. That keeps me going.

 

[86turbodsl]

Healing has been slow this spring. I'm trying to stay healed up enough to get work done. Been able to get a few things done, but it's been mostly housework lately.

Of note though - i just pulled a 10GBe fiber through the shop conduit, upgrading from the old 1GBe. I'm upgrading the network out there to allow remote backup of the house. detached building. I have to upgrade the shelf it all sits on so that will get a few photos.

I'm off work thurs/fri, so there will be a further update. Working the week after, then a week off with hopefully some serious shop cleanup. The new car needs an oil change, so that means the old heap is coming off the lift finally. It's long overdue.