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I was responding to yarb"s post. Not yours. He posted for no apparent reason. Maybe you're on a phone, but it shows in the thread, I quoted his post. Good luck with BHJ. Interesting stuff. Ideally, you'd post in the Vendor's area or the Aftermarket sub-forum. https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/forum/93-vendor-marketplace/ https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/forum/49-aftermarket/

This does not add...

Who are you?

This is just crazy. Never mind, just too much. Time will tell.

Total death projection is down to 60,000 again. April 17 update. That's a good sign. It had gone up to 68,000. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

To be fair, the Alabama "Stay At Home" instructions aren't the clearest. The Washington state site is bad too. Things aren't super clear. These "orders" are being issued without much media coverage explaining what they mean and how to comply. If you get on the internet to try and find things you get in to the government bureaucracy sites. The most important thing, the social distancing, is not even on the front page. The most important thing for stopping the spread. You can't really get angry at people if the information is not readily available. Pretend that you're a person who got yelled at in the store and you want to find out why people are pissed at you. Click "Learn More" - https://covid19.alabama.gov/ Try to find something on these two sites - https://www.governor.wa.gov/issues/issues/covid-19-resources https://coronavirus.wa.gov/

The rails on a Z are actually just unibody reinforcement pieces. So they are much thinner than a true frame piece would be. Every piece of sheet metal in a unibody has some effect on body stiffness. The most important structure is probably the rocker panels. They are steel tubes, formed from sheet metal. Lots of flimsy Z's out there and many ways to make them stiffer. Think holistically.

Yes. Not good. At least the balls are still in their races. Sometimes they're on the magnet too. That's the pieces of a retainer for a ball bearing assembly. Usually it's from an adapter plate bearing. @EuroDat knows the details there. Your trans needs a rebuild. The good news is that things will be soooo much better when it's back together.

Found a good video about checking frame parts...

I found a new site with cases and deaths plotted by state. Motorman's world, maybe he can opine. @motorman7 Worth following if they keep it updated. It should show the effects of "re-opening' pretty clearly. https://covid-19.mdmetrix.com/grid.html?list=death_curve https://covid-19.mdmetrix.com/grid.html?list=new_case_curve https://www.mdmetrix.com/covid-19-projections

Just saw Governor Cooper of North Carolina talking. He has a good three word motto, don't know if it's his but it sums things up. Testing, tracing and trends.

Age is irrelevant when you consider asymptomatic spreading. That's why the "re-opening" will be slow. People will not be getting immediately sick to where they can be hauled away and separated from the herd. You could argue that the younger healthier people should be held back longest because they will be the most active asymptomatic spreaders. They're the ones that will ignore the symptoms the longest and be most likely to forego the face coverings. Most likely to stay out late, party, drink, forget that there's a pandemic going on, or just atop caring. It's going to open up as far as the healthcare system can stand. COVID-19 processing plants. Until there's a vaccine. Older people, and people with health conditons, will have to be extra careful. Might be best to set up a two caste system. One for those who want to stay safe and one for those who don't care. We can give them some sort of identifier to wear so people will know who to associate with...

Over the last few weeks you can see that the W.H. has basically just been copying what the two governor coalitions are doing (and there's a third now, in the midwest). It's like giving commands after somebody has already taken an action, and pretending that they are doing what you directed. He'll claim credit for what works and direct blame for any problems. I've added the link to the new W.H. guidelines below. I was watching Dr. Birx just now and she has started to blame the individual labs for not doing enough testing. Even though the individual labs have said that they do not have the materials to do the tests. The collected test materials are there but they can't get them through the machines fast enough. I could tell from listening that it has been many many years since she ever ran a testing machine of any kind, if she ever did. She lost some credibility today. "Just turn the testing rate knob to 11, what are you waiting for?" https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/

They're in the back of the tach. So you won't have to go through the tach to get to the bulbs. These doppelganger threads are getting weird....

Might actually be reachable on a 72. No way on a 76. Don't know. Insert head under dash and look. Or use a mirror. Read my comments here along with my comments in your other post. Double-posting always creates a mess.

Tiny hands.

Here's some philosophy from Australia. It's about lifeboats. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/those-talking-about-a-fast-end-to-social-distancing-should-consider-the-cost-paid-in-human-lives#maincontent

If you consider Europe as a scaled version of the USA the next few weeks will be very informative. Here's an article with some good graphics. Many "reopening" experiments happening in late April, early May. The article title is misleading, there's much more to it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/eu-offers-heartfelt-apology-italy-coronavirus-response-herd-immunity

The battle line between individual human health and the "economy" seems to be shaping up even more firmly as states versus the W.H. Cuomo is forming his own high-powered business leader team. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-governors-excl/new-york-forms-team-to-develop-trump-proof-economic-reopening-plan-idUSKCN21Y01V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

I'm sure that there are economists somewhere who have calculated the "human" cost of shutting down various economies against the human cost of infecting more people. One thing that might come out of this pandemic is the realization that much of what humans do is actually just "busy" work. Essentially useless things that we do just to avoid being bored or to seem to be "working". It's one of the weird things about society that everybody has to "earn" their money through some sort of effort even if the effort produces nothing of value. Way back when i was in high school economists were predicting that society would go to a four day work week because technology was making things more efficient. Instead we're all working more hours and days to produce more crap.

Cuomo's briefing just addressed the NYTimes article. Says that they have not changed their COVID-19 reporting method. The Times article confused things. The purpose of the mitigation efforts is for the healthcare system on one hand, and to buy time to develop a vaccine on the other. The first will give people that get sick the best care possible. Those who would die anyway will die. The second is to save people who would otherwise get the virus and die. If a year and a half is too long to take care of your old people, then bring on the disease. That's the heart of the situation. I enjoyed knowing my grandmother from when she was 87 to when she died at 97. She survived a few illnesses on the way but I don't think that i would choose to expose her at 87 years old just because i wanted to get outside mask-free. Cuomo's briefing has new ideas and instruction every time. I think that the governors will come up with a plan or plans that gets things going to some lower level pretty soon. Something to build on at least.

That is a common problem. You can buy replacement parts. They need to be welded in . Or you could cut and patch. https://baddogparts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5&products_id=6 http://www.datsunzparts.com/

Desert Boots. Not even close to what that means today. Edit - actually it means the same thing on the Google. Had some Converse also. Canvas and rubber. So simple.

Did you know that the CDC changed their reporting guidelines recently? https://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2020/04/10/dewinenew-covid-19-reporting-guidelines-includes.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-start-reporting-probable-coronavirus-deaths-cdc-n1184821 It's thought that actual COVID-19 caused deaths might be higher than thought, due to unconfirmed home deaths. https://www.propublica.org/article/theres-been-a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-in-several-cities-that-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-are-higher-than-reported

You'd think a clutch disc manufacturer would know better. A big old "F" on the backside of the disc? So that nose/projection was jammed up against the crank shaft flange?