Captain Obvious

Sage words from a wise man.

Yes, of course health is a personal decision. But my Z car friends won't catch your anal sex by standing next to you in line at Starbucks. In fact, by standing next to you in Starbucks, here's a partial list of things they won't catch from you: Your cancer. Your drug addiction. Your heart disease. Your obesity. Your diabetes. Lots and lots of people die from those, but the difference is YOU can't take me or my friends down with yours. And not only that, there isn't a vaccine to help prevent any of those. If we had a vaccine to reduce diabetes, I think it would be very popular and I don't think people would be diving for different corners because of it. I think I put my thoughts on the matter into reasonably good words earlier: https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/63698-covid-19/?page=67&tab=comments#comment-621155

Big ol' bummer about that...

Yeah, I don't like it when volunteers come to my door either, but if they have a permit, it's the American way. No different than the Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Democrats trying to convince you to vote for their candidates, or Republicans trying to convince you to vote for their candidates, or a volunteer trying to talk you into donating blood. This is nothing new. Volunteers in some locations have been going door to door to talk to people about getting a covid vaccine for months and months. But that youtube video is not at all what I got from the speech in question. For anyone who didn't watch the speech, here's what Biden said: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring to rapidly vaccinate those eager to get their first shot, and their second shot for that matter, if they needed a second. Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oft times door to door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people to protect them from the virus. Look... Equity. Equality. It remains at the heart of our responsibility of insuring the communities that are the hardest hit by the virus have the information and the access to get vaccinated. So... As we shift from these centralized mass vaccination sites where doing thousands of people a day, we're going to put even more emphasis on getting vaccinated in your community, close to home, conveniently, at a location you're already familiar with." And then he detailed a five point plan to put more emphasis on making sure vaccines are available at: 1) 42000 local pharmacies, 2) Family doctors and healthcare providers, 3) Family doctors and other doctors that serve younger people, 4) At work, work sites, or at least providing paid time off to get the vaccine, 5) Mobile clinics for festivals, sporting events, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My takeaway from that speech is that the large mass vaccination sites are no longer seeing enough traffic to make them viable, and it's time to close them down in favor of shifting more emphasis to other smaller more neighborhood-centric locations instead. The hope is that some people who felt apprehensive about going to the large facilities would feel more comfortable getting a vaccine from the trusted local neighborhood pharmacist or doctor that they've been dealing with for years. But because some people may not even know that trusted local neighborhood options are becoming increasingly available, we need to try harder to reach people wherever we can to get the word out. I'm sure not everyone gets exactly the same thing out of it as I do, but that's my take. So @Mike , back to questioning everything... Did you watch Biden's speech for yourself, or are you just letting some guy on youtube tell you what your opinion is? My take on that youtube video is that it's purposeful fear mongering falsely shrouded under a cloak of "humor". And as conedodger highlighted earlier, that kind of fear mongering isn't really helpful.

Granny, Thanks for helping all of us!! Hope tomorrow is no big deal!

It's about a month away, and I've officially started training for the event. I figure the sooner I get familiar with the foreign environment, the better. Less shock to the system that way, right?

Methinks somebody's got a problem!

Well THERE'S your problem!!

When you winterized it last year, did you drain the bowls or was there fuel in there over the winter? My armchair mechanics opinion is that it's just a "simple matter"* of taking the carb off and giving it a good deep cleaning. * Proof is left to the student.

Great. So you're saying it's going to get worse. That's fantastic. Can't wait. As or the IR gun, I think you would have better success with an IR camera (FLIR?) instead of the gun. I don't know if the guns are pinpoint accurate enough to highlight the small area of one fuse. You're really looking for the differential between one fuse and another and I don't know if the gun would be good enough for that. Physics says there would be power dissipated any time there's an ohmic connection passing current. So don't forget the fact that the fuse clips are crimped onto the ends of wires. That's another ohmic connection. And one that you can't clean like the fingers on the clips themselves.

Haha!! Done that!!

I'm no Holly expert, but if you can nurse it to mid-RPM's, but it still dies when you punch it, I would suspect crud in the mains. I would agree with your expectation if it was an accelerator pump issue. Even with no accelerator pump at all, you should be able to nurse it to WOT and full load. And even if you didn't nurse it, I think it would bog bad, then catch and scream. I think your mains are plugged and you're just running on the idle jets.

So you can hear the fuel pump running, but fuel is not making it through the fuel filter... Have you had the fuel pump apart or disconnected? If you had it apart, there are some uni-directional parts inside that are relatively easy to assemble incorrectly. And you didn't have it apart, but had it disconnected... I've heard about some people getting the connections backwards and the pump wont pump if running in reverse. Another idea is the FSM says it might be difficult to get the fuel pump to prime if the tank has been run completely empty. I've not had that issue, but they warn about it. And lastly (just because I have to)... Maybe your filter is clogged?

LOL. "We gotsta know." Thanks Dave. So we have a confirmation that the documentation for the 75 seems to be accurate. The 76 is still the odd-man out with the conflicting documentation, but 75 looks good. And by the way... I believe the fuse for your hazards is two down from your turn signals. Labeled "Dome Light". I believe that one runs the 4-ways too.

Yes, it's possible. And that is what I would recommend to the OP if he's really wondering what the numbers really are.

Thanks Dave. Just to confirm. You're saying that on your 75... When you pulled the forth fuse up from the bottom (which is also the forth down from the top) that your turn signals stopped working?

@MikeThat's good to hear. I'm guessing that the number of covid cases in WA has dropped off significantly and that has driven the relaxation of the restrictions?

Haha! Hopefully someone else will chime in!

At this point, I'm not confident until or unless someone pulls some fuses on 75's and 76's and notes what goes dark. I had said earlier that everything from 74 to the end used #3 left as the turn signals, but looking at the diagrams again, it appears the both 75 and 76 used #4. But at least for 75, the picture of the fuse box cover agrees with the details elsewhere in the FSM for that year.

I have both hard copy of a 77 manual and an electronic version and I think they match. 77 works out fine for me, but 76 does not. So I'm not sure which way 76 goes... I agree that the fuse block cover is tangible evidence held in my hand and I would be inclined to just go with that, but the issue shows up on the whole-car wiring diagram, not just that detail on page BE-12. I couldn't screen shot the wiring diagram to highlight the issue because it's too big and would be unreadable anyway. But on that wiring diagram, it shows the forth fuse down powering the turn signals. So I guess the idea of expanding my master fuse diagram to earlier years is dead in the water until someone with a 76 can answer that question.

The problem I'm having is in the documentation from the 76 FSM. Kinda goes like this: Here's a snippet from the 76 FSM showing the fuse block layout. Note that it shows the turn signals (FLASHER) coming from the third fuse down. This makes great sense to me since every other year from 74 through 78 uses the third fuse down on the left column to power the turn signals: And here's a 76 cover I have here that confirms the accuracy of the pic in the manual: But then here's another snipped from the same FSM that details the turn signal circuit, and it uses a different fuse. According to this detail, the turn signals come from the FOURTH fuse down: And important to note that the wiring diagram agrees... According to the wiring diagram from the same FSM, the turn signals come from the FOURTH fuse down. So which is correct..... The parts of the manual that say third fuse, or the parts of the manual that say fourth fuse?

I took a couple minutes and looked at the 76 wiring diagram. The fuse list I posted above will not work easily for 76. They really screwed with some things in 76. Enough that it makes me wonder if it's a documentation issue, or if the 76 car really matches the FSM. Anyone with a 76 want to do some poking around to help the cause?

If the signal from the distributor pickup (the red and green wires) gets interrupted, the engine will shut off. No question. So "plausible"? Absolutely. However, if the insulation on the wires inside that outer protective jacket is still intact, then I might question the probability. But certainly plausible. I'm trying to come up with something that may be likely to "act up" when sitting still at a traffic light with the engine at idle. I'm not sure an interruption in that signal would be any more or less likely to occur under those conditions.

My most recent interaction with Riley was this past April, so it was only three months or so. At that time, everything seemed fine. I hope he's OK...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I'm not an A/C guy. I don't even know enough to be dangerous.