KOldArse Dio, Kold Arse wrenches,,,

OK,,, what I did. I have an old cap I destroyed for events such as this. Took a 2″ holesaw to it so I can see the rotor and its orientation CLEARLY. That was in use today.

Pulled the cap, placed visual aid in place, TOOK PICTURE since my mem’s can be called into question, especially when I’m freezing my arse off.

Took Distro into house,,, Looked things over. YES, the Rotor is set up for single orientation. Fuggit, has old one, lets play, if nothing else. Cut the tabs that line things up one way, so I could put the old cap on ‘backwards’ re-install the distro, wire it back up, FIRE IT UP. Sounds good. Pop into the cab, fire up the OBDII and check codes,,, p1345 and a couple of O2 codes (one of which is semi-permanent as that O2 is missing completely, FOR NOW.) CLEAR CODES,,,, Check live stream. Looks ok, but I question the ‘advance’ stream. Not sure whats acceptable,,,

TEST DRIVE,,, Runs good enough,,, an occasional sputter from a misfire though, only at speed though,, idle and lower rpm range, solid running.

Get back home, UNDO EVERYTHING I have done: put it back to where it was, with the new un-modified rotor in place, and re-do the test drive. (this is getting trickier as the day progresses as the hill is getting damned slick,,,)

SAME SAME,,, NO change as if I had done not a damned thing. Likely the misfire thing is due to the valve lash needing hot adjusted,,,,

Pull out the scope, run a live feed and LOOK!!!

I have an intetmittent miss, that is NOT tripping a code, wasn’t shown in the above scan, but I sure as hell feel it. And when I say intermittent,, Its few and far between, but there for certain. Didn’t make a lick of difference which orientation I had the reluctor in (and oddly enough, putting things back in the original order, the code did NOT return,,,)

Scratchin’ me head, and massaging frozen digits,,, Frustrated dawgums as he only got to go for ONE ride, (and has a carpet of Katz to navigate to his bed in the house,,, ) but I’m done monkeying with the detroit monkey today.

Dunno,,, so much has changed on this boat since I started and I didn’t do a baseline (Fred asked me that question in sideways manner in emails,,,) of checks, like compression, or oil pressure, not even a vacuum gauge hook up (which, I still need to make a port for that,,,)( b,b,b,but, Is kold out there!!!!) Fact is, I have no clue what’s real or imagined on this twuck now… She’s running, need to do that hot lash adjustment but need a couple (8) small peices first (Thank Mike!) and its kold out, getting kolder, and likely won’t be working again tomorrow. The day is supposed to open up around 3 frellin’ degrees,,,, ever tried to pour concrete at that temp? Doesn’t set up for shitte until spring,,,, Welding can get spotty too, especially when the gas regulator freezes solid,,,

So what did Dio learn today? The Tree-Fiddy is a whole lot more resilient than a Fiat 138AS,,, More flexible even,,, So damned flexible it might not read any changes,,, (on that note though,,, The 138 had only ONE computer and that was a Bosch unit that had only one trick: pump fuel,,,, everything else was analog,,,)

Other than that, I learned not a damned thing about whats going on in that block,,,,

Live

LAUGH

LEARN

Love

LOAD!!!!!!!!

UDATED: I hit publish, and 30 seconds later, text from Son of Bossman; “No work tomorrow, TOO COLD”

sigh