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fordtrucks-digest DigestVolume 97 : Issue 97

Today's Topics:

Model A Ford Trucks [Anthony Gal ]
Re: Charging Problem [Chris North ]
Mail Delivery Problems... [Ken Payne ]
Re: Model A Ford Trucks [Ken Payne ]
Cancel [Pyro ]
Replacing proportion valve combo [Ken Payne ]
RE: Wheel Bearings!! ["Alexander M. Siu"
RE: A bit off-topic, but here goes.. ["Jesse Marcellus"
RE: Wheel Bearings!! [Chris North ]
Re: Replacing proportion valve combo [Chris North ]
Major facelift on website [Ken Payne ]
June archives are on the web site [Ken Payne ]
[Fwd: air conditioning] [KEVIN ]
electrical problems seem solved [RAZ ]

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:06:39
From: Anthony Gal
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Subject: Model A Ford Trucks
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Anybody know of a 30-31 Model A pick-up
that is for sale? Prefer one that is
in the southeast US.

agal emory.edu

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:40:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chris North
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Subject: Re: Charging Problem
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>>Howdy Everyone,
>>
>>I would like to thank everyone that replied about my clutch
>>problem. I got it replaced and it works great....can't believe what a
>>difference a new clutch makes on a truck!
>>Well now I have a new problem and I hope someone can help me. I
>>got the truck ('63 F100, 292, 3 speed) back yesterday and I drove it
>>around for a few hours, then all of a sudden it died on me and would not
>>start. I got it started with my other car and it would stay running, but
>>when I turned off and tryed to start it gain the starter would turn very
>>slowly. It seems that the generator is producing only voltage (max. of
>>13.5 V at high rmps) and little to no current. I took out and got it
>>tested at my local Hi/Lo and they confirmed that is was bad. I also got
>>the battery tested and the starter, just in case, they are fine.
>>One of the guys at the store told me to replace the voltage
>>regulator as well because sometimes they "get stuck" and can burn out a
>>new generator. The thing is that the voltage regulator is about two
>>months old. Should I also replace the voltage regulator or should I leave
>>it alone?
>>
>
>Jesus,
>
>Now that there's a heatwave, you aren't the only one with this problem.
>
>This happened to me awhile ago, and it happened all of a sudden. What my
>problem was, the battery dried out.
>
>When it dries, it does not charge, so the alternator does not make a
>substantial current. If your battery has holes, add water (if necc) and see
>what happens. If your battery is really dry, it may take hours of charging
>to shock it back to life. Don't smoke/spark around a charging battery!!
>
>Oh yeah, make sure your charging wire isn't corroded.
>
>Also, clean your battery terminals (you'd be surprised...)
>
>Finally, swap a good battery and see if that affects the charging.
>
>If not, go to Wal Mart or some such place, and buy an ELECTRONIC regulator
>(no coil, no points) should be about 15 or 20 bucks, and swap that in.
>
>
>
>good luck
>
>
>marko in vancouver
>
Very good advice. What's the old saying, Batteries go dead in the winter,
but die in the summer? Next to the heat, corrosion is your worst enemy.
I've seen a new, fully charged battery just give an 'UMPH' because of
dirty/corroded terminals.

One thing. I would NOT buy my voltage regulator at Wal Mart. They will
typically sell you a wells, or worse. Why use crappy parts in your
charging system? Bite the bullet and go to a NAPA store and get a good VR.
It is worth the money. Yes, NAPA parts will cost more than the same (?)
parts at Auto Zone or Pep Boys, but that's only because they are worth
more. NAPA should have an electornic equivilant for the older point and
solenoid type.

I have no affialation with NAPA, blah, blah, blah... but it took me a while
to realize that cheap parts are no bargin.

chris north

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 20:38:53 -0400
From: Ken Payne
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Subject: Mail Delivery Problems...
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This message is from L.O.F. Communications, our list provider. Please
read it if you have any questions about list mail from the past couple
of days.
-Ken
1967 Ford F100, 390FE V8
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>Afternoon!
>
> There have been some questions about problems with mail delivery this
>week, including but not limited to blank messages being delivered to some
>users, messages arriving out-of-order (showing up on digest lists before
>the interactive ones), etc. We now know the reason for these problems.
>
> We got hit with a series of spam attacks on the SMTP server starting
>late Monday night, and continuing sporatically through last night.
>Apparently someone decided it would be a great idea to send mail to
>_hundreds of thousands_ of AOL accounts through our server. And since the
>envelope information was forged, attempts to send non-delivery messages to
>the non-existant account/domain got queued as well, adding to the problem.
>"Real" list mail had to jockey for space with all the junk email.
>
> The net result was a sendmail queue listing over NINE MB IN SIZE.
>(Notice that this is _only_ the queue list, not the messages themselves. I
>don't even want to _talk_ about how much room they took.)
>
> Because of all the space devoted to these spam messages, there are still
>a few messages from Monday-on that have not been delivered - most were
>delivered last night after the offending junk was purged, but a couple
>remain. Also, because the device was full of the offender's crap, some
>older messages were truncated to 0 bytes, which caused the empty messages
>that were delivered to some users. Because of timing and intelligent
>queuing, for damaged messages some people got them complete, others
>(particularly AOL users) received empty messages.
>
> The immediate problem is pretty much resolved, and I'm working with our
>upstream provider to see if we can keep this from happening again. We pared
>the queue down by purging many of the trash messages (we're down to ~500K
>in the queue listing, which is _much_ more managable!). To add insult to
>injury, AOL has been sporatically refusing connections from our machine.
>(Gee...wonder why?)
>
> The current working assumption is that this was done as a retaliation
>for our anti-spam stance. We've got a number of "confirmed kills," email
>accounts revoked because of spamming, so it is quite possible one of these
>spammers is responsible. We will prosecute if we can asertain who is
>responsible. (If they are within driving distance, I might just go punch
>someone in the snoot.)
>
> I should have twigged to this earlier than I did, and for that I must
>apologize. Know that we are doing everything possible to not only clean
>this mess up, but to see that this nonsense doesn't happen again.
>
> Charlie
>
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 20:41:47 -0400
From: Ken Payne
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Subject: Re: Model A Ford Trucks
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At 02:06 PM 6/27/97, you wrote:
>Anybody know of a 30-31 Model A pick-up
>that is for sale? Prefer one that is
>in the southeast US.
>
>agal emory.edu
>

Nope, but feel free to place an add on our web site.
The Ford Truck Enthusiasts web site gets 100-200
visitors a day so it will get some exposure. Oh,....

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