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My stepson is out with a sinus infection and bronchitis, I thought I was going to die on Saturday putting out trees. Only got 1/5 of the trees out so not a full lot.
Alone, I had to go back to my old "working alone" rig to drop 100lb trees on the staging pins. The 2500lb winch with remote comes off the engine crane during December and normally is used on the bailer to pull tress through, although it can do double duty bolted to the bucket so I can lower the trees while guiding onto the pins. Didn't finish welding up new pins and never finished my new bailer-winch setup either...... total slacker.
100+lb Douglas Fir
Turkish Fir
Douglas, Concolor, Turkish. Missing Blue Spruce. Probably the only varieties for this year, might put out Canaan Fir if I get ambitious. Didn't get to the second shearing this year either. Three foot Canaan in the background.
Seems like there are too many irons in the fire Jack and that the seasons just fly by. I have the same thing happening and just keep telling myself that I will get to the other things later.
This is from another forum, I paid for the shipping of the cam and discarded lifters. It was stored without rust protection so I have to clean it up a little without changing the surface. It was caught just as it was failing on several lobes. I was told the lifter rollers look fine but haven't opened the package up yet.
Can’t build Rome in a day Jack, even though our minds are telling us differently, I hear by order you a day off , just sit and collect your priority’s with your Wife and a cup of coffee , it will all come together , have Faith.
Now back to our regular Scheduled junk drawer = I finally found my dam multimeter , ended up getting another one a cheepy from harbor freight , seems to work ok , found my other one out of all places , in my console of my truck , I guess I was looking too hard or got distracted on something else I found , it’s hell getting old ,lol
I've removed the personal aspects from the prior posts, it sounded like whining.
There were images of the cam being hurt so I asked the person if he had better images. He still had the parts over the years and was willing to give me the cam and lifters so I paid him for the shipping.
This all started when I was looking at my cam and some of the things I saw on it. The motor project was always about getting another 50k out of the chassis so I could feel like I wasn't excessively underwater. So I started to look at used cams, and that brought up other issues and pattern failures. And then there's everyone saying it's the lifters that fail. You can say all my career was product testing and failure analysis, and a good percentage of that was finding what people thought was happening, wasn't true.
So over the last year, I'm been reading studies of failures and almost all of the time the engineering studies are cam failure, not lifter failure. Two car garage analysis isn't going to definitively find anything, but my curiosity is peaked, despite being told over and over its the lifters which always drives me the other way. I'm not sure I want to go out on the limb with a video of cam issues, I'll just get the crap blowback.
This failure mode example fits right in line with several of the research papers. An unseen 50º Delta, so lubrication failure, thermal stress with heat coloration on some of the lobe peaks, and of therefore surface fatigue that fractured and peeled off the hardened layer. Must be lifters......
Torque and horsepower are down. Probably a boost leak.
In 2 weeks Les goes in for a hip replacement. Worried about that.
Wife went in for one of those 2 years ago. I was worried too, but she came out of the anesthetic and straightaway said the pain's gone - never looked back and she's on the horse again. Best wishes
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