And my "Not a G-Body" G-10 van is back together and running again. Did the recommended set up steps for the Accusump; input the high pressure on the air side to move the piston completely over to the shut off valve side of the tank, bled the air charge down to spec, re-attached the JIC connection and hose to the valve, cleaned and painted the battery tray, put the battery back in, and remade the connections to it.
And it cranked. Optima Red Top 34/78 AGM battery. 1000 CA//800CCA. Pulled it out almost a month ago and left it to sit on a convenient tree stump. Popped it back in today and no hesitation. Threw the charger at it afterwards and it showed an 80% plus charge level. Worth the $$$$ I threw at it.
Typically, a battery that sits, loses about 1% of its actual charge per day; more if it is being vampired by ECU's or memory cards. That was one of the major PITA's that I had to deal with when I ran the FI TEch system. It was a leach for zots to keep the ECU happy. As little as a week without starting the van and I would have to throw the charger at it to bring the battery back up. The wiring for it demanded a permanent hot wire direct from the battery or a battery source. It was fused for safety but still not something that I was happy with. MY S-10 is the same way but it is not a voltage Hog the way that other system was. Off the road, it only needed some charger love about once a month to keep it happy and a day on the charger was usually enough to do the trick.
As soon as the mill lit off I went back to the Accusump, watched the pressure rise to 60 on the gauge, and threw the lever on the valve over to the closed position. Shut the mill down, added the 2 more quarts needed to replace what went into the tank and refired the engine to allow it the time needed to warm up and the choke to come off.
Yes' I did have the main door open for this exercise; I don't breathe exhaust fumes all that well. Did have to keep an eye on the door jic some kamakazi squirrel tried to rush the opening to get inside. They are seriously looking for places to den up for the winter and I so do not want one of them as a squatter roosting up in the attic. Happened once before and about drove me nuts; ended up having to hoard in all the vent passages between the rafters and close the whole thing up. Got that done and spent the next month watching that squirrel go psycho trying to find a way back in. Thing actually tried to gnaw an opening in one of the end rafters and gave it up. Too bad cause when I built the covers i added a backing layer of steel wool and stapled it in place using steel window screen to hold the wool down. First time I ever heard a squirrel both bark, growl, and shriek at the same time. Used to feed them but found out accidently that the crows will eat almonds too. Sorry squirrels.
Still working on the AFR gauge installation. Found my inventory of Deutsch connectors and can use them to make up the balance of the harness it will need. Not sure if I need to install the OBD II port subsystem. The wire harness and plugs are there for it but absent any kind of ECU driven ignition system , no real need for it. Same/same for the laptop leads. The gauge is self contained for what I need from it so that makes the whole job a little easier.
The downstairs rain barrel is about as full as I could get it. Went out to my outside barrel Sunday afternoon and it still sloshed but the tap had frozen over night. Used the pails to bail out the last two refills and dumped the rest, about another 5 gal out on the ground. Mostly ice and sediment so not really worth fighting for. Turned the barrel upside down and brought the pails in. Took a half hour today to move the barrel into the cold storage shed and swap the downspout delivery pipe over to the full up eavestrough downspout and discharge line.
I may not be able to use those last two pails. it all depends on how much sediment the water in them still contains and how much it will take to filter that crap out.
Hopefully with all this done I can get back to sawing on the Monte's quarte panel again before the shop gets too cold and I have to put it to bed for the winter.
Nick
