January 23, 2007
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More Van Update
Today, AM: Adjusted throttle idle switch and accelerator cable. The switch is really flakey and I’m going to have to replace it.
PM: Tested *all* of the wiring from the ECU to the rest of the ignition system. Yes, my face stuck in the Big Green Book Of Test Procedures, holding multimeter leads to the big master connector like chopsticks. The wiring passed, by the way. Even the suspect ground straps, though I’m going to replace them eventually, too. (This is a fairly common thing to do with the Vanagon. Re-soldering the many ground-wires to new eyelets and connecting them to bare metal is a tedious task that tends to make running problems go away.)
I’d mention that at one point I knocked the socket set into the engine compartment, but that’s just too embarassing. (Only one is still MIA.)
Important cultural observation: You know you’re in Seattle when a gay man with a baby stroller rolls his eyes at your choice of vehicle.
Comments (2)
should only have had metrics out anyway.
It’s a super-cheapie set I got at WalMart. It’s all in one fold-up package that ends up looking like a tiny briefcase. While sorting through and putting them back, I realized how many of the sockets had never even been considered for use, and how many tiny ones there are. And then I realized that if you’re making a socket set for sale at WalMart, you want to impress with the number of sockets. And if you want to do that and stay cheap, you use the minimal materials, which means you have two (3/8″ and 1/4″ drive) of each for every conceivable denomination between 3/16″ and 1/2″ (and 3.5mm to 10mm). All tiny and thus requiring less material per socket. But also more wasteful, because no one uses them. At all.