What would YOU do?

[R.O.R-2.0]

Cranked the max fuel screw in by about an eighth of a turn.  Gets more fuel sooner so I am not slowly creeping up to 65 now.  It really goes.  And the mileage.  312 miles and 6 gallons of gas  that is 52 mpg.  Hope it stays around for more tanks.  Or gets better.  Going to try and make a better bubbler.  Same kind of tube across the bottom but with lots of real fine holes not the big ones I put in on one row.  More small is better for froth. 

i think you should just mount a nice bong in there and call it good.. those things already have diffusers in them, and all sorts of other bubbling devices..

HAHAHA..

j/k..

it would so work tho..

[ORCoaster]

Why yes officer some people might think that is a bong but I use it for creating bubbles that help my engine go better. 

Sure son, now just step back to the car here while we have fido here sniff about a bit. 

Not sure I care to be detained like that so just going to keep to fabrication of normal plumbing stock.

Did not get time to do engine work today.  Spent the day doing body work.  The Bentley did me wrong today.  I never read where there were three 10 mm bolts going down the inside of the fender alongside the door jamb.  Once I got all the others free and cut through the sealer they put on I still could budge the fender away from the door. 

I couldn't see back in there very well so I jacked it up and took off the wheel and crawled into the well.  I poked around on the back of the fender and found the three bolts that were keeping it from coming off.  Once those were undo I just needed to pry the sealer apart.  Seems like the fenders are glued on moreso than screwed on.  Had a bit of rust here and there but otherwise solid.  This car has sat in storage most of its 30 years.  Glad I found it. Only a bit of mechanical work left to do.  Working on the dents, scratches, fading paint and headliner.  Carpet is so so but might have to get that out once everything else starts looking new again.

[ORCoaster]

Well, this weekend was an enlightenment moment.  I had my vacuum pump go out on me and during the investigation of that bad boy I found that I have been routing a ton of oil out the pump.  So I opened the top of the bubbler and there was a coating of oil across the water.  Took out at least a half a cup.  That may explain why the tank mileage was down to 49.4 this time.  Maybe it was the 70 mph speed I was doing on the way home.  Either way I hope to solve both problems with a rebuild of the vac pump and get some braking power back.

[ORCoaster]

Well, once the vacuum pump was fixed I turned off the engine and saw the water in the tank slowly rise up to the intake manifold and would have kept going but I disconnected the hose.  I had just changed the oil and filter and didn't need that problem. 

I plugged in a small check valve in the line so when the engine is running the air can flow to the water bubbler but when the vacuum is pulling through the engine on shutdown the valve lets some air in.  I didn't have a spare check valve that could fit in the larger diameter brake booster line.  Time to throw a new one on there I guess. 

So be aware those of you thinking about this system that the pressure generated by the blow by is only half the potential problem.  Sucking the water into you intake is also a problem.  I wonder if that much liquid going in all at once would break something in the engine.  Hydro-lock or something very near to it.