qldit

G'day justo, yes I managed to get involved with a lot of stuff because sending it back to Australia or getting and expert sent up was either too time consuming or expensive, so I cut my teeth with the 71 series GM's and Borg-Warner 35 transmissions and all that kind of stuff.
Just having a few spares and getting bits sent up the next day kind of thing reduced downtime by 90%, so then I managed to get a few courses on the machines.
There was rarely anything unrepairable after that.

So I got a few odd jobs with generator systems and it was good money.
I never worry about any different type diesels these days but it is dirty work on that stuff.
Most of it is old dinosaur stuff that no one will touch these days, and some generator regulator systems are really prehistoric.

Some of the computer controlled vehicles can be a pain, the fault codes are usually unreliable.
I have one here where the coil is inside the distributor and it occasionally arcs internally under load, the owner had it to several places and they didn't pick it up.
I am waiting for a coil for the stupid thing.
They are usually encapsulated and also contain some kind of oil, and the tell-tale is a black oily residue in the distributor.
So many of these things are back to basics, I often pull the computer controller out and inspect it, it is not uncommon to find printed circuit damage in them, small cooked areas where the tracks are damaged.

Half the problem is finding where the damned computer is in the vehicles, some are buried in the dash and others behind the side kick panels.
Many of these vehicles use a more or less conventional ignition system except that they are solid state and pointless.

I have struck quite a few machines where the drive belt had broken and the pistons and valves had made love, one had stripped all the rocker support bolts and had a lot of other damage, valves, pistons and a conrod!

We have used spare half-life engines sent here from Japan so that resouce is often the best.
One diesel car I was presented with was something in the order of $2K just for engine parts and I got another complete motor for $600, so it pays to know this stuff is available.

I have a good hydraulic cylinder repair workshop not far away and they are good with repairs for those big cylinders on your type of equipment.
They get a bit heavy and can be a real pain to remove and refit.

I am going to have to give the Linux away for a while here also, I have several water tanks I need to make bases for and set up.
We currently have a terrible water shortage here, the worst for 150 years so it has caused a lot of problems. One drought after another!
Water is limited to 140 litres per person per day, so things are pretty tight.
No water usage outside at all.
People are using their used washing machine water for their gardens.

Cheers, qldit.

justo

I came by and read but going to do a job.Be back at five.Oh ,I downloaded Goblin Linux.We have done a lot of things alike as far as work goes.I enjoyed reading that.Catch you this evening.

justo

I am here again.The Goblin mini is hard to connect up on wireless.i will not try it again for awhile.I fell asleep when I came in .I am trying to wake up. Oh yes.They try to make things harder to work on every year. Awhile back I worked on a CAT backhoe.It had a Perkins diesel engine that ran out of oil so needed a complete overhaul. When we pulled the engine apart two cam bearings was not where two journals were on the cam.My boss accused me of loosing them when we were going to put the engine back together.But he ended up calling Cat who said the engines came that way.We put a crank and reconditioned rods in and it is still going.I go off and do other things for a couple of years and things change fast.You have to keep up with several trades now or come back to find a whole lot has changed.

justo

OK, I am on the latest stable version of Puppy.Its live now.But it is late.Going to sleep.I wil load it tomorrow.It looks great and has more features than the older ones.

qldit

Good morning justo, yes I use Puppy usually all the time.
To get online use the networking wizard and follow the auto DHCP path, it is usually immediately on line.

I have several vehicles here with a lot of work, I will catch up later.

Cheers, qldit.

justo

I tried Mutagenix again. it failed to finsh a boot up after i loaded it.Wiped it out and installing SAM Linux. I was working on a Brigs and Straton engine.Carb was clogged up.I tore down an old garage annd make a few bucks extra.I have more jobs waiting. I like that,Supposed to have a PC show up to get the Windows bugs out and add Linux.The lady paid 250 just recently to have it fixed.The left Norton and AOL in and it drags along.I will take those out and add better programs..I think I will add PC Linux as she is not up on Linux and it is an easy one for Windows people. I hear a ring.See you later.

qldit

G'day justo, with windows systems I normally only load the Avira A/V system, I think it is the best of them all.
I found 600 replicated viral things in one machine, it really dragged!
I also load Spybot S&D with the "teatimer" and all it's stuff scanned and set.
Comodo firewall makes a perfect addition for troublefree operation.

Just having those three usually stops other problems.

I always dump any Norton programs, I suspect they are a liability and are targetted by malware.

I have been loading Puppy Linux on a lot of clients machines as dual booters and rarely get any problems.

They can use Puppy for all their general surfing and emailing etc, without any need for anything else, but I have had problems with filesharing programs in windows, especially "Soulseek" still allowing operation straight through Linux even though the firewall was there and windows wasn't booted, accessing the non-booted windows system.

I have just spent almost half a day removing a Mitsubish Lancer 16 valve head, it was obviously not designed to be removed without removing the engine, what a pain of a job!! The oil gallery through the head gasket was leaking, that is going to be a $500 job simply for parts and a head overhaul.
I am dreading the re-assembly of the damned thing.
All the head bolts cannot be reused, so that is $45 alone!

We had a modified gauze filter for thos B&S engines, it has a coarser webbing, and doesn't clog up like a lot of the earlier ones did.
It includes the stem with the filter on it.

Cheers, best of luck with the windows machine! LOL!!

qldit.

justo

Went to a baseball game.My little nephew is a good ball player and I go to his games. I got the Windows PC working good.I charged the lady 20 bucks. Here is what I use in Windows PCs and they have done well for several years<>All free at www.download.com <> Zone Alarm firewall ----AVG anti virus - AVG anti spywear --Ad Aware SE anti spywear -- Spybot - Firefox browser --Belarc Advisor to see what is in the computer. ----------------- I think maybe below you are talking of an oil filter? I remember long ago when the cover was separate from the filter element in old cars.Some people put a roll of toilet paper in the cover.I never learned of how effective that was.--------------- The newer engines are difficult to work on.In about 65 Chevy had engines easy to work on and the parts were cheap. After you have worked on those and see how simple things can be you can get unhappy with the present designs..I wish you good luck with that engine.I know those are difficult to work on. The designers must not like mechanics.I am falling asleep. I might go lay down.Come back and talk again tomorrow.<> I tried a couple more Linux and went back to MEPIS 6.5 on this PC. Slax Killbill was in it awhile today.I covered it up.

justo

OK.I loaded Mint Bianca GNOME on this.I like it a lot. There is a red icon down by the clock that offers updates.One is a kernel change that comes from Ubuntu.So I will not click it because it crashes my wireless.But I can get programs from KDE package manager.I added KWIFI manager.GAIM and Thunderbird mail.I am getting good at hooking Thunderbird up to GMAIL.I have done it several times.---------- > I wish I could get Sabayon Mini to go with my wireless card. It shows to have the driver installed ( Prizm) But I can not find a program that connects up to the signal automaticly.> http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...285&topic=1556

justo

The Sabayon regular size is a torrent file rather than ISO.I use ISO but I know nothing about torrent files or I would get the Sabayon regular size .

qldit

G'day justo, you have been having fun there, yes that Sabayon is part of the brainchild of one of Kanotix's major programmers as far as I understand, he appears to have been the major influence in it, and left to join Sabayon.
I have Kanotix on a couple of machines here and was really impressed with it, so I can imagine Sabayon will be a really decent program also.
I think Kanotix will probably wither away now, it is also based on Knoppix.

With those torrent files, you just download that small starter torrent file and (in Puppy) there is a "Transmission Bit Torrent Client" in the internet section, so open that and direct it to the torrent starter file downloaded location and that file should then show in the TBTC pane.
HiLight it and hit start and it will download from multiple sources simultaneously, it is pretty useless where I am because all the multiple sites are over where you are, but you should see a massive increase in D/L speed for these kinds of files.

You will have other torrent programs in the systems you have, as far as I know they all work similarly, very clever stuff!
It seems that starter file conditions the search and arranges the multiple organising packet stuff. (how is that for a technical term!! LOL!!)
When the torrent D/L is complete you should have the ISO file showing.

Still waiting for this 16 valve head to be completed at the machine shop.
Hands covered in bandaids!! LOL!!
I am dreading the rebuild job!

Cheers, qldit.

justo

I am on wireless and have low signal strength. I wondered where you went to. I can imagine you have had a problem with that head work. I could stick a 327 Chevy 8 in that frame faster than I could change the head. <> I am going to copy your instructions on the torrent file.I had the small one but deleted it.I will catch another when the fat lady gets away from the antenna over there.LOL! I have the latest versions of these. Sabayon Mini.Dreamlinux.Knopix and Goblin x . The last one has no program to get wireless going without adding info. But the others will show my Prism wireless installed but I still can not get online. Other Linux versions have good programs to get wireless on line. On this PC I loaded Mint GNOME.If I do not click on the update icon it all works fine.If I do then I have no wireless.It is a Ubuntu update and jams the wireless operation. But I like this load too.--------- Is it hot where you are working? PCs are easy compared to those cars.You can lift the PC easy and no grease is on them. Here is a thing I would like to do in the line of mechanical work.Do a certain modification to cars or trucks.You can learn the tricks easy. You have to know a lot to just repair one brand of vehicle today. Or do something new with computers. But if you can do the work there are people who will pay good money because they have to depend on a mechanic to get their vehicle going.I spend a lot of money on tools because I like to have a tool for every job.

qldit

G'Day justo, yes I am a tool freak as well, but I had to go and buy a special long 13 MM off-set ring spanner and a decent 10 MM multi-hex half inch socket for this darned machine.
The head bolts were all 10 MM multihex, but one I had a few weeks ago was all all hex keys, can you imagine that, it needed about 80 ft/lbs of strength to crack them all, and I didn't want to break anything. Flank drive sockets are useless.
Those head bolts are all "use once" stupid things!!

I have a dozer working on building up a level nearby here, it really has "clanking" tracks! They have brought in a mountain of earth, must be 300 tons or so.
It also has a laser stalk, but odly enough this one is mounted on the blade, not on the cab!
Goodness knows how it works!

I haven't been playing with the Linux stuff for the past few days, and probably won't be able to do much for the next few!
I have a radiator that needs back-flushing here, so it will be interesting to see how much garbage is in it.
I have a decent aircompressor but we have water restrictions so I will have to do it out of sight!! LOL!!

Read up on that ndiswrapper, it is an interesting program for wireless stuff and works really well.

Cheers, qldit.

justo

I had thought a long time of how to put a small lazer on a dozer blade and make it cut to a target set up a distance in front.I never got the idea to work even in my mind.I even thought to link off the blade arm with a riflescope.Cutting grade for 12 hours a day can stress you out if it is inspected and has to be right on. If you get a chance to look at that dozer see what you can learn.Here now they often use bad operators (outside of the oil refineries) and pay off the inspectors for shoddy work to get it passed.--------- That Linux stuff really takes a lot of study when you run into those problems.Most often I get around the problems by substitution of hardware.Netgear MA 311 wireless cards work on most every Linux.But there are three or four that I have not gotten on line with as of yet, -------------- What is the deal on water restrictions? That sounds like along the southern border of Texas. We have plenty of water here. <> I hope the head is not cracked yet on that machine.

qldit

G'day justo, yes all my wireless stuff is Netgear and it never has any problems with any of the systems.

The head wasn't cracked but we have a lot of problems here with corrosion even with the best fluids.
The machine shop welded a bit more metal (aluminium) in a couple of the corroded areas and then machines it as if it were new, they are really clever at head repairs, that is all they do.

It must be my 40 th job for them, but I did have a problem where one caused over-compression and I had to take it off and make a spacer.
It was an old Toyota Crown, hopeless engineering, like a poor copy of a Mercedes, in the end I fitted a GM engine and complete drive train.

I envy you with all those Linux systems, you are drawing well ahead of me!! LOL!!

Cheers, qldit.

justo

it is 3-51 am.i just woke to see what is going on. i made coffee. i was thinking before that the machine shop must be really good at repairs because we seldom do that much for a head. it is often easy to find a used one that needs only minor machine work.there must be a lot of highly skilled people over where you are. i think you would do real well over here if you owned a business. there must be a lot of salt in the air and water over there to cause so much corrosion.you should think on something to make those parts last longer.something like anodes or a thing that interferes with the electrical energy. i remember something about electrical circuits on boats like fiberglass boats that you must run ground cables properly or the metal corrodes fast. all you need is to develop some device to solve a major problem like that and you could sit around testing Linux versions and sell the devices online. i always try to think of something i could build and live outside of the cities and make money with the computer .here it seems the best money is concentrated in the bigger cities.i guess politicians direct it to large cities. for a long time i have been trying to find a good way to make a desktop kind of pc for mobile uses.now they are building very small ones with small LCD monitors.but they are expensive. i like small but easy to replace parts like ordinary PCs. laptops are difficult to replace parts in .i have a 750 watt inverter in my truck that can run desktops but no room for one in the truck. i use my laptop with an antenna in it now. i think i tried enough Linux versions.unless a new one comes on the distrowatch site i may quit burning ISOs awhile.i wish a Linux programmer would make a Linux version that you could add things to you that you have ready made on a CD.That is a good thing about Windows. i keep a lot of drivers and programs on CDs and add them to a Windows PC when i reload one.If that problem is solved i think Windows would be less used than it is now.. well, i think i will sleep awhile. i hope your repair job goes well.

justo

i came by at 10 pm.had a long day of work.I made a CD.(200Mbytes) Arudius 0.5 .It is an odd one.But I worked until I got tired trying to get wireless going. i guess i will sleep.