Posted on 07/07/2019 4:55:00 AM PDT by Jonnydanny
Yes, the jam harvested from the lower part is the best!
Did you put your thin skin on today, Dixie?
It’s just a short toughening-up lesson for the noob. You have to toughen them up early or they won’t last.
Use nitrogen. It won’t expand or contract with heat changes.
If you really want your tires to last, use hydrogen. It is the lightest gas and will significantly reduce the weight load on your tires, making them last much longer.
One of my father’s friends had a Corvair, and ran into handling problems like you described. He couldn’t resolve them until he (gasp, whodathunkit?) *read the manual* and changed pressures accordingly.
There were some legitimate, albeit fixable, issues with the Corvair’s design and handling. Porsche had run into identical handling and “tuck-and-roll” problems with a similar design and abandoned it during testing.
What if you plan to drive from the coast to the top of a high mountain? How will you maintain the proper tire pressures during that trip?
You’ll have to remove the muffler bearings to do that.
Stand about 20 ft from the side of the car. If the front tires look a little squished compared to the rear tires, drain a little oil out of the crankcase and/or a little water out of the radiator. If only a small adjustment is needed you can remove a little brake fluid. /sarc
PV=nRT
No matter WHAT temp you set your tires to, they WILL vary according to use, ambient temp, speed, etc.
do this once COLD, drive around a lot, do it with tires WARM, interpolate from that data.
The temps dealers use - the mfrs’ settings on door frames - is a guarantee of rapid tread wear and tire replacement.
OEM tires as a general rule are crap. With wear ratings in the 200-300 range (Pirellis and Michelins are typically twice that), compounds are soft, and out of the dozens of cars I’ve owned in my life I have never seen a set of OEMs last more than about 20,000 miles before losing traction, getting noisier, showing wear bars.
Michelins I’ve routinely gotten over 60,000 miles out of by comparison.
Rotate, balance, keep TP within range and they’ll go far.
JMHO.
Never go full retard
Just about all Porsches prior to the 924, 928 and 944 were of the RR-configured air-cooled engine design, whether the 356, 911 or even 914. I was under the impression that Chevrolet were imitating that design with the Corvair, down to the turbocharged flat six in some models.
“It depends on the calibration of the Finnigan Pin.”
I always forget, when resetting is the pin pulled and turned clockwise or pushed and turned counter clockwise contrary to the readings on the FinPin Magnometer?
“The headlight fluid level is critical as well.”
Oh the horror stories that could be told!!
Thank you!
I tried that once. Chalk outline guy from the police department came by to help.
Hydrogen in a tire.... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That is funny. It is hard enough to keep air in them and you want something that will literally slowly leak out through the rubber never mind by the bead or schrader valve?
Good luck with that.
Will not run correct with out setting the dwell to specs.
Aha... a serious problem in search of a solution. Enter... the CVTPA (the Constantly Variable Tyre Pressure Adjuster). Tyres no longer the right pressure because you just hitched up to your trailer and you are loaded with a family of 5 and all the stuff for vacation? No problem... the CVTPA automatically puts you at the right pressure. Even does minor adjustments such as barometric and temperature changes, extra load because of buying more than you expected at the store, type of road conditions, how fast you want to go.... and even when your 400 pound brother-in-Bernie borrows the car to go out and get some fried chicken and puts excessive load on one side of the car. No variable isn't programmed into it to give you exactly the right pressure.
“You left out setting the contacts of the Finnigan Pin using a Dwell Meter.”
Something else I forgot!
Its oldtimers I tell ya. Can’t remember nuffin anymore.
Oh to be young and driving long haul again. High paying loads of dehydrated water and glider fuel.
Ah to be young again.
Wait...what were we.....never mind.
Oatmeal!
Manufacturers recommendation is typically a sweet spot between performance and comfort. Depending on your driving style and ride preferences you can typically go a few psi up or down. It’s a good idea to use the chalk method to verify thread wear.
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