New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[jason meade]

Dont think you have much to worry about with the snow,It hit here late last night with the furrey of a field mouse....just enough to cover the car, bright blue skys now.

[Bob Carriere]

....most East board airports were jammed.....

We got 6 inches of very heavy sticky snow......some drifting.

I fear the Vermont New Hampshire region may have taken the brunt of it.....

No word from Phil he may be buried in the white stuff....

Well I am off for a ride on the snow blower.....

Bob

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Bob

No we didn't get the snow we did get about 12 hours of very high wind with snow mixed in but non of the snow got to the ground just blew by traveling horizontal.

Total snow for the year 30" and 24" of that was in October.

The real reason for no response was two fold, a week with that nasty respiratory illness. At the same time my internet got the intermittent flu meaning that our connection never lasted long enough to read all the way through the new post on MLU inevitably as soon as I type up a response I'd loose the connection.

Fix for the internet flu was replace 200' of buried phone cable, and all the phone wiring in the house. Fortunately when redid the power service to put in transfer switch I buried and empty conduit.

The wind is strange though very strong and blustery and we don't have any politicians in the state.

Cheers Phil

[Bob Carriere]

....and blew everything to the Atlantic.

Got bad here from about 5 pm Friday....rush hour..... to about 7 pm then died out.

Still had 5 inches of wet stuff to blow off the driveway...... and the neighbour id his back so I did his drive way and he was suppose to do the other neighbour's driveway will he is away in Flawreedah..... so did it all.

Back in the barn tomorrow for some sanity..... Rob should be in for treatment as well......

Hope you are feeling better with that wrespeetory hillnest.....

Thinking of removing some leaf springs of my cab 11 suspension....... wont need them now that I have lost weight......

Bob

[Stuart Fedak]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Thinking of removing some leaf springs of my cab 11 suspension....... wont need them now that I have lost weight......

Bob

Bob, Are you thinking of making one of those weight loss and CMP excerise DVD to sell on TV. I think you may have created a market.

"My dear, if I buy some of those old trucks to work on in the garage, perhaps I will lose some weight and become as slim and healthy as that Canadian working on CMP in the far North".

I think the Hammond Barn and the New Hamshire CMP Barns may become a new fitness craze........

Cheers!

Stuart

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Guys

You guys are right working in the barn is both sanity and for exercise. Being unable to work in the shop for a couple of weeks was driving me right up the walls. Not sure if working and driving CMPs is exercise or if you have to exercise to work and drive them. My normal exercise program is an hour of exercise class followed by a 2 mile walk and a 2 mile run at the gym three times a week. When I get back from the gym I have to go right out to the barn and start working on the truck because if I sit down I stiffen up.

But I did get back out to the shop this week, first project was redoing the hand throttle on the C60S with the 261 engine. Wanted to get the handle throttle working so didn't have to pull the choke out to get high idle.

The carb for the 235 or 262 comes in several versions mine are the manual choke versions but they don't really have a connection for the hand throttle. In the picture below you can see how I added to the bracket to hold the hand throttle cable and the simple connection to the high idle. I had tried the normal connection down through the throttle but it didn't lineup well so the throttle would catch. This approach seems to work very well.

I've also taken the photos of the Pattern 12 throttle peddle, the gas peddle for the HUP and the passenger hold down. So I will be posting those to the other threads.

Cheers Phil

[Bob Carriere]

..... I just need to find as big chested skinny girl to feature in the DVD.....

.....do you know of any.....?


On the sanity side...... I agree with Phil.....missed the Barn tiem last week ti sure was nice to go out there......feed the turkeys in the back field, walk around trying to find amongst the many rolling chassis what a rear axle convoy light looks like and how it is mounted and spend some times in the barn welding up things.

Hope you are feeling better Phil...... I intend to connect my manual throttle as well but not sure how it will work and allow the gas pedal to overide the manual throttle cable.


Life is good.

Bob