Re: 1938 Super 8 1605 - adventures with a newbie
Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/12/18 8:57:46
Snow visible in the picture and you don't care for the A/C... wonder why 
The weather is similar here in PA and I feel the same about the A/C in my car, if it gets in the way too much it's going. Speaking of cool air, due to a combination of non-working turn signals and charging system concerns, I was driving it back and forth to the shop recently in 40° weather with the driver window down and no heat on. I don't know about your 39, but on my 55 my favorite thing to do in WARM weather is open the vent windows and air ducts and BLAST air into the car.
Sounds like you are making a lot of progress on it. In a shop setting, it's often better for something to fail obviously (like your fuel pump) then you just replace it, compared to the alternative of something you think will probably fail, but seems to work, so you are more reluctant to spend the money+time to fix it, but also feel uneasy about it if you don't. 😅
Only tangentially related to what I just said but I think you will find it humorous is the Oliver Wendell Holmes poem "One-hoss Shay" regarding the question of what were to happen if engineers were best able to design for greatest reliability but with all parts having a finite lifespan. A hint to the answer comes in the Ferdinand Porsche quote "The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts."
Safe to say that when testing in and around the shop, we wish that anything that wants to fail should do so quickly and obviously so that we might diagnose and replace it, but when on the road anything that starts to give a sign of trouble we want to "hang in there" indefinitely. Such is life!
The weather is similar here in PA and I feel the same about the A/C in my car, if it gets in the way too much it's going. Speaking of cool air, due to a combination of non-working turn signals and charging system concerns, I was driving it back and forth to the shop recently in 40° weather with the driver window down and no heat on. I don't know about your 39, but on my 55 my favorite thing to do in WARM weather is open the vent windows and air ducts and BLAST air into the car.
Sounds like you are making a lot of progress on it. In a shop setting, it's often better for something to fail obviously (like your fuel pump) then you just replace it, compared to the alternative of something you think will probably fail, but seems to work, so you are more reluctant to spend the money+time to fix it, but also feel uneasy about it if you don't. 😅
Only tangentially related to what I just said but I think you will find it humorous is the Oliver Wendell Holmes poem "One-hoss Shay" regarding the question of what were to happen if engineers were best able to design for greatest reliability but with all parts having a finite lifespan. A hint to the answer comes in the Ferdinand Porsche quote "The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts."
Safe to say that when testing in and around the shop, we wish that anything that wants to fail should do so quickly and obviously so that we might diagnose and replace it, but when on the road anything that starts to give a sign of trouble we want to "hang in there" indefinitely. Such is life!
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