Where's the Tsunami?

Of course we were at the coast looking for a Tsunami, but never saw it.  Friday was at the Spirit Mtn. Casino for Brad Garrett and then Saturday we drove to the coast.  Then my brother told me about the earth quake and tsunami warning.  And the radio was talking about it too.  Even Sophie's brother, who is on vacation in Hawaii was texting and calling about the sirens going off at 6 in the AM.  So we move to higher ground and watch.  Lots of people were also watching.  Then after a walk, and getting rained on, we call it a day and head home.

Presidents Day 2010

So the first outing of the year with Wilbur turned out to be great.  The weather on the Oregon Coast was better than we could have ever thought.  Seeing the big waves in the sun made us want to stay longer.  But for now it is back to work.  Oh well three day weekends sure beat  two day weekends.

This was where we spent the night.  They came around this morning and put flags out. 

Just another beautiful day at the beach.  We took a long walk and had lunch before returning home.  I guess we will be back another day............

Happy Valentines Day

Well here it is, another Valentines day.  And as one of the comedians said last night, no on second thought I better not say that.  After all I am happily married and plan on staying that way. 

So we spent Friday night at Spirit Mtn. Casino and saw Natalie Cole perform. 

The RV lot is back open along with my favorite dump station.  It is on our way home from the coast.

Saturday we headed to the coast for the Comedy show.  Always good for a laugh and after all laughter is the best medicine.  We spent the night in the free dry camping lot along with several others.

This is at the Chinook Winds Casino upper lot.  If you look way to the right of the picture you can '72 Chieftain.  You can bet I will walk down that way before we leave.  But you never know about those people with old motorhomes.........

Well its off to the casino to see what free stuff we can get for Valentines day.

Oh we won a couple of red coffee mugs. 

Testing new editor

So Blogger has a new editor and what would be better than a test post.  If you have ever wanted a Blog it really is easy.  In fact the only hard thing is to keep blogging.  If I could do it every day, and people would read it, then there would be a lot of reasons to blog.
So this is a test blog.

And I know someone who would like to get parts off this rig, right Jeff???

So far this works good.

Deep cleaning Wilbur

So when I put the new (to me) seats and cushions in Wilbur they were not really clean but in good shape. So while I had a carpet cleaning machine rented, for another house I was working on, I decided to give use it on Wilbur.
The carpet in the main part was shampooed 5 years ago after replacing the roof, but with the upholstery tools I did all of the front area around the seats. Boy do things get dirty after only 37 years. Oh the carpet was probably cleaned sometime before but the Green Shag does look good now.
Sophie wants everything clean before we head out this year. That means scrubbing down everything from the dash to the bathroom. She likes the dirt to be "fresh" every so often.
And while I was at cleaning Wilbur I needed to do the car floor mats, a few throw rugs from the house and some odds things that were dirty. And I was about wore out by the time I was done with that job...............

The Edelbrock 1406 Install

Saturday January 15th, 2010

So I bought the carb on Craigslist for $82.00 and the adapter to the intake manifold on Ebay for $23.00. Then I bought the fuel line connector from a shop. Seems that the carb has a special thread on this connector and nothing else will work.

I thought today I would put it on so I back Wilbur out of the garage and start removing the old carb. Then I found out that I do not need the vacuum connection on the rear of the carb so I go pick up a brass plug at Lowes for that (It's a 1/4" pipe thread).

Then when I set the new carb on I decide to use the adapter for the throttle cable. So another trip to Auto Zone. The electric choke needs power and I ran a wire from the fuse block to the pos terminal and a wire from the neg terminal to a bolt on the carb. OK I forgot to hook the pos wire to the choke after I spent all the time running the power from the fuse block to the carb I left the wire off the choke untill after I started it up.

Then when everything was hooked up I started it up again. The idle speed need a little adjust and I did adjust the idle air screws some but it ran good right off.

The last trip to the parts place was for an air cleaner rod. The one I had around here to use was not threaded very far and was too long. So for $2.00 I bought a new rod. Then came the drive test. You know how fun it is when you have to make sure the trans shifts down when you stomp on the gas and the secondaries open up too.

The U Haul place and a new carb for Wilbur

Sunday Jan 10th, 2010
So here it is Sunday. My son moved to Phoenix, AZ on December 28th and yesterday my daughter moved back to Corvallis, OR. For my son we needed to pack up his small house and put it in a small trailer.
Then for my daughter the short move to CVO (Corvallis) was probably the last of many moves for her to CVO. Since she is a senior at OSU, and they do not have a nursing program, she will probably go else where this Fall.
I think 2 moves in two weeks is enough. My wife and I need a few weeks off from the U Haul place.
As far as the Winnebago stuff goes, I bought a used Edelbrock 1406 carb. Now I am wanting to buy the adapter for bolting it on where my thermoquad carb was. They make an adapter I would like to get. The best place right now to find one is good old Ebay.
This new carb should get better MPG than the old one. Guess a '73 carb is not as good as a newer designed carb. Will try to let you know how that goes