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4d ago
inA new kid called my injector test 'grandpa style' and then his truck would not start
Did the kid even know what he was looking at when you pulled that line though? Because here's the thing nobody talks about, the scan tool only tells you what the computer thinks is happening, it can't see air getting sucked into the fuel. A hard start on a 6.7 with air in the return is a mechanical problem and no amount of live data is gonna show you foam in a line. The bottle trick works because you're actually watching fuel move, not reading a number some sensor spit out. Half these young guys can read a screen but can't tell a good injector from a bad one by feel or sound. That $1,200 tool is great for some stuff but it made him lazy right out of the gate.
8d ago
inMoved my crimp tool from my hip pouch to a chest pocket and my shoulder stopped hurting after 2 weeks
Glad it worked but man, took you two weeks to figure out your tool belt was messing up your shoulder? That's like me realizing my boots hurt because I've been wearing them on the wrong feet. Anyway, chest pocket crimpers are the way.
19d ago
inThe moon landing footage color timing debate keeps ignoring the TV standard issue
The NTSC color phase stuff is real and it drives me nuts when people skip over it. I've seen the same green and magenta drift on old Apollo 11 tapes that I've seen on episodes of Laugh-In from the same year. That's because the color signal rode on a subcarrier that was super sensitive to tape speed and signal loss, not because someone was faking a studio. Broadcast techs back then were literally adjusting hue knobs by hand during live feeds, so of course the color wobbles. If you compare the lunar feed to any 1969 network broadcast you'll see the exact same artifacts. The fake moon people grabbed onto the color shifts because they look weird on a phone screen, but that's just what analog video does.