Christian Pipe Smokers

20230901_053229.jpg This is a picture of my Dad working at the Ford Dynamometer Building probably in the late 1950s. Around the time my mom gave me this (2005?), I was doing engine development at Ford, and had worked at that same Dyno cell. Some of those old dial guages were still present (not oper...

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Now for the rest of the story: That work was done in June, and my bike is finally back to normal (almost 3 months later). After completing the work my check engine light came on at the first start. The cam sensor was seeing the wrong number of teeth. Long story but, I ended up taking it to the deale...

I performed the valve lash/cam timing maintenance on my BMW R1250RT.

The lash was fine, and cam timing was only slightly off.

All in all a pretty easy job (especially when compared to the valve lash adjustment on my Kawasaki Concour).

Sharing yet another puzzle. Hope there's no paywall, it's on NYT, same as Wordle. Four guesses to make 4 groups of 4 items. I solved two of the 4 groups then used up my 4 wrong guesses. Connections Puzzle #80 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟪🟪🟪 If this trend continues we'll need to change CPS to mean Chr...

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That one was a bit different.