Re: [Amc-list] Hornets, not the AMC kind.

["RetroRalph" <retroralph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding Angels and Snowbirds...   Blue Angeles were flying repeatedly 
over my house last month up here in Hillsboro.    You're right... they 
make one heckuva racket at about 800 feet.  Shakes the house.   They fly 
over us in their formation and then regroup and fly right back again to 
buzz the Hillsboro airport crowd  again.   They had a good show this 
year and no crashes this year as they did last year (2006) when flyer 
from LA area took off to return home with his older plane he brought to 
the airshow.  Luckily he was the only casualty besides a couple houses.

I replaced my Hornet hinge pins using oversized GM pins and bushings to 
fit them.  I had problems with frozen bolts in them also and had to peel 
the door post to remove those hinges to work on them and weld things 
back together for reassembly.  That kind of made a project out of it. 
It worked as new then...
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Ralph Ausmann  -  Hillsboro, OR - > ralph.ausmann@xxxxxxxxx
http://mysite.verizon.net/res79g4m/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: JOE FULTON
The Blue Angels are in Salinas this weekend for the airshow last night 
through Sunday. As many of you know, the fly FA-18 Hornets.  The 
Canadian Snowbirds are here too.

Today was absolutely picture perfect weather.  No clouds at all and we 
had that central CA blue sky and light breeze.  The Blues looked great 
contrasted against that sky.  My home is about one mile from the Salinas 
Airport so I can see much of the show from my back yard.  A formation of 
Hornets over my house at 800 feet kinda shakes up the cat, though.

I changed out the lower door hinge on the Gremlin today.  It was 
actually worn so bad that new hinge bushings still allowed the door to 
sag and hang on the latch.  I did it by myself, as I usually do, and 
it's a bit of a chore for one person. The replacement hinge came from a 
junkyard Gremlin I saw in LA many months ago.

I have been reading the instructions for my wide band oxygen sensor and 
will tune the BBD carb tonight or tomorrow using that instrument.  I 
reset the timing to 10 degrees adv (idle) during the last tank of fuel 
and got the mileage up to 13.6 mpg.  The car has a 3.08 axle but I may 
swap in a 2.73 axle next month.  The car runs great.  It's just using 
too much fuel and cruise.

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA 


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