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Cracked burnt valve in my motorcycle engine (It's a 1988 Kawasaki KLR 650).
That explains why it would not run too well lately, and i had a really hard time starting the engine. There was virtually no compression at all (which is no surprise when you see that hole).
What's amazing is that the engine could still run at all with that enormous hole in one of the exhaust valves, as long as i kept it above 3,000 RPM. I was able to drive the bike 700 miles at 70 Mph to bring it home in San Francisco, from Death Valley.
I think it started as a hairline crack (like the one that can be seen on the left side of the damaged valve), and then slowly got larger with the years and the hot gases flowing in the crack. Also, because of the crack, the valve was not seating well, so it got hotter (normally valve heat dissipate in the head when the valve is closed). This crack (combined with a tight valve adjustment) contributed to weaken the steel of this exhaust valve even more, causing what's called a "burnt valve'.
I checked the other valves and they are in decent shape. There is a minor leak in one of the intake valves (I might need to get this one reseated). The good part is that the damaged valve is not bent, and the valve seat is clean. So i'll just replace that valve and lap it.
The piston is clean, and luckily no shrapnel debris from that valve got in the combustion chamber.
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A fading sign in Highland Park advertises an auto supply company and a famous brand name. The brand is named after the French cyclist Albert Champion, who also lent his initials to the AC brand of spark plugs.
'plug' is 15.5" tall, 5" deep and is spring mounted to a 1962 Buick Fireball V6 air cleaner cover, wall hangable
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near Warwick, Rhode Island; built in 1883 at the end of a shoal that protrudes into the Providence River.
Something special about original Mercedes Benz replacement parts... Taken while finishing up engine wiring harness replacement on my '95 E320 wagon.
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"OLD 16" Rides Again With CHAMPIONS!
The accompanying artwork is by Peter Helck, an internationally known artist, automobile connoisseur, and owner of “Old 16.” The race where “Old 16” made history took place on October 24, 1908. It was held on a course in Long Island, New York, which included sections of the newly completed Long Island Motor Parkway – the first highway in the world designed specifically for automobiles. The Vanderbilt Cup was the first major international auto race held in the United States. At the time, European cars (like Mercedes, Panhard, and Fiat) were considered vastly superior to American machines.
William Kissam Vanderbilt II created the race in 1904 to challenge American manufacturers to improve their engineering. For the first four years, European cars dominated. It wasn’t until “Old 16” crossed the finish line in 1908 that an American car finally won, sparking a massive wave of national pride.
“Old 16” is a Locomobile built in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was a beast of a machine for its time, featuring a massive four-cylinder engine with nearly 1,200 cubic inches of displacement, producing 120 horsepower – an incredible amount for 1908. The car failed to win in 1906 due to tire issues. Two years later, it was “old” by racing standards, but it was brought back, painted with the number 16 on its radiator, and driven to victory by George Robertson with mechanic Glenn Ethridge.
On the very last lap of the 1908 race, Robertson suffered a tire blowout while leading. He and Ethridge changed the tire in record time and managed to win the race by less than two minutes. Unlike most early race cars that were scrapped or lost, "Old 16" was preserved. Peter Helck (the artist of the ad) bought it in 1941 and kept it in original, "unrestored" racing condition. Today, "Old 16" resides at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it is in the same weathered, hard-won condition it was in decades ago.
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It was a sad day when Pee Wee's Klock Korner closed on the East side. I always liked this long, narrow storefront which was nestled between the train tracks leading into AC Spark Plug and Robert T. Longway Blvd., next to James Lumber - all of which are now gone.
East Flint, Michigan.
Sunday, November 17, 2013.
Robbins Reef Light Station
The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owned and operated the light station until the 2000s.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_Reef_Light
Thanksgiving morning we woke up to temps of 6F or -14.444C. We drove to Lubec for errands and got some great images of sea smoke
This is the Sparkplug an unmanned lighthouse in the Lubec narrows.
Maine was the coldest state in the nation that day and it was the coldest Thanksgiving in 100 years.
Also known as Kate's Light. It sits off Constable Hook between Bayonne NJ and Staten Island NY. In the background is the Bayonne Golf Club. Shot from the Staten Island Ferry.
I don't know what these modifications do, but they look prettty cool.
Notice how HDR has filled in all of the areas that would be in shadow.
Click here to see a front view of the car.
6 shot HDR
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subject: Candela Motore / Candle Engine
Photography: Alessandro
Place: Italy,
Date: Settembre 2014
52 Weeks of Pix 2014
Week 34 of 52
Theme: Brand Names
A couple of souvenirs from when I worked for Phillips Petroleum / ConocoPhillips.
Shot with dual umbrellas from the side and Nikon SB800's.
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This sign is at least 40 years old. I remember it from when I worked in the building next door as a teenager. A Thomas Cusack (of Chicago) sign. The ad for the Hopps Hardware Co. features a gigantic Champion spark plug. But the background is what's fascinating: The ad appears to be drawn on a freestanding billboard set on a country road, with green hills and blue skies behind it, rather than the corner of a two-story brick wall on busy Woodward.
Painted signs can stay in good condition at least 20-30 years, because the wall dogs (painters) worked in lead paint.
"The lead soaked right into the brick, so the brick has been pigmented," says William Stage, a St. Louis journalist and photographer who authored "Ghost Signs," a book of pictures. From: www.detnews.com/
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"The Spark Plug" (a.k.a. Narrows Light) - captured from South Lubec Road, on the U.S. side of the Lubec Narrows, Johnson Bay, Lubec, Maine
Captured through the trees along the edge of South Lubec Road and Johnson Bay a half mile north of Woodward Point with the southern-most of the two Duck Islands to the left of the "Sparkplug", and Campobello Island in the distance.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
Pictures of the Robbins Reef Lighthouse from on board the Jewel of the Seas on Disembarkation Day - September 28th, 2023 as we returned from our fantastic voyage. The Robbins Reef Light is a sparkplug lighthouse that dates from 1883 (replacing a light that was built in 1839). It is very close to Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the Seas for a grand 14 day cruise to Greenland (September 14th through 28th, 2023). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with an actual stop in Manhattan (a delay leaving NYC caused by Hurricane Lee); Nuuk, Qaqortoq & Nanortalik in Greenland; St.John's, Newfoundland before heading back to New York City. It was a grand adventure.
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
more mechanicery!
car servicing time...!
Spark plugs and cleaned the air filter today... oil and filter tomorrow :)
also got an insane box of all sorts of bits from my Uncle for Project Nerd!
Artist: Paul Gustave Mohr (1890 - 1959), a French avant-garde poster designer from the Art Deco period. He designed advertising posters from 1920 to 1940.
"The Spark Plug" (a.k.a. Narrows Light)
South Lubec Road, The Lubec Narrows, the Bay of Fundy, Lubec, Maine
Captured after slogging through the mud at low tide to get just that little bit closer to the light at the center of the Narrows.
I wore Crocs to walk through the mud and slime, but didn't figure on the suction power of the muck that pulled my Crocs right off my feet and forced me to take them off and go barefoot, while using my tripod legs to keep me from falling face-first into the muck camera and all.
All in all quite an adventure, to get just a wee bit less haze between me and the light.
The following images are 3 different crops from a 14 shot composite image captured about ¼ mile out into the muck, and about ¾ mile from the lighthouse.