Re: 26 below zero
 

Roughly 2/1/04 10:20, Del Rawlins's monkeys randomly typed:

> On 31 Jan 2004 03:47 PM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
>
>> Ever run into a flake from Whitefish Montana, went
>> by the name of Nat Good, in Cordoba?
>
> Brett Good was in my class but they moved away when I was in grade
> school. I ran into Brett when I competed in the state spelling bee (hey,
> it was a free trip to Anchorage, my strategy was to lose early and go
> goof off), and later at UAF where he was majoring in theater.

Nat Good would be about 59-60 now. Used to be a schoolteacher
and then moved up to teaching supervision. Which, if you
knew the guy in high school is one of the ultimate ironies.


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Re: 26 below zero
 

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:

> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
> neutral?

My introduction to cold was my first winter in Wisconsin. I had a
single car garage so the old beater Scout I bought got to park
outside. That winter had a run of something like 20 days where the
high was below zero, with the lowest nightime temp of -34 so
everything was cold soaked. To get that 4-banger Scout going, I had a
block heater that would at least let me start it. Th starter would
barely turn the engine with the clutch out, so the drill was: Clutch
in, start engine. Hold the clutch until the engine smoothed out.
Give it some gas and let the clutch out in neutral. That usually
wasn't too painful, but the next step would generally kill it a time
or two: tc to neutral, tranny to reverse (highest gear ratio by
quuite a bit), clutch out to stir the tranny and input shaft of the
tc. Shift the tc between 2WD/4WD/front only - it was a twin stick
with the option of front 2WD and 2WL, which was fun to play with - and
let the thing go until it has loosened up the tranny and tc as much as
it could. Now the big test: turning the diffs. If it was dry out,
then 2WD rear only with hubs unlocked was no big problem - just lots
of gas and go. If I needed 4WD to get out, that was another story
entirely. That little 152 ci slant 4 didn't have enough power to pull
the hat off your head, much less turn 2 cold diffs and climb out of
the snow. Even when it was dry getting out to the street was a
challenge. The worst morning saw -30 degrees, 26 inches of snow
drifted across the driveway in pile up to about 5 feet. That was the
day I tied the pto winch to a phone pole across the street and dragged
the whole thing out to the street pointed down hill before I could get
out.

Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
wouldn't turn for anything.

And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: 26 below zero
 

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:

> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
> neutral?

My introduction to cold was my first winter in Wisconsin. I had a
single car garage so the old beater Scout I bought got to park
outside. That winter had a run of something like 20 days where the
high was below zero, with the lowest nightime temp of -34 so
everything was cold soaked. To get that 4-banger Scout going, I had a
block heater that would at least let me start it. Th starter would
barely turn the engine with the clutch out, so the drill was: Clutch
in, start engine. Hold the clutch until the engine smoothed out.
Give it some gas and let the clutch out in neutral. That usually
wasn't too painful, but the next step would generally kill it a time
or two: tc to neutral, tranny to reverse (highest gear ratio by
quuite a bit), clutch out to stir the tranny and input shaft of the
tc. Shift the tc between 2WD/4WD/front only - it was a twin stick
with the option of front 2WD and 2WL, which was fun to play with - and
let the thing go until it has loosened up the tranny and tc as much as
it could. Now the big test: turning the diffs. If it was dry out,
then 2WD rear only with hubs unlocked was no big problem - just lots
of gas and go. If I needed 4WD to get out, that was another story
entirely. That little 152 ci slant 4 didn't have enough power to pull
the hat off your head, much less turn 2 cold diffs and climb out of
the snow. Even when it was dry getting out to the street was a
challenge. The worst morning saw -30 degrees, 26 inches of snow
drifted across the driveway in pile up to about 5 feet. That was the
day I tied the pto winch to a phone pole across the street and dragged
the whole thing out to the street pointed down hill before I could get
out.

Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
wouldn't turn for anything.

And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: 26 below zero
 

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:

> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
> neutral?

My introduction to cold was my first winter in Wisconsin. I had a
single car garage so the old beater Scout I bought got to park
outside. That winter had a run of something like 20 days where the
high was below zero, with the lowest nightime temp of -34 so
everything was cold soaked. To get that 4-banger Scout going, I had a
block heater that would at least let me start it. Th starter would
barely turn the engine with the clutch out, so the drill was: Clutch
in, start engine. Hold the clutch until the engine smoothed out.
Give it some gas and let the clutch out in neutral. That usually
wasn't too painful, but the next step would generally kill it a time
or two: tc to neutral, tranny to reverse (highest gear ratio by
quuite a bit), clutch out to stir the tranny and input shaft of the
tc. Shift the tc between 2WD/4WD/front only - it was a twin stick
with the option of front 2WD and 2WL, which was fun to play with - and
let the thing go until it has loosened up the tranny and tc as much as
it could. Now the big test: turning the diffs. If it was dry out,
then 2WD rear only with hubs unlocked was no big problem - just lots
of gas and go. If I needed 4WD to get out, that was another story
entirely. That little 152 ci slant 4 didn't have enough power to pull
the hat off your head, much less turn 2 cold diffs and climb out of
the snow. Even when it was dry getting out to the street was a
challenge. The worst morning saw -30 degrees, 26 inches of snow
drifted across the driveway in pile up to about 5 feet. That was the
day I tied the pto winch to a phone pole across the street and dragged
the whole thing out to the street pointed down hill before I could get
out.

Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
wouldn't turn for anything.

And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: 26 below zero
 

I had to put mine in 4wd the other morning after a night at work, the
wheel bearing and diffs were so thick it would just spin the back
wheels in the snow. It's fun driving the 1st mile or so also with 4
tires that are not quite round.

It was -38C that morning :(

On 1 Feb 2004 23:25:10 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@codenet.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:
>
>> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
>> neutral?
>

>Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
>me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
>Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
>eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
>wouldn't turn for anything.
>
>And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

Re: 26 below zero
 

I had to put mine in 4wd the other morning after a night at work, the
wheel bearing and diffs were so thick it would just spin the back
wheels in the snow. It's fun driving the 1st mile or so also with 4
tires that are not quite round.

It was -38C that morning :(

On 1 Feb 2004 23:25:10 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@codenet.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:
>
>> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
>> neutral?
>

>Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
>me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
>Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
>eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
>wouldn't turn for anything.
>
>And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

Re: 26 below zero
 

I had to put mine in 4wd the other morning after a night at work, the
wheel bearing and diffs were so thick it would just spin the back
wheels in the snow. It's fun driving the 1st mile or so also with 4
tires that are not quite round.

It was -38C that morning :(

On 1 Feb 2004 23:25:10 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@codenet.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:25:05 UTC <Skip> wrote:
>
>> What would the clutch pedal have to do with stalling if the vehicle was in
>> neutral?
>

>Another morning I flooded it and the wife was going to push it to get
>me started - 383 hemi in a garaged Charger should be enough, right?
>Well, when she got me up to 15-20 mph (finally, even down hill) I
>eased the clutch out in hi gear and all 4 wheels just locked -
>wouldn't turn for anything.
>
>And people ask me why I moved out of there as soon as I could...

Re: 26 below zero
 

On 01 Feb 2004 10:45 AM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
> Roughly 2/1/04 10:20, Del Rawlins's monkeys randomly typed:
>
>> On 31 Jan 2004 03:47 PM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
>>
>>> Ever run into a flake from Whitefish Montana, went
>>> by the name of Nat Good, in Cordoba?
>>
>> Brett Good was in my class but they moved away when I was in grade
>> school. I ran into Brett when I competed in the state spelling bee (
>> hey, it was a free trip to Anchorage, my strategy was to lose early
>> and go goof off), and later at UAF where he was majoring in theater.
>
> Nat Good would be about 59-60 now. Used to be a schoolteacher
> and then moved up to teaching supervision. Which, if you
> knew the guy in high school is one of the ultimate ironies.

That would have been Brett's dad. I think he had an older brother also
named Nat, so I wasn't sure which one you were talking about. A search
on whowhere.com shows that Brett is still in Fairbanks, if you are
interested you could probably contact his dad through him.

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Re: 26 below zero
 

On 01 Feb 2004 10:45 AM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
> Roughly 2/1/04 10:20, Del Rawlins's monkeys randomly typed:
>
>> On 31 Jan 2004 03:47 PM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
>>
>>> Ever run into a flake from Whitefish Montana, went
>>> by the name of Nat Good, in Cordoba?
>>
>> Brett Good was in my class but they moved away when I was in grade
>> school. I ran into Brett when I competed in the state spelling bee (
>> hey, it was a free trip to Anchorage, my strategy was to lose early
>> and go goof off), and later at UAF where he was majoring in theater.
>
> Nat Good would be about 59-60 now. Used to be a schoolteacher
> and then moved up to teaching supervision. Which, if you
> knew the guy in high school is one of the ultimate ironies.

That would have been Brett's dad. I think he had an older brother also
named Nat, so I wasn't sure which one you were talking about. A search
on whowhere.com shows that Brett is still in Fairbanks, if you are
interested you could probably contact his dad through him.

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Re: 26 below zero
 

On 01 Feb 2004 10:45 AM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
> Roughly 2/1/04 10:20, Del Rawlins's monkeys randomly typed:
>
>> On 31 Jan 2004 03:47 PM, L0nD0t.$t0we11 posted the following:
>>
>>> Ever run into a flake from Whitefish Montana, went
>>> by the name of Nat Good, in Cordoba?
>>
>> Brett Good was in my class but they moved away when I was in grade
>> school. I ran into Brett when I competed in the state spelling bee (
>> hey, it was a free trip to Anchorage, my strategy was to lose early
>> and go goof off), and later at UAF where he was majoring in theater.
>
> Nat Good would be about 59-60 now. Used to be a schoolteacher
> and then moved up to teaching supervision. Which, if you
> knew the guy in high school is one of the ultimate ironies.

That would have been Brett's dad. I think he had an older brother also
named Nat, so I wasn't sure which one you were talking about. A search
on whowhere.com shows that Brett is still in Fairbanks, if you are
interested you could probably contact his dad through him.

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