HiTech

On 4/1/2022 at 9:56 PM, mfmotorsports said:

I believe it. Although it has never happened to me, I have heard of that. Those plastic covers tend to warp if removed repeatedly and overtightened. These engines are pretty old at this point so would probably advise to replace it if you have to remove it(cam or timing chain change). I have seen where the brass insert will pull out of the plastic when tightening the crank sensor retaining bolt. Finally, there is a service bulletin that addresses crank sensors  contacting the reluctor wheel. The bulletin advises you to shim out the crank sensor.

FUNNY PART   that truck i had had never been worked on and back then no one had that answer . found it  by accident . the old saying  sometimes better to be lucky than good .. but that luck turned into months and hour sleepless nights i cant sleep much when i am  tried like that . i hate losing  when somethings you know could be just a small unusual problem .something simple . some times a nightmare  .

  NEVER OWNED A DIESEL .  never needed one  BUT MY BROTHERS have owned them all .. one of my brothers just got rid of his 2 year old dodge better milage but nothing but trouble always something wrong with it .he had to replace the front springs  drive shaft  somethings else in the motor  and always vibrations  .he love the power it had but 150.000 miles he had enough .. he has a bad back  and fords seats hurt him  other wise he would buy one .. so he now just bought a gmc  .loves the truck  but feels like its lacking in power and fuel mileage wasn't as good as the dodge ..... my other brother owned a early gm  .but went to ford when they had that junk motor and trans 20 years ago  .but has never owned anything else sense .. all  ford ..  .. MAINLY LOOKS LIKE  what are you going to use it for i think ..as for milage  unloaded  it gets about the same mileage as my little v6  i have in my dakota .. . but you want power  mileage will drop 

  AT15 i i was hit by a car .. i spent  3 weeks in driscoll chidrens hospital  in corpus  my two week stay on my back and one getting out of bed  i found just how bad kids have it and what little things you can do to make their stay much better .. being 15 i was 3 years over their maximum age limit but   the issue with my leg was a matter of keeping it or losing it  driscoll  had the only person who could save  it ... 1970 and i can still hear the screaming and crying of sick  children day and night  24 7. and any little something   different helped .. when i was able to get in a wheel chair  i would go into rooms where they would let me  and do what i could to cheer them up . had  one  8 year old who was in and out  all the time .go home good come back sick and no doctor could figure that out .but this little boy would come and visit me while i was in bed  i shared my treats with him and we would talk and or read comic books ..   one day i went to his room . i thought he went home it was empty .. no he died overnight alone .. i know least 12 children died in rooms near me . .. i live near that hospital . every time from day one when i pass by   i look at that 3rd floor   and the window i looked out of  . i feel  that 15 year old looking  out  at me saying man i wished i was going home today.  i am sick of this place .   the sound   i hear was  all those children who never went home .. all the suffering  the cries the parents cries . ..i love children .. they are our world . this child will have  to have a storage unit to box everything up  thats coming his way .. 

1 hour ago, top_shelf_12 said:

There's something eerie going to an abandoned race track, almost like old baseball diamonds. Love or hate that track or field, but like you said HiTech, the memories flood in. Strange how loud silence is when these memories flood back. You feel like you are back at that moment you're remembering, sights, sounds, smells all come flooding back. I've driven by CCS, and take a look at what's left but haven't dared to try to walk around it. I do have many great memories there, but for some reason SAS ellicits more for me and think it's because I have been able to go onto the property and wander around freely. 

 if i happen to be around the track i dont pay much attention to it now  .it looks so trashy now half torn down  does not even look like a speedway  . we all know its gone .. from the street   view   i dont feel the loss .. the only thing i notice more is the old pit area where the gate use to be way back before don bought it .. i see the cars lined up along the ditch waiting to get in  many parked on 44 .. i use to park along that ditch as well with my car .. . then during the nights racing you  had to be good at driving just to get out on  flato road  with out hitting  ditch  hitting parked cars on both sides fans walking to get to thier cars  THAT  took talent  .. i remember on man getting hit on his motorcyle  he had broken  leg or legs .. man i burned alot of rubber on flato  and ran my car wide open down flato  to  see what the top speed i could hit on the track .. .. how many time i painted that wall ..  how many time we added plate to that wall ..   when i had time  i help don with the packing of the knew pit area with a steel wheel roller ..  hell things keep popping up  . shoot that could go on and on  and on .. 

3 hours ago, NickHolt said:

Very personal.  Very touching.

Everyone has them .. i know you have more than i have .. FUNNY  just seeing that ghostly look  brought that on .. talk to my  neighbors son today  he is trying to get his mom to release all the cc speedway programs his dad kept,   i know some are back in the 70s and before .. ..     .. 

 LOOKING AT  the forth  picture of  the opening  below the flag stand ..  , i see this little boy all excited  walking across the grass that once grew just in front of the stands   and going through that opening  i see a teen riding wheelies with walter after the races . i see this young boy running out to touch the  hot sticky  tires after the last feature  .dub rollins  all the flanigans  and many more  .i see in  his memory the mustang dare devil .. tractor pulls .figure 8 races .motor bike flat track racing ..go cart racing .. and so forth .. that same young man wishing for the day he could race  on that track  maybe sign an autograph or  make  another driver mad .. hear the voices of  fans who liked his racing and those who hated him  .a wish come true nearly 30 years later  .i see  old jalopies running around the track . .the smell of cotton candy   wood burning  pits  with some of the best cooked  burgers  .the sound of ken cessna   playing the race is on by buck owens ..  working the pit gates  punching staple holes in every ones shirt shaking like heck when it was a females shirt  or less he  had to pull on . . he could hear the races going on in the late 50s and early sixties wanting so bad to go see what all the noise was about .. seeing so many fights break out ..standing under walters flag stand next to terry and kim on his right and bob on the left while the  44 was being teched . his job was to make sure no one touched that 283 small block  before tech man came out ....... he was working for the track .. he remembers the motor bike dirt track  . he remembers digging  the mud tracks . . spent many years helping with painting and repairs for frank ... .. now at 66 years old   he . i can say i was a lucky one who got to live that life .. the best was watching my son race helping him win  his championship .. and other races .. . while his mom my wife sat up in the tower and scored my races  then later on joshua ... working instead of enjoying  . but  that helped her with her nerves ..you know  mothers are always worried ..// this are some of the hundreds of memories i will  take with me .. i wont let the vision of this track destroyed  ruin those memories .... 

many years ago well documented on here i had  i had a yukon or something eating my lunch .as time went by it was eating everyone else lunch right along with me i had hundreds of hour  and every ones attention  with all of us trying to figure out  this hell on wheels .. i am  fairly  good  on  chevys  .this one had an issue with cam and crank sensor going out of range after a few minutes of running .. not one stone was left unturned .the owner begged me to give up on it , HE  could not afford the effort ..well i didnt charge him outside of the job he hired me to do  .fuel pump replacement ..  almost 4 months on this truck  .. now everyone had the same answer i did  .but nothing worked , i tested every wire ground sending units  borrowed ecm and every other  thing i needed off a donor .. if it didnt fix  the issue donor parts came off .. . i talked to folks who built the trucks system .no answers they had ....   something made me do this on  a lucky strike   after telling the owner monster trucks were coming to corpus the next week if i have not found the issue we were going to let them crush it ..  he agreed .. i  went out side to move the truck  it wuld run fine for a few minutes  as it started acting up  .i touched the crank sensor  and the darn thing stayed running .i  took my finger off it would go to junk and die  .. HUMMMMMM..... SO I TOOK A SHOT AND REPLACED THE TIMING COVER  .fixed it ..that carbon  cover was swelling  and pushing the crank sensor out  a couple of thousands  from the reluctor ..  no one has seen that before and i havent seen or heard of it ever  happening again ..  most likely everyone would give up  and never noticed that .. sometimes it best to be lucky than good  .

21 hours ago, mfmotorsports said:

I know this is an old post, but I thought I would add my 2 cents.  This same ignition/PCM/ fuel system is found on the 4.3L W engine, 5.0L M engine, 5.7L R engine and works similar on the big block 7.4L J  with the exception of different fuel injectors. The 4.3 and 5.0 are found almost exclusively in 1/2 ton trucks with a few exceptional odd special ordered combinations. The 5.7L is found in all classes up to 1 ton. The 7.4L big block only comes in the 3/4 and 1 ton. These engines were installed in trucks from 1996 to 2000 (in Classic 3/4 & 1 tons). I think the best way to tackle this would be using a scan tool; owned or rented. While cranking, look for an RPM signal. If there is a RPM reading, this most likely eliminates the crank sensor. This would leave either the ignition module or ignition coil. A  bad module or connection at the module would most likely set fault codes. Seeing that there are no codes set, I would then proceed to the coil. Before condemning the coil, I would inspect the coil connector. The connector has two leads,  a pink circuit which is battery voltage and a driver circuit which goes to the module. The wires are notorious for breaking inside the insulation. A tug on each circuit would break the plastic insulation revealing the open circuit.  Fixed!

 DANG  2016 when we spoke of this .. time sure as heck flys .. good info though ..

LOOKS  like someone didnt find the level  on that floor to start with .. so no matter what that chassis is not going to work  . going to have an issue with tire pressure to boot .. . i think that is just about how far reb  has gotten in how many years of speedzone ..

1 hour ago, Radical said:

I agree. Alan is the first weatherman I have seen that can give you the weather forecast but also explain it to you in a way that you can understand. Everyone else just says it will be hot and windy or cold and wet.

 HE  has some of his dads traits where he explains things where most folks can understand . back during harvey  you could see he was more personable with out being a clown like the last one who retired . almost like you could see the worry in his face as he pointed out issues in a calm way . ..he reminds and or reminded  me of charley saint john  whom i learned alot from growing up  on how to read the weather  in which  i still use today .sort of .. alan and nick were bringing the ranger over one day  for me to look at shifter issue i think . they were late so i called  found they were eating a burger instead of being on time  smartly not inviting me  . a ugly looking rain cloud was just right  at the edge of my street  not looking good . i had nick ask  alan  after i warned him  about the cloud  .alan came back with it wont hit your house and in ten minutes it will be gone ... he hit it on the nail .. i knew we had a good one ..big different between a meteorologist  over a want to be we have  and had have in this city ..

 NICK .i think its time you get smart and start a fan club for alan  where you can sell autograph items .. i keep running into folks who just love that young man  .. OFCOURSE  many are older folks i meet but hey older the violin the sweeter the music ..  . ..  A COUPLE OF THINGS I HEAR ..  he is so cute . and really great  and trust worthy ...........  that all must be on his mothers side .. when i say i know him and his dad they want to know is he what they think he is ..  WELL DEPENDING  on how much they want to pay me for info i give them what they want .. hope you dont want a cut of that part . BUT IN ALL REALITY . HE IS JUST WHAT  THIS CITY NEEDED WHEN IT COMES TO WEATHER  .

 No you are not drunk  arob ...  I THINK its more set up issue camber in the right rear .. some may have been pushing  the max on that .. or tire pressures not being followed .. . pick your poison  .i  have watched as much as  i can at all the races .. so far not bad ..   

On 3/20/2022 at 9:22 PM, cmize said:

I haven’t heard from anyone 

 ok ill call hector 

On 3/19/2022 at 8:11 AM, cmize said:

Still available 

 i dont know if hector manager of sames ford in corpus got ahold of u .. .  if not let me know  ..

7 hours ago, NickHolt said:

Great idea.  

thought about getting a car .now  .. let me know when you are coming out nick  i need that 3 bucks , got to get my morning taco .. 

4 hours ago, 24nomo said:

Yes, I did too, I got new tires for my house, I had to move and they were 10 years old

No mileage on them i bet ... BE a little more costly to put tires on my  house . getting through traffic  would be murder and under red lights , plus 40 acres  just to turn it around .

2 hours ago, 24nomo said:

4 grand isnt much this day and time.  Besides, I really dont care what it cost, supporting racing and spending time with friends is priceless......    

2 hours ago, 24nomo said:

4 grand isnt much this day and time.  Besides, I really dont care what it cost, supporting racing and spending time with friends is priceless

TRUE WITH FRIENDS if you can afford it . ..   4 grand just went into my house .... .fast .. ..

16 hours ago, JamesHigdon said:

Also…the Premium RV spots are $4k, where are they charging $10k?

i can buy a nice set of tires and wheels for my moped with that 4 grand .. .. sit at home and watch it for free if i watch it .. cost nothing ... 

Reading this back all those years have gone by ..   DIRT HAS TAKEN OVER   factory stocks have least 30 cars show up at every race average  .. one rules .  two most tracks agree with those common rules do not have to change much of anything to run all tracks .. purses are still the same when it come to inflation . cost of keeping up  is getting way to high  darn near supper streets now  my son had to give it up  just on the motor cost  then add  high dollar shocks and other little parts prices   . shoot  building a car from scratch  cost more than  ordering a chassis .. and most cars are ordered ,, so in all reality  dirt racing is costing more than it should ....with  even carbs many of the teams with money or least some backing are costing 6 to 800 plus ..those or just 500 cfm .. forget the box carbs .... this in time will follow    the paved track direction ..down the drain .. . dirt tracks tried to cut cost on motors . we bought one of those motors  legal motors and didnt last a season a saving a what thousand ended up costing more . but the shocks went sky high if you want to stay up with the joneses ...... so dirt needs to keep  an eye opened on this cost  or it can head out the door in the future ..as for cc speedway   where i spend most of my 66 years at .. managers ,cost, and different rules from one track to another  .killed all of it ..cc is gone sas is gone kyle is gone and some i cant name mostly for the same reasons .. had dirt tracks not got on some sort of rule package that fit all . their would  not be many tracks open or car counts .. . and all the dirt tracks seem to all have great management===..a big purse will not  always  promise  a packed pit ..

if we ever get our act together with this car we will be racing there . been trying to get up there for three years ..always on our list but something always comes up ..either car or work  or weather ..or broke ..that is most of the time 

i would go there if the current owners  sold out .

 SAD DEAL ..  this wreck brings back   another sad wreck when in 1982 the highway patrol showed at our construction yard we owned in alice ..we had an A64 FORD LOADER  with 8 feet forklift set up for loading drilling pipe  . . i knew there was a head on crash between two rigs in the fog on 281  north of alice that happend   at 4 am  this was noon when the trooper showed up .. i loaded the forks and bucket and headed out to the wreck .. i never seen so much carnage .  one rig burned up just like this one  the other was pancaked   with a family of three inside crushed at first we didnt know their was a new born  in the  pancaked moving truck  didnt find that baby till the next morning i noticed something when i was loading the cab onto a trailer . a baby bottle fell out . the little girl was crushed   behind the seat where you could not see at all . i will never forget that moment .. the other driver was found in the FRAME  where the motor use to be  all of that was scattered  up and down the road way .. the rig caught fire and burned just like this one did ..  26 hours to clear  that sight .i  met the family of the three killed . they just got married and was moving to houston ....you can never unseen something like that . RIP TRUCK DRIVER .

  COME ON TOM  you know darn well  local racers are honest and would never pull that stunt ...  ..  I NEVER DID   except once or twice ,,, 

 IT WAS A FAST MOVE TO THE RIGHT THAT GOT MY EYE  .. but it would be stupid for larson to pull that stunt with his team mate .this isnt daytona ... i question chase spin  . ...  i can see chase not happy not  being the number one team  and that makes him work harder .. the run he had anyone would have taken that i wont question ..   but in racing  my  law was if i go outside it may not turn out right . those two will be fine someday chase will make that mistake larson did .. 

 THAT RACE KEPT ME WATCHING  ..the daytona was a bust for me .. .......