Mole beating

Mole bating game is exactly the same as the servicing on XH200 Opel Vectra, so a funny mole is drawn in the symbol mark of OPEL Vectra Owners Cluｂ in Yokohama. The defects occurs very often, one by one, one after another.

Probablly no Vectra goes without any trouble now after more than 10 years from distributions.

The manager of the special board is incredibly kind enough to fully take care of any applicants there, judging from his descriptions, he must be a scientific researcher in the considerable institute.

The symbol mark shown here has permission to open in the WEB.

My basic perception on vehicle is that it's no problem if it goes well mechanically and the pleasant recreational equipments are not always necessary like luxury audio system , NAVI,fully automatic air conditioner, power window nor even power steering devices, AM & FM radio and heater are enough for me.

Now mechanical door locking construction does not work well on Vectra, radio control system is already deserted because of ill functions.

One of solenoid must affect the smooth movement of the linkage, so door inner panel must be removed and checked, also glass position adjusting and gear grease up must be required at the same time by chance, it's boring and tiresome, because these tasks have nothing to do with any rnning performance.

Anyway key system must be disassembled thoroughly otherwise Vectra with defected air conditioning does not run.

Holidays

Bon holidays are coming one week later, but mine are already occupied by automobile servicing.

Frontal shock absorbers replacement on XH200 Opel Vectra and following wheel alignment re-settings.

The magnetic relay replacement of starter motor on EP82 TOYOTA Starlet. And frontal toe-in value adjustment following previous setback adjustment.

Setback adjustment on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi and following wheel alignment checking.

Frontal drive shafts replacement on NCP10 TOYOTA Vitz, before that included grease must be cleaned and new chrom molybdenum grease should be re-packed, because re-call information says so moistened wrong grease.

On SXE10 TOYOTA Alteza wheel alignments are perfect, on-line-feeling is established without unreasonable sticky and strutting reactions in centric steering position.

It relatively easy even in an academic field to make up to cheat people, but impossible to pretend and to deceive ourselves, because there clearly exists the person who knows all about that.

Next generation

The strongest living thing in human world must be an infant and it's mother on earth.

Recently the reduction of population is the primary problem in Japan. In order to change the tendency reversely the construction of convenient social circumstances for nourishing new born babies is indispensable, I wanna put an emphasis on this point for the political ｌeaders, because the importance is not geriatrics but the our next generations.

Heavy vehicles

Recent automobile has increased in weight, the safety mechanism, the ecologic devices and the anti-polluting systems are the criminals. More weight requires the higher motor power, more powerful stopping brake constructions and wider treaded tires. From the physical propertie's point of view, no advantage is to be found to increase the weight of the vehicle.

The principle by Principia proves that the lighter vehicle never be inferior to heavier ones if it is used on the Earth.

The advantage of keeping the first generation SUBARU Legacy is the convenience for obtaining the replacement parts, the parts of later model Impreza are interchangeable with Legacy except the differences of the wheel base about 100mm.

Impreza has the tendency to be bought by Sports Enthusiasts and the Axle Parts are replaced into more harder and sporty third party's ones.

Naturally originally factory equipped parts are in vain and thrown away unused.

Such kind of original genuine parts are found relatively easily on the WEB site.

Consequently the axle parts are changed into Impreza GC8 WRX's ones with the best fitting, braking systems are also changed into nowadays specifications.

The manager of coffee shop in my neighborhood went away in the beginning of this year.

I feel the sort of customers are changed and reduced in number, reminding me of the proverb,"The business mainly depends on the managements.".

Accuracy in Wheel alignment

In wheel alignment adjustment procedures, the value of camber angle is difficult to be measured and to be adjusted firmly and evenly on both sides of the vehicle.

Ordinally the special tool is utilized to know the vertical inclination, camber, but the reading the buble position in convexed glass tube method is far from accurate measurment. This unreliable tool used from long time ago made it difficult to measure and to adjust the camber value on earth. In addition to reading difficulty, the fixation of the device is unstable, because magnetic construction is equipped on the combining surfaces with the wheel hub. And the distance of the measuring points, hub diameter are around 55mm, it's too short to obtain the datum with accuracy and repeatability.

I just imagined to amplify these hub diameter's two points to utmost length till actual measurment phaze, to 1719,75mm multiply 2 diameter with mechanical pendulum construction.

Deeper considerations later.

Oil reserver and filler is hand made this morning. Processes photos shows every thing without any explanations. Small plastic piece end is remolded by heating.

My girl friends hesitate to introduce me to their another friends, because suddenly I say so straight not with along ordinal common sense.

They do not want to put themselves in such a situation to be with their red faces ?

Next I'm going to consider about this critical problems.

Camber Scale

Frontal camber angle values were re-checked on EP82 TOYOTA Starlet today.

Specially designed and fablicated device has 1719,75mm radias pendulum construction, the radias length was decided in order to read the 2 minutes value per 1mm scale.

Absolute reference plane is epoxy glued on the side wall utilizing defected hard disk and the extention pipe to the hub surface is the empty coffee can that is precisely adjusted for top and bottom surface. Of course the parallelism to the zero degree position is calibrated certainly prior to the actual scaling procedures.

Probably the measuring error would be far superior to the conventional bable position reading magnetic setting devise or laser beam equipped expensive total wheel alignment testers.

The result obtained today, frontal right negative camber was 38,20 minutes and left side 38,50 minutes. That's no problem.

Equipments

Syncro scope and Audio tester are used for circuitry adjusting. Though they are half a century old enough, even now both of them are fully active with adequate calibrations. The company "TRIO" does not exists recently, but had been survived with other name, "KENWOOD".

These devices are indispensable for actual measurements and adjustment of hand making amplifiers.

Golden colored case includes transmitting circuitry driven by tubes, this is for Radio control air plane also 50 years ago.