Miscellaneous

We should know about Old Man Winter chill of Asian Continent, once it ruined Napoleon's army and Hitler's western front at all. Several Japanese tourists to the Great Wall of China have fallen victims there yesterday. The tour officials must have made little of the fear for sudden changes in the weather condition. But I wonder why in China with which county we are not getting well because of National border line at Senkaku Islands and why there with some changeable severe weather condition? Sight seeing event  is such an exchanging one for a life?

Long touring in BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model proved that the automobile keeping by myself as long as 20 years with servicing and maintaining by DIY is valid as my favorite item enough to continue from now, if the difficult maintenance is required, the rear transfer clutch plates replacement. This kind of servicing on a specific automatic trans-axle invite some special technology backed upped by SUBARU engineer, but I have enough support to know the information about a difficult works. So, I must do that in case of mechanically critical faults, otherwise I would be suffered from some regret that I escape away to my tent avoiding hard works, I must regard myself as a coward and timid person. I imagine that disassembling the rear part of trans-axle would be a great ordeal that I have never experienced under the condition without lifting system like any dealers always have, but I have enough brave to do that in my garage as usual.
As I digested painting works on the bonnet area of XH200 OPEL B-Vectra(not so good result), residual maintenance is only for BC7 as mentioned.
The driven clutch plates, 31589AA150 must be ordered again, because the alternative parts 31589AA030 have arrived as 3 pieces.    

Tight corner braking phenomena

Even a strange tight corner braking phenomena did not occur while 200 km driving to North Western part of Hyogo Pref. today. This phenomena is one of an inevitable chronic disease for SUBARU JATCO Active Torque Split automatic trans-axle after over 100,000 km use occurring on rear transfer clutch system. The mentioned inconvenience is brought by the stepped wear in clutch bell's inner part where being hit repeated by drive clutch with outer nails. To tell the the truth, the wiring in the engine room for cancelling rear transfer solenoid is done to the cabin and the switch is prepared near the meter cluster, so all wheel driving mechanism is controlled while driving on the road.
Deeper consideration on the mechanical construction of the rear transfer set just behind the trans-axle led me to have got it that the switching on and off several times while driving might make the sharp corner of stepped wear round and slippy to recover original axial movement of clutch plates, drive and driven ones, 10 pieces in total. This kind of attempt might have proved successful to recover the original condition? Anyway, now no strange phenomena happens at all? Though all the replacement parts have arrived at my hand, I decided  wait and see for the time being.    

Trifle but impotant

Every material has it's own resonant frequency and an automobile has uncountable vibration sources in operating condition. As some strange noise was discerned from inside of dashboard on just in front of steering column, checked the original source where it comes. However carefully I might seek pealing out speaker cover and speaker, fuse cover and meter cover, I couldn't identify the origin of the clicking noise at all. Remembering the past experience over 30 years ago when I was keeping Skyline E211, same kind of noise came from bonnet hinge, I doubted the cause might be from the engine room, then finally found out the origin, plastic cover for checking body number that is required by Legal Inspection every two years. Just twisting by finger power giving some distortion to keep it tight in position could solve the chronic problem. It is often the case that any engineering plastic tiny parts shrink and distort after as long as over 10 years use, especially it happens in high temperature engine room. German made automobiles have tendency to get worse for plastic parts because of hotter motor combustion compared with Japanese one that might be brought by the difference of designing concept of motors, or that of plastic material quality?
Inconvenience found in NCP10 TOYOTA Vits, small but being suffered from I nervous hitting noise, that is strange hitting and clicking noise from drive shaft needle roller bearing comes up periodically, but wheel rotation or just changing the relations of wheel setting 180 degree eliminates the noise, how come? There must be some distortion on the wheel tracking or ill fitting between the wheel and tire positions? Anyway it is true that the noise is influenced by the external factor while actual use. The air filter for intake air of the motor has replaced as a periodical replacement parts.
I feel satisfied with the sophisticated TOYOTA's technology developing newer automobiles to have used a global strategic vehicle Vitz 1300 RS especially after the adjustment of axle constructive geometry and wheel alignment as exactly the same as the value mentioned in the maintenance manual. Not a little efforts were required to establish the alignment, because some loosening of sub-frame holding bolts for repositioning was obliged to correct the existing setback on frontal axle construction. Additionally, it's rear axle design based on torsion beam axle concept made it impossible to establish "Zero thrust", because the axle hinge bushes had many holes for enough compliance to support the anterior strong shock from the ground. Movable and deformable physical property here are very inconvenient for both correcting and establishing the precise axle alignment.
Though I started to learn and study about an automobile's constructions, the latter model NCP10 TOYOTA Vitz gives me tremendous information on the sophistication on the technology of the company again. From my standing point of view as one of a scientist, interpreting the intents of the designers and engineers of the production company is too interesting to stop to continue.
2 liquid type Clear Urethane coating procedure on the ugly bonnet of XH200 OPEL B-Vectra would be performed today, my skill in splay painting would be up this time?   

US scandals

Unpleasant scandals occur in Okinawa by US soldiers one after another these days. It's an inconvenient situation for US Military Force also under the conditions of introducing new cargo planes "MV-22 Ospray" to Japan. Probably, US off-duty soldiers must be misunderstanding perception walking around out of the base camp cities supported by the specially proved right of extraterritoriality and they can do anything they want if the attitude might be in out-low behavior, because they would not be punished by Japanese country low. Anyway, US should regard us as an inferior nation just the same as twits by the Commander in chief occupation forces, Douglas MacArthur, "Japan is poor fourth grade nation, US soldiers should not be killed by this low level people!", said at Atsugi Military Air port for first landing of occupied Japan. SOFA(Status Of Forces Agreement) has been continued since that time, unconditional surrender of Japanese Military Force 68 years ago.
Even now the power balance is kept unchanged militarily and economically with no arguments by Japanese people, because there must be some sweeter condition to keep this relationship of indecision like so to speak "Neat".
Earthquake disaster containing radiation exposure, Insolvency, Diet does not go well, unemployment and Debt finance are the same as condition of National poverty, no good news are discerned on earth.
Line shape clouds are observed on the weather map today, so this winter must be colder for the people with no good　memories. 

EFERN on EOS

The first generation Elmar 135/4,5(EFERN without range finder coupling, 5259 production in total between 1931 and 1936) mounted in old Minolta MD barrel has successfully modified to adopt on Canon EOS Digital body this evening. APS-C format create image area as if 150mm or 180mm focal length lens logically. It has never imagined to survive on digital imaging element through SLR system, because it didn't have any accurate way to focus on the film in the condition of no connection with range finder coupling. Triplet without coating lens element has something that any recent multi-coated ones do not possesses. Both contrast and sharpness might be inferior to state-of-art, but still this EFERN has different performance of reproducibility that I cannot ignore at all. Minimum number of lens element and direct ray pass might be the reason, or some residual aberration? Photoshop soft wear would compensate those disadvantages in this old lens enough, it means that some reproduction of the real sense of vivid reality. The best answer of lens element designing obtained by sophisticated computer method does not always show the best way of it. Aspherical surface lens element and Apo-chromat color corrections also do not always produce the best. Arrival point is invisible if there is no index to be arrived.
Lens designing technology requires some outstanding capability by an Artisan lived golden ages tens years ago. Resolving power and contrast are not the main subject as wining one shows in their catalog. A photo paste-like picture is not in my eyesight at all if it is produced by some expensive aspherical lens installed in huge zoom barrel.

Parts replacement

I was a hard worker yesterday getting lost in an automobile maintenance, knuckle arm ball joint boots in VW 1302 Super Beetle and frontal brake pad in NCP10 TOYOTA Vitz were performed as replacement works.
Because the steering linkage construction had been replaced about 2 years ago, the ball joint boots did not last me for the period, Chrome molybdenum grease added later might have contained some aggressive factor against the rubber material. Excessive movement, outside design performance like some torsional stress might be a reason, so clumping of both ends of the boots is not always convenient for the violent movements, shifting side open design is desirable here I suggest.
As for prepared genuine parts for NCP10 TOYOTA Vitz used 60,000km, uneven wear of frontal brake pad between out and in and leading and trailing invites unpleasant brake pedal touch, probably caused by squeezing twist of caliper piston in the cylinder. So, in case of oblique wear, it's better to replace brake pad into new one that has enough thickness to return the piston in adequate position if residual part might be observed on used pad.

Persimmons in my villa garden has reduced in number this year, around 10 pieces, fertilizer shortage might be a reason. Landscaper coming soon would be a good counselor on earth.  

Circulation

Pruning in the garden of my villa in the mountain would be performed today, so must I participate in the work as a owner. Trimming on every big trees should be done utmost just before the verge of withering in order to postpone the next opportunity for pruning. Consequently, I would stay there all day long digesting some automobile maintenance and organizing warehouse.

6 months have passed after moving our laboratory to new place and 3 months do after introducing a computer system in our general organization of information. Things are going well and all favorable to every direction, purchase, customer management and revenue. Very small increase in my son's curiosity to our business is observed these days, some aggressiveness a little.

My car hobby life for more than 10 years should be reduced by means of deserting a few of my keeping ones, the time is come so I feel. All of them have good performance as their own original condition, this is why am I at a loss which one to throw away?

Some stretching exercises in the area of border movement of my shoulder has removed stiffness of the right side neck this morning, that has been lasting as long as half a year, feel I just happy and relieved. I have re-realized the importance of good body liquid circulation like blood, lymph and electrolyte between cells, because of liquid circulation we can live. Metabolic disorders would bring regressive change in cell revel like atrophy, degeneration and finally necrosis, so adequate exercise is indispensable for human being.
My recent research has proved that knee joint pain has much to do with the lack of liquid circulation especially in Semimembranosus and Semitendinosus muscles and biceps femoris. 

Remembering the day before yesterday, I could be reconciled with old intimate client, I thought it impossible, there was no way to find out a clue to re-communicate with them except some approach to us, anyway it was the best affair after the movement of our laboratory. Don't have any sharp corners with another person, go just round, gentle and soft. "Everyone does not cry!" is our way.