• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

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Seafoam / Mystery oil, etc...

I'll have to try some Xylene in the gas. I've used it for cleaning before but never thought about mixing it with fuel. Must be pretty strong only 1-2 oz per gallon of gas! Wonder how it would work as a carb cleaner? I picked up a Honda XR100 for my grandson that wouldn't start and carb cleaner wanted nothing to due with the gunk in that carb.
 
It has a slow evaporate and burn rate, used as a thinner for acrylic and epoxy paints. We used to buy it at Malcolm Smith in Blendzall 2 cycle oil. Because of it's slow burn rate, it lowers the burn rate of gasoline, reducing knocking and pinging. Xylene (Dimethylbenzne) is catalytic safe and will remove varnish from gummed up jets and injectors.
 
I've used seafoam in older carb cars and yes it works well. Does anyone have experience using seafoam as an additive to Methanphetamine? It's not part of the formula I regularly use but I'm looking for something that will help with awakening after being up for 78 hours then sleeping for 52 hours. Any input is appreciated.
 
ARod2000 said:
I've used seafoam in older carb cars and yes it works well. Does anyone have experience using seafoam as an additive to Methanphetamine? It's not part of the formula I regularly use but I'm looking for something that will help with awakening after being up for 78 hours then sleeping for 52 hours. Any input is appreciated.
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Probably not what you wanna hear, but maybe just go to sleep ... and of-course, not while driving ... ;0z)
 
Been using Seafoam in my bikes for years and very happy with results. Had a 2004 Connie with four clogged carbs. Ran a full can of seafoam in the tank with minimal gas... fumagated the neighborhood with plenty of grey smoke, but really cleaned up the carbs. I put the stuff in all my bikes (but only a few ounces.)
 
Make sure if you use this in old cars to change the fuel filter a few times. It cleans stuff well and that stuff in the tank goes somewhere. Found a clogged filter on my classic car and replaced it with the clear one i can monitor.
 
This is totally beside the point for a car of this vintage...but how can you afford to drive it? You mentioned it was going to be your new daily driver so you can sell the wifey car. I just filled up, it's $4.79 for 87 octane here. My car gets 33MPG and I'm still wishing I had my older TDI that got 50+. :) It sure looks clean no doubt.
 
Soviet said:
This is totally beside the point for a car of this vintage...but how can you afford to drive it? You mentioned it was going to be your new daily driver so you can sell the wifey car. I just filled up, it's $4.79 for 87 octane here. My car gets 33MPG and I'm still wishing I had my older TDI that got 50+. :) It sure looks clean no doubt.
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I did a little cost comparison...

My Chrysler verses any semi modern used car (using my Saab Turbo or wifes Mercedes as examples as I have owned and maintained them for a few years)

Overall cost is low ($3000) verses say $8000 or so for a nice used car in similar shape
Tune up was $62 and i did it myself and was fun ($1100 for my wifes Mercedes)
Tires are not fancy Z rated low profile so are half the cost $220 for the whole car instead of $650 i just paid for the Saab
replaced the alternator on the Saab, $600, did so on the Chrysler, $43 and i installed in myself with three EZ to get to bolts
passenger seat electronic control went out on the Mercedes and was draining the battery, $700, the Chrysler doe snot have this. (simple is divine)
License it once and no DEQ ever, new cars are a couple hundred a month if they do pass and more if they do not
My car is holding value or appreciating while my Saab and Mercedes depreciate. I have yet to loose money in fact i have made $1000 or more on every one i have owned
My car is cool and get looks and thumbs up and fun conversations, the others are just cars.
I do not commute and do not drive major miles per week but do drive some
I can carry 6" aluminum stock for my biz int he truck of the Chrysler :>)

I love these funky old cars and love driving them.

I think as with any modern cars if you keep the record and look at them maintenance if VERY expensive and you can't do it yourself. I like working on my vintage cars, it is fun and EZ. For me all the costs of ownership on newer cars, the depreciation, and the fact that you can't work on it yourself is what makes the gas costs palatable but you do have to remind yourself of this when filling it up.

It has been my daily driver for many months now and I'm loving it. Probably not for everyone and not for super long commutes in traffic every day but for me works out and i really appreciate the old cars.
 
I have been a long time MMO user in all my engines. I have come across an thread in LS1 forums from a guy who did a lot of testing and is a big fan of running 2 stroke marine oil tcw3 rated in 4 stokes at 1oz per 5 gal. I am now using that along with Startron and my 04 F-150 with over 150,000 mile is running like new. (It was starting to idle a little rough) All I am saying is, it worked for me.
 
Motosportz said:
I did a little cost comparison...

My Chrysler verses any semi modern used car (using my Saab Turbo or wifes Mercedes as examples as I have owned and maintained them for a few years)

Overall cost is low ($3000) verses say $8000 or so for a nice used car in similar shape
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Did I read that correctly!?!?!? You got that sweet ride for $3,000!?!?!?! Nice! But personally if I had 3k burning a hole in my pocket I'd take a 1990 Toyota Corolla over the Chrysler. Just kidding! :thumbsup:
 
rocko said:
Did I read that correctly!?!?!? You got that sweet ride for $3,000!?!?!?! Nice! But personally if I had 3k burning a hole in my pocket I'd take a 1990 Toyota Corolla over the Chrysler. Just kidding! :thumbsup:
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Actually paid less than 3k for that Chrysler. Was a cool car but that was so last year :>) I know have a gentleman's mussel car the big block 1964 Rivi. It is a super cool car, really digging it. Smaller Chevelle sized Rivi with a 400 HP BB 425 tire smoker that runs fantastic. Really a cool car. Only paid $1600 for it but needed lots of love to get it to where it is now. Mainy exhaust and hours and hours of cleanup as it sat for a log time and had a inch of mold inside and out. Yucky job I did in one weekend that sucked. Basically put a has-mat suit on and went for it.

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Will probably paint it this summer. Body is very straight with almost no rust. I put new exhaust and all new brakes on it. Just got it rolling 100% recently and love driving it.

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Also still have my 1965 Corvair but that might go down the road this summer. The Rivi BB is more me. :>)

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Cool cars! I have always wanted a classic car but whenever I see them as clean as the Chrysler they are asking 20k or something like that. Where do you find these kind of deals? Craigslist? The old lady down the street?
 
rocko said:
Cool cars! I have always wanted a classic car but whenever I see them as clean as the Chrysler they are asking 20k or something like that. Where do you find these kind of deals? Craigslist? The old lady down the street?
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I am a deal hunter when i want something. The Covair was the first classic car for me in a long time. I bought it on a whim when I chanced on a good deal for it. It got me thinking of how much I liked simple old cars and so i drive them instead of a fancy newer one. Its a choice. My truck / bike hauller has 260K on it :>) I HATE car payments so work up to cool cars by getting one that is a good deal but needs stuff and fixing it up. Used to do it for a living just out of high school before I went back to collage for CAD and engineering.
 
The Rivi is real cool. Those old "nail heads" really put out the torque. Popular engines for conversions because of the narrow width. Back in the day my body man put one in a 57Corvette (of all things.) The car had flairs and at least fifteen coats of black lacquer and entered it in the Portland Roadster Show a couple times. Very fast
My 69 CJ5 came from the factory with a Buick baby nail head v6.
 
Yeah, that 425 nailhead is a big part of the charm in this car, bucketloads of torque. Accelerates hard at 65 on the highway. Fun.
 
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