April in Wisconsin
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You gotta learn to be invisible. I wear very dark Rx sunglasses, have a white cane/red tip, smile a lot. They think I'm blind, and flash me, do all sorts of nasty stuff to my liking. Ya just have to learn not to react.
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Well I was working on the 928 this afternoon, car up on the jack stands, me underneath trying to fix a power steering fluid leak [fixed- just needed the jubilee clip I used during the hose refresh to be a bit tighter] and the temperature was 34C - urrgh!
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Åke
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My record is to pull and replace the inlet manifold in one [July] afternoon back around 1999 when the temperature in the shade was around 44C and around 70% RH. As I finished the work, despite being quite fit, I was totally drained. By then the sun had set and I was working in the car port of that particular property. The bonnet was up and I then started to crank the motor to fire it up. It did not pick up and to my horror, I quickly found out why- it nearly did fire up-quite literally- the entire engine bay and part of the car port was cover in fuel- I had forgotten to fit the test cap on the fuel rail!
Nowadays, I do what we do professionally and write a check list of everything I need to check before firing the car up. If I work on the fuel system I always have a hose pipe standing by -pressurised and ready to use and I try to get someone to crank the car whilst I have my head in front of the engine bay looking for any signs of distress. In my new home with a large built in garage, I roll the car onto the driveway before firing up. The coldest I have worked in was in the UK and even that was around freezing point. At minus 34 I reckon my fingers would snap off!
Hoping to fit an a/c unit in my garage shortly!
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Fred, In those days you were a young guy, I do not think I have ever experienced 44C except for in a sauna. I have been in Florida several times and I found high humidity worse than high temperature. Over here no need for AC in the garage/workshop but a good heating system is a must. Years ago when firing up my BMW 635CSi after a long winters rest in a rented garage under a house I experienced something similar as you did. The engine started and I drove it out of the garage and saw the entire floor being covered with fuel, a fuel hose broke off. The house owner who was around became really concerned but I told him to do nothing as the fuel will vaporize in a short time which it did. That was close to a devastated fire.
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