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No one loves old Fords more than me, but I’m glad we don’t have to deal with this anymore LOL

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Hi Adam,

In my opinion the worse motorboat sound was the old Thermactor Air Pumps.... On the 460 in the Econoline HD there were two of them, mounted on top of each other with a tiny V belt between them. Since they were three bladed vanes the pulses would beat against each other and create a very annoying whirring sound. I was an NVH Technical Expert at the time and was tossed this to solve. Rule of thumb was to separate noise generating devices by 10%, so I had a pulley made that slowed the top pump by 10% and it worked. Now the problem was that the air pumps were an emissions device so the whole darn process of recertifying was required and at that time was very time consuming....Good thing for HD vehicles it was just an engine on a dyno.... Once we got the rescertification...all was well and I received my "attaboy"...

best,
Phil
 

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Hi Adam,

In my opinion the worse motorboat sound was the old Thermactor Air Pumps.... On the 460 in the Econoline HD there were two of them, mounted on top of each other with a tiny V belt between them. Since they were three bladed vanes the pulses would beat against each other and create a very annoying whirring sound. I was an NVH Technical Expert at the time and was tossed this to solve. Rule of thumb was to separate noise generating devices by 10%, so I had a pulley made that slowed the top pump by 10% and it worked. Now the problem was that the air pumps were an emissions device so the whole darn process of recertifying was required and at that time was very time consuming....Good thing for HD vehicles it was just an engine on a dyno.... Once we got the rescertification...all was well and I received my "attaboy"...

best,
Phil
Phil I absolutely love and cherish the things you tell on here. I hope it shows some of these “armchair engineers“ exactly how much thought and effort goes into building these vehicles when they start bitching about this or that and acting like if they were in charge they would’ve “fixed this years ago“ etc. Some folks have no idea.
 

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London Times:

A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England ’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant....The fees for cars ($1.40), for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, the attendant just didn't show up, So zoo management called the city and asked them to send another parking attendant. The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo's own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, or France, or Italy, is a man who'd apparently had a ticket booth installed completely on his own, and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ......

and no one even knows his name!
 

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London Times:

A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England ’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant....The fees for cars ($1.40), for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, the attendant just didn't show up, So zoo management called the city and asked them to send another parking attendant. The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo's own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, or France, or Italy, is a man who'd apparently had a ticket booth installed completely on his own, and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ......

and no one even knows his name!
That's so brilliant, I'm not even mad.
 

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London Times:

A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England ’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant....The fees for cars ($1.40), for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, the attendant just didn't show up, So zoo management called the city and asked them to send another parking attendant. The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo's own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, or France, or Italy, is a man who'd apparently had a ticket booth installed completely on his own, and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ......

and no one even knows his name!

Mr S W Barrett of 35 Westbury Lane
 
 








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