Grommet vs Connector In Power Brake Booster Design

(Though i have a degree in mechanical engineering since 1986 from Romania, it is in Machine Tools and not Automotive Engineering. After i graduated, most of the work i've done was in computer programming though at the beginning related to engineering CAD after which i swicthed to accounting, payroll and medical insurance. Also my level of English when i came in the United States, especially in the technical area was much lower than today, after i started writing on social media. Thus it is only recently when i understood the below described phenomena and also became capable of describe it.)

A rubber grommet is a ring with a groove on the outside that fits in a hole and helps with the passage of a pipe, cable or connector through that hole, preventing the last one touching the edges of the hole. Most common use of grommets, as described in this Wikipedia picture, is for passing cables through holes.

In automotive industry they are also used for passing and sealing of ribbed connectors and holes, mostly in PCV valve or power booster applications. Here is the image of a power booster check valve with two connectors on each side (in and out). It is a one way valve with a spring and seal inside that allows the flow of air in one direction only and it ends with two ribbed connectors, of which one goes into the power booster grommet and the other to the power booster vacuum hose that at the other end is connected to engine manifold or throttle body on the manifold side. The function of this valve is to make sure that vacuum does not escape from the booster or air it's not getting in immediately after the engine stops, ensuring one or two brake cycle in case of engine failure or sudden stop while the vehicle is driven. For the purpose of this discussion it does nothing more than an L shape connector.

A brake power booster is a big cylinder with one or two diaphragms inside that helps with braking by adding extra force to the master cylinder when a smaller brake force is applied on the pedal. The extra force is generated by the suction power of the engine on the admission cycle, which in automotive terms is named manifold vacuum, or the difference of pressure between the inside of the manifold and atmospheric pressure applied on the opposite sides of the diaphragm.

Many don't understand. In combustion engines the air volume necessary for running the engine is small, at least at idle and under no load conditions. Thus, the flow of the air in the engine is restricted by a round shape valve called throttle that turns inside a cylindrical air passage with the same diameter with the throttle called throttle body with the pressing of the "gas" pedal. At idle the throttle is in perpendicular position with the air flow and closing the passage. A small amount of air (by)passes usually through a parallel passage that is also controlled by the computer through a solenoid or actuator, that is open only at idle. On the rotation axis of the throttle there is a potentiometer like sensor (similar with those in older audio devices) that turns with the throttle, thus transmitting to the computer a variable voltage that tells the computer how much the throttle is opened. Because of this severe restriction of the air flow inside the engine, vacuum is created on the intake side of the throttle. This vacuum is available and engineers long time ago figured they could use it for powering different devices and actuators in the vehicle as if would come from a vacuum pump), as the brake power booster.

In a normally running engine, at idle, this vacuum generates a difference of pressure with the atmospheric pressure of or above 22 inches mercury, that is about 11 psi and can go a little higher but obviously not higher than the atmospheric pressure itself that is about 14.7 psi since the difference it's generated by vacuum, or suction, or lack or pressure that can obviously cannot go lower than zero. 11 psi is equivalent with about one third to almost half of the pressure inside a tire that is above 32 psi.|

Here is a picture with a power booster that uses a grommet for passing the connector of a check valve.

Another type of design for solving applying manifold vacuum to the power booster described in the picture below uses instead of a grommet a connector that is part or welded or pressed on the power booster in the same place where the grommet hole is in the grommet solution, connector that is similar to the connector used on the other end of the hose as in both solutions, in which case the check valve is placed somewhere else like inside the booster.

Due to the way it is created, by the reciprocating motion of the pistons inside the cylinders that follows a time dependent sine pattern, engine vacuum has a pulsating nature that is partially smoothened by the volume of (low pressure) air inside the manifold and hoses (there are other pneumatic devices that are also fed with the pressure difference of pressure between inside the manifold and surrounding air that are connected to the manifold side of the throttle body though smaller and less important that also hold a certain volume of the same low pressure air in all the hoses and devices).

In a normally running engine, at idle, vacuum is  about 22 inches, relative or lower than atmospheric pressure. When the gas pedal is slightly pressed and throttle opens a little, around 2000 rpm, the vacuum gets even higher, closer to zero pressure or absolute vacuum or 14.7 psi relative to atmospheric pressure due to increasing need of engine for air because of faster movement of the pistons and the throttle's opening resistance. When the throttle is opened even more, thus allowing more air freely into the manifold the vacuum starts to decrease again.

The more vacuum in the manifold, the more pulsating is the pressure difference due to increasing amplitude of the sine wave due to reciprocating motion of the pistons.

Also. Due to various dynamic forces the engine has a tendency of moving or vibrating on its rubber mounts, mostly following the cycle of pistons' reciprocating movement, but also the rpm. There are certain rpms that make the engine move more or at higher amplitudes than others due to resonance phenomena.

Also, all the hoses, including power booster vacuum hose are not rigid and move around together with the engine having their own moving pattern and resonance with certain rpms.

The grommet in the grommet solution in all different design variations (i've seen so far) have the length and diameter of the groove comparable with the sheet metal and the hole they seal, design that cannot generate a sealing force on the wall of the booster. Thus the sealing is being insured by the difference of pressure between inside and outside of the booster applied on the outer side of the grommet that presses against the booster's wall.

The check valve's connector on the grommet side has a slightly bigger diameter than the hole of the grommet and it is ribbed, and when is inserted into the grommet it causes very hard to predict deformations of both parts which in this case are static but asymmetrical due to the weight of the hose but at least at the beginning of its life and at idle it seals the vacuum or at least partially, up to a certain pressure difference or pulsating amplitude at certain rpms.

Thus there are two sealing surfaces regarding the grommet. One is between outer rim of the groove and the sheet metal around the hole and one is between the hole and the connector.

As i said the vacuum hose has its own weight. This weight is applied on the grommet side as well but with dynamic variations following the different relative motions between the grommet and the hose, generating variable forces that are impossible or very hard to predict that are in the end applied onto and sustained by the grommet, causing it to slightly change shape many times a second, or causing dynamic deformations, following the relative motion of the engine and the hose. Those changes of shape are asymmetrical due to direction of the variable force being applied on the grommet and very hard or impossible to predict, in the end changing the sealing surface, in a dynamic way and increasing it on one side and decreasing on the other.

In conclusion, both the pulsating nature of the engine manifold vacuum and the forces generated by the hose moved by the engine moving on the mounts deform the grommet dynamically, combined can change the sealing areas and pressures on the sealing surfaces of the grommet, possibly leading to small, pulsating leaks that might appear only on certain rpms and engine loads.

The power boosters are oftenly painted on the outside to check corrosion. The sealing surface between the grommet and the power booster is also painted. Paint thickness can be irregular causing unpredictable variations on the final shape and smoothness of the sealing surface and can also degrade in time or even be peeled or chipped due to age causing irregularities to grow in time and sealing to decrease, thus increasing  the pulsating vacuum leak.

Peeled, eroded paint an a small indentation at the power booster grommet hole

The grommet solution compared to welded connector solution brings several more areas than need to be sealed in the vacuum transmission assembly between throttle body and booster, that is throttle body connector-hose, hose-check valve, check valve-grommet and grommet-power booster.

Grommets are made of rubber. Rubber is a material that often has irregularities but also changes properties in time due to aging. Constant pressure like from the ribs of the connector can cause grooves inside the hole of the grommet thus in time decreasing sealing capacity on that side. Also rubber looses elasticity with age thus the initial installation pressure and sealing capacity between grommet and check valve connector and capacity of following the irregularities on the painted area.

The welded connector design is much simpler, and cost comparable solution, it follows the solution on the other side of the hose, has less sealing surfaces and much less like to cause vacuum leaks.

Uncontrollable vacuum leaks in the end translates by air flowing in the engine in uncontrollable ways, bypassing the throttle body and throttle.

Small intermittent vacuum leaks on carburrated engine can cause trouble by changing in unpredictable ways the fuel/air ratio.  The computer responds promptly by the reading of the oxygen sensors, thus adding more fuel.

But on injected engines even small vacuum leaks are critical because in injected engines fuel/air mixture is adjusted by a computer based on reading from one or more oxygen sensor inside the exhaust system, among others. The more oxygen the sensors read due to a vacuum leak or air escaping uncontrollably into the manifold, the more fuel it adds. Also air/fuel ratio is adjusted by the computer using readings from other sensors, including throttle positioning sensor and pressure sensors inside the manifold and intake hose. Air flowing into the manifold due to unpredictable, intermittent leaks translates into reading in the sensors than cause the engine running erratically and mainly increasing fuel consumption with all its consequences, like more fuel burning with the extra air inside the exhaust and catalytic converter, shortening the life of the catalytic converter and overheating other components of the vehicle, like floor, transmission and clutch. Extra fuel consumption also translates in more fuel being used, extra cost, pollution, etc.

The following pictures are done with my old check valve and hose and a new original grommet.

All the deformations that remain permanent due to aging of the grommet, abrasion of the paint, inevitably lead in time to more important vacuum leaks that can lead to decreasing braking capacity, but that is not obvious since it occurs very gradually and the driver gets used to. Though vacuum is present in the booster, it is diminished due to vacuum leaks that appear only in this design up to a point when the computer finally sets an error that usually indicates a lean condition (too much air in the air/fuel mixture), because through its oxygen sensors it actually measure the amount of oxygen left after the burning cycle inside the cylinder that is increased in case of vacuum leaks or more air bypassing the throttle thus unaccounted for by the TPS sensor inside the intake manifold. But when usually that happens that engine has been functioning abnormally for too long and other components have been damaged by overheating. Also the vacuum leaks even at the beginning of the life of this vehicle that are due to the grommet solution are intermittent, and the computer is programmed to put a check engine light only after a contentious malfunctioning or a high reading on one of the oxygen sensors of a certain period of time, cycles and events, that only happens when the vacuum leak grows bigger and/or gets permanent.

All these consequences can be averted if the pressed or welded connector solution is used instead of the grommet one.

It is hard for me to estimate the amount of fuel being used by multiplying this type of failure due to a faulty design to the the number of vehicles that still use it, but i estimate it in the enormous area.

Catch Can III

PCV line is a pipe with a valve that allows blowby gas from a combustion engine to go in the intake manifold and be burnt in the engine instead of letting it in the air as before PCV was invented.

Blowby gas is formed by air, exhaust, unburnt fuel, oil vapor and water vapor. Intention is to burn it in the engine by injecting it in the intake manifold instead of letting in the air and stink.

However, some of it and especially the oil vapor part being directed by PCV in the intake in certain conditions condensates in the intake manifold, and end up on valves and/or even on spark plugs.

Some of the newer cars with transversal engines have the intake manifold installed in front of the engine, right after the radiator and under engine's top level. In these air cools the intake (before the engine and radiator gets hot) more like for the intakes installed the other way around or "after" or "behind" the engine from the point of few of direction of air flowing under the hood.

Because these intakes are colder oil condensates in these more than inside the older types installed "behind" the engine.

Catch cans are empty cans with two connectors that allow some of the liquid fractions of the blowby gas to condensates in there before it reaches the intake. But there is a whole science behind those too and i (and many others) where not aware of.

Since catch cans get hot pretty quickly (depending on where the're installed) and are small in volume compared to the intake, they won't allow condensation of all the oil (oil is the most important cause it does not evaporate once it's in the intake or pools at the very bottom of it).

So what else allows condensation besides lower temperature? A drop on pressure does the same trick. (exactly like for the weather). So you have to add an element in the catch can which will drop a bit the pressure of the gas forcing the oil to condensates. (Like mountains in the direction of air flow, which allow clouds formations after air passing them).

Then you have to take care of the condensated oil and make sure it won't "shortcut" through the other connector by sticking something like a piece of metal between those.

The cheap can (25 bucks) i installed does not have such element. Or it has an empty one with holes at one end which are not enough. But i figured i might be able to fill that empty element with wires or washers (some use a kitchen metal sponge) to allow some increased resistance and create a pressure drop. But it's tricky cause pressure drop always restricts the flow.

So i went to Lowes and bought some braided picture hanging wire but also some small washers i will try to fill the empty separator in my cheap can. (A whole scene in there, with a giant cashier, maybe 8' tall and a Japanese woman half his height with red makeup on her face. He even said to her: Your nose is in my butt, could had been an allusion cause there was a very relaxing song earlier at the speakers and i was very... relaxed. It was done with my involuntary participation but the song was put by them. So she appeared red in her face next to the giant, magically, and he said that at that very moment).

Most advanced catch cans on the market are by far made by Mishimoto. Until last year they used a 50 microns sintered bronze element which to my opinion poses to much flow resistance. Still selling it for 100 bucks on Amazon, it had been copied by others already and it is available for under 20 (don't know about the quality though).

That was probably their opinion too cause last year they came with a new design, (what a coincidence, when i started to play around with those) and they call it "high flow catch can" but they won't say what material the separator or flow resistive element is made of. Some sort of oil resistant plastic (nobody other then them would dare to use plastic cause there is the danger of breaking and flowing... into the engine). Probably a protection from being copied again. That one is over 200 bucks.



A description of the older type here:

https://www.mishimoto.com/engineering/2016/01/blow-by-101-what-is-blow-by/

I suddenly figured out that the piece of sheet metal i put in the catch can does not allow expansion of the gas though condensation, lowering  the volume by 1/3. I think it worked better without. I installed picture hanging breaded wire inside the expansion element and now it's ready to go. But it's too late, i will install it on car tomorrow. I put back the original PCV line.

But it is the first time today i realized it's not so simple. The catch can i have has too stages expanding element i now filled with packed wire. Just trying.

Catch Can

Due to normal wearing of cars' engines after several tens of thousands miles hot gases from cylinder start to escape by the ring of the pistons inside the engine or on the other side of the pistons. Since the engine is closed by seals and gaskets, pressure starts to build up. Depending on how much the engine is worn, more ore less gas have to be released in order to obtain maximum efficiency. Also. Exhaust gases may have water and gasoline in them. Water would emulsify the oil and gasoline would thin it.

However those are exhaust gases and unburned fuel, you can't simply let them escape in the air. Most manufacturers choose an option design called PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation). It's a very simple idea. When pressure builds up (certain rpms and engine output) a valve opens (PCV valve) and lets those gases back into the intake manifold. The parameters of the process are more complicated, cause manifold vacuum that varies with the rpm and output. A simple valve is not the best solution but this is what we got on most cars.

PCV valve is usually placed on the valve cover in the highest point to avoid oil that splashes to escape into the circuit and into the intake with the gases. However that is an ideal that never happens.

Every time when i replaced a PCV valve i saw it had oil in it. And sometimes oil cooks in there and stuck the ball and spring of the valve either open or closed, again decreasing engine efficiency. But i never had a major problem with it until i owned a Hyundai.

Hyundais are different from other cars at least by two accounts. Valve cover is minimalistically low. Main design engineer there who worked at Daimler chose to copy an improvement from Daimler which they also took from diesel engines. The so called swirl flaps. There are two rows of butterfly like valves inside the manifold that open and close according to vacuum (first row) and actuated by computer (second). Those are installed in there to create turbulence and again get you a few percent of more gas mileage.

Now comes the interesting part.

I recently installed a modified filter for water to catch the oil from PCV line. The filter was transparent and i could see inside it's not only oil coming on PCV line. Oil is emulsified by the water present in exhaust. When that emulsion ends in the intake somehow interferes with the functioning of the first row of flaps, those actuated by vacuum. It changes the weight of the flaps on one end and they start oscillating, creating variations in engine's functioning which in the end translate in vibration. Vibration that surpasses the design performance of the exhaust manifold sealing gasket and starting intermittent exhaust leaks. Again vibration transmits to the hood that intermittently opens and let small amounts of exhaust pass by the seal and into the cabin fan intake. Shall i say more?

The filter i installed after a few improvements catches most of that emulsion however it restricts the flow of gasses at certain rpms decreasing efficiency.

The problem is known to car enthusiasts from race cars. There are what they call oil catch cans that costs up to hundreds of dollars. I once found a cheap one on Amazon made of blue anodized aluminum, looking nice and shiny, and... one quart capacity (hard to find a place under the hoos).

The lead's sealing gasket was made of cardboard and looked weak and i didn't want to take the chance for parts of that gasket to get into the intake so i sent it back. Drop of efficiency with installed filter is more severe in town and generally when accelerating when pressure builds up inside engine. I finally decided to build my own catch can. First i went to NAPA to buy some connectors. Had no idea what to attach them to. The idea was to go later to Home Depot or Lowes an buy anything that looked close to a can and had a detachable lead (you need a detachable lead because you have to screw the connectors). However, conveniently next to the connector there was what they call a "brake bleeder".

Don't know, in auto mechanics slang, for some reason they call purging of the brake fluid "bleeding". At Les Schwab they even have the so called "power bleeder" LOL. It's some sort of round reservoir with several gallons of brake fluid in it where at one end you attach a hose with compressed air and the other all sorts of adapters that go in the place of master cylinder reservoir. Pressurized brake fluid would go into the reservoir. On cars at each wheels brake caliper and pistons have a small screws with halls call again... "bleeder". You unscrew those a bit and usually can have someone press on the pedal to "bleed" the system then screw them back when the pedal goes up. With the power bleeder though, one person can do it. But it's very wasteful. The caps would not fit really well on top of master cylinders and much fluid is lost on the floor. However. You could purge the whole brake fluid from lines and reservoir and cylinder and replace it with new one.

The brake bleeder from NAPA works in the opposite way. You are supposed to attach a vacuum hose (supposed you have a vacuum pump) at one end and connect it to the bleeders at the wheels. Or just attach it and use it to just collect the fluid. While pumping on the pedal fluid would not go on the floor but in the can and air would go out on the other connector. Why it was there at NAPA next to the air connectors? Did they know i was looking for something just like it?

Anyways. It has a tight sealed lead, two connectors and it seemed to fit the purpose. However when i came home and cut those connectors which where too small and again would obstruct the PCV flow, i realized it was all made of cheaper plastic, not nylon as i thought. There is a serious chance it would melt at summer. While working at it was thinking of gluing those connectors that i almost self thread in the very tight holes i made in place of built in connectors, an idea came to me. Why not making the whole thing out of a... tin can. Drill the holes, force self thread the connectors, use JB weld to seal them and voila. Only trouble would be i would not be able to see inside and empty the can. Don't know yet.

September 7

1:38 Just finished fixing my blog. Figured it after hours of searching on forums, had no idea that a bad (disparraged) div tag could mess the home page of my blog (widget moved to bottom of page), up to 5 posts later. No conspiracy, no nothing.

Thinking how i've been metsubushed (again) tonight.

There use to come real Latino guys at Spirit Mountain. Tonight we ran there for a couple of hours (mpg on the truck was 26, mixed, but still has some bad gas in the tank, again mixed), place was pretty empty, machines were pretty tight and we were pretty tired and all i could see was Japanese Chicaons playing there scenes around us. On cameras, with masks and learned gestures is pretty hard to tell i guess. On my way back, i think it was on this point i saw a sweeping car on the right. Probably taking advantage of the direction of the wind. I saw from a distance it because it was yellow flashing in the night. Though i shut the fan, the dust raised settled on the car and minutes later after we passed through that stinking wooded area (stinks like a dead animal, always a fresh one?) i started the fan again. Throat, esophagus, stomach and now intestinal pain. It's fine silica sharp dust scrapped by the wire brush of the sweeper combined with that bacteria that does it. Face burning.

Question. Why my mpg on the truck when new was 23? Until i first (and unfortunatley last) replaced the fuel filter, i think before year 2000, Cindy was still manager at Sussex, when it went 27 until i went for 3 months in Romania in 2004 and when i got back it went to 20 or something.

2:02 Working from home for the TV presenters, even politicians all around the world means they get to stay most of the time near their studios in Hungary, right? Is Dave Salesky presenting the weather from Portland?

BTW. 土 What did i say about all tennis matches being fixed, like all matches in all sports?

10:53 Un fel de bilanț al lui Drulă. Așa cum ne-am dori, periodic, de la toți miniștrii, sau cel puțin la venire și la plecare, însă cu sume numai derizorii și acelea de "bani europeni" (probabil primim înapoi mai puțin decât cele 10 miliarde de lei anual cu care contribuim la bugetul european, cine să ne spună, Ministrul de Finanțe nu știe care este salariul minim).

Multe din proiecte nu sunt ale lui, nu sunt ale predecesorului lui, ci ale predecesorilor predecesorilor lui, de decenii.

Din bilanțul la mișto lipsește bineînțeles suma cheltuită din bugetul nostru de stat indigen anul acesta, "grosul" "activității" lui, care a fost raportată (scăpată sub formă de procent, 80%) de Cîțu pe primele 6 luni, în valoare de aproximativ 2 miliarde de euro, din cei 6 (30 miliarde de lei) prevăzuți la buget pe tot anul.

Pleacă Drulă în pusta lui, vine înapoi alt ministru, alt guvern, pe următoarele miliarde până la sfârșitul anului, la anul, că și acela este un an cu bugetul lui, cu propria "perioadă de grație" în care nu spun nimic și cu iată, "perioada de demisie" în care spun foarte puțin și scandaluri multe și mărunte între. Nu vi se pare că toate aceste schimbări de guvern la 1 an (sau la un buget) din 90 încoace sunt de fapt trageri de timp perene, organizate minuțios?

11:33 Though should not attach a bracket to an exhaust stud!

I took this picture back in 2007. To show what i thought it was a leak on the thermostat housing. Three mechanics replaced that part (which comes with the long black pipe that goes to the core heater attached to it) three times . I was still messed up after the work accident in 1996 (started to come back a bit a few years ago) but the mechanics knew. The leak is actually at the coolant temperature sensor, also attached to that housing. Fixed it Sunday with a quart of a turn of the sensor. However in the picture you can see a bit of the last stud of the exhaust manifold which is kinda oily and shiny, in the forque of a bracket (wasn't even a hole, but a forque, the nut touching only half of its surface). Also an oil leak from the PCV hole (it is not a valve, but a hole in the cover where a rubber hose goes into and then in the intake box before the throttle (PCV through vacuum throttle i guess). That stud looks like that because there is a bracket (by design) attached to it. Truck has been designed by GM in cooperation with ISUZU.

Torque spec for the nut on that stud is 10 ft lbs and that torque doesn't even closes full contact between the bracket which is kinda irregular sheet metal that comes at a bit of an angle and the manifold. The bracket installed in between the nut and the manifold holds the pipe of the oil gauge which is long and heavy and oscillates and opens and closes intermittently an exhaust leak. The seal of the hood was literally twisted and permanently deformed by the heat. I bought one from the junkyard and installed, but didn't realize the importance of adding some adhesive at the ends. The result is i've been breathing exhaust in that truck for decades.

Yes the Hyundai brought some life in me. Because of many luxury features, look and performance i became interested and figured many things, with my today's partly restored brain and i applied back those things finally fixing the truck, after 23 years.

Yesterday i modified the "design" that is i put the nut directly on the manifold, the bracket with another nut after it. Wheel click on a picture for best view

It still runs!

While taking the last picture, the mail lady who just finished the boxes came @ with her 70s nostalgic van to hand me a delivery. I noticed a heavy knock at the engine, the rusted wheels and exhaust surrounding the whole van (she was also kinda dizzy, couldn't scan my item easily), also looking kinda red in her face.

Among other things, in the mail was a letter from US Bank saying it increased APR from 7 to 14 for a balance transfer that was done just a month ago, based on their own offer. What could have changed in our credit history in one month? We still have a valid offer from US Bank we planned to use. Wondering if that is still valid. I suspect is because of what i just said over the weekend about frugal Warren Buffet.

Which means they also shortcuted the normal postal route. Wouldn't be the first time when i suspect this. On a hunch, searching to see who is their CEO cause i know by now (mathematical induction, everybody i searched so for i found) all US financial institution are controlled remotely by some AI software and accountants from Hungary and Japan, with actors as CEOs. Thing is how many i have them still in my lists until i exhaust those and how many will remain unknown.

BTW David, "son of Warren" was acting, for years as a salesperson at the Liquor Store at Zupan Market in Lake Oswego, and one day "Warren" himself, in shorts, was there when i went to buy liquor.

7:11 I was Lucky enough to find Cecere, CEO of US Bank Corporation. I had a checking account with US Bank since September 1995, loocking forward to close it.

But right now i got bigger problems to worry about. When i bought this truck back in 98 i wasn't paying much attention. Like right now, i had bigger problems to worry. I was going to my job as software engineer at Quadramed, in a building near Safeway in a neighborhood i believe called Ralleigh Hills, without knowing that my manager was Andy Carson, one of my colleagues Jeff Gianolla, possibly Shatner, Nimoy, others. Was trying really hard to catch up with Windows programming (only did DOS in my time in Romania), object oriented, version control, remote programming, all new to me. Though i have finished my first project, for a hospital in Corvallis, my stomach pains which now i believe was caused by exhaust, coolant leak, dust and sciatica, made me quit.

We've been in a roll over with our 89 Escort GT, driven by Angela (yes she was driving stick back then but after 22 years of driving automatic, she forgot), one mile to our destination near Cape Meares at Tillamook Bay. So i bought this truck because i liked trucks since i drove them when i was working at Les Schwab, it was a lease first, the truck had a number of problems, should i have ended the lease and buy another one, among those was pulling right really hard, angles on front wheels were all screwed up, suspension was really stiff but the clutch. It was so stiff, Angela could not depress it. In years it brought me some bad sciatic problems, but i was never so sure until now when i started to drive it again. At the third clutch, Steve put one with more human springs, but somehow these days i find it stiff again. After driving the truck in a number of trips, today i could barely walk, i mean, i can walk if i start but if i turn around, there is this sharp pain in my right hip. But it's not in the hip, if i press it with my hand. It's in the sciatic nerves. Also since 2007 had some sort of paralysis which lead to other kinda of problems. And Angela can't drive it.

7:44 Angela read that paper again. It does not affect promotional offers. However our mistake lead to a good thing, it motivated me to find Cicero.

Talking about Cicero.

10:36

10:50

Last of the Hyundai

April 2018. We bid on a car at Copart. Like IAA, it's a place where insurance companies sell the totaled cars after they pay their customers the market value. They usually specify the areas where the car was damaged. This one has been listed as  "minor scratches and damages". We saw the car prior at the auction lot, together with one hundred others. Did not realize the car was actually in an accident, partially fixed and put back in auction and sold again at a higher price. I paid a total of 45 hundred dollars, including Copart fees.

When i went and picked it at the auction site, the car was driveable, but was making a weird noise at the engine. The mud cover on the right front was damaged, the fender was not holding in place, battery was almost dead and 5 years old. Serpentine belt was bent by a foreign object that gut between belt and pulleys at the time of the accident. When i got home i found in the trunk the broken windshield washer reservoir and the right headlight. Car was painted on the right side, with the right door and fender damaged. It was unclear if the right door airbag was still functional, though no dashboard light was on.

They were some sort of crystals on the windshield and hood, maybe from car being driven behind a de-icer that did not go away after a year or something, impairing visibility. Nr.1 and 2 cylinders had spark plug loose (0 torque) and there was oil in the cylinders and on the threads and inside the spark plug wheels. The shoulder at the bottom of the spark plug wheels  where the washers of the spark plugs seal sit was damaged and it was impossible to seal the spark plug when torquing it. Exhaust was leaking by the spark plugs in the engine compartment. Hood was bent (never fixed) and was not touching the seal with exhaust coming through the air intake grill in the cabin. There was oil in the the cylinders and on the spark plug threads.

3 years of struggle followed, with me working at the cars for hours, several days a week.

First went to Beaverton Hyundai and bought a battery and had it installed. Bought there a serpentine belt and installed it. Bought on Amazon a 6 mm diameter camera (about 20 bucks) to look inside the cylinders where i did not see piston slap damage but oil.

I tried to wipe the spark plug threads with balls of cotton soaked in alcohol, but they were not holding.

 
Designed and build in a machine shop a tool to resurface the shoulders of the spark plug holes. Finally torqued the spark plugs. Ordered a mud cover for right front on ebay and installed it. Ordered a windshield washer reservoir and installed it. Straightened the hood by stepping on it while hood semi-open, several times over the years. Did not realize the plastic grill was still leaking in several places by design, until about a week before the accident. Over 3 years i drove the car from 35 k to almost 100, while breathing exhaust inside the cabin, though less and less.

Did not realize the battery connectors could not be tightened enough, and were constantly getting loose, again by design, with battery never fully charging, until i bought a plug in USB charger with a digital voltmeter and because of needing jump starts several times after exhausting the battery with radio and fan in parking lots i also bought a 40 dollars 10000 mah li-ion smart jump starter on Amazon.

There was foam in the oil indicating sticky valves and squishy lifters. Tried to use some valve cleaner for the noise and injector cleaner additive inside the tank. As that wasn't working, i tried to clean the throttle body when i saw the inside of the composite intake manifold, which was installed in front of the compartment, or the left side of the engine, which was oily.

I tried and used a 3/8 piece of vinyl tube connected to a vacuum cleaner and pulled from the intake ounces of oil. It was  then when i realized that oil from the PCV was condensing inside the cold manifold that was installed in front of the engine compartment and pooling at the bottom of the intake which was installed upside down, by design, with the bottom bellow the runners, unlike any car i seen before. From there, oil was trickling up the runners, burning on valves and making them sticky, especially at number one cylinder. More oil was getting inside the cylinder, lubricating the piston rings unevenly, contaminating spark plugs, etc..

I pulled the injectors and tried to clean them applying voltage and some solvent from a spray can. Can had twice the pressure of the fuel and blew the injectors microfilters. I had to buy new injectors from dealer, for 400 bucks.

Over the years, i designed and installed several versions of catch cans on the PCV circuit, trying to minimize the amount of oil that gets in the intake which i was vacuuming "regularly" with a device i designed myself, made of a piece of tubing and a mat pump. With the last version of the catch can i could not vacuum oil from the intake anymore, there was none left.

A few months ago i bought an Exide battery and installed it and the noise was gone for a few hours. That was until the nuts at the connectors got loose again. Weeks before the accident i degreased the connectors together with the 8 bolts and nuts that were around the battery connectors and sealed the nuts on top with some adhesive. The voltage on the plug in charger with digital voltmeter was finally showing 14.3 volts while driving, 14.1 while idling. In the day of the accident, the noise was almost gone.

The noise was coming from the nr.1 cylinder or the furthest on the fuel rail, where fuel had not enough pressure because of low voltage at the fuel pump and injector was dripping,  causing uneven washing of the cylinder, with probably some slap while the engine cold, and not enough fuel washing the oil condensed on runner and trickling on valve, which was not getting washed enough because of low voltage at the fuel pump, making the valve stick and the lifer squish oil which was foamy. One cylinder working less than others meant vibration at the engine which meant poor driveability at high speed.

When i did rear brakes, a couple of years ago, i saw the indicators for pad wearing were bent and acting like springs, pushing the pads on the rotor, diminishing mileage.

Over the years, the car was doing an average of 35 mpg on the freeway and @20 in stop and go traffic. The car was quite comfortable to drive, due to soft suspension and many options, including working AC, bluetooth and satellite radio (which we did not subscribe for). In the days prior to the accident it was in its best shape ever, with smooth running engine, good driveability and almost no noise.

On August 19 Angela told me on the phone she had a flat. On the same tire there was another, several months ago when i got it fixed at Les Schwab in Lake Oswego. When she got home, i found low pressure in right rear, enough to trigger the sensor, put the tire in the tub full of water and didn't see any bubbles. I took the tire, for precaution, at the same Les Schwab shop in Lake Oswego.

There i spoke to a guy who resembled the current Finance Minister of Romania. Of course i didn't realize right away. Inside there was this Hungarian opera singer who acted like Phil Wick, Les Schwab's CEO after the death of Les Schwab.

The Romanian guy called me inside the shop which didn't happen in a long time, i went reluctantly after he called me a couple of times and showed me a tire similar to mine that had a damaged rim for about 1/6 length of the whole rim. He told me if it was from a previous installation which was in the same shop and asked me if wanted a new tire, i asked him if he had Michelin, the brand that was originally on car when i got it, he said no, if he can get it by tomorrow, he said we should talk in the morning, he had the number on my record, he then put the tire back on the wheel, inflated it and the wheel in the trunk. He insisted to put it there himself. This car doesn't come with a spare, though it has the space for it in the trunk. I found one at the junkyard, from a Ford that fitted. Though spare was new, the car was not driving the same as with the original wheel, especially at high speeds on the freeway. In the same evening i re-ordered a couple of tires similar to those in front which i changed more than a year ago, similar to the original ones. They were scheduled to arrive Monday, however they came Saturday morning or the day after the accident.

Friday evening i drove to Ilany, after both of us changed our mind, first Angela, then me, not to go that evening. 40 miles one way, had some difficulty driving, the car was drifting a bit, they were lots of drivers with weird LPN like KGB harassing us, as usually in the last few years. So i had to go with the speed limit.

In that day when she came from work she said she saw a light on the dashboard, it was the light showing something wrong with the airbags.

At midnight 20/21 i was coming back doing 60 in a 60 area on cruise control (which is kinda slow i recon). I was in the middle lane, because i was close to the interstate bridge where i don't want to drive on side lanes. Suddenly i noticed i was surrounded by a group of cars, left, right and behind. I saw in the mirror the lights from behind approaching at high speed, probably 20 over the speed limit. I could not change lanes, though the cars left and especially right might have slowed down in that moment, living me alone. Thing is i can't remember, because it all happened very fast. All i know is in my mind i had few options except to tell Angela to brace for impact and probably i accelerated in the last few seconds, reducing the difference in speed between the vehicles. For one second i thought he gave up then he accelerated too and i felt the impact. I was pushed forward at higher speed while all the other cars in the group fell behind. When i realized i still had control of the car i looked, the right lane was free, i veered right, stopped on the shoulder and tried to see his LPN. However when he passed he was surrounded by the other cars. All i could see was the tail of a huge white Ford pickup with the letters 4x4 on the tail. I took a picture of the car which was pretty damaged but still driveable (in the end, after talking to the cops who called a towing company who didn't want to go that far, calling our own towing that wasn't calling back, i drove the 22 miles from there to home, on right lane, and i had to pull over at least one time because of a truck that was coming again threatening from the rear).

The Washington State police came within 5 minutes. The cop looked bored and interested in a car that zoomed at high speed. He left the front lights on onto my car and i could not see his face. He said i should not drive the car back home cause it could not take another hit like that, which in the end almost happened. However, i do remember he looked like this guy.

He then agreed to drive before me (while another Police SUV came from behind, following me) and pilot me to a safe place. He exited the freeway than choose a street with poor illumination, near a property called G&G in the Minnehaha neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington, 2 miles away from Columbia river and Oregon.

There he asked me to write on a form called SUSPECT/WITNESS statement what happened and sign it. Then he asked me this question. What happened right after the impact? Because only those who survived such impact know what happens. The speed of your vehicle increases and that of the vehicles who hit you decreases. I think it was a test question. However, he did not write on the report "hit and run" which could have triggered a call for potential witnesses in the media.

Then he called their contracted towing company which came but refused to tow us "because of the distance". So i called the insurance, but the menus where such designed i had to file the claim first which meant an almost one hour conversation with the insurance claims rep. The cop left, the towing left and we were all alone on the dark street. I had to pee in a bottle i had in the thank that was crushed by the accident. The towing was not coming, i tried to call insurance again, got lost in menus and then i decided to drive back home. As i got on the freeway at around 2 AM, towing called saying they are within 10 minutes distance.

to be continued

Focus On Me

After the landscape guys came in Friday they blew some mulch in and partially covered one of the vents of the basement, the one i just cleaned the night before. The nearest to the exhaust pipes from driers where probably there's a broken one. I noticed in the last couple of days no new mole mounds in the yard, don't know about dog poo but it doesn't look like it smells.

Yesterday i vacuumed the apartment. Angela bought Fabreeze bags at Walmart (Bissel nr.7). However the're not as good as Arm and Hammer. Some dust went past them. I vacuum about every month or so, and when i do it it stinks in here about 24 hours. The new Winix filter i bought online from Home Depot has an air quality sensor. But what i call "the after vacuum stink" is not even showing on that one.

The guy with the blue Dodge, after more than two months break started to make the terrible noise again within last two days. Yesterday he started it and went for short trips more than 5 times, including after midnight. I think it stopped the day when i posted the picture of Ariana Grande's ex boyfriend saying he looked like him, the guy with the blue Dodge pickup.

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After the old man upstairs moved in early September i haven't been using his parking spot next to ours. However other people started to use it and random cars where being parked next to ours.

So i decided to better use it myself. It didn't seem right for me to park it elsewhere and occupy a much sought for visitor's spot while others to use this one.

Two days ago a team of three maintenance techs went upstairs for about 10 minutes. It seem they didn't have a place to park their cart.

Yesterday they came again and dusted the garages next to our building. Something i've done once about 2 years ago. There was so much dust, back then it looked like they haven't been dusted for many years. Again they parked next to my truck, in the alley. In three years i haven't seen them dusting any of the building except once. I dusted this building three times only this year.

Today, after using that spot for about a month this morning i found a warning label on my truck's right door's window saying to move it or it will be towed.

I think the Dodge noise stopped after i posted this resemblance she showed herself here walking a dog, i saw here when i took out the garbage.

https://similarities-asemanari.blogspot.com/2018/10/ariana-grande-szilagyi-dorottya.html

I think after what i posted in the last few days the're trying to move focus on myself.

Last time i saw a warning sign on my truck was in the evening of July 4th, when i came back from a trip in California. I came back a day earlier than estimated time because i drove almost 1000 miles in two days. The truck had a slashed tire and was to be towed the next day. A week later, after i put new tires on it, another one slashed. This time the drive of the towing truck looked like that guy from Patriot Prayer, Joey Gibson.

Had big problems with the new car. Oil was getting in the intake manifold through PCV circuit interfering with the swirl flaps, new efficiency additions taken from diesel engines. Oscillating swirl flaps meant engine vibrating, temporary exhaust leaks.

Got the car from an auction, Copart. It was sold under the category of "small dents and scrathces". However it was sold the second time. The car has been in a wreck, somebody bought it, partially fixed it and and sold it back in a different category. When i got at home i saw the engine was vibrating (because of oil in the manifold), there was a broken headlight and windshield reservoir in the trunk, car was painted on the right side including the door. Hood was slightly bent and out of alignment and was not making contact with the seal, exhaust getting in the cabin. Radiator's coolant cap was loose and leaking coolant, there was some sort of salt from the road crystallized on the windshield, etc.. https://www.copart.com/lot/29697838/?eid=email_G2US_mktg_transactional_BT_US_1007_Buyer_Seller_Counters_Rec



A few weeks ago i found a lot of oil in the filter in installed but after i changed oil i think it stopped. Last time at Jiffy Lube on 99 in Tigard they put by mistake 5W30 instead of 5W20 as recommended. Before that at dealerships in Beaverton and Salt Lake City they overfilled it and that caused small amounts of oil to flow through PCV valve. Every time i was getting in tire pressure was changed, including during the trips.

Exhaust and coolant in the cabin, poor driveability, all where potentially safety problems, and i drove it like that more than 5000 miles in two trips across many states in the west.

One of the guys of the maintenance team, the one who speeding with his cart in the parking lot disappeared after i posted this https://similarities-asemanari.blogspot.com/2018/11/radu-almasan-laszlo-barnak.html, and after i thought he just might have looked like him.

I think i've identified some of the others, as being some of the team of Christa Jakobson, ex-Chris Jacobson, ex Chris Brooks (not the famous athlete), a ninja instructor,  her(himself) acting as the handy-woman (middle of the picture). They seem not to be present here all the time. One of the guys disappeared after i posted what i thought to be his picture, he's got his own ninja school somewhere but i forgot his name now but he showed back about a week ago.

In this happy ninja group picture he might be the one on the lower left.


Just remembered now. This ninja dude from Christa's team looks exactly like Matt Bennett. Beware ninja use all kinda tricks with modified teeth.  (All current fighting technics in modern Japanese martial arts derive from ninjutsu which is at least 900 years old, however ninjutsu is much more than this and includes acting, other performing art, person substituting, disguising, infiltrating, mastering psychology, etc..)

Today as i was writing this post somebody went upstairs and starting making noises. That reminds me of the month from hell that started several weeks after the old man moved from upstairs, when they took out all the old appliances fainted, fixed cabinets etc.. for at least 8 hours a day in the morning. They were times when i simply had to leave because of the noise, smell, etc.. Angela just looked online ans saw the add for the apartment was taken out which means probably somebody is moving in and that explains the warning label on my truck. At least there was no squeaking noises upstairs for the last three months but that is about to change.

The Story of the Clamp

So far i discovered 4 major weaknesses at my 2013 Hyundai Elantra.

1st. Electronic commanded throttle is vulnerable to dirt (dust + oil). When dirt gets in the bearings of the throttle it changes their behavior. Don't know if anybody every tried. The suction power of the throttle is so great it will pull your hand inside if you try to cover it with your palm while the engine is idling. There is enough force on those two little bearings to create important friction resistance in the bearings if dirt gets in there that would interfere with the usually weak step motors that drives the throttle. The step motor thus may skip steps unaccounted by the computer, or there is a feedback sensor that signals a position that can not be achieved between two steps as prescribed, or in other words, running out of predicted positions. Computer tries to correct that and cannot and that would create an oscillation of the throttle together with an oscillation of the engine that could lead to serious driveability problems at high speed. A little WD40 seemed to cure the problem, for now.
2nd. The top of the radiator with the filler neck is made of composite materials. The radiator cap is too weak and the two threading flaps bend especially if you are careless when you take it out to look at the level and coolant starts leaking. One threading flap is visible in this image appearing closest to viewer. I did not have problems since i sprang those back last summer. However at Jiffy Lube they took the cap to check the level and filled the reservoir. It smells like coolant every time i pop the hood ever since. Also people start coughing in the lot in the very second i pop the hood, but that is another problem, them working on creating false perceptions for those who listen to live streaming sound from cell phones.

3rd. The intake manifold is installed by design the other way around as in the old vehicles. That is under the engine head and in front of the engine. Condensed oil from blow by gases or simply leaking through PCV valve pools at the bottom of the intake. From there, during certain engine stages it starts trickling upwards through the runners in sudden, larger amounts than if it was like in older types, where it flows at more constant amounts contaminating the valves, valve rings and spark plugs.

4th. The intake manifold is made of composite materials instead of metal. The PVC port of the intake is 5/8 inch in diameter. There is no clamp good enough to eliminate any possible vacuum leak at that port when connecting a flexible hose.

Because of the catch can i added to avoid oil getting in the intake i could not use the original hose and spring type clamp that was too week for the hoses i bough at NAPA (fuel line and PCV type).

So far i tried different clamps. Last time i ordered an Amazon a set of 5 different diameters wire clamps (a type also have a little spring action and can adapt to shrinkage of the rubber, to a certain extent) because of price and thinking it will cover any size and surprise. However, when they got in i was surprised that between two of the sizes there is a gap where was missing the exact size i needed.

So i improvised using my experience with clamps for coolant bought at NAPA that were pinching the hose so i had to put a ring made of sheet metal between clamp and hose. But as rubber was giving in i had to tightened them at almost every longer trip (because if i didn't i would get 10% less mpg). And in the end the clamps' thread bent.

And this is where the story comes. I remember i cut the sheet metal for the ring long enough for the two ends of the ring to overlap. In fact, i was afraid that by overtightening the inner end would again pinch the hose. However, when tightening (the next day, after i slept at the hotel) it i was reaching a point of sudden resistance. Mpg was fine in my way there but i assume that after the rubber gave in, it went down. The two ends of the ring under the clamp touched and there was not enough tightening of the hose and vacuum started to leak again (air from outside getting sucked in the intake in an uncontrolled way, bypassing the  throttle). The computer using the sensors senses more oxygen and adds more fuel, beyond the trash-hold of full fuel efficiency. Capisci?
So today i just built another ring and this time i took a picture and put it here before installing to can prove (including to myself) that it overlaps.

June 16

3:06 Nighttime paving on Hwy 18 at 99 Jct after McMinville. UFO gay city USA. But let's not forget. I was hesitating to write anything about for several reasons. It will dilute what i wrote recently. I don't know exactly why and what really happened. Spent most day trying to figure who Remy Drabkin really is but i failed. However i figured Drabkin is a Russian name but also reminds of course of Dracula.

5:22 Slept only 4 hours last night. Tried all afternoon to sleep but i can't. I know it usually happens when people throw things on the red mulch. Some kind of invisible pungent mold grows under. I saw last night when i came or yesterday when i left a car's wheel next to the stairs wheel wall. I initially wanted to take it next to the garbage bin but first i tried to look to see if it belongs to any car in the lot. I saw it belonged to the car next to it and when i looked the other side, i saw a spare, now flat and another flat one.

I remember i saw and heard him about 2 weeks ago talking literally over my head with a supposed work colleague  from the other building in the same direction where i was saying "When are we get payed?".

Then i went to take the garbage thinking that could have been the problem however the problem lays in the bin. The bin stinks really badly and there's no wind. Somebody threw some pieces of what it looked like coming from a couch.

However they messed with my car yesterday. I drove for 1200 miles and the voltage did not change at the digital voltmeter from the 12 volts adapter.

Here i have to repeat what i wrote before. Most people including myself until recently think they might have "smart charging systems" on the newer vehicle. Which means if they stick a digital voltmeter in the plug which is connected actually to the wires that lead to the battery or measure the voltage at the battery (on the wires) it should be anywhere between 12.7 "when the alternator is not charging" and 15 volts when it does. Or at least me i get these readings, on both Elantras i owned or own.

But if i go ahead and fiddle with the connectors (clean with alcohol, tight them to the specs) the situation changes. The voltage stays constant or better said it varies only with outside temperature. At 75 degrees outside the voltage is 14.4. At 60 is 14.5. At 50 is 14.6. Above 85 is 14.3. I believe the variations are due to change in temperature but hard to say of which component. Could be battery. Could be alternator or even the cable.

The reason for the alternator (not so smart) intermittent charging process are the badly designed contacts (not enough contact pressure, contaminants). When the voltage difference between the wires and the terminal gets high enough the contact resistance is broken and the battery starts charging, When it's not charging, the pulsating 15 volts from the alternator goes to all the systems in the car and especially the fuel pump is malfunctioning (pulsating pressure i guess) but also the EPS (Electric Power Steering system). When there are good contacts, the pulses get smoothened by the battery that acts as a capacitor.

So i had the above temperature dependent readings for the whole 1200 miles trip. But after i got home, or better said the next day, i started to get anything between 12 and 15. So while driving towards what i thought was going to be the Ocean, i stopped three times. The voltage got back to normal only after i wiped with alcohol wipes all connecting metal surfaces and the plastic parts around the alternator connector. It was like it was contaminated with something invisible that was trickling back from plastic parts to metal joining parts as soon as i was wiping only those.

After first night on the road at Comfort Inn in Yreka, or Tuesday night, i woke early (freeway noise) and went to check the manifold bolt. (I got a bolt on the manifold which sticks outside the heat shield that likes to get loose). So i torqued it by ear with a 6 inch ratchet at about 20. Then i went back in the room. At nine when i left i had a hunch and dried it one more time and it was loose again. One our later we went to check the small casino (i believe Red Rock) and drove a couple of miles there and when we left i tried again and the bolt was loose again but i believe i torqued it less cause i don't know what happened.

We went to another one (yes we tried to tour the casinos along the way), called... Rolling Hills and checked it again and it was a bit loose because i did not tightened it enough at Rain Rock. Then it stayed like that for the rest of the trip. I guess cause i was just following some scratches i done with a file on the nut. However, i realized later the rotation of that scratch was too small to be seen with the naked eye.

Last night in the parking lot at Spirit Mountain i finally took the small torque wrench (got two, one big and one small, it's another story) and torqued the nut at 20+ but less than 25. When i got home last night i finally read in the service manual. The torque there should be between 25 and 30 lbft but i'm afraid to go there with the 8 mm studs, sorry. So i left it just under 25.

Unlike any other time, there was a security van moving around, and i was getting very nervous because they once told me not to work on car in the parking lot, in similar circumstances, that is like tightening a nut or something. Just when i was about done she came and in the dark thought i recognized her from somewhere. Could be the last match. She asked if i needed help.

Soon after that i got what people call an anxiety attack. Since i've been so many times through those (not in recent years) i now have an idea what they really are. It starts with breathing on the nose that is partly congested and in the same time your heart being stimulated, mostly with substances like coffee, alcohol, T gondii, etc. It may take hours to fully develop. You breathe harder through the congested nose without realizing.

Yesterday was topped by driving through fresh asphalt smell, others. Though i used a decongestant in the morning.

There is a partial vacuum in the chest because of obstructed nose and your diaphragm muscle is raised. Retained intestinal gas pushes it upwards from the other side. Heart doesn't have enough room to get filled by the low pressure of venous blood. The lack of oxygen also gives you a high and you don't realize what's happening. It's the perfect storm.

Your heart does not get enough oxygen but works harder because lungs do not get filled enough. In the end it's the lack of enough oxygen in the heart muscle that triggers the sensation. Or the fact the heart does not get filled enough. Nothing related to a mental condition except the highs before that could have been signs and avoided.

Yes it was done on purpose. Because i dared to post this. And this. They might pretend they are magically gassing you but they are not really.

However the result is very similar. After you finally realize what's happening and finally open your mouth, you need to hyperventilate sometimes for hours for your heart to get really oxygenated to the point you are not aware or do not have shortness of breath anymore.  Which is the sensation of not having enough air that may last for hours.

If it's torture. They only provide the extra conditions. Most people would be okay if they get through a cloud of asphalt smell. However if you are in a certain high condition and already breathing harder on your nose, it will push you beyond limit. I think they call it "breaking". However i the end it's not real but simulated (except for my symptoms which are real). The ninja try to simulate what right extremists would do, to entrain more of those.

Rage can create that condition. Your nose mucous gets inflamed and swollen. Breathing harder gets you a high and an unprecedented alertness. Your body goes on adrenaline mode with less oxygen to the muscles which go in anaerobic metabolism for faster response but it should not last long (until your rage passes) and you start breathing normally. It is an emergency physiological mechanism that need to stop in time and should not be abused. If they knew. Yes they did, they created the problems with the car and made me fix it on the side of the road with much traffic and then the unscheduled, unannounced paving.

Black asphalt is another symbolism. I know i wrote about this several times before but it takes me less time to write it again than search, evaluate and link to. I will try to write a named post about buck breaking.

Soon after i got stopped behind other vehicles in a line on top of the fresh asphalt and waiting there not knowing what happened, for half hour. No car was going in neither direction. I remember when we got back i saw a panel saying "paving work". And then a "pilot vehicle" guided the few cars. But not when i went when i saw people turning around and taking voluntary detours. I remember how many times they were detours on 18 always in that area but it was always signaled or announced.

This time i tried to figure using the gps map and got back to McMinville, took a left and another one and driving parallel with 18 where i saw cars were finally moving got back in the street on the point where there was a flagger that stopped us. A Japanese guy trying to look Latino looking at us with disgust.

We waited for 10 minutes for all the cars in the line we've been into and more to pass and then we went after those. I don't know exactly how may miles they paved and when they started. Still trying to figure that out but could not find anything with google.

8:03 The car alternator terminal was contaminated again. At the liquor store one very old man looking terminally ill went in the store and came back and insisted if i wanted some help with the car while i was trying to deal with the connectors. I tightened the alternator connector but it again needs alcohol. But i won't fix until i leave cause until tomorrow it will get loose again. I think i will carry from now on a small bottle with alcohol in the car.

9:06 Lăsați vrăjeala cu chatboții. M-am urcat în mașină și am mers până la liquor store (în statele vecine tăria se vinde la supermarket, asta e numai în Oregon). Când am oprit la semafor la prima intersecție (cu exit-ul de pe I5) a apărut un TIR (semi) cu reclamă la cartofi prăjți (potato chips) văluriți (wavy), culoarea exact ca în link, mare cât toată remorca și mi-a defilat prin față, sub camerele video de pe stâlpi. Asta pentru că am scris despre curentul pulsatoriu nefiltrat care iese din alternator din cauza contactelor slabe de la baterie și afectează pompa de benzină deci consumul.

O problemă cronică chiar și la mașini noi fiindcă acel contact de la alternator se contaminează cu vapori de ulei cu praf foarte fin, invizibil de la mașinile din față.

Budiștii din Japonia și dominicanii (domonkos) din Ungaria (controlați tot de budiști) care s-au unit și vor să încălzească planeta din motive religioase nu au nici un interes în a reduce consumul de carburanți, dimpotrivă. Ei folosesc deci această metodă de combatere prin suprapunerea informațiilor.

Apropo de dominicani, după ce m-am plâns că Reno a fost inundat cu metamfetamină, când m-am dat jos din mașină la liquor store mirosea la fel ca în parcare când am plecat de acasă, adică kk de câine care a stat vreo zi două la soare. Deci toată zona e la fel. Nașpa că mă ține treaz, nu pot dormi, am intrat într-o fază din alea de insomnie care m-au condus în trecut la spitalul de nebuni.

Încă zece sau o sută de faze la fel până la liquor store și înapoi pe care nici nu am timp să le memorez din moment ce totuși trebuie să fiu atent fiindcă eu conduc pe bune în timp ce alte mașini sunt conduse de IA. Culmea, ei pretind invers ca să justifice faptul că nu m avut niciodată accident din vina mea în 28 de ani, în afară de 2 în parcare când am atins stâlpi, unul când am dat înapoi și o tipă care venea cu viteză (și lucra în asigurări) mi-a luat spatele. Cel puțin în Oregon, tot ce mișcă, persoane, mașini sunt coordonate de inteligența artificială, de zeci de ani, dar totul devine din ce în ce mai sofisticat.

Bineînțeles asta înseamnă înlocuirea tuturor locuitorilor cu actorii și figuranții (extra) lor. Sute de mii în total (informație luată de la cineva din România).

April 15

6:20 Can't sleep and some ideas came to me. A mental experiment. Within the Doppler effect with a moving source for an observer it appears the difference of speed between source and destination adds up to the speed of sound in the opposite direction of movement, if we still define speed as distance needed for something (waves) to travel in a certain amount of time, and in the case of Doppler effect time is the same for both front and rear waves, but the distances change.

According to Einstein, the speed of light for any observer does not change regardless of how the destination or source moves. Then how do we explain the Doppler effect on moving galaxies (the so called shifting towards red).

But it could be just my tired brain playing tricks on me.

8:15 Angela is coughing for months. Last time i drove at night i was alone for long distances and started the fan at 1 or 2 and never felt the smell of fresh air. It is the second time i committed to check if there was an exhaust leak like i had in the other Elantra and all my vehicles.

Today i woke up after 3 hours of sleep because of smell of dog poop (wanted to pick them last night but i here a big dog barking and they were a couple of people at the other side of the building). As i said other times, if i breath it all night then my intestinal makeup changes from human to dog. Can't say more here. Ok nevermind, my f...s smell like dog.
 
So when i saw light outside i went to check and my time was not wasted. After having some trouble removing the heat shield from the manifold (and found my long lost 10 mm 1/4" socket, couldn't have done it without it, got a deep 10 mm 3/8 but i can't maneuver it in the small space), i finally put a deep 12 mm on the nuts of the manifold and i was and was not very surprised in the same time to see the first one or easiest to reach, on the upper left side from mechanic's view, was about 1/8 of a turn loose.

So i put it all back together and checked the battery's  connectors, on top of which i had put some duct tape for keeping contaminants out, i saw on the plus side the tape was very easy to remove and that was also loose.

Then i started the car and felt a vibration and went to check and i found another loose one, on the nr.1 ignition coil which can be accessed without removing the engine's sound shield. I tightened all those about 2 weeks ago.

When i was putting back the last piece of tape that i took from inside and did not completely closed the door, thinking it will be a few seconds, i saw a shadow in my peripheral view and i thought it was Angela coming down the stairs, but Angela was in the shower and instead was this midget, a small person of mature age, that again is a guest star around here, she climbs at nr.3, dressed all in black sports or yoga like suit, passing casually between me and the stairs which is not a walking place (or coming down the stairs, can't tell). She looked slightly taller than the one i saw before acting the same role. Usually as a kid coming from school.

It's a deja vu. Every time i work at the car someone passes at least once through this unbelievably close  space between me and stairs, usually kids.

Thinking of eating but i'm nauseated by the dog poop smell. Waiting for Angela to come out of the bathroom to go and pick and throw those. But it's useless now. Should have done it last night.

8:57 Couldn't find any of those. Instead i found other objects that promote mold smell in the enclosed yard. An used kitchen sponge. Towels, food wrappers. A the no dumping place, a couple of red couches. Could they have been dumped after i wrote the above (shifting to red). They will stay here for days, until they will pick them and put them in the first garage beyond that wall. Eventually after it will rain upon and get wet. Then they hire some scavengers that come once a month and empty that garage full of fun.

Like usually, after i got outside the first time, within 10 minutes air traffic was diverted in this area and plane after plane flew buy with flaps on and engines revved (to create lift at low speed) making a sinister sound.

 9:08 What do i know. There is a building 4. Then there must be a building 5. So there must be an apartment 55. Why some buildings are numbered with letters and some with numbers, i don't know.

April 16

12:15 When i described the latest version of the catch can (there's a new one in my head already), i forgot to say one more time what i said before. The modern cars have the intake manifold under the level of the engine's head and the out ports are above the throttle body. For that reason, it is possible for oil from the PCV to pool in there.

When i got my first Elantra in 2018, a  2013 model which i still like a lot as body stile, much nicer than the 2018 anyway i used a normal vacuum cleaner to which i attached at the end of the hose a thin 5-6 mm piece of PVC flexible tubbing about two ft long (that was not so perfectly attached, allowing air to get in that hose anyways, which helped with functionality).

With the engine off, i was holding with one hand the throttle open, and with the other i was inserting the flexible tubing downwards, making sure it reaches the bottom of the intake. I pulled so much of it, to my engrossment, it coated the whole vacuum hose on the inside.

Must have been ounces of it. But i must confess: i poured earlier a full can of valve cleaner. But it was black which proves the intake was coated on the inside with oil mixed with soot from EGR that was still trickling up the ports getting to the valves after the cleaning.

And because more oil kept getting in there and could not do the stunt too many times, i invented a small vacuum for that purpose only. Again a piece of tubing connected to the other (suction) side of a pneumatic mat pump that works at 12 volts. Of course the air that gets out of it has drops of oil when you hit the puddle inside. I encased the whole pump into a one gallon water bottle.

However after i got tired of periodically vacuuming the intake, i built the first version of the can. Which actually was an inline filter that was clogging fast. Then i found about catch cans on forums.

The 2018 model had the valves cleaner, however is very sensitive to the smallest amount of oil it gets in there. I also did not pull much from the bottom of the intake.

But if your valves look like this, a catch can won't help. I thought it was understood. You need to clean those first. Get a can of Seafoam or whatever, spray it in the intake through the throttle or a vacuum port while someone presses on the gas pedal to keep the engine running.

You will see black smoke coming out of the exhaust until those are clean, and then can vacuum the intake for the remaining cleaner trapped in. Or wait until it trickles up and get burnt in the engine (maybe). And then the catch can will help with the tick.

And of course if you think this method is nuts, there's always R2D2.

Pour... Les... Roumains. Încercați totuși să faceți un efort de imaginație ca să realizați cât de fioroși sunt ăștia și cum încearcă prin subliminale care de data asta sunt foarte subțiri (criza) să distrugă munca oricui deși Dinescu se dă de partea celor cu nădușeala pe piept. Mai înlocuiți mai devreme în poezie cuvântul talanți cu talenți. Telefon cu fise. Bine oricare din ei se dă de partea cuiva, ca să-i ducă mai repede în prăpastie. 

11:04 PM Hai să lămurim o chestie. Din când în când, cam de 2 ori pe an săptămână Fürjes Dinescu se bagă în seamă cu câte o poezie, scrisă cu ceva meșteșug, care le fac atractive.

Fiindcă s-a luat iar de mine și i-am răspuns, s-a stârnit acum în media o frenezie legată de subiectele deschise de meșteșugul dlui. Una din "știri" vorbește iar despre punerea sub acuzare a foștilor lideri revoluționari (un banc răsuflat) iar pe mine mă face iar să mă gândesc cum să demonstrez că zâmbărețul Iliescu, capo di tutti capi rivoluzionari, sărac dar curat, e mort de mult iar ăștia îl țin așa în vila aceea de lux ca să îi încaseze Ionuț Vuliescu, valetul lui se pare, pensia.

Ultima poză a lui György Illés înainte de a muri în 2006 îl arată cam așa.

De când e poza asta? (ultima cunoscută, datată 2022). După calitate, e făcută cu un telefon foarte vechi. Alfred Moses era mai chel (care aici avea un mic moț în chelie) și în 2018. Alfred Moses e născut în 1929, teoretic cu un an mai în vârstă decât Iliescu.

Ar fi multe metodele de a demonstra că el trăiește, cea mai modestă ar fi un scurt video cu el în pat sau poate doar audio vorbind gângurind despre un eveniment curent. Îi știm cu toții vocea. Sau dacă nu poate, măcar să miște un deget, să ne bată cu el în microfon?

12:42 Black holes are hypothetical entities. Of them, the biggest in our galaxy is thought to be at the center and it has several million times the mass of our Sun. However, from time to time, they discover big ones, 32 times the mas of our Sun, and really close, 2000 light years away.

They call them stellar because they think they were initially stars. Not like the one at the center of the galaxy which was formed by dust. How do they know it was not a star covered by dust? Dormant, stopped feeding. Why would a hypothetical dormant black hole stop feeding? Does it have diabetes?

3:12 I came from my walk, wanted to make some corrections in the last posts. 3 supposedly Spanish little girls came and started to hit the cable box. However i think one of them is a 20 years old who poses as a 10, which is not difficult for some Japanese. There was a red Nissan with the LPN PPY parked on the red line next to mailboxes. Pulled the blinds, went to cook and eat. 

4:57 Two hours later, the girls, the papy car are still there.

8:36 Tocmai m-am prins la o chestie. Site-ul wunderground are grafice inclusiv cu presiunea atmosferică pe următoarele zece zile. Portul Constanța este destul de aproape de zona seismică Vrancea ca să fie în aceeași zonă de atracție a lunii și soarelui, iar mareele, deși sunt foarte mici din cauza dimensiunii Mării Negre comparată cu cea a oceanelor și a mareelor terestre simultane sunt o măsură a atracției acestor corpuri cerești.

Atracția nu se exercită la fel în partea apropiată de lună relativă cu partea depărtată, din cauza diferenței de distanță. Forța gravitațională este invers proporțională cu pătratul distanței. Forța de atracție medie dintre masa totală a lunii și a pământului este 10 urmat de 15 zerouri, în tone forță.

Partea mai apropiată e atrasă mai tare iar Pământul se lungește, ca un ou, cu până la câțiva metri (mareele terestre și oceanice), deci se deformează.

Dacă se combină predicția presiunii atmosferice cu cea a mareelor, putem avea șanse de cutremure în zona Vrancea în momentele cu mareele cele mai ridicate și presiunea cea mai scăzută.

Începând cu 23 aprilie, sunt 5 zile cu maree ridicate și două cu maree duble (Soare-Lună). Avem deja presiunea până pe 26, este ridicată, stați liniștiți. Poate doar unul mic pe 24. Dar a plouat mult recent.

9:47 PDT Am început să cred că și precipitațiile pot avea un rol. Dacă de exemplu avem presiune scăzută dar 2 cm de ploaie (20 kg/m²), greutatea apei pe suprafața mare a zonei seismice, (4,863 km² sunt 4,863,000,000 m²) contracarează presiunea atmosferică scăzută și mareea terestră (care este însoțită de cea marină). (Presiune scăzută împreună cu umiditate mare declanșează automat precipitații).

Deci cutremurele se pot produce la presiune atmosferică scăzută combinată cu umiditate scăzută, precipitații recente scăzute (secetă) și maree terestră (atracție soare-lună), deci și marină, înaltă.

11:15 Asta a apărut după ce am scris eu cu bătutul în microfon, chestia de mai sus, nu? 9:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ora pe coasta de vest, este 7:47 AM ora de vară în România) Gropița singură dintre sprâncene, ceva unic ce nu am mai văzut decât la el. De obicei, au două. Da, nu știu, alunițele mai migrează sau se pot acoperi la machiaj. Da, politicienii și actorii (bărbați) se machiază tot timpul. Discret.

12:21 (17).  Not included which means the thing is only the vacuuming part. Wondering if it can be used for vacuuming the intake, after using spray valve cleaner. Yeah i know. Too expensive for the ocasional user. My invention is much cheaper though, @20 bucks.