Comments for Jay Maechtlen - technical writing, lasers, and stuff

Comment on External voltage regulator for Delco alternator by jay

jay — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:48:47 +0000

I did clean and paint the regulator, and mounted it for long-term use. It works fine, no reason to mess with it!

Comment on Jay’s Toy – a 1961 Corvair project car by Jay Maechtlen

Jay Maechtlen — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:23:11 +0000

See http://laserpubs.com/personal/ for more info.

Comment on Toyota Runaway: How it Might Happen by jmaechtlen

jmaechtlen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:35:34 +0000

I am having second thoughts on this – if the wiring harness is damaged enough to partially connect those three wires together, a runaway could occur. But, there are six wires in that harness, I believe. If harnesses are getting damaged, you wouldn’t expect them to all be damaged in one particular manner. The harnesses were damaged in any other manner, the computers would set an error code, and we would see quite a few Toyotas getting wiring harnesses replaced, more than twice as many as we’ve had complaints of acceleration problems.

Comment on About by jay

jay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:37:37 +0000

Just tried a few different themes. I think the previous look was better, but I’ll keep this for a bit.

Comment on Fixing an older Astro van by jay

jay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:54:01 +0000

And, as far as that goes: I’m driving my third Buick. My project car is powered by GM (Olds/Buick!). The first two were replaced because they had a lot of years and miles on them. The folks who bought them from me got a lot more years and miles from them.
No complaints. Not only have they run well and held up well, they’ve cheaper to maintain than the trendycars.

Comment on Fixing an older Astro van by jmaechtlen

jmaechtlen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:51 +0000

Its heritage is almost irrelevant. Anyone can can have a problem in manufacturing. What’s stunning is that nobody noticed the problem in that long service life. Fwiw, it still runs strong.

Comment on Fixing an older Astro van by Larry Packman

Larry Packman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:22:42 +0000

It’s a GM product. What do you expect? I have owned GM, Ford, Chrystler, Toyota, Honda and Acura (I know. More Honda) It’s been my experience that the best and most reliable is a Honda product. The worst was Chrystler with GM following in a strong second place. If you ask me, they both deserve to go chapter 11 bankruptcy.