5:25 AM I go outside, with my mind fixed on something i have to do at the car. Usually awkward cause according too Moore's law only items that are awkward to fix do break.

I get hit by a smoke which is not even chocking or that unacceptable for the short time i am supposed to fix that which becomes longer. But soon, without realizing my perception of things get blurred and i can only see what i am doing and people start passing doing their things. I make too many mistakes, it all takes too much time for small jobs. Like more than one hour for a bulb yesterday (with stuck dust cap).

Usually one or two comming out of the day care at D6 cause lately i don't see them getting in but only out. Three teenagers yelling probably high, right at my back. A woman peeing her dog right behind me etc.. The Asian woman in the yellow car. The white SUV with a gorilla head with mouth wide open with scarry teeth on a side.

Then i think, all these things statistically are not supposed to happen in such a short period of time. Ambulances and helicopters and planes and one car every 30 seconds. Sometimes i shot the hood and go back inside and everything pauses and when i get back later when everything restarts.

These days the new windows the installed about 3 years ago are not that leaky and don't allow that much smoke inside and the HEPA filter does the rest and i don't allow mole holes next to basement (under siding). So i am not crazy high as i used to be for years.

The years in which i didn't know all these and i was going dizzy all the time and was not feeling that bad except all things were blurred to me.

One of those days (cannot find where and when i wrote about but was years ago) i went for a long walk (hour and a half) which was still not enough to clear my mind. Many times i got refreshed with the same kind of smoke on my walk, especially near the bank of the river.

At the so called community center in the middle of the park stretched along the river there was a guy with a white SUV who slammed the door, probably trying to get my attention, awake me to reality about something that was going to happen i needed to pay attention to (that was how i fell in that moment) cause he probably knew i was not paying attention to anything around me.

So here she came across the little bridge, this girl in yoga pants with glasses, always staring at her phone like awaiting for instructions on what o do next (eye contact, no eye contact, smile, etc.) with an attempted smile on her insecure face then going on a branch of the alley hidden among bushes and stopped, always staring at the phone. I stopped and turned around on the main alley, staring at the bushes. Didn't know what to do.

I had a vague idea i knew her from somewhere and wanted to talk to her, but in the middle of the bushes? Mainly i was afraid for her safety after i left, especially if we didn't get along well. I knew that guy knew about her. Maybe other people. It all looked like a setup to me. So after staring at her standing in the middle of the bushes, i left.

Next day she shows online with a dinosaur mask or something covering her entire head mainly confirming it was her. "You turned around for me!".

Do you think this was the most important thing, how your insecure face looked in that moment?

Last night i crashed probably from being exposed to something and forgot the main door open. Am i right now under the influence of some ninja smoke? Just had a palpitation which reminded me to open my mouth cause my nose in congested cause i cannot use that much decongestant. Or can i? Will i ever be myself again?

Was the same girl at the entrance of the hotel/casino again walking and staring at that phone, passing, pretending not seeing me, walking towards the hotel? After i put my cigarette out and got inside because of a Russian or Ukrainian man yelling on the phone outside?

Right after i walked out (was leaving) i saw behind me in the same hallway a maid pushing a long cart figuring a stretcher, loaded with something, going in the same direction, For two days i kept searching until i finally found a recent post on only fans and then she finally posts on tiktok so i knew she is ok.

Are you trying to imagine this happening on daily basis which to me it does anyways? Who was that older guy in the park in that white SUV? Are you reading all these or is someone telling you what and when to post?

Hemp ash because it does not stink but is way more concentrated? Camphor and pine resin to cover the smell of sulfur? which burns with the salpeter?

7:25 BTW. Altgirl. Altman.

8:20 Do all girls look the same when they smile? 

 

1:11 AM If people don't like kings, then why a Regata Run?

3:35 I was too tired when that light broke last night. I pulled by mistake the high beam. I will delete what i wrote about.

6:00 How many galactic dictators it take to replace a light bulb? The right low beam which is in a very hard to reach place at this car probably "like in most modern cars" has a very hard to open dust cap. Now i remember, last time i broke one of those 6 fins and in the end i opened it. But today, no. It did not want to come out.

I tried W40 and hair drier, etc.. Other people passed by including some teens that seemed high. In the end i just destroyed it with a flat screwdriver and a hammer. Yes i was under the influence of smoke outside. But it was reusable. And then i lost the o ring in the maze of the belly of that car. I just put it back like that without o-ring and ordered another one.

Was this supposed to happen last night when those 4 guys passed? Me handling the hair drier or hammer in the night with the car stinking like hell?

And BTW i laid on the ground, with clean clothes and hit that panel hoping the o-ring is gonna come out. Got dust in the eyes. Now i have to take another shower, change clothes.

8:44 Cats are smart...

9:48 The last weeks or so have been very disturbing and disruptive to me because of what was happening in Romania. Though most politicians agreed that we needed a government no matter what kind (except right extreme), after the 4th nominalization by the President and six months of failures in Parliament, Then they were some "independent" voices within the agreeing parties that were threatening the national deal...

So after i reinstalled Windows (i think it was Saturday), i spent one whole day outside, but then again many hours a day at the computer. Today i just discovered that wi-fi was on (turned on by default after a reset) and also my phone had wi-fi on and the battery went very fast and was charging very slowly. I also discovered since i last shaved that my left burnside is completely gone. No more facial hair on the left side of my face.

Today i discovered at the new dumpster a pile of dust (about 1-2 pounds) on the pavement that was disturbed with every car that passed... Next to some litter dust that was there earlier. Very fine and regular, i don't know what it was, much finer than sand but coarser than cement dust. I went with the broom and dust pan (washed them later under the shower) to remove that dust but some got into my eyes because of easterly wind.

4:10 We both got awaken today @2 AM. I was curious and went outside and found a big dog poop about 15 ft away from bedroom and living windows. Not such a big problem to me whom i slept 5 hours and can sleep more during the day (i crashed last night at 9) but to Angela who slept only 4 and hast to go to work at 5:30.

Out of all area there was only this one close to our windows and a smaller one on the other side of the building. I found many poops in this location (almost daily) and sometimes up to 4 of them. I believe it is done intentionally and it coud be easily caracterized as a form of torture, by lack of sleep. For us is started back in Romania, when we had a neighbor that was "walking" his s he dog several times a day around the building.

Could be a ritual form, because of the legend of mother of Saint Dominic, patron of Dominicans, a branch within Catholicism which is a branch of Christianity that lost most of original Christian values (like compassion) that is very active to this day. Dominican popes created and sustained the infamous Inquisition that was practicing burning at the stake of "heretics" (lost ones).

Here at the complex i see daily a large number of Mexicans who are known to be Catholic but most dog walker look European, probably paid or coerced to do so. Or Hungarians, of whom a lot are also Catholic.

Historically they are known to resist scientific advances (like from the first screenshot) and/or even punish scientists who went against their beliefs.

4:56 Angela is so distressed, she started the TV, fell back asleep for about half hour, i heard her snoring but when she awoke (ten minutes before the alarm rang or when i got mad with something i wrote about above) she said she did not sleep (did not realize she slept like many times before).

Last night we went at Indian Head, mostly because of the beautiful late fall summer like weather and the fact that it could be the last time this year before weather changes and it snows over Mt. Hood that BTW is completely baren as i never seen it. The sky was full of jet trails with clouds growing around (because i written of cloud seeding) like i again never seen in the area.

Lately i see less KGB or PGD (PDG) license plate numbers and a lot with Q, like QUT, which can mean queer, out like they already established i am queer and need to leave the place.

In the beginning i sat in the car for about an hour, because i was tired because of the 2 hours drive, with very aggressive street companions who sometime drove with two wheels on the shoulder, raising dust.

A brand new Jeep Sahara plate starting with 905 came next to my car and because of the angle of the spots, i did not see it. He kept his engine running and when i finally realized, my feet were burning because he was probably using a cell phone. I left the car to smoke and he came out of it. He was very young with moustache, Japanese posing in Mexican. He was with a young woman also very young also Japanese disguised in Mexican.

Was in pain for most of the time i was there. Not many people on Sundays there. We fooled around at the machines. After all these years i developed some techniques that allow me to beat the machines if i am not tired which in the end i became and lost everything (40 dollars).

In the end we ordered some food (chili burgers) and went in the car to eat. I remember the lady at the Tule grill came to mop the floor right after i stepped out with my food, I was generally very irritated and when i ate the burger, that was a bit overdone and dried on the grill (zero fat), i chocked like 4 or 5 times. Good thing i had some water in a bottle and was regularly washing my esophagus between small bites.

While we were there eating a very dusty car came and parked next to us, adding to anxiety and a Japanese guy came out of it and walked and bent, showing me his butt.

While i was driving back, pretty early, guys were pushing me from behind with high beams while the traffic kept stopping ahead making me brake really hard at times while i was half asleep. Scores of drivers were actually participating, especially in down town Sandy and after that.

But i had a breakthrough. One of the reasons i choke like that is because i have the parotid glands partly calcified (especially the right one and because of that i lack the necessary amounts of saliva. Don't ask me how it happened, could be overuse of cell phone and cordless, especially between 2010 and 2015.

10:05 Today i've done one undone (before). Rough translation from Romania, "nefăcută".

There was a big commotion in front of the building today letting me think they came to do what they haven'd done Friday. With a big vehicle idling in front of my window for hours. But in the end, it was nothing. Not completely nothing.  They replaced the old dumpsters with new ones. Those had like up to an inch of garbage at the bottom. The reason they shook those so hard last Friday they created an earthquake and a micro weather system.

They were no unknotted bags of poops last night but there was a bag of litter dust spread all over (trying o deodorize the smell of fermented garbage and together with the thick smoke, the poop in the back that awoke us at 2.

So yes we have new dumpsters.

Last night i was planning to replace the gasket from the overfill drain at the transmission. I talked about in the car, Sirius must have heard me.

So i gathered all my courage and went and tried to remove that. Imagine you have to work in a space one inch wide, with fingers only (not enough room for hand). First i could not remove the plug. It only goes in and out in a certain position. And in my stupidity in thought since it is an overfill think, there would not be much fluid to come out if i remove it.

But i put a tub under just in case. But guess what. 3 quarts of fluid came out of it and the stream touched  the panel and was coming out from two directions and i only had one tub. The result is i lost about half quart on the pavement. I put some rags, wiped it out and flush it with the hose in the end.

I didn't know the overfill plug is so deep immersed in oil. You are supposed to use it only when the engine is running and transmission fluid is low due to filling the torque converter. I was not expecting so much fluid to fall out. Every time i changed transmission fluid and oil i used a pump. But in the end it had a positive side. I poured 3 qts of new fluid. Involuntary partial flush that is.

Transmission fluid is not like oil, it dries on the asphalt (or gets sucked by it) in a day or so. However, it was stinking tonight. Mostly not from the ground but from the tranny itself that was soaked with it after it go heated after a test drive. So they screwed me ten years and in the end i am guilty of the same thing. 

Cause i never spilled oil or other fluids under the car before, i was real careful.

An untold rule of mechanics says if something is hard to take apart, it would be twice as hard to put it back together. With two fingers only and partial visibility (after i jacked the car to the max), the plug won't come out. But when i put it back together.

The gasket needed to be installed first and kept falling when i was touching it with the plug while not being able to find the hole by touch. And the two kids from D5 kept yelling like they were connected to my brain again making me loose concentration. IN the end i put the plug once without it to figure how. I done it after 2 hours or so. A plug and a gasket.

Hyundai has good parts and bad parts and i think the design of this plug and gasket is the worst i have ever seen. Theoretically, you can replace it (the proof is i did) but in all the videos i've seen the guys had to remove other major parts like the radiator to reach it and empty the tranny first.

The gasket showed signs of being warned out though i don't understand why.

Finally did it and had just enough time to go to a Kia dealer to get some fluid. But when i went for the test drive though the tranny was smoother than ever, a headlight went down.
ot back here and 4 guys from D6 passed coming from the back (dark) to sniff and witness i reckon. Then i lost the lid for the headlight and spent one more hour trying to find it.

What else can i say. They have a feedback on my brain All Mexican guys here are actor pretending they are Catholics. Some AI software coordinates everything. By making noises and interrupting my brain cycles so i cannot do anything complicated.

The usual poop from under the windows moved a few meters more in the back.

The Full Story of Oil Filters

I awoke at 4 after about 6 hours of sleep. Reviewing in mind what happened yesterday. All that smoke coming from that chimney, but also from somewhere else, earlier, all day. Everything in slow motion. Me not being able to remove that tensioner.  Routing back the new belt in hours. The guys pretending helping me. In fact that big guy (a tall sumo wrestler maybe) is parked right now next to my car.

I had several projects with the car. Belt and tensioner. Oil change. Two coolant hoses. Battery. First one has flopped but i got a new belt. Thinking that screw might have been overtighten by someone on purpose. Also one the screw in place at the new tensioner (the one that holds the pulley) was not torqued right, would have been in trouble if i put that one in.

I went in the trunk of the car for tools around 5 AM only to see again much traffic in the alley, people coming at the day care to drop or pick kids (apartment D5 accros the alley). I got all my tools, probably 100 items in one single (yellow) plastic bin so i was looking through those but... could not find the filter removal tool. The second one i got from Amazon that gets lost.

So far i was using 79 mm 15 flutes tools for OEM filters but all of those start skipping flutes at any serious torque. I can put a filter with one of those but usually cannot remove it. For that i bought an universal tool with self tightening jaws. They usually damage the filter upon removal so it is critical to take it out.

There are apparently two styles of filters that Amazon and Walmart sites say "confirm fit". They are different by outer diameter, number of flutes and position of the gasket. What matters most, about the same pressure for the relief by pass valve.

What made the last one i bought at Walmart (bought two Purolator ones of that style and they both came damaged from Amazon) special is it has the gasket of a larger diameter, possibly going over the damaged area of the mating surface at the engine, which makes any filter of the other style leak, no matter what brand.

So the other style with smaller diameter but larger gasket needs a different tool (74 mm, 14 flutes tool) which i just bought. I also found (at Home Depot) the 100% conventional mineral oil which does not leave was in the intake.

Not so sure right now when i take another look at that surface. The upper side in the picture seems damaged all the way to the outer diameter. So it looks like i will keep adding oil for a while until i find a solution.

Yes i know i can put some sand paper on a piece of wood and sand that away (i think it is aluminum) but i risk introducing tiny bits of corundum or what the sand paper is made of inside the engine, and that is after the filter. Maybe i could plug the whole area with a rag and then do it but i would not try it blindly as i change the filters right now. I would have to raise the car to be able so see what i'm doing.

Last picture was done by pressing shutter button in mandatory flash mode then laying immediately the phone on the ground under the filter hole in the panel. I could do it because in flash mode, it takes seconds until the first "warning and adjusting flash" fires.

So it looks like i will have to just add oil in that car for a while.

10:00 AM Enjoying Windows after a Reset PC done while i was at WinCo with Keep my file option. No more lag when typing or switching tabs. Flying browsing and uploading speed. Should do this more often. Save google and windows password. Start it when i go somewhere. Finish it when i get back.

Inconveniences. Had to sign into google again (and scramble for password, getting the code at the phone) which brought back my numerous bookmarks. Had to move icons in taskbar at the left again. Had to adjust system wide display (at 300%) and cursor size because this monitor is 4K.

Lost all the installed apps and expired trials which is good cause i don't use very often anyways and some of them i don't even recall installing, probably the source of slowing down bugs.

All downloaded files and documents were preserved with Keep my files option.

Feeling so good after one day of work outside (with all smoke on the hill or maybe because of it?).

3:45 PM Slept about 4 hours last night, about 5 hours at the car. The belt squeals when it's cold weather. I remember i once could replace the belt, when i replaced the alternator. Ok maybe not all the way. Back then i saw something at the tensioner and bought a new one. But the new one was the same. So i did not replaced it.

Now i bought a belt online and i had that tensioner and wanted to replace them both.

Trouble. I followed a video but the guy in the video had some pneumatic tool that shocks that T50 torx screw. What else can i say. It is stock in there. WD40 does not reach far enough. Could have some loctite on the thread. I broke two tools i just bought and nearly broke the screw, but it does not move.

So in the end i decided to just put the new belt in, to see what happens. Then i got two options. Buy and electric impact wrench. Go to a shop.

Trouble. There is very little space to work. The belt does a couple of S turns in there. I got a couple of tools, a long forceps and a little bamboo scratching hand with a screw perpendicular at one end. But you have to do it in a certain order.

And then the audience. They just move around, obviously with on other job but watch and taunt me.

By the time i figured what is the order i was so exhausted i could not stand next to the car. Total lack of exercise due to long inactivity due to the wound. Then when they figured, i wanted to go inside, they brought a helicopter, trying to suggest i left because of it. Since that did not work, they started a big fire up on the hill (south from here). I wanted to go back, but i think there is too much smoke. From time to time wind brings in poop smell.

BTW there was smoke when i started which smoke made me dizzy and everything slow motion, dropping tools (had to remove one wheel to retrieve one tool) etc.. Maybe that's why it took me so long and could not finish yet.

6:05 right before i came in an posted the above. A guy came with a German Shepard and peed right next to me. After i posted, i got hungry and tried to eat something. There was an open can with smoked fish that was very dry (not oily at all) and chocked with it.

Spent last half hour trying to vomit. I don't think i got rid of all of it but got better (no more pain at least). Went outside to finish the job. I put the belt last time in like 15 minutes but was not aligned right when the bolt head attached to the tensioner for the purpose of releasing tension got stripped.

Aluminum, 12 points, 17 mm, but is one mm less than 17 and the wrench was not grabbing it right. Now i was going to drill a hole in it so i can grab it with something to release tension to finish the job (align the belt). There is still smoke outside and the ice cream van is here, playing la cucaracha so i just got back inside.

In a way it's better in the dark cause i can see better with the flashlight in that narrow space, there is not so much contrast.

Ok i drank some tea and then some milk. Though it went down, i still feel like there's something in there. That kid that was yelling earlier like was slowly swallowed whole by a giant serpent started again to yell when that milk was making its way through my esophagus. I think it's got something to do with earlier, might have been a factor. He did that for about half hour before i came in.

There is still smoke coming out of that chimney.

8:00 When i started to drill that hole in that 12 points tensioner release bolt head (went easy, it is aluminum) a black car came next to mine. They when i started to pass a wire through that hole, about to pry it with a long stick, more people came and all started talking. They left when i was about done. It seemed to me like they came to pretend they helped me or even did it for me.

Once i pried the tensioner it was easy to first release the belt and then realigned it and apply tension again. It does not squeal anymore but it does a low rumbling noise which i believe is normal until it breaks in. The old belt had the surface hardened and shiny and was slipping. One day long and lots of lessons learned but smoke was a big factor. Smoke stopped not long before i went back inside and i do not feel that wasted aymore (because of it).

1:11 AM I wanted to take a break for at least one week from blogging. However tonight (i mean this morning) i saw another one close to 7 and went to look for correlations. And since i did it i thought it was worth a few clicks to do three screenshots to share.

It looks like i have discovered another factor. The tide did stay high for a while due to closeness but not overlapping of Sun and Moon tide. The pressure was moderately low, but the tides were at peak (near syzygy/ˈsizəjē/).

So i decided to quick start another blog named just like that. Earthquakes. With only earthquakes in it. Of course those next to oceans where there are recorded tides (there are also ground tides everywhere but that information is not publically available).

It took me a few clicks and a name (just to let you know how easy it is just with a gmail account), will take care later of the format, metatag for searches if i think i need it, and add a link here in upper right area of the main blog.

A blog free of politics and all the other issues fusses.

Ok a story from 100 years ago that fits the context. The earliest known scientific rainmaker. A contract that turned into a deluge (sorcerer apprentice?) Though it is not known what chemicals he used, it might have been silver iodide, which is currently used for seeding clouds, among others, like dry ice.

1:55 Ok i think i have a reason as why by example a raindance would work. The moves of the dancer or dancers could create low frequency waves that could tip the balance of a system and make the moisture in the air condensate.

BTW This morning i witnessed a very weird phenomenon. I said before the garbage truck is very heavy, 20 tons maybe. When it comes, it takes the dumpster that itself empty weighs hundreds of pounds maybe up to a ton with two horns, raises it above the truck and shakes it a few times. The size of the dumpster is big enough to create some shock waves that both shook the building and the ground and released some of the dust created yesterday by milling the redwood mulch with the mowers which then settled on buildings and walls.

2:05 Just to make things better, someone just slammed doors outside.

But the result of shaking the air was a gust of wind "sent by God" which raised dust and blew it it on me big time, exactly when i was going to the dumpster with a bag of poop i just picked. Minutes later the lady at 4 descended with an attitude of an Empress God and climbed into the black BMW.

The result was i was in pain all day and those who saw me at Walmart know. Tomorrow they will come again to pour asphalt in front of our building and then i get to drive after 2:30  and i cannot sleep because of the dust coming out of the yellow utility truck with the inscription SEATTLE EMPIRE parked again next to my car.

2:55 Since i started... The 16 year old suspect was walking on the street with a shotgun, entered the school, the bystander who happened to have a gun also entered, but he could not draw faster than the kid pumped his shotgun and fired multiple rounds before he was shot. Now the suspect is dead and the bystander is a hero. And i bet the kids they were shot where new in the area and nobody really knows them. All because the place is called Silver rai.

10:10 Dragoș Ciobotaru

10:40 Tot aurul din lume și din Italia, on demand (ilustrativ).

10:15 Now what did i write with 6 and has sine curves in it?

11:33 AM Predicting Earthquakes, building theories as a hobby with no funds or for a smile from a stranger while others mock me and thrive by loyalty to Empires? Yeah why not. Let's get some satisfaction from pissing them off.

But i lost the moment when the next two of magnitude 6 hit. However here are some interesting things that i could find. October has the lowest pressure average in Last Tablas, Panama (nearest place with records available for free on google). Tides had highest amplitude in the days when the 7.6 EQ hit at lowest pressure in daily cycle.

12:00 PM Nevermind, i believe my theory since 2016 started to go mainstream, silently, without credits.

5:10 PM

Habemus Desemnatus IV

10:30 PM Every time temperature drops under 60 this side the whole complex gets filled with smoke. I posted yesterday a picture that came weird, because of the Sun and what was in that smoke. I think they just lengthened that chimney and though one would think this is good for neighbors, it is not. Since they don't do it all the time, it takes a lot of time for that chimney to heat up and not cool the smoke that comes down instead of going up.

From what i know there must be hundreds of people affected, but usually when there is smoke like that nobody is in the alleys. All from the cozyness and fanciness of a few people in those houses. Another idea is they just put another gass cartridges in mole holes. Though the moles might run away, the probably bring new ones the next day.

Every time i go at the garbage to knot bags, something happens. This time they were black bags everywhere and i tried to overturn a few cause they are usually hidden open poop bags and one (white) bag was untied and garbage including a few liquid drops fell on my hand. I was too lazy to come back inside and wash my hands so i proceeded to the locker where i had some items.

But if i went back inside after searching through the garbage and then go to the locker, it would have locked like i picked something from there. There was a big empty brown bag next to the dumpster.

There was (again) an Asian guy hidden behind a car was reading his phone. I tried to use just my pinky which was not touch by what i thought it was a clear liquid coming from that bag.

I have to key in the code because my phone is never in the network or wi-fi and i make a picture from the computer in track the package screen where there is no bar code.

Last night we stopped and picked more items. One of them was another Purolator filter which was again damaged. The only way to make a dent like this is to hit it with a hammer. These filter have a by pass valve inside and if that one gets dealbated the engine may starve of oil and seize up causing an accident if that happens at high speed.

I take it it was retaliation because i once rejected and returned a filter like this because of my misunderstanding (thinking it was not compatible because of a bigger diameter for the gasket and it might damage the already damaged engine). Now i want it because i think the bigger diameter gasket may encompass the damaged area, and finally stopping the leak. I think someone has a batch of bad ones from somewhere and sell them intentionally on Amazon.

11:22 AM Președinte fără Prim Ministru și Guvern, asa cum sună?

3:12 PM Every time i open the door to go outside someone comes out from D5-D10 (in diagonal view across the alley). This time i went to put in a new cabin filter and there was chocking smoke coming from this direction. One picture taken earlier since i went to Walmart (to buy another AC/coil cleaner which i could not find cause it was not in automotive). Continuous mole devastation.

8:55 AM Poate ați auzit prin presă. Rezerva de gaz a României e atât sau atât. 70% la începutul iernii bla bla.

Unde sunt stocate aceste gaze, mai ales cele mai puțin compresibile ca metanul. Răspuns. În pământ. Înapoi în foste zăcăminte. Sunt roci poroase sau chiar caverne subterane de unde s-a extras gazul. Nu are unde să se ducă. Este pompat înapoi și scos la nevoie. Se reduce zăcământul la starea inițială de exploatare. 

Mai sunt acviferele. Depozite de apă subterane de mare adâncime (sute de metri) care au fost golite prin exploatare nerațională. Poate mai puțin în România dar cine mai știe acum ce fac. Dacă se duce un jurnalist pe acolo, primește plicul și gata. La fel cu Poliția și politicienii.

Dacă ar pompa intenționat cineva apă din Dunăre în depozitele acestea de gaze sau înapoi în acvifere (asta se numește managementul de acvifere, care la fel nu prea cred că există în România).

Chestia e că nici nu știm pe unde sunt. Da bine nu cred că pot exploda, fiindcă nu există aer (oxigen) pe acolo. Dar dacă au fost golite și a intrat nițel aer? Nu cred că s-a ajuns niciodată prin exploatare la presiune chiar zero.

9:09 Cold weather has come and the Hyundai tick has come at this car for the first time.

I knew about the problem. The blow by gas that is redirected (after 70s) into the intake manifold to reduce pollution contains drops of oil. It is directed there through the so called PCV valve and a rubber hose. But some fractions of the oil, the so call paraffins, solidify on the walls of the intake manifold. Especially in cold weather.

So they fix one problem by creating another one. Because sticking valve translates into a host of problems like misfires, vibration with poor driveability and loss of mpg.

When the engine heats up enough or the weather changes a bit  during colder seasons (like during this time, at noon or under Sun), some of the wax migrate on the valves and turns into varnish because of temperature and make them stick. Harder to open by the hydraulic lifters that get squished. Which makes the ticking sound.

For now, it disappears with RPM and engine temperature. At higher RPM, the oil pump pumps more oil and oil pressure is higher and the lifter can beat the stickiness. 

That is the reason i built a catch can. But have not seen wax in it except when i used synthetic oil which is more waxy. But now i use an oil which i am not sure what it is. It says motor oil and that's all. The fact it does not say synthetic does not guarantee it is not. Or could have changed the formula since since i had this problem until this year after they unexpectedly changed the price from 17 dollars to 25 for a 5 gallons jug.

The thing is. With great sacrifices (they start shows outside every time i get at the car) i stuck a borescope camera through the throttle inside the manifold and took pictures and it all came drops of orange stuff. Not at the closest cylinder next to throttle where the flow of air is faster but more in the back, at cylinder 1 and two where i hear the tick.

But while writing here an idea came to me and i think more and more about doing it. I will try and put some thermal insulation stuff around the composite manifold which will retain some of the heat of the engine and help melt the wax. I hope it will not help melt the composite (plastic mainly) material of the manifold itself LOL. I hope the melted wax will not create more problems on the valves in the short run.

Another thing crossed my mind. Big oil money and car making money may be involved in all these shows i see all around me because changing things and technologies to mitigate with this problem would cost too much and combustion engine are being phased out and this is what brings all kinda hells onto me and probably causing other things. The war in Iran, just to displace the word oil from the minds of people hearing what i keep saying.

Ok if you don't believe me do what i do. Rough noisy start at your car during colder days? Stick a a USB borescope camera which now are cheap, under 20 dollars through your throttle and look. Or simply a wooden stick with drop of cotton and swab it (but be careful not to introduce something no matter how small in there cause you might ruing your engine).

Right.

Here are phone screenshots with pictures from inside the manifold. Cause last time when i tried to transfer them onto the card, the just disappeared from the app's folder. How i know it is wax? Some came on the semi-rigid tube i stuck the camera through (to protect the camera from the oil there). In the past i found actual wax in the catch can even during summer, when i was using most expensive synthetic oils.

3:40 PM Right on.

Right (on).

11:11 PM They all retreated from outside and put a mole chaser cartridge in a gallery. I tried to stick on full can with foam for ac evaporator and heater core cleaner. At first lots of foam was coming out of it but went back inside and when i squeezed the can, just some liquid came out of it and fell through the hole and i did not clean nothing.