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Wannabee HOA I guess. Ironically, for the reasons why our neighbor(s) don't want us in the neighborhood; would have been the same reason why they would have been denied moving into that neighborhood 50 years ago.
Meh, I'm just looking forward to enjoying the 1st start; and eventually getting that car moving under its own power. I will worry about dealing with them when the time comes.
HOAs are defined by the first set of officers who put all the regs and policies in place. Stuff is almost impossible to change, so the attitude or character of the regs bleed into the mannerisms of the HOA members. The development next to mine is 20 yrs older than mine. The rules are obnoxious and overreaching. Many of the people are bitter. The current officers avoid HOA monthly meetings whenever they are aware of a hot button issue. They claim the meeting is cancelled b c the required quorum of board members are not going to be present.
I asked them how they could preemptively determine quorum status at a meeting without anyone attending the meeting to count? And document?
Someone would have to pay ME to live in a community that had an HOA. Bunch of smug a-holes who were never anybody important on a REAL job, so they want to feel like bigshots by being in charge of an HOA. I'd be in jail after the first meeting, because with my short fuse these days, I'd be pounding the crap out of the first guy to say something smug.
Unlike the HOA in my neighboring development, the HOA board members in my development are actually pretty real people who take responsibility for things, maintain the budget expenditures, prepare full financial statements year over year so that those of us belonging to the HOA can see where the money goes. They negotiate contracts with trash haulers and recycling haulers that are much cheaper than we could each do ourselves. They are in charge real time of private snow plow coverage in the winter and do a great job.
In general they are not Richards about adding on to your structure as long as you have proper drawings to evaluate. They monitor the water quality in the pool daily. If it becomes unfit, usually from little turds from little turds etc, it gets treated, everyone loses a day at the pool, but it is safe.
You pay your dues which are quite reasonable and live your life with no interference from them.
Nobody is smug. There's simply no reason.
But I understand your point. I am in the minority with my HOA board, and many of the others are filled with people as you described.
I tried to attempt a 1st start 2 weeks ago; but the weather and sinuses the following day sidelined me. Finally got to it last Saturday and ran into issues. First off; I had a pickle of a time finding TDC on the compression stroke of #1 cylinder. I loosened up the spark plug and heard nothing. So I took a small wad of paper towel and jammed it into the spark plug hole; in an attempt to see it blow out on the compression stroke. That didn't happen; perhaps I didn't jam it in there enough? So I had my Dad come out and stick his finger in the hole while I turned the engine over. I heard hissing; but he said he felt nothing on his finger. I'm not sure how tightly he had his finger in there; but I told him he must be mistaken because I could hear the hissing from that side of the engine. I turned it over some more and I guess he loosened his grip as the second time I heard hissing, he said he could feel the pressure. I may check cylinder pressure when I get this thing running to confirm I got proper compression. After all of that cranking, I took a break because I'm not 20 years old, and all that work made me tired. So, when I got back to dropping the dizzy, it was already running late. But I decided to prime the engine anyways because I would only be running it for 20 minutes. Primed the engine and killed my $50 drill. Once it built pressure, the drill started to labor, and after a minute of priming, it smoked and burnt out. Tried to drop the dizzy and found that my fuel rail fittings were in the way. Not too bad of a problem; as I got my AN wrench, loosened them up, and rotated the fitting for clearance. Then I clocked the dizzy; first time doing so by myself btw. I noticed that it was dark out. So I quit and tried again on Sunday. I cleaned my Milwaukee drill (the one I used for the Saturn oil changes) and primed the engine again; then reclocked the dizzy. Hooked up the battery, climbed in the car, and went to load the tune. I noticed that the dome light wasn't working; figured it might have burned out or sumtin over the years. So I turned the key to power on the system and get the Quarterhorse activated (I think that's how it works, instructions are vague). But nothing happened; no lights; no relays clicking; no fuel pump priming; nothing. I was stumped. Went out with the test light and found no power on the right pole of the starter solenoid; just the battery side where the battery and starter power cable are hooked up to. My Dad came out and discovered that he could bump the starter by applying power to the relay pole on the starter solenoid. So we confirmed it was an ignition issue. I spent the last 2 days scouring the net for diagrams and discovered that I may have switched the wires to the wrong pole when I took the original engine out. All of the fusible links along with the starter power cable go on the B+ pole of the solenoid. So, when I go back out there, maybe tomorrow, I will switch it all over and see what happens. After confirming that is what I did.
Also discovered when I pulled the tarp completely off the car; there was a little more body damage than I thought from the oak tree that fell last year. The corner of the passenger front door frame is bent down a little. The door opens and closes; just rubs the metal a little when I open it up. And the roof is punched in a few spots nearby. The body shop will have to deal with that when the time comes.
Last edited by Chickenbone; Jul 27, 2021 at 03:55 PM.
Got a question for you, Bones. Is the #1 piston on the driver side or passenger side of this engine? I know back in the 60's and 70's that #1 on a small block Ford V-8 was the front cylinder on the passenger side. Buddy of mine had a 67 Mustang fastback that his dad gave him and he tried to tune it from the driver side front cylinder. It wouldn't run right for him, but he wouldn't listen to me about timing it off the other side. He borrowed his dads car to go get new spark plugs and I timed it off #1 while he was gone. When he got back, instead of being grateful, he was pissed. I told him to fix it himself and left him to it. A couple of days later, he came over and asked me to help him. I did and we went cruising later.
Yes Rubehayseed; you're correct. Passenger side front (toward the front of the car) cylinder is No.1 Your buddy was thinking of small block Chevys with it being on the front driver side of the engine.
Cruising this car seems so far off; eventually we'll get there. LOL
