Posted on 05/14/2017 8:30:57 AM PDT by hardspunned
I have been aware of the serious effect an EMP attack would have on our country for some time. I recently read a most terrifying book, One Second After, and am now motivated to better prepare my family for this possibility. My question regards the viability of a 1987 Toyota 4x4 truck with a 22r carbureted engine. I have been told there is a vulnerable component in the non electronic ignition system. My understanding was that old coil, distributor system was safe.
I have the opportunity to purchase this vehicle and would like to be sure that it can be counted on if needed.
My brother got zapped by lightning. He got thrown across his garage. He reset after a few minutes.
Right as rain now. Mostly. Be he was always a little “off”.
Most experts say if your vehicle is in the garage it will likely be OK after an EMP. Take a piece of chain and hang it from your bumper to the floor as a ground if you are really concerned about it.
I read “One Second After” several years ago. Some of it was a little over the top.
In an EMP its the grid that’s going down. Anything not plugged in will likely still work. Put your money in survival food, fuel and cash and silver coins.
Rand corporation... 90% of Americans will die within 2 years after grid dysfunction. I suppose you are feeling lucky.
What are you going to power?
Where ya gonna get gas? Oil?
Rural location is good. The trip may be impossible. I would expect roadblocks manned by armed people with bad intentions.
Things will deteriorate very quickly.
Deep well pump,electric stove,furnace blower in my outdoor wood furnace.
This entire thread is full of fabricated, unreliable nonsense.
EMP is reality and can be defended against.
With a full tank, that’d be one trip into town. You might want to concentrate on something else.
I’m aware. Plenty of hunting and fishing available here on foot. I have a river a few hundred feet away for water. We’ll just do what we can. People here will pull together, it’s the cities where it will go to hell quickly.
Repeat. Nearly every comment in this thread is fallacy.
Respect you both, so this is not personal.
As much as I listen to what you say, I know CodeToad knows what he is talking about when it comes to government and military EMP studies and activities.
He’s been there in the government/military R&D world and his knowledge of what the government/military studied and why they terminated such research is based on facts he observed and studies he participated in.
Like I said, nothing personal.
Respect you both, so this is not personal.
As much as I listen to what you say, I know CodeToad knows what he is talking about when it comes to government and military EMP studies and activities.
He’s been there in the government/military R&D world and his knowledge of what the government/military studied and why they terminated such research is based on facts he observed and studies he participated in.
Like I said, nothing personal.
I am extremely interested and would love more information aimed at someone who is intellectually curious but not a physicist nor an engineer.
They can run on other fuels, especially the Stanley fire-tube ones. They’re currently set up to burn gasoline, though (a consideration of higher availability), but they can run on diesel (No. 2) fuel oil and more viscous grades.
A direct lightning strike will take out a car.
Buddy of mines brand new truck (paper license plate) was hit in the parking lot.
Long story short, it took the dealer several months to get it to run again as they replaced component after component. When they plugged it in on the master diagnostic computer, it did not even register that anything was connected. It left the dealer numerous times on test drives and came back on the wrecker.
He asked me what to do and I said take every wire and electrical component out, throw it in the trash and start over. Insurance wouldn’t do it.
He drove it from the service bay to the other side of the dealer and traded it in with 500 miles on it.
I bought a ‘79 Yamaha 650 for just that reason. 1979 was the last year before Yamaha switched over to electronic ignition. I DID switch it over to electronic ignition for reliability and quick starts, but have the parts to put it back original. I’ve also bought extra electrical/ignition parts and stored them in a small metal trash can lined with foamboard. Because I initially had mucho electrical problems with the bike, I am now intimately familiar with the workings.
I don’t think that an EMP will fry everything electronic- just everything “solid state”. I believe that planes such as the F-4s will still fly, anything based on tube technology is unaffected.
Only Russia will be there to save Europe. And they will not spare one scuzzlim. But they will not want to leave after they "help" europe.
I wonder what will happen to Israel..
LOL
4x4s are just about the cleverest gimmick created by huckster shark suit salesguys to add thousands to the price of a vehicle.
I’ve driven on all sorts of mud rutted dirt mountain ‘roads’ in my simple front wheel drive station wagon. Winter I have snow chains and a folding shovel in the back , in 18 years never used the snow chains, the small shovel twice.
Both times I had to dig the station wagon out of the snow was because of stupidity on my part. At least, my son learned how to dig a stuck car out of a snow bank.
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