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To examine the financial impact health information exchange (HIE) in emergency departments (EDs).
We studied all ED encounters over a 13-month period in which HIE data were accessed in all major emergency departments Memphis, Tennessee. HIE access encounter records were matched with similar encounter records without HIE access. Outcomes studied were ED-originated hospital admissions, admissions for observation, laboratory testing, head CT, body CT, ankle radiographs, chest radiographs, and echocardiograms. Our estimates employed generalized estimating equations for logistic regression models adjusted for admission type, length of stay, and Charlson co-morbidity index. Marginal probabilities were used to calculate changes in outcome variables and their financial consequences.
HIE data were accessed in approximately 6.8% of ED visits across 12 EDs studied. In 11 EDs directly accessing HIE data only through a secure Web browser, access was associated with a decrease in hospital admissions (adjusted odds ratio (OR)=0.27; p<0001). In a 12th ED relying more on print summaries, HIE access was associated with a decrease in hospital admissions (OR=0.48; p<0001) and statistically significant decreases in head CT use, body CT use, and laboratory test ordering.
Applied only to the study population, HIE access was associated with an annual cost savings of $1.9 million. Net of annual operating costs, HIE access reduced overall costs by $1.07 million. Hospital admission reductions accounted for 97.6% of total cost reductions.
Access to additional clinical data through HIE in emergency department settings is associated with net societal saving.
Care delivery is often distributed across multiple settings and is the joint responsibility of many providers who do not have access to the same electronic medical record.1–4 Access to a more comprehensive set of clinical data will be essential to improve care coordination as more care reimbursement shifts from fee-for-service to reimbursement plans exemplified by recent federal accountable care organization initiatives and Department of Health and Human Services meaningful use requirements.5–10 Access to all data required for medical decision-making makes good sense. Such access should reduce medical error, improve healthcare quality, and lower medical costs.11–13 Health information exchange (HIE) allows clinicians access to data originating from other sites of care or service. By our definition, HIE is a set of services that supports access among parties who are motivated by common interest and governed to ensure that the rights of patients and participants are protected. HIE can be achieved through services provided by one or more solitary health information organizations (HIO) and through direct, point-to-point communication among providers.14 15
The national experience with HIE is growing, both in terms of the number of sites exploring this technology16 17 and the business models that rely on it. Unfortunately, because of the economic immaturity of HIE, most HIE benefits are estimates.18–20 Reports of measurable financial benefit are few in number.21 22
Presenting convincing evidence is a challenge because of the relatively small but growing number of HIE efforts, the differences in HIE, the ways in which HIE is enabled and used, and the methodology challenge of measuring value in 'real world' settings. Although HIE among institutions usually takes place through a single intermediary HIO, as more organizations share data with one another on a point-to-point basis, measuring the marginal contribution of each external data source and thus the overall value of HIE will become even more problematical.23
As part of our 6-year effort providing access to clinical and administrative data through a single HIO supporting HIE for every consenting patient treated in any of the region's major hospitals and in some ambulatory care clinics, we conducted a 2-year study examining overall use, user perspectives, and a range of other factors.24–26 We report here the direct financial impact study results by determining how HIE data access by emergency department (ED) physicians affected hospital admissions and diagnostic testing.
Since 2005, the non-profit MidSouth eHealth Alliance has governed and managed HIE services among 16 major healthcare provider organizations in the Memphis, Tennessee, USA, metropolitan area. All 12 major hospitals provided hospital discharge summary notes, laboratory data, pathology reports, radiographic reports, other transcribed notes, and a range of other clinical and administrative documents. All participating clinics provided demographic information, registration information, and a limited number of clinical data types.
Clinicians began accessing health information exchange data in their EDs in May 2006 and later obtained access on hospital wards and in ambulatory clinics. HIE access in EDs was phased in over the study period; all major hospital ED had access to HIE before collecting HIE use data. As of 1 October 2010, clinicians had access to over 7.5 million encounter records on 1.7 million patients, 4.9 million chief complaints, 45 million laboratory tests, 5 million radiology reports, and 2.1 million other reports and documents. Clinical information was available for almost every patient whose data were accessed through the web HIE interface; the amount and type of data varied among patients based on the frequency and nature of their care in participating hospitals and clinics. Patients were offered the chance to 'opt out' from HIE participation at the time of every encounter at participating hospitals and clinics. The percentage of patients 'opting out' when consent was sought ranged from 1% to 3% across sites over the study period.
HIE services were based on technologies created by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and managed by a Vanderbilt University team until a local governing board and a free-standing HIE service provider assumed complete control in October 2010.27 Data from contributing organizations were transmitted securely, tagged with meta-level descriptors, and stored in databases that allowed some organizational control and ensured access only when use complied with formal consent, data access, and data use policies.28
Eleven of the 12 participating hospital EDs accessed HIE data only through a separate, secure web portal designed specifically for this purpose. This portal displayed a 'white board' running list of patients registered in the ED over the previous 24 h, and displayed the number of encounter records available from other sites of care. It also supported direct queries for individual patients. HIE data were accessed in approximately 6.8% of ED encounters.24
ED physicians in the 12th hospital did not have access to the standard 'white board' until the 10th month of the HIE encounter data collection period. In earlier months, encounter summaries were printed by ED staff during triage. These summaries contained the dates of service, location of service, primary complaint, and International Classification of Disease, version 9 codes for every encounter in other hospitals. Physicians could obtain all of the information available to the other 11 sites through direct HIE query. This rarely happened. ED visits to this hospital constituted 20% of the total regional ED visits. Encounter forms were printed for 10–15% of ED visits (monthly percentages). When ED clinicians were given functionality identical to the direct access group, print encounter forms were abandoned and direct web access rates increased to regional norms.24
The study population was drawn from a Tennessee Hospital Association hospital billing database consisting of all ED visit records from the 2-year study period (January 2007 to December 2008). The initial HIE exposure group case record set consisted of all 20 285 ED visits in which HIE data access was documented through audit logs. The HIE access dates were from July 2007 to September 2008; 99.9% of HIE encounter records were from the 13-month period from August 2007 to August 2008. A matching set of no-HIE exposure group records was obtained by matching the case set with a corresponding number of ED visit records in which no HIE data access was found. Each HIE and no-HIE encounter record was matched on age (decile), gender, race, site of emergency care, presenting diagnosis, and primary payer source. The no-HIE encounter records were distributed across the entire 2-year study period to ensure adequate matching. The 11 ED settings using the web-based system for the entire collection period were labeled 'direct access site 1' to 'direct access site 11'. The 12th ED first using print encounter forms and later switching to the same web-based system was labeled the 'mixed access site' (table 1).
All research was conducted with institutional review board approval and under additional contractual restraints imposed by data-sharing agreements.
From a set of 20 285 HIE encounter records and a corresponding number of no-HIE encounter records, 4487 HIE encounter records and a corresponding number of matched no-HIE encounter records were excluded. Of these excluded records, 932 were of patients who had at least one ED visit record in both the HIE and no-HIE encounter record sets; another 3555 encounter records were for patients who had visited an ED during the study period but for whom their HIE data were accessed only in non-ED care settings. The final study population consisted of 15 798 HIE encounter records and 15 798 matched no-HIE encounter (figure 1).
The number of ED encounter records in both the HIE and no-HIE sets were greater than the number of unique patients because some patients sought ED care more than once (and often from more than one institution) over the 2-year study period. The 15 798 HIE encounter records represented 12 120 unique patients. The 15 798 no-HIE encounter records represented 13 832 unique patients. In the HIE encounter record set, the number (%) of the 12 210 individuals seeking care one time, two times, or more than two times were 9728 (62%), 1704 (21%) and 688 (17%), respectively. Corresponding values for the no-HIE encounter records set were 12 479 (79%), 1014 (13%) and 339 (8%), respectively. Of the patients in the HIE encounter record set, 351 (2.8%) had visit records from care both in the direct web access group and the mixed access site. The number of corresponding patients in the no-HIE encounter record set was 200 (1.4%).
The mixed access site differed from the 11-hospital direct access group both in the initial means of accessing HIE data and in different HIE use metrics resulting from employing printed encounter forms in the mixed access site. We therefore separately analyzed the direct web access group and the mixed access site. For each, we independently examined rates of outcome variables in both the HIE cohort and the no-HIE cohort. The outcome variables were: hospital admissions from the ED, head CT scans, body CT scans, chest radiographs, echocardiogram, outpatient surgery, the number of patients receiving one or more laboratory tests, admissions for observation, and ankle radiographs.
In light of the computational requirements for this large dataset and the need to obtain estimates efficiently, we matched each no-HIE exposure with a corresponding HIE exposure case on care delivery site, age group (decile), gender, race, primary discharge diagnostic code, and health plan status. Our subsequent regression model controlled for admission type, Charlson comorbidity index, age, health plan status, and length of stay (table 1).29 To improve the calibration curve of our model, we applied a logarithmic transformation to the Charlson comorbidity index and applied a 0.1 shift on to eliminate zero values.
Some patients visited multiple EDs; the number of patients differed. To account for ED visit frequency differences, we used generalized estimating equations (GEE) employing a logit link function and a binomial distribution. This method allowed us to compare the marginal probability of each outcome variable.30 31 Our GEE models adjusted for patient clustering initially through a working independent covariance matrix and subsequently by robust or sandwich SE adjustment to quantify the uncertainty of our estimates. The 95% CI of the OR were constructed by Wald statistics. We calculated the changes in each outcome variable by multiplying the differences in marginal probabilities of each outcome calculated from our fitted model by the total number of ED visits in which HIE was actually accessed. Analyses were conducted by using the R 2.10.1 statistical package (http://www.r-project.org). Two-sided p values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
In order to estimate the potential financial savings, we chose a conservative approach in order to avoid over-generalizing the results or overestimating the financial savings. In particular, the steps in our calculations were:
Costs were defined as median regional costs during the study period obtained from the Tennessee Hospital Association.
For both the 11-ED direct web access group and the single mixed access site we separately calculated the societal financial impact by summing the cost differences associated with each outcome variable in which statistically significant differences were observed.32 We calculated annual savings from our 13-month results by multiplying the estimated total savings by (12/13). We constructed 95% CI on 1000 bootstrap samples. Our financial impact results are based only on the study ED encounters in which HIE was accessed.
After controlling for all covariates through our regression model, HIE use in the direct web access group resulted in 191 fewer admissions than would have been predicted to occur without HIE use (OR 0.271; 95% CI 0.210 to 0.351; p<0.001). Similarly, HIE access resulted in 800 additional chest radiographs (OR 4.367; 95% CI 3.784 to 5.040; p<0.001) and 74 additional head CT studies (OR 5.032; 95% CI 3.074 to 8.236). The total financial savings were US$862 425 (95% CI US$671 884 to US$1 067 026). The calculated annual financial savings from the 11-hospital direct access group were approximately US$796 085 (table 2).
After controlling for all covariates through our regression model, HIE use at the mixed access site resulted in 221 fewer admissions than would have been predicted to occur without HIE use (OR 0.478; 95% CI 0.402 to 0.568; p<0.001). Similarly, HIE access resulted in 103 fewer head CT (OR 0.913; 95% CI 0.842 to 0.991; p=0.029), 196 fewer body CT (OR 0.886; 95% CI 0.828 to 0.948; p<0.001), and 258 fewer instances in which laboratory tests were ordered (OR 0.880; 95% CI 0.828 to 0.935; p<0.001). The total financial savings were US$1 247 331 (95% CI US$991 927 to US$1 498 776). The calculated annual financial savings from the mixed access site were approximately US$1 151 382 (table 3).
Total annual societal savings were approximately US$1.95 million. Annual operating costs during the study period were approximately US$880 000. The net societal savings were therefore approximately US$1.07 million. Reduced admissions from EDs account for 97.6% of the total savings (table 4).
We present evidence that relatively limited use measured only in ED settings can confer net societal financial benefit across an entire region. We found approximately US$800 in annual savings within 11 hospital ED accessing HIE data through a simple web-based technology, and a total of US$1.9 million in annual savings if all regional hospital EDs accessing HIE through different means are included. Because HIE operational costs were kept very low (US$880 000 per year), net savings are over US$1 million. The Memphis ED we studied accounted for virtually all emergency care for the 1.2 million individuals in the metropolitan area. Assuming the per capita healthcare expenditures are similar to national estimates of US$8026, the investment to support HIE is only slightly more than one one-hundredth of the total per capita healthcare expenditures.
Seeking to measure impact across the entire region, we sought to identify a method of analysis that was both extremely conservative and at the same time accounted for the wide differences in patient populations, practice patterns, and uses of technology. Accordingly, we rigorously associated every HIE access encounter record with a matched no-HIE access record. We incorporated these records into regression analysis that also accounted for disease severity and other measurable factors. This model allowed us to estimate actual increases or decreases in specific activities based on whether or not HIE had been used. We used these differences to calculate the adjusted financial impact of HIE only on the patients for whom HIE data were accessed in the course of their care. We did not extrapolate to patients for whom HIE was not used.
Caution should be exercised when interpreting our findings. Access to HIE data was relatively low (6.8%) because the data were not integrated into and presented through the many different electronic health record (EHR) systems used within the region. Previous work in this population suggests there are differences between the study patients for whom HIE data were accessed and those for whom it was not.24 Providers use HIE when they encounter clinical problems in which additional information may provide insight. The variation in intent among ED clinicians could not be comprehensively measured and incorporated into our study. We speculate that the small but significant increase in chest x-ray use in inner-city ED within the direct access group is an example of differences in provider motivation. Our observations support the findings of others who suggest that providers find HIE helpful in managing non-urgent chronic medical conditions—particularly for indigent populations seeking care in more than one setting.22 As is the case across the country, many ED visits were for chronic or non-urgent medical conditions33 34 Our HIE system was used more frequently for 'repeat visits'.24 Our approach did not allow us to account for provider clustering effects. Such clustering effects would affect standard errors and CI but not the estimated increases or reductions in outcome variables.
Our findings suggest that widespread hospital support for HIE and initial deployment only in ED settings will still lower overall societal costs. In our case, these societal cost reductions were of sufficient magnitude to offset the entire cost of operations. Initial use of HIE data in urban ED settings confers immediate trust and value among key hospital stakeholders, but far greater financial and clinical benefit is anticipated when HIE is ubiquitous across a far wider array of care settings. If care delivery within a region is highly fragmented, collaborative HIE among an entire community may confer far greater benefit by improving care coordination, measuring and addressing hospital readmissions, and collectively developing more comprehensive quality metrics for both individuals and populations. As has been our own experience, we assume that basic HIE services can be provided inexpensively and that HIE once established can expand at relatively low cost to encompass a broader array of clinicians employing certified EHR. Federal efforts in EHR certification, national data standards, and meaningful use incentives will make the integration of medical practices into HIE networks far less costly than was the case when our effort began in 2004. Our study demonstrates a positive financial impact on communities, but we believe these savings will be only a fraction of the economic benefit that will be realized as our connected digital healthcare delivery system evolves.
Funding: This work was funded in part through Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contract 290-04-0006 and the State of Tennessee. This publication has not been approved by AHRQ.
Competing interests: None.
Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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Responses for Box-Cox transformations
The following are answers that have been given me in response to my query
mg23479 regarding Box-Cox transformations. Thanks to both gentlemen for
their advice! -David Paul
Dear David,
Try this:
fm[fun_, startv_, opts___] :=
Module[{vars = Table[Unique[], {Length[startv]}]},
fun[Sequence @@ vars],
Evaluate[Sequence @@ MapThread[List, {vars, startv}]],
fun[a_,b_]:=Sin[a b];
fm does the same as FindMinimum, but takes a function symbol
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startingValue pairs.
Hope that helps. Of course, you could extend this Module in
various directions. The simple idea is to generate a List of variables
inside of the module and then to use MapThread to generate a
Sequence of pairs of variables and starting values. The Evaluate is
necessary, because FindMininum has Attribute HoldAll.
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Email: ludsteck at zew.de
Dear David Paul,
What you have to do is to treat your variables and starting values
as objects of their own. _Somewhere_ you have to specify them, e.g. as
vars = {x, y, z}; (* these must be symbols without a value *)
starts = {x0, y0, z0}; (* these are the starting points, substitute
or give the x0,... a value respectively *)
FindMinimum[function, ##] & @@ Transpose[{vars, starts}]
FindMinimum::"fmns": "Starting value \!\(x0\) in \!\({x, x0}\) is not a
real \number."
(* the error was provoked to see the following: *)
FindMinimum[function, {x, x0}, {y, y0}, {z, z0}]
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My experience with Fyly in Greece ...
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The sole reason for me visiting this board after returning from my charter was to help others that might be going through the same uncomfortable and un-nerving experience of self-booking their first charter in Greece. I came to this board looking for experience and opinions from people who had done the same; mostly, what I found were negative opinions - the few positive remarks were always followed by someone, such as yourself, who sought to state their opinion of the post and cast doubt. This does not help people. I wanted to post a message so that the next guy that comes along and searches this board, looking to make himself more comfortable sending large sums of money to the other side of the planet, might find something that is clear and not confusing.
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anyone noticed with Firefox when you have a flash site with sound and you close the browser the flash sound continues for a about a half second and then stops. this delay is also noticeable when adjusting the volume on a flash volume control in Firefox – when you run the SWF there is no delay –
I noticed, too. But there's no real harm in that is there?
no harm – just annoying
Yep, noticed that too.
Especially when I close a YouTube window… But I guess I just get used to it, and I was assuming it's another one of many problems we deal with when we're using the great-master-piece-advanced-genius OS called WINDOWS .


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ROME – Police in southern Italy have arrested an Algerian man wanted by Belgian authorities for alleged involvement in a Belgium-based network that provided false IDs used by people implicated in the Paris and Brussels attacks, investigators said Sunday.
Djamal Eddine Ouali was arrested Saturday in the town of Bellizzi, outside of the port city of Salerno, said Luigi Amato, the head of Salerno police's anti-terrorism squad. Ouali apparently "didn't know he was wanted" by Belgian authorities and applied for a residency permit about 10 days ago in Italy, Amato said in a telephone interview.
Ouali, 40, was jailed while authorities expected extradition procedures to soon begin, the police official said.
Ouali had entered Italy sometime after late December, Amato said. His wife, also Algerian, is also in Italy.
A statement from police in Salerno noted that authorities' interest in Ouali was triggered when they noticed he had the same name as a man sought by Belgium for alleged involvement in "a criminal network dedicated to false documents on a large scale" that emerged last year in Brussels.
Belgium issued a warrant in January, three months after a raid in the Brussels suburb of Saint-Gilles yielded some thousand digital images used for false documents.
That raid discovered "photos and of some aliases used by the three terrorists belonging to the group which planned and carried out the attacks in Paris" on Nov. 13, 2015, the Italian police statement said.
The Italian news agency ANSA said the aliases included Soufiane Kayal, the name used by Najim Laachraoui, one of the suicide bombers in last week's Brussels airport attack, as well as one used by Mohamed Belkaid, who was killed during the hunt for Salah Abdeslam, as well as an alias, Yassine Baghli, used by Abdeslam, the suspected ringleader of the attacks.
Amato said Oauli declined to answer investigators' questions. The official stressed he couldn't elaborate on what links the documents' falsification had to the suspects in the Paris and Brussels attacks. Italy's investigation of Oauli's activities on Italian territory is also continuing.
The Algerian held in Italy as part of a probe into fake ID documents used by the Paris and Brussels attackers was interrogated Sunday but refused to answer questions, a judicial source said.
Djamal Eddine Ouali, 40, was detained under a European arrest warrant near Salerno on Saturday, and questioned in prison by prosecutors, the judge in charge of the preliminary inquiry said.
Salerno police chief Alfredo Anzalone said he was confident Ouali's extradition to Belgium would be approved. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday.
Ouali was held on Saturday evening at a bus stop in a joint swoop involving anti-terrorism officers and a police special operations unit in the town of Bellizzi, an area with a large population of transient seasonal workers, many from North Africa.
Belgium had issued a European arrest warrant for Ouali as it probes the false papers used by the Islamic State network that organized Tuesday's Brussels attacks, which killed 28 people, and November's assault on Paris that left 130 dead.
He is suspected of being part of a criminal network that produced fake documents for illegal immigration.
Suspicions were raised after local immigration officials checked Ouali's residency permit. Police had been searching for a man with the same name and belonging to the same organization since Jan. 6.
Hundreds of digital photographs were then seized from a counterfeiter's workshop, including three of those who planned the deadly attacks in Paris in November.
One of those photographed was Najim Laachraoui, one of the suicide bombers at Brussels airport, reports quoted police as saying.
Investigations are ongoing as to how Ouali came to be in Italy and into the networks of which he may have been a part.


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:( Well Ive had my jeep for like a month and a half now, the poor thing hasnt moved yet. My husband been working on it, ever sence we got alot of new part and replaced the old ones but the jeep is still having problems, I believe we've done almost everything, except two things, ckeck the timing light and the carburator to see if the main problem is comming from there.
Let me tell you the story of My Jeep
Its an 89 YJ with only 80K miles, apparently it was owened by only two people before me.
The last owner didnt know anything about cars, and he didnt even take it for a spin that much, some people say that the fact that it wasnt ridden much can be the cause of all the problems... I dont know much about cars either but Im studiying as I go, learning new things from mechanics and friends that work on cars.
Hopefully my Husband and I can come across the problem soon...
We started noticing the problem as soon as we bought it on the second day, the Jeep wouldn't Idle right, and from then on it started getting worst...
well I just had to write down what Im going through at the moment, I have alot of hope on my Jeep and I know that when its fix, its going to be like a brand new Jeep and it will last me for years!
Looking forward to it all.
Happy Mudding
Jahaira Cochrane;)
Looks good sitting in the parking lot, though. You can always sit behing the wheel and make engine noises with your mouth.
J/K Hope you figure it out soon, they are much more fun when you can actually drive them. I'd concentrate on the carb first.
And welcome to the forum.
get that carb off there, cleaned out and rebuilt. Might be old gas that gummed it up
Im working on it again Today
4wheeling, jaja.
Yeah Ill concetrate on the Carb..
Hopefully that would be the end of my anxiety.
Just Empty Every Pocket
MY 87 did the same thing, replace the carb and you'll be running like new.
I assume you have the 4.2 litre 6 cyl. If so, the carb is garbage. Don't bother trying to fix it. Get a Weber or I've heard others talk about the MC2100. If you have the coin, upgrade to fuel injection. It will cost about a grand, but worth every penny.
Not a problem Jahaira. I hope you get your problem solved soon. Let us know how it turns out :D
also..try putting in good gas, some sea-foam and change the fuel filters..along with the carb..
Yeah...I'd definitely try the Seafoam.
Rough Idle
:wavey: Just another thought, Pop open the distributor cap and make sure its dry. Might be some condensation in there from not being driven much. Pull the spark plugs and clean off any carbon build up( Put in new plugs if they look funky) Check all of your vacuum hoses for good connections. If it has a carb, start it up and hold at a high idle a spray some gumout in the carb. Raise the hood at night in the dark and see if there is any arcing from the plug wires anywhere. Thats the route I would take anyway. Good Luck,its most likely something very minor.
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I bought an 88 wrangler that sat in a barn for 4 years and it had an idle problem. Was tired of doing the three legged shufle at all the stops, would not idle at all. Found this article, all it took was fifteen minutes, runs like a champ will idle down to 800 rpms without a miss. Is fun to drive now!
Easy Fix for Jeep 258 Carter BBD Idle Problem
by Terry L. Howe
The Jeep 258 (4.2L) I6 isn't a power house, but it has gobs of low RPM torque that makes it a great engine off-road. The most common problem I see with the engine is it's inability to idle. Between the 258 in my '81 CJ-7 and a couple friends that have 258 equipped Wranglers, I have fixed this problem half a dozen times and the cause of the problem has always been the same. The problem has always been caused by clogged idle tubes that cause fuel to drip out of the venturis and make the Jeep run rich at idle. Fixing the problem is relatively easy and once you get past this problem, you will get much more enjoyment from the 258 and the Carter BBD carburetor.
The Carter BBD is a two barrel carburetor that was available on late 70s to late 80s Jeeps with the 4.2L engine. There are two variations of the carburetor, one is computer controlled and has a stepper motor on the back side. The computer controlled version was used after 1981. Other than that, the two versions are the same although it seems the stepper motor version is a bit more troublesome.
The Symptoms
The symptoms of the problem include stumbling and sputtering at idle. In advanced cases, the Jeep will stall at every stop sign and will only run at high RPMs. Gas mileage will suffer since fuel will just be sloshing out at idle. Sometimes the idle will be turned up to a high RPM to avoid the problem. Typically, the Jeep will run fine at higher RPMs (unless there are also other problems.)
For a sure diagnosis, park the Jeep with the engine off and remove the air cleaner cover. There should be a plate over the throat of the carb, the choke plate. If you open the choke plate you should be able to see down the throat of the carb and you should see two screws with holes in the middle of them. Next to them are two passages with a nozzle in the middle of each. This thing is known as the venturi, when air passes by, fuel is supposed to be drawn out through the nozzles. If the idle tubes are clogged fuel will drip from those nozzles during idle.
In order to see if fuel drips from the nozzles at idle, you must start your Jeep with the air cleaner cover off and look down the throat of the carb. The Jeep Technical Service Manual recommends that, when you do this, you cover the air cleaner with a piece of plexiglass since the engine can backfire through the carb and a flame can shoot out. Since I am reckless and like living dangerously, I never do this.
After you have chosen the wise or foolish path, start your Jeep and open the choke plate. If your idle tubes are badly clogged, you will see fuel dripping from the nozzles at idle (if your Jeep will idle at all.) If you don't see fuel dripping, but your idle is still poor, open the throttle a bit with your hand or have a friend hit the accelerator. You should see two even streams of fuel and no dripping from the nozzles. Any dripping means clogged idle tubes.
While you are doing this, make sure you don't put your hand or anything else into rotating parts like the fan. Keep your tie away from that thing (some people just want to look good all the time.) Same goes if you are a "long hair, freaky" Tesla type. All joking aside, I've heard some bad stories.
The Solution
Neither removal of the carburetor nor a complete rebuild is necessary to fix the problem. To fix the problem, start with you Jeep off and parked securely:
Remove the air cleaner cover and air cleaner. You may need to remove a few hoses and wires to get the air cleaner out of the way. Make sure you tag them all so you can put them back in the right spot. It's often easiest not to remove the heater hose that goes to the exhaust manifold, if you have one.
Remove hoop that holds air cleaner.
Remove the two screws holding the choke plate with a 3/16" socket or small flat blade screw driver depending on what screws you have holding it. Be careful not to drop the screws down the manifold unless you enjoy fishing. Remove the choke plate.
If your carb has one, remove the plate on the side that covers the choke linkage so you can access the screw holding the choke rod. It may be necessary to drill out a rivet to get it free.
Remove the little snap ring and screw (1/4" socket) that holds the rod that holds the choke plate and remove the rod. A screw driver will normally push off the snap ring.
Remove the two screws with holes in the middle of them and carefully remove the venturi cluster with the two little gaskets. There should be two idle pickup tubes pushed into the venturi sticking out of the bottom. If they have fallen out, that could cause your idle problem.
Blast the venturi and inside of carb with lots of carb cleaner. Be sure not to dislodge the check ball in the center.
With a long thin pin or piece of piano wire, make sure the idle tubes and nozzles are clear. After you have run them through, spray with more carb cleaner.
Put the cleaned out venturi cluster back with the two gaskets and two screws.
Replace the choke rod with snap ring and screw and replace the choke plate. Make sure all the screws are tight that hold together the carb body at this time. Often the screws will loosen up and dirt will be sucked into the carb.
Replace the plate covering the choke linkage with a sheet metal screw, or leave it off.
Replace the air cleaner.
Smooth idle should have returned after this simple process. If you still have idle problems and don't have any dripping, make sure all the vacuum hoses are hooked up and in good shape. Also check for leaks around the intake manifold or a loose carburetor.
To avoid repeated clogged idle tubes, drill out the idle tubes to 0.032". This will greatly reduce the frequency of clogging and it is a procedure that was actually recommended by Jeep for a while.
An alternative to removing the choke plate and all is to just remove the top of the carburetor. The advantage of this approach is you can make sure there isn't a lot of junk in the bowls, you can check your float adjustment, etc. It also may help if you have power brakes because the master cylinder may be in the way of getting the choke rod out.
Thanks to Randy Peterson for posting this solution a few years back. I've used it on various Jeeps many times since.
carter carburator
Mine was leaking on the drivers side when looking down the carburator, if you gased it you could see the stream of gas being injected into the carb.The right side had gas bubbling around above the lower plate, mine would not idle at all. I took the six screws off around the top of the carb, unhooked the three c clips on the linkages on the carb one for throttle, one for choke, and one for fast idle. And yes I lost one clip and had to pick one up at the auto parts!! I pulled the two screws and lifted the two tubes off as an assembly, the left side I could blow thru but the other I could not. I took a fine pieace of wire and ran it thru the plugged one and verified it being open by blowing thru it. Put it back together and it runs like a champ. Hope this helps Gordie
Nice work Gordie. This should be a sticky now. This might save some people a few bucks if this actually works. Doesn't cost a thing to try it.
Other suggestions:
Run Chevron Techron Fuel System Cleaner in your fuel tank, at least once a month, it's the best, and use Chevron gas, w/it's Techron additive.
Another good brand of gas is Shell.
Stay away from ARCO.
We are posting to ourselves. She hasn't been back since the second post!!!
Guess she got what she wanted.
Hey Guys! Yes I finnaly got the jeep running like a champ, I thank you all for your help and all the important imformation. Ive been off the computer for a long time due to computer Problems.. now Im back yay! again thank you all for the great information, yes the problem was the carb, there where loos parts inside and it was a mess, we got them tighten and cleaned up and whallah! its brand new :D IM SO ECITED! now its time to get me a nice brand new SOFTTOP. Ill be on and off here everyday :) Keep intouch yall!
Good for you! Glade you got it running:p
Yay another jeep on the road, dont forget to wave!
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As part of its ongoing 15th anniversary season celebrating the best in live music and performance nightly, Joe's Pub at The Public is hosting an open-call for visual artists to submit their sketchbook samples on Tumblr and receive an invitation to draw a live concert on November 19, 7:00 PM featuring indie-rock band Balthrop, Alabama and EMEFE. Tickets are on sale now at http://www.joespub.com/.
For eight years Michael Arthur (@inklines) has been the official archival artist at Joe's Pub, capturing the likes of Amy Winehouse, Pete Townshend, Carly Simon, Alicia Keys and many more. Arthur's approach to drawing performances is unique; each of his drawings is fuelled by the energy of the performance, drawn live in ink as the artist works onstage. Now Joe's Pub is opening its doors for more visual artists to expand on this same tradition.
"Joe's Pub is known as a place where performers come to grow their careers, but Michael is a great example of a visual artist who has been able to do that as well," said Shanta Thake, Director of Joe's Pub at The Public. "This is a safe space for artists of all disciplines, and we are thrilled to be growing our relationship with the visual artist community through Tumblr."
For more information on how to submit to the open-call, please visit: http://bit.ly/16DaMTA
All approved artists who submit their work via Tumblr will have free access to the event on November 19. Joe's Pub will accept sketchbook submissions through November 1. Guests who do not submit their work via Tumblr but would still like to participate are encouraged to bring sketchbooks. Several of the finished drawings from the concert will be posted to the Joe's Pub Tumblr blog.
"The opportunity to draw at Joe's Pub brought me in to contact with so many new people and new experiences that it couldn't help but change and inspire everything about the way I draw," said Michael Arthur. "The Pub has been a home for me-complete with a family-nurturing and supporting my work. It's exciting to partner with Tumblr to offer this opportunity to other artists."
On October 30 from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Joe's Pub will host a public reception and toast for Michael Arthur on the Levin Mezzanine at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003) where 20 of his portraits will be on display through December.
"We're so proud to see top institutions like Joe's Pub at The Public looking to the Tumblr community for talent," saysRachel Fershleiser of Tumblr's outreach team. "Connecting creators with terrific opportunities is an important part of our mission. We look forward to the amazing art that comes out of this collaboration."
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Michael Arthur is a pen and ink artist who uses no pencils and no rough drafts. Each drawing is a live reaction to the moment. For the last seven years, Michael has been the Archival Artist at Joe's Pub, attending and documenting in drawings, hundreds of performances. Although he has no formal art training, he has a PhD in Theater History from the University of Texas. His drawings have been hailed by the late Al Hirschfeld, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, NPR and in Departures Magazine. His music videos for Josh Ritter, Peter Salett, Balthrop, Alabama and others have debuted at The New Yorker, IFC and The Huffington Post, among other outlets. Michael is also the Rehearsal Artist for La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.


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Karaoke Competition IX
After much prodding by a certain someone that has been bothering me for ages about this... I decided to host another karaoke competition. Yes, I've been away for ages, I wouldn't be surprised if people thought I was dead or something. But guess what, no one cares, especially not me. But if I want that person to stop bothering me about it, I need to do this... So fine.
Let Animesuki's Karaoke Competition IX commence! Or something to that effect.
Quick summary of what this is about: listening to people try to sing anime songs. How difficult is that? We had really good singers in the past though, but is open to anyone that wants to show off their vocal (or lack thereof) skills. This started in the small IRC chat channel (we have an irc channel?) back in the days but it grew a bit. Ah the days when that certain person sang that weird song...
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1. Anime OP/ED songs as well as character songs are allowed. Anything else, ask me first.
2. Song has to be in full-lenght (no tv version).
3. If possible, use the official karaoke version. You can also rip the vocals. Worst-case is singing over the original (your voice has to be louder than the original singer's voice). If you have trouble with the official karaoke track, ask me.
4. Song has to be recorded in one go. That means no cut-and-paste anything.
5. No special effects of any kind, including modulation, special effects, or pitch tweaking. Did I mention no special effects of any kind?
6. Song can be in any language.
7. Only one song per person.
Very important: When you are sending me a song, make sure it is labeled with your nickname, the name of the song and from what anime it is. I can't be bothered to chase around song names and titles and stuff. And guess what, it might mysteriously "disappear".
As always, I will be airing every single entry that comes (unless we get like 200 or something ridiculous) over shoutcast. Details for shoutcast server will be announced later this week/month/etc.
You can send the entries to email@example.com (please note the ".info" part) as well as any questions, or anything else.
You can also ask in this thread or check the F.A.Q. @ http://faq.animesuki.info (once again notice the ".info").
DEADLINE for submitting: December 8th, 24:00 EST.
Air date: TBA, will be later that week.
Happy singing~
Broadcast will be on saturday, December 12th at 11am EST.
Non-competing entries will be aired on December 12th, at 8am EST.
Broadcast ended ever so nicely. Stay tuned for the torrent for those that missed it!
If you want to vote:
Name of contestant, then from a scale of 1-10, put a number that you think fits the song.
If you want to put comments please do so, they will be posted later on anonymously.
Email votes to firstname.lastname@example.com
DEADLINE: December 31, 2009.
Hahah, awesome! :D
Indeed I've been wondering where you've been!
Good to see that this contest is still running :D
I was actually expecting duets though, or maybe my memory is failing me or something. :X
And I need to get a new mic, my current one is dead. :[
Any suggestions, folks?
Oh, crud now I have to go search out a karaoke track LOL
Yay, I've been waiting for this! Good thing the deadline is far off yet, I have the flu (not swine, though!)
I've been singing new songs lately, so I have been drifting away from Japanese songs, but since this competition is so much fun, I'm gonna enter again!!
can't wait ppls
Holy crap, it's back after two years! *jumps for joy*
I downloaded every single available karaoke song on gendou.com last week. All 462 of them. Time to listen~
EDIT: Will there be a non-competition section like in the past? I have something I definitely want to do but only for fun...
You, kcl, are made of 10 flavors of awesome. ;) Thanks for hosting the contest again.
I'll definitely do my best to produce something for this round.
muhahaha, looks like it was worth mailing the 300 people I had in the old karacom database ;D
on a side note , if we have once again 50+ I doubt we can afford to make a non competiting air , but thats up to kcl822 and how she can spend her time, after all I bugged her
No anonymous enteries allowed?? :D
I think I know which song I want to do, though its gonna take some studying to get the lyrics right lol
Woo I am definately entering.. Not sure which song to sing yet though!:D
Oh right!
For the 1st placed entry, I'll donate a small gift!
Non-competing? I forgot to mention those. Sure, send them my way, if I can't air them I'll put them in the torrent so it doesn't matter what happens to them. Just don't go wild and send me a thousand of those.
As for anon entries, those are allowed as well, just remember to put a note on the entry thing.
Not sure whether I'll participate this year, but I'll send in some non-competing stuff :) probably.
If I can find a karaoke track of the song I want to do, I'm in...
Is there a list of prizes available ATM? Specifically, I'm interested in the "Best Attempt at Mimicking a Dying Crow" one... :)
/me need to take a look at the karaoke songs in the library now... Dang, a lot of the stuff seem to be done by perky girls, and I'm neither perky or female. :p
Man, I've been looking forward to this! I love you kcl~
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For the cost of a round trip ticket to Horta in the Azores you could get a closeup look at a lot of boats that have had to sail at least 1,000 miles of open Atlantic to get there. (It's also a very nice place to visit, so you can't lose.)
I haven't done a statistical analysis of the boats there (although I think Jimmy Cornell and, earlier, Eric Hiscock have done something of the kind) but I have walked the docks a lot on my three trips there. There is probably an example of every sort of sailboat that will confirm ones prejudices about what makes a good offshore boat--from small catamarans to beefy motorsailers to 19th century gaffers.
If there is one characteristic that seems proponderant (though by no means universal) it is displacement. There are light displacement boats to be sure, but they tend to be larger boats so their actual displacement (rather than than their displacement as a percentage of their length) is still fairly high. In boats less than 40', heavy displacement seems to be favored.
The category that seems to be under represented is the otherwise ubiquitous 35-40' production sloop from Beneteau, Hunter, Jeanneau, etc. This could be for a number of reasons: they are fairly recent so fairly expensive; they are not optimized for ocean sailing--but then neither are a lot of other boats there; they are new and so distrusted by sailors who are by nature a conservative lot; or their formula of maximum internal volume, high initial stability and small underwater lateral plane is not favored by ocean sailors.
Maybe someone should hire the folks at MidAtlantic Yacht Services in Horta to conduct a survey of the boat types over the course of a couple of years to see where the ocean cruisers are putting their money. Although the result might not be a useful analysis but more like a laundry list of sailors' opinions and prejudices.
Fuller disclosure department: my own boat (see photo below at Gibraltar) was not designed as a dedicated offshore cruiser nor bought by me for that purpose. It seemed to me then (and still does seem to me) to be a versatile boat for offshore and coastal cruising and even some friendly racing. And I like the way it looks. How you quantify that in a survey, I don't know.
The basics are simple. Assuming a mono hull for offshore use
heavy: 20k+lbs for comfort!!! & sailing upwind
Full keel: Good tracking/easy for autopilot to control/easy grounding
Long water line: This results in speed. Weight is irrelevant to speed in cruising context
Center cockpit results in: Big engine room, dry high cockpit, huge aft stateroom.
If you go offshore, remember it is tough on you and your gear. Expect lots of gear to die.
I tend to agree with Jeff's post, and want to emphasize particulalry his last statement about Fatty. I recall from reading quite a few of his articles (Fatty's) a recurring theme to the effect that his boat was not particulalry suited for what he was doing, but it was the boat he had and he simply made due. Not all of us could pull off what Fatty has done and frankly, if you're in the fortunate position to make another boat choice, why would you try to?
We had a similar discussion a few weeks ago about attributes of blue-water/off-shore capable boats. You might want to peruse it if you haven't already (here: http://www.sailnet.com/forums/sailboat-design-construction/38002-coastal-v-bluewater-cruiser-your-thoughts.html ), then come back here with more questions if you have them.
It is important to understand that the Hughes Northstar 38 began life as an early IOR rule beater. This brought a whole range of seakeeping, rig proportion and motion attributes that in my opinion made them far from ideal offshore or short-handed cruisers. These were particularly good boats for their time, but this was a time when the racing rule produced boats that were not very well rounded and were not good offshore boats.
In a general sense, Hughes build quality was very good. (I owned a 1973 Hughes Northstar 500 QT.) Hughes was known for the quality of their glass work (Hughes built the hulls and decks for the nearly identical Hinckley 38 from that era), but designed as a race boat, these boats did not have the engineering safety margins that you would expect in a purpose built offshore cruiser.
Another issue with these boats was carrying capacity. Early IOR boats, had notoriously small capacity to tolerate excess weight before performance and seaworthiness was compromised. Increasing tankage or rigging size would be a big mistake if you planned to go offshore with these boats.
The fact that Fatty was able to heavily modify his boat attests to his luck and his skill as a boat rebuilder and a sailor, and not to the inherent quality of this design.
Valiente's answer is a good one. There is some divergence of opinion on some matters but there is a wealth of material available in books and on the net.
Might I suggest that you would learn and profit more by researching and coming to an understanding of the whys and wherefores yourself rather than relying on others to distill it or offer a personal view.
Wow. Very big question with a ton of variables. I would recommend a few books to absorb.
First off, consider the possible: If you want to beef up a Hughes 38 to offshore standards, read this:
Secondly, while the Hughes 38 is "coastal", it's also designed by S&S, meaning it's got a reasonable pedigree.
Thirdly, Cap'n Fatty would seem to be a very good sailor. A very good sailor can get the most out of a boat, without pushing it so hard that important things (or crew) break. You may wish to copy not only his boat improvement projects, but his career. When we here of Catalinas and Hunters circling the globe, we have to look at the qualities of the skipper first, because I don't care what your opinion is, these boats weren't created to cross the open ocean, and while they might do so from time to time, it would have to be in the care of a skipper who had a lot of experience and even more prudence.
Stronger-built, or perhaps purpose-built, bluewater cruisers provide a cushion of structural integrity and design elements that insulate the less-experienced skipper from bad decisions.
I have found Ferenc Mate's books, and this book:
helpful in allowing me to visualize the stresses and knocks heavy weather can impose on a boat. I bought my cruiser on the basis that it will forgive my tactical errors to a point.
Attributes to seek is too broad and contentious a topic.
Attributes to avoid? Insufficient tankage, lack of spares, too wide cabin, insufficient handholds, grab bars, pad eyes, undersized rigging, unreinforced sails, undersized ground tackle, lack of variety in ground tackle, lack of properly sized rode, insufficient stowage that is insufficiently secured, redundancy in pumps (manual and electric), windlass (manual and electric), beefy battery and charging systems, clearly marked everything (I just bought a Dymo label maker and have been labelling everything I've disconnected on my diesel prior to overhauling), robust but compact refrigeration (keep it full, but don't count on it for all your food), radar, robust fuel filtering, SSB/satellite phone, separate GPS/chartplotter, tinned wires...man, I could type all night.
Ask people who have COME BACK what works and what doesn't, and what turns out to be a very good idea, and what failed on Day Three.
I've raced against Hughes 38s, as there are a few of them here in Toronto, on my Viking 33. They seem sturdy enough, if a little plodding, but plodding, in a blue water context, has something to recommend it.
Blue water characteristics
I've sailed a coastal cruiser for 10 years. SERENA is a NorthStar 38' built in 1972 and designed by S&S. I've seen other threads on this design, (also branded Hughes 38) and have come away with confusion on her blue water seaworthiness. Cap'n Fatty of CW fame has sailed his NorthStar around the globe more than once. But through communications with him, I've learned he's done some modifications to stiffen Wild Card.
So rather than try to answer if my NorthStar is a Bluewater boat or not, I'd like some input on general features and characteristics to seek and to avoid in a boat when planning open ocean passages.
Granted, there's much more to the task than the choice in boat. But I'm on a 5 year plan.
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