Tim W. SoCal

Not only that, but if they'd done something as simple as removing the oil filler cap on the front / top of the valve cover and peered into the opening while cranking the engine, they MAY have noticed that the rocker arms weren't going rockety-rock...

We're still getting engines and transmissions from Jasper, but they ARE getting fewer and farther in between...

island waterfall with

Dime phone calls on pay phones are something we don't experience any more.

Where I work, we don't have enough Techs to cover the maintenance and repairs of our fleet of vehicles, so the Powers That Be hired an outside contractor with several "highly trained mechanics" to help take up the slack. The vehicles they mainly work on are based upon a 1987 Chevy S10 with a 2.5 liter, throttle body injected engine. On this particular job, the trouble was the engine cranking with no start. The contractors spent two days replacing the D.I.S. module and coils (twice), the spark plugs and plug wires, the crank position sensor (twice), the fuel pump relay (twice), the in-tank electric fuel pump (twice), the fuel filter, the fuel injector (twice), the throttle body injection unit (a $600.00 remanufactured part), and the ignition switch. When these "repairs" didn't cure the no start issue, they called for the vehicle to be transported to our repair shop. The cause of the problem ended up being a broken timing chain. This is normally a basic and straightforward diagnosis with one telling symptom being the engine cranking abnormally fast due to no compression. This wouldn't be so bad if this poor quality of work, lack of skill and misspent money wasn't so common with this contractor. Anyway, due to the damage and mileage on this engine, a remanufactured replacement engine is being installed.

I have one of those whooptee Chinee scales... If you step onto it with your right foot, bending your left knee at a 90 degree angle while holding your left foot straight behind you with your toes pointed at the floor and stick your left index finger up your right nostril while you hold your breath, the weight results are consistent.

in Leisure Suits

No pics because we were driving in opposite directions, but at the bottom of the hill near my house, I crossed paths with a yellow Ferrari 250 GTO complete with the famous "prancing horse" on its grill and a butter yellow colored Porsche 718 Cayman following a couple of cars behind it.

It is the same for me in a lot of aspects, but all I can do is force myself to ignore the pain, get up, go to work and do my job each day, then beam with pride when my younger coworkers tell me "I don't know how you do it!"

Noise is what passes for "music" today, but that was also what my Dad said fifty years ago about the music I still like to listen to today.

because DISCO SUCKS!

with Dick Clark

Rot gut whiskey will make you sing, make ya wanna neck her, make your left ear ring.

and one green

The Osprey is an amazing aircraft that makes its own distinctive sounds as it flies over.

up fish guts

While I'm thinking about it, Mike Nesmith wrote "Different Drum", but Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys made it famous.

I think you're looking for Fawn Beige. (Olds calls it "Fawn Mist, so I'm sure it is metallic, for Pontiac, it is "Mayan Gold") MCW Finishes has it, item# 6102

Tilt-A-Whirl trying not

Carriers fill their delivery vehicles and most of the time have parcels left over that are left at the station to be loaded and delivered later in the day. (I've seen carriers reload for their route 3-4 times in a day) The Postal Service is VERY strict on overtime, so what may have happened is your carrier worked his 8 hour shift without completing his deliveries and a part-time helper or a carrier that requested overtime finished your route.

Great Ceasar's ghost, who thought he was the most and he loved to boast, he wanted roast but all he had was toast so he ate his toast on the Pacific Coast.

Unbalanced tires can make your car bounce like dribbling basketballs as you drive at high speed.

Autobox on the Autobahn where the manipulators of the auto pen wish they could go and hide before their impending crash causes them to auto rotate.

Seem Team on a log beam crossing a Trout stream dreaming of ice cream in a Sunbeam