Ace-Garageguy

"Rare" is a steak that still moos.

Needed: Responsible buyer to take over the Brooklyn Bridge and several lovely ocean-front condominiums in Nevada, priced to sell. https://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/oceanfront/usa/nevada/las-vegas

Bubble-gum chewing redheads still get my attention.

I knew I'd seen that thing before, but I just couldn't place it. Thanks. EDIT: I just checked and you are 100% correct...no surprise there.

Not really. The oil filler on those Chevy engines doesn't come out of the timing cover. It goes through the intake manifold. Very different.

Offer sincere thanks for whatever is good in your life every day, and you'll reduce your stress and anxiety levels.

I like pie. EDIT: Seriously, I always wanted to do something based on this body shell, and have a couple incomplete gluebombs just for that. However, I had no idea the kit had a flathead engine, as my bombers don't. Guess I gotta get one too.

"Journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step", but you have to take it and keep going.

Possess the secrets to world peace and a cancer cure and offer to share them, and you'd surely be canceled, doxed, or stoned to death.

Are you sure the timing cover with the oil filler tube goes with that other engine? The more I look at it, the more it looks like it's a slightly different color. If it wasn't for that, it could be a poorly-done smallblock Chevy.

Thanks for the heads-up on that.

First one's definitely old Caddy, '49-'62. Nothing else has that water pump/crossover pipe configuration, but I don't know what kit it's from. There was an optional Caddy in the AMT '59 El Camino too. Second one looks like an early Olds ('49-'63) at first glance because of the oil filler tube on the timing cover, but the valve cover bolts are wrong for that, and the water outlet isn't on the front cover either. EDIT: Ex-port spacing is definitely NOT FORD (other than Y-block, and the oil filler is wrong for that). Exhaust port spacing rules out Buick nailhead too, and it's definitely not BBC. Valve covers look SBC, but the water pump and timing cover are totally wrong for that. Not Mopar B or poly... Air filter and cast-iron ex. manifolds mean it's a stock engine in something...

Thanks. All I'm trying to do is get several intersecting roof planes tarped well enough to last a few more months. I've patched it previously, it lasts for a while, deteriorates, starts leaking worse when it finally rains hard, then I'll tarp an area, that works a while, it deteriorates from UV...anyway, I've got a few hundred bucks worth of heavy silver tarps to put up, overlapping like shingles where all the odd roof planes come together...but it's still raining and who knows when the danged thing will be dry enough to get back up there. Even more annoying is that I have to be HERE to empty buckets and mop every few minutes, so I'm not making any money or getting any closer to getting the h. outta here.

About time the man who posted above runs for a high public office, doncha think?

Thanks. It's not. Every time the radar shows a storm is blowing through, another one pops up right behind it. I got just enough done so the problem is worse than when I started, have already taken out 3 five-gallon buckets, no end in sight, and now it's running under the below-grade back wall. Whoever did the additions on this rental POS was a drooling moron, the absentee owner is no help, and I've let the patches wait way too long. Oh well. I should have been out of here 2 years ago, at least. Procrastination sometimes jumps up and bites you in the face.

Cleaning anything mechanical before I work on it has always been my SOP, and when some customers complained about "unnecessary work", I'd tell 'em to go elsewhere next time.

THIS SHOWS UP OCCASIONALLY when I'm not logged in but won't copy. I found that another site using what looks like the same forum template was having something similar happening. A clue???? [[Template forums/front/index/forumRow is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

Working on my roof again today, and there's a pop-up thunderstorm less than a mile away. Guess I'm done for a while. My roof is considerably more sloped than is thought to be "safe" recently (anyone who follows the news will likely know what I mean), and working up there is kinda thrilling under the best of conditions, but it's just suicidal if it's wet. Problem is that the forecast for the next several days is heavy rain off and on, and I pretty much HAVE to get some areas tarped TODAY.

Just about everywhere you go today, common-sense and follow-through are lacking. Thing is though, these deficiencies have always been there, but the web makes it more visible because more stupid clueless people get to show their stuff to the world. For instance, I have a collection of old model RR mags going back to the mid-1930s, and it's not at all uncommon for advertising copywriters to omit little things like scale or contact info for the company or distributor, and sometimes even the name of the company selling whateveritis. One thing that bugs me mightily today though is the plethora of supposed "journalists" who use words just flat wrong and have little understanding of basic English sentence construction, and a recent trend to scramble verb tenses...constructions like "I didn't unloaded it".

"Wench with a Wrench" would be a great name for an independent chick hot-rod shop.

Merit is the only basis any hire should ever be made on by a company that wants to stay in business and deliver consistently high-quality goods or services.

Socks are afraid to get lost when I do the laundry.

Imbibing alcohol doesn't seem to be as popular as it used to was.

Work is a four letter word.