Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Was backing the flatbed GMC2500 up to the barn door last night and heard a funny sound. Huh! My full to the tippy top gas tank broke a strap and is dangling there! I got a strap under it, but I have a feeling I'll have to lighten the tank to get it back where it's supposed to be. Dang NYS and it's salt the roads policy! Makes $$$ for car dealers and saves $$$ for auto insurance companies! Everyone else suffers.
Got the JD420 crawler over in front of the garage for teardown. Pretty sure I busted the rings on #2 cylinder this past winter. Water intrusion into the oil, same time I broke the oil pump drive train. I can't figure out how water is getting into the engine, new manifold, muffler, rain cap, seals on the valve cover bolts. It's not coolant, it's rain water. I did just get a line on enough trusses to do a 24x28 pole barn for cheap, so that would solve the problem! Anyways, not much compression on cyl 2, and it's not the valves since the head was just replaced with one with a fresh valve job. #1 has a newer OS piston and great compression, I should have checked #2 better when I was doing the head.
Oldest boy Matt had borrowed SWMBO Wrangler to get back to Albany because his S10 Blazer had allegedly " lost the transmission". I had volunteered to drive down and take a look at it (about a 5 hour trip one way) but he decided to get it to a garage as he's working local there this week. He called last night and immediately claimed to be dumber than a box of rocks. Why? Seems that model has an electronic switch for 4WD and somehow he got it into low range! The indicator lights don't always work on the switch (bad ground probably) but when he started it up he spotted the low range light right away! Better that than needing a new tranny or car. Now all we have to do is figure out how to get the Wrangler back north!
Got a kennel up for the pups, the "Oodles of Poodles" (aka- The Clowns) like it fine. "The Monsters" (Goldens) are still up in the air about it. We got the kennel from one of the owners of a horse that won the Kentucky Derby called "Funny Cide". Apparently they were local. I don't follow that stuff but she knew about the horse. Nice guy.
Got the JD420 crawler over in front of the garage for teardown. Pretty sure I busted the rings on #2 cylinder this past winter. Water intrusion into the oil, same time I broke the oil pump drive train. I can't figure out how water is getting into the engine, new manifold, muffler, rain cap, seals on the valve cover bolts. It's not coolant, it's rain water. I did just get a line on enough trusses to do a 24x28 pole barn for cheap, so that would solve the problem! Anyways, not much compression on cyl 2, and it's not the valves since the head was just replaced with one with a fresh valve job. #1 has a newer OS piston and great compression, I should have checked #2 better when I was doing the head.
Oldest boy Matt had borrowed SWMBO Wrangler to get back to Albany because his S10 Blazer had allegedly " lost the transmission". I had volunteered to drive down and take a look at it (about a 5 hour trip one way) but he decided to get it to a garage as he's working local there this week. He called last night and immediately claimed to be dumber than a box of rocks. Why? Seems that model has an electronic switch for 4WD and somehow he got it into low range! The indicator lights don't always work on the switch (bad ground probably) but when he started it up he spotted the low range light right away! Better that than needing a new tranny or car. Now all we have to do is figure out how to get the Wrangler back north!
Got a kennel up for the pups, the "Oodles of Poodles" (aka- The Clowns) like it fine. "The Monsters" (Goldens) are still up in the air about it. We got the kennel from one of the owners of a horse that won the Kentucky Derby called "Funny Cide". Apparently they were local. I don't follow that stuff but she knew about the horse. Nice guy.