Today's fun. Timing chains on a 2019 Expedition with 112k miles.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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A quarter was my weekly allowance back in 1962. The reason why I went to work shining shoes when I was 11. A quarter only went so far even then.
I got a quarter for shining a pair of shoes.
It had been my job to shine my dad's shoes (a NYC businessman), which I did with just the shoes in my hands. So when Jimmy Henderson quit shining shoes on Saturdays at Art's barber shop, I took over. My first customer--the first time I ever shined shoes on someone's feet--was wearing white socks. They were white with a brown ring when I got done.
But that summer I quit the barber shop and biked across town with my shine kit to the RR station to shine shoes for NJ commuters each weekday morning. Might make a dollar a day. Then paid for my own breakfast on the way home--an english muffin drowned in butter and a cherry coke. Sitting on top of the world on that cafe stool, I was.
Never had to replace timing chains in a newer vehicle . My Suzuki with twin overhead cams doesn’t even have a mileage interval recommendation on changing them out . Guess it’s when it breaks change deal
Never got an allowance . When I needed a buck or two my dad or mom gave it to me . But it wasn’t a set amount per week . And I did my chores regularly. I did however work every weekend and all summer at my uncles Car dealership / gas station he was an AMC/Jeep dealer and had Sinclair gas . Did that till I was 13 when we moved to Long Island and I worked for a local handyman after school and summers . And at night I worked at a Shell station in town . In 1972 I averaged 100-150 a week depending on tips
They rattle on startup and it has cam timing codes. It also has a rattling intake cam phaser on the RH bank.
It was. Luckily didn't loose any $.
Damn! $100-150 in '72--that was real money. Cool.
And the early car experience, nice. Can see the background for your collectables now.
Bubble gum with baseball cards for us.
Baseball cards . . . "got 'im, got 'im, don't got 'im."
Dang.
I was roped into a scam once to buy some take off wheels. Drove a half hour and the guy ghosted me at the service station we were supposed to meet at 1pm. I called him, messaged, and texted then waited 45 minutes and finally left with no response from him. Then at 9 at night he called me 17 times in a row to which I texted I wasn't interested. Then offered to sell to me for half. Nope.
I turned him into the admins for the FB buy/sell group we were on and he got booted.
I love the sausage egg mcmuffin but now they are up to $4.69 so they can keep them...
When they do the 2 for 6 deal on premium sandwiches or 10 piece mcnuggets, thats about the only deal left.
Oh but it is someone else's fault. Just ask them lol.
Those were still reasonable even a few years back. But the nearest one is almost 3 hours from me so I do not get there much.
That is perfection my friend.
Wow, not a good look on Ford for a vehicle to go down that soon. Was this a lemon or do these engines seem to have these problems?
And here's something. The first photo was Nov. 13, the muley buck and doe in my backyard.
Six days later, when my wife was driving me home from my knee replacement surgery, I saw a big tawny something in the gulch below my house. Couldn't get a good look, and she wouldn't turn and go back, but I think I saw the mountain lion that killed that buck. A neighbor mentioned that a 7-point buck was no longer coming around. Four days later, coming home from my post-op appointment with the surgeon I had my wife stop where I could look down into the gulch. It was all in shadow, but in the midst of that shadow was the lion's face. So well camouflaged that my wife couldn't see it. I told her--"From that patch of snow, look uphill about 6 foot." There it was, just sitting on its kill.
I went and got the skull and rack from the buck a month ago, got it wired up in a tree by the woodshed. (My wife said it was "icky" when I had it next to the drive.)
Six days later, when my wife was driving me home from my knee replacement surgery, I saw a big tawny something in the gulch below my house. Couldn't get a good look, and she wouldn't turn and go back, but I think I saw the mountain lion that killed that buck. A neighbor mentioned that a 7-point buck was no longer coming around. Four days later, coming home from my post-op appointment with the surgeon I had my wife stop where I could look down into the gulch. It was all in shadow, but in the midst of that shadow was the lion's face. So well camouflaged that my wife couldn't see it. I told her--"From that patch of snow, look uphill about 6 foot." There it was, just sitting on its kill.
I went and got the skull and rack from the buck a month ago, got it wired up in a tree by the woodshed. (My wife said it was "icky" when I had it next to the drive.)
Very respectable buck too. Must've been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
My friend found a cougar kill up here this fall. It was all covered in leaves that the cat raked over to hide it. That's the first covered kill I've seen/heard of up here. Of course the MN DNR denied existence of kitties until game cams,
My friend found a cougar kill up here this fall. It was all covered in leaves that the cat raked over to hide it. That's the first covered kill I've seen/heard of up here. Of course the MN DNR denied existence of kitties until game cams,
And one more, and I'll leave y'all alone for a bit.
My woodshed was filled to the roof, entirely out to the south face back in the fall. It takes a lot of wood to keep this place warm. We'll burn, less as the weeks go by, but right up till the end of May. There's a stepstool in the shed for late last year when my wife was bringing the wood to the house, as the stacks were well above her.
My woodshed was filled to the roof, entirely out to the south face back in the fall. It takes a lot of wood to keep this place warm. We'll burn, less as the weeks go by, but right up till the end of May. There's a stepstool in the shed for late last year when my wife was bringing the wood to the house, as the stacks were well above her.
