Saturday, August 31, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
WTF??
Guess who...
What. The. Actual. Fuck???
MORE HILLARY HERE<<<
We definately dodged a bullet for now.................
Monday, August 26, 2019
Leigh Lets Phil Know The East Coast Has Some Stubborn Bastards As Well.....
Ah, yes - more tales from the Farm Ford Follies.
My nephew bought a F250 from some of the local mud boggers, with the
notion of swapping a good running V-10, for his V-8 1/2. Yes he had a
very sad running V10. I made him replace a whole bunch of things before
just yanking one out and jamming one in. Though
he initially thought he would be able to get away with it. I refused to
help him unless we did it right.
So I got a new heater tube that runs under the intake, to a nipple on
the back side of the water pump. Genuine Motorcraft for $18 - gotta love
Rock Auto. OEM O-rings too.
All the studs in the heads that hold the exhaust manifolds were replaced. That
made Phil's broken intake bolts look like pulling a little bitty
sliver. Twenty studs that ALL had to be heated and pulled with a spiral
extractor. Four had to be drilled,
heated and extracted. One I had to drill, bore out with a die grinder,
and then heli-coil. I reckon it took me ten hours over two days to pull
them.
The four studs that hold the Y pipe flanges were changed as well.
New intake and exhaust gaskets. New plugs, filters and oil. It got a
trans filter/fluid change too, but that wasn't initially on the docket.
Finally I got the motor all cleaned up and ready for transplant.
Yeah, it isn't the prettiest thing in the whole world, but this is a swap - not new, or a rebuild.
I got to the Farm, Saturday and hit with the question: Where do you want to do the motor - garage or Agway building?
I opted for the larger building with the flatter floor. So the Agway building it was.
I had hoped to see a partially stripped vehicle, but nope, it was totally complete.
I started at 9:30 that morning by pulling the grill, turn signals, radiator support and fiberglass nose structure.
After that, we started just gut ripping the whole thing.
Not wanting to make things easy on me, my nephew threw a few curves at me.
He wrung off a transmission line when the compression fitting wouldn't
come free of the radiator fitting. He wound the whole thing right out of
the radiator. Twisted it right off behind the fitting. I don't know
what the hell he was thinking?
Then when I told him to drain the oil from the engine, he drained the
tranny. I need to get him wrenching more on his own stuff so he learns
more. So there was a trans filter change we didn't budget time for.
I had to cut off the collector bolts, on the Y pipe, so that it would
clear the block. So, there was another thing to R&R. New gaskets,
bolts, and sealer.
Aaaand the starter wire to the starter solenoid snapped off at the
terminal stud, Fortunately, the donor vehicle had a brand new NAPA
starter. Whew!
When it was all said and done, we had the sick motor out by 8:30 that night.
It took a couple of hours to get it wrangled in, and dogged down. Didn't
want to rush and screw something up - do it once and do it right.
After that it was a matter of hooking everything back up to where it
belonged. Which doesn't seem like much, until trying to remember where
everything goes.
While I reassembled it, the boy was finishing the trans filter change and miscellaneous odds and ends.
8:30 that night, the battery was put in, and the fluids were good enough to fire it up.
I cycled the key a half dozen time to purge the air out of the fuel rail, then rolled her over.
God hates a coward.
On the second flop she tried to catch, stumbled and quit.
I hit her again and she lit with a flurry of smoke and chugging.
The chugging cleared, but it never kept an idle and stalled.
A quick thought, and a check of the IAC plug, found that the connector didn't lock.
A firm push until it clicked, cycle the key and waited a second.
Rolled her over, and it idled like a champ.
While it warmed up I started putting the rest of the nose back on her.
By 9:15 all the fluids were topped off; and fifteen minutes later the last screws were in the grill and the hood shut.
Twenty three-ish hours, over two days.....
A half dozen set backs dealt with......
Started right up, no leaks, and only one small glitch right at the end.
And one exhausted; fat, yet happy, mechanic.
"To Protect and To Lie?"
LA Sheriff's deputy who said he was shot at by a "sniper" has been fired. There wasn't any shots fired and there wasn't a sniper. Deputy Angel Reinosa was relieved of his duties and now faces a criminal investigation after admitting he cut holes in his shirt with a knife and lied about being shot at by a sniper. The "scare" launched a huge manhunt for the "phantom sniper" Read the entire story HERE.
Remember The Infamous Hockey Stick Graph Of Global Warming?
Well looky here:
Hockey Stick Broken! “Scientist” Michael Mann Loses in Court, Forced to Pay Court Costs — Global Warming Hoax Hit Hardest
Supreme Court of British Columbia dismisses Dr Michael Mann’s defamation lawsuit versus Canadian skeptic climatologist, Dr Tim Ball. Full legal costs are awarded to Dr Ball, the defendant in the case.
The Canadian court issued it’s final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball’s libel lawyers.
The plaintiff Mann’s “hockey stick” graph, first published in 1998, was featured prominently in the U.N. 2001 climate report. The graph showed an “unprecedented” spike in global average temperature in the 20th Century after about 500 years of stability.
