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Is THAT what you call her these days?! :o



definitely not. She tries to help with the yard sometimes even though I've explained that I'd rather do a couple of hours of yard work when I get home instead of a couple of hours of lawn equipment repair THEN a couple of hours of yard work from her assistance:S
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Is THAT what you call her these days?! :o



definitely not. She tries to help with the yard sometimes even though I've explained that I'd rather do a couple of hours of yard work when I get home instead of a couple of hours of lawn equipment repair THEN a couple of hours of yard work from her assistance:S


She runs over the rocks in the yard too huh? :D
"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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Ok this may be one of the funniest fucking threads I've seen... changes direction faster than the squirrels in my head.
Short travel story... I did 3200 miles in 4 days, solo, Nashua, New Hampshire to Sacramento California. In an '83 AMC SX4 borked out into a rock buggy with mud tires.
Then did it again one year later.
Imagine the return ride:
Almost broke, barely got enough cash for the trip, just trying to get home and get another job before the cash runs out.
Noticed a faint squeak at driveshaft rotation speed from somewhere under the car on my way out of Sacramento. All through Cali, Nevada and half of Wyoming that sound was bugging me. Faint. Could only hear it over the wind engine and tire noise when decelerating. I knew what that sound was, I'd heard that sound before... what the hell was it? Couldn't quite place it but knew it was important. Kinda like a bad U-joint but different. Pretty sure its a drivetrain problem.
Made me nervous as hell. Kept thinking about it.
Halfway across Wyoming, in the middle of nowhere full of 700 miles of semis and sagebrush, it hit me like a nail between the eyes.
Last time I heard that sound was six years earlier a few seconds before the rear differential blew a bearing and locked the rear tires at 40 mph on a back road.
I pulled off the road, having a quiet heart attack.
Grabbed some hex keys, popped the cap on the rear differential.
Bone dry. Must have sprung a leak about 800 miles ago.
This car was a rolling toolshed used violently offroad and fully stocked wih spare parts and all fluids.
I dumped in my entire stock of gear oil.
Then drove the remaining 2500 miles almost nonstop in a sleepless daze like a neverending low level panic attack, expecting the rear axle to blow at any second, endlessly trying to figure out if I could actually pull off a rear axlehousing swap on the side of the road by hitchhiking from whatever junkyard is closest to whereever I am when it goes. Because last time I blew a pinion bearing it took the entire axlehousing with it.
All I could do was hope I got to it in time. Its the not-knowing that just kills you. That was a harsh ride. Best part: I used that car for another 3 years. The axle never blew.
-B
Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.

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I once got off of a 12 hr. shift in San Diego and then drove 1722 miles to Oshkosh, stopping only for fuel...got out of the truck & had 20 minutes to gear up and for the 1st jump of the airshow.

Fell asleep on the taxi for take off! :ph34r:











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and had to dig your own coal because cars were steam powered back then



Only rich people had coal cars...my Flintstone mobile got 300 mile to the shoes. :P


Fred Flintstone didn't have shoes, so I call bullshit. :P
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