Good news the eye Doc today said my vision is clearing up not getting worse.......

 

Now about your head?

LOL, well just got home from bowling. See most of you are sleeping. Me next...

Mike, it was good. He told the uniform guy to take mine, so the last day of hell has arrived!!!! Happy Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!1

 

Try doing it for 6 months straight. One of the companies I worked for (Midwest Wireless) got bought by Alltel. During the transition, they kept saying they bought us because they wanted to "learn" (yeah right) from what we did to be so successful (15 year old company got purchased for $1.08 BILLION). We were all asked to stay on and given a health bonus for staying. I had to leave after the first bonus . I was so friggin bored. There was absolutely nothing to do and the managers were going home at noon on a regular basis. It was kinda fun for the first month or so, but got really old after that.

 

Evening to anyone that is still awake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Worked on the plastic POS for a bit tonight. The valve cover was definitely warped. I ended up ordering bolts from the STEALER. I needed 11 or 12 bolts depending on which version of the valve cover I had. I HAD to buy 20 bolts because they only come in 10 packs. Way to go GM Let's design a car with 11 bolts and then sell them in 10 packs. Great.

Luckily, I think I am able to get by using my old bolts with the older style rubber grommets.

All of the reading I did said the older style had 11 bolts. Mine had 12. As I got to working on the car, the replacement valve cover had 13 bolt holes!! WTF? The head only has 12 bolt holes. Luckily, the other 12 line up perfectly. I figured this out after I putzed around getting the gasket just right.

The gasket is a whole 'nother story. Stupid design. Flat rubber gasket on a flat head. The original valve cover gasket was very gently pressed into a channel in the valve cover. The older style had to be set on the head first (no grooving to hold it in place) and then the valve cover set on top of it. I had to go around the whole thing and make sure the gasket didn't slide too much. Rubber is really good at keeping oil where it's supposed to be, but sucks at staying in place when sitting on top of a head that has a very thin layer of oil on it already.

The extra bolt holt, I'm going to fill in the hole in the grommet with some RTV tomorrow. I'll probably need to RTV it into the cover as well. For that I'll need to take it out to my Dad's and let it sit in his garage over the weekend to setup.

Here is the bolt pattern:

X X X
X
X X X O
X
X X X

The X is where the bolts are that line up with the head. The O is where the extra hole is in the valve cover. Unfortunately, it's not over the gasket either. I figure it's going to shoot oil like a sieve if I don't plug it.

Time for bed here.

Night all!!

 

So is today your last day or was yesterday your last day?

Well time to get some sleep, got to be at the chiro at 730........

 

Here is a good one for you, this guy is frick'n nuts. $37k for a 2001 with 17k on it....

 

Good morning and have a fantastic Friday MN

 

Good Morning FTE!!!

Tom, today will be it seems.

Everyone enjoy the best Friday ever! LOL

 

Good morning Jim, Dave and the rest of the guys stopping by!

Happy Friday to everyone!

Enjoy your last day Dave! I know you will.


That is one of the cleanest trucks I have ever seen but not worth that kind of money at all! It's still a 2001 truck!

 

That is fantastic news!! Congrats!

Were they that much new? Yikes!

Good morning Jim.

Happy last day working for a major moron Friday Dave!

Good morning Troy.

I am still a little tired. And I can tell I hadn't ridden yet this year. My forearms are sore!

 

Good morning guys.

Time to go to the eye Dr. too. I need to get new contacts and have my eyes checked again.

Wow, that is one clean truck. I think it looks like a brand new one right off the showroom floor. Jay I know that truck probably sold in the high 30's. Vewry close to his asking price. So it's 11 yrs old, used and he wants original sticker?

 

I wonder what a bank would say to financing that truck?

 

Missed this before Tom. Congrats!!

Well the sticker in the pics showed just over 40k new!

Good morning Jay! I bet you are a little sore.

Good morning Cory! I haven't been to the eye doctor in a long time and should probably go sometime.

Probably finance some but not all of it! Especially 37k!


This morning I was taking Jase to school and when we walked outside to leave the house he gets outside and turns to me and says " boy dad it sure smells like spring out here" LOL!! I sure hope he is right!

 

They would say





And then show you out the door.

 

Not a remotely vaild arguement. I'll happily give you new sticker price for a '66 mustang