tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91368098735060830252024-02-07T07:03:09.321-08:00Personal Introduction of "Garylee1945"Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-10572418656859869622014-03-21T19:59:00.000-07:002014-03-21T19:59:24.796-07:00Blog #14, Friday, March 21, 2014, Toyota Related<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Everyone, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am back for the night to get more material to work with at my busnut friends house tomorrow so I wanted to catch you up on the Toyota we had reworked by someone who knows what in hell they are doing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I put the old rebuilt carburetor back on my Toyota engine as the other fellow that was supposed to do it was not dependable but come to find out this carburetor was attempted to be rebuilt by someone else previously and this is possibly why the car was given up on in the first place, Thank God!! Anyhow they must of also got the vacuum tubes all mixed up and you will see how and why that may have happened and I just followed suit in reassembling the carburetor. The car did run as I told you but run for crap and it sounded like it was sucking air etc, even after I unplugged the catalytic converter as well the care did not run very well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to a place recommended by a customer from O'reilly's auto parts, a fellow named George Manteghi convinced me I would have so much less problems with a Webber Carburetor that I went for it. You will see in the photos included in this post the difference in the one with all the confounded vacuum hoses and the one not needing them any longer. I have to tell you ole George knows his stuff, this car run like a top, started up on the first turn over I believe and runs like hell. I have other issues but it was not affordable at this time to fix them, I needed to get to my bus nut friends house and wanted to get my Toyota home before I went to help out a friend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old rebuild carburetor without plug wires connected or breather put on. Lot of hoses there baby!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is George Manteghi that did all my Toyota work and got this baby humming properly and will now be my permanent mechanic on my 'Toyota for sure. This guy is one hell of a character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the shop in Greenville that I used to get my Toyota engine running correctly, removed all the legal antipollution</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> equipment Possible and now the car runs so smooth it is not funny</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the inside of George's shop, stuff all over as tall as you are. Stuff no longer made and back rooms just chuck full of stuff. Like being in a candy store to me, But everything for a Toyota that I could not get on line or any place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Well I do not have any gages working except the speedometer, there must be a ground problem that has to be found but not this moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) The EGR valve was bad and this is all that was probably wrong with the car in the first place but anyhow, this car is mine now and the EGR valve is no longer needed either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) I need a heater control valve that bolts on the bulkhead for my car, mine had a broken fitting for the hose connection and was inoperable, but this could be $100, so I bypassed the heater right now and will take one problem at a time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) I have a vibration in the drive shaft system, I have a dual drive shaft and it could be where they join or one of the ends needing replacing, I will inspect and do what is necessary when I get done helping my friend out. I also decided to get drive shaft balancing hoops sold by "Balance Master.com", which should eliminate any vibration in the future. I also plan to use this product that is designed by them for my tires for my bus. Go their website which is also advertised in the Bus Conversion Magazine all the time. This could revolutionize controlling any vibration on any shaft, go see their video and information to decide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am totally anxious to drive the Toyota, I have so many offers to buy it from me even at the shop where it was being worked on people wanted to buy it but I would not take a brand new Lexis for it to be honest. It is too simple to repair and keep running and too much fun to drive to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I nearly bought a 2002 Scamp camper over the internet Wednesday, for $2300, the people contacted me and told me a whole bunch of crap that just made me make up my mind I wanted this camper as it was in such pristene condition per the photos and the Scamp camper has the best reputation ever. I was so damn excited, but further research probed this was a FRAUD Craigslist post and I nearly fell for it. After research I found it was bogus since January by asshoes named Rita & Ronald Stanko of Paterson, NJ. Boy I was freaking pissed, goes to only prove the old adage, <b><u>"if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true"</u></b> and it was not. So I am still in the market to look for one, not a new one either, a used one maybe up to $3,000. They are all good I understand the way they are made and it was highly recommended by another good friend from Oregon Now, Dave, Thanks Dave for your mature advise in keeping me grounded. This was a better idea than the "Littleguy" camper. I think my little Toyota will only tow the 13' ft. one with very little problem, only problem is this one does not have a indoor toilet. the 16 ft. does but it weighs so much more too. Well I have time to get more information, but, if anyone of you know of anyone with a Scamp for sale for the price cap I have mentioned above please give me a call, day or night, 24/7. I could not be more appreciative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I will now post the photos I mentioned above, go and enjoy my wife, two dogs and two little guinea pigs and then go to bed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take care, drive safe, tell those that you love that you do and be sure to Mean It!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garylee</span><br />
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-91137990702638383672014-03-16T18:21:00.003-07:002014-03-16T18:21:14.031-07:00Blog #13, Sunday March 16, 2014, Toyota & Bus Related<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Everyone, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it has been nearly a month since I last posted, I have been busier than a one arm paper hanger as they say, the time is just flying by on us all and with the new time change it seems the time is flying by faster, to me anyhow. I hope to find everyone doing alright, getting ready for SPRING we all hope, getting our couches ready for rallies, traveling etc. and just getting out of the house finally. Even in the South Carolina area we have had one hell of a winter, but it is getting better now. The Daffodils are in bloom right this moment, they are always in a hurry to say hello were here!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quite a lot has happened since I last wrote. I am back on the bus as of day before yesterday, I finally finished torquing my bell housing on my bus engine, I assembled the new flywheel on to the engine and torqued that as well. For those newbies doing this here is a tip I found out on your fly wheel assembly. The flywheel will only go on one way, it may look like it goes on two ways but it does not. I assembled mine at first, All alone as usual, a sort of bastard to do but I got it on, <b>but the flywheel would not go on the two line up pins correctly.</b> It looked like the pins were lower than the holes, what the hell I thought!!! I studied and studied and thought, no way would they make it so the flywheel has to be rotated 180 deg. to fit correctly would they? Well after much debate in my mind why the manufacturer would do such an asinine thing<b> I figured out how to rotate the damn flywheel 180 deg. alone.</b> Walla the darn ole flywheel slipped right on the pins and <b>the spacer that goes on before the bolts also has to go on just one way as well</b> for the bolts to be assembled correctly. So if you assemble your flywheel and it does not go on easily or look correctly it isn't!! Take it from me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After rotating the spacer correctly and assembling the bolts with the proper DD thread lube designed for these new flywheel bolts I was able to torque them to the spec and this part of the operation is now done. I cannot do much more to the engine now until my friend Mike Cezmat comes over to put in the new N65 injectors and adjusts them for me. So I spent the rest of the day planning how I am going to mount my radiator to test my engine out of the bus with gages etc. This is just something I wanted to do to test my engine before putting it in the bus after all the things found to be safe and be sure I did all the things I did right especially the blower part etc. I am all excited to do this test run, it will take a week or more to make up the test stand but it will be fun to design etc. I love doing that stuff and who cares how long it will take, I am the only one involved here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to what I have been doing the previous couple of weeks was still working on my 1982 Toyota Corolla Station wagon project. Well I got in another can of worms there too but she is coming great, I am so proud of this car, I will post photos also after I get her back from the final shop about Wednesday of next week. Here is a sort of quick break down of what happened b<b><u>ut now I also have a plan that I am so damn excited about I almost need to wear a depends to tell you about. </u></b> First the car situation then information on my NEW PLAN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I told you on my last post on the Toyota, I sent out my old carburetor to be rebuilt by a group I found on the internet, Guaranteed Carburetors of Largo Fl. They did a fine job, the carburetor was all shiny, everything worked smoothly and they took only 2 days to do it and it cost only $215 with shipping included!!! Lifetime Warranty!!. I put the carburetor back on, the fellow I asked to do it never showed back up after giving him a deposit. <b> I always get screwed, good thing I am not female, I would have a flock of kids by now!!</b> Anyhow, how hard could this be, only thing is there was about 30 vacuum hoses that I replaced with new blue silicone hoses I also bought on line. I took my time on this, took all day so I would not get confused, what a freaking mess but I did it. I put on the carburetor and finished connecting everything as it was originally to the carburetor as I received it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at this freaking mess of vacuum hoses, good god!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did a lot of things previous to hooking up the carburetor I will list in a moment or two here but to continue here is what else happened. I put in 5 gals of gas in the gas tank mixed with 2 oz. of Marvel MIracle Oil in the fuel tank, put one oz. directly in the carburetor of raw fuel after hooking up the recharged</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> battery. I took a very heavy bath towel and soaked it in water and placed it on the car fender where I could grab it in a hurry if needed to put out a fire if needed. I then had Linda get into our new beautiful</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> little Toyota, turn the key on and walla the little turd started right up and run, sort of fast because of the idle I guess but she run and sounded great, to me, what in hell do I know? But then I started to hear like a burping noise and I listen for unusual noises all the time, this can be bad but I found out very good most times to be on the alert to do. Anyhow I also noticed the Catalytic Converter getting super hot, it was glowing red so I had Linda shut down the engine immediately. Actually, I almost puked!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After calming down I had Linda restart the car with the air filter in place and everything connected like it should be, I was assuming that the car would start without a shot of raw fuel in the carburetor as the fuel pump was pumping fuel to the carburetor now. Linda restarted the car for me and the car took right off,<b> I did two back flips, </b>almost hurt myself of course, I was having medical problems with kidney stones at this time as well and it was getting real bad for me to concentrate with the damn pain in the groin and my kidney. JC it is horrible to get old!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well the car still run fast, I turned the idle down a little but the car still garbled air and I knew something was still not right. The Catalytic Converter again got real hot so we shut down again. I sort of knew the converter was clogged as went through something like that with our RV a couple of years earlier on a trip to get the spare engine, thats another story though. so I went to O'reilly's store next to us where I get my parts and told them of what happened and they told me the converter really sounded plugged or the spark plugs were hooked up wrong, there is only 4 and they are numbered. So that was not the problem. <b> So I made a decision,</b> <b><u>the Catalytic Converter is no longer plugged!!! Linda </u></b>Started up the car after unplugging the catalytic converter and the car run a little better for sure but there was still a burping or sucking sound of air. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now remember or maybe I did not tell you before but the Previous Owner himself or had someone else rebuild the carburetor or tried to and the guy I hired in the first place said the carburetor was really messed up inside and he could not repair it with the parts he had. So that is how I ended up having to have it rebuilt by guys online after I found them. Thank God for that too. Well I believe also that whoever did that may have gotten the vacuum lines messed up and I just followed suit and without a schematic I had no idea what to hell I had to work with. I tried for hours to go on the internet to get a schematic for the vacuum lines but everyone wants $40-70 damn dollars and I just got pissed off, they all want to make a huge buck to me and so I decided to go on line to get a repair book just for my 1982 Toyota Corolla and not one that was Generic for several years like I had already bought for $26. Well I found one for sale on ebay, of coarse I did, $50 so I ordered it to start all over doing the vacuum lines again from scratch. Well the book is still not here at this moment, should of been here on Saturday but it is not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to O'reillys on Friday to get other items and a black fellow was there and overheard me complaining about the book I bought that covers vacuum lines for 1984 and up but the book cover said from 1980 up. <b><u>So I got screwed AGAIN!!</u></b> No chance to get my money back on the book. Well this fellow heard me and told me of a guy here in Greenville that deals only in Toyotas and is about my age, and can sure help me out, not cheap but can fix anything once and for all. Sometimes you have to just say, what kind of nut want to save money all the time and get screwed all the time trying to do just that. So Linda and I went looking for his shop. He was in a hidden area almost but I found him, and man it was like walking into a candy store at the age of 6 years old to me. There was stuff all over the place, stacked up 7 ft. high, old stuff, valuable stuff you cannot find anyplace else. <b>I bet he had parts for Jesus's chariot there</b> to be honest. I hit it right off with this guy, he was a retired airplane captain and this is his retirement hobby and I have no idea where he gets it stuff but he has a bunch. Again, I almost needed a depends, I got all excited to meet this guy. We talked over a hour and 1/2 and he gained my confidence within 5 minutes. Everything he said from that moment on was golden concerning our Toyota to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told him everything I had done up to that moment we spoke and then he said he could fix my vacuum leaks etc, but he suggested something that threw me a curve that took me about 10 more minutes after leaving his shop to decide to do. He convinced me to take off my newly rebuilt carburetor, put on a (Weber) carburetor which because of its design does not require all those vacuum lines and vacuum pumps etc. so to make a long story short, yea right Gary, I decided to bite the bullet and brought him our Toyota to have the new Weber Carburetor installed, take off all the pollution stuff no longer needed here in SC and get some power back to this great car. He was going to do all this work and with the cost of the carburetor for $530, INSTALLED correctly by him. So we went for it and now I wait for this work to be completed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who ever the previous owner was also installed a new fuel pump</b> and I learned a new thing here as well. There is a 1/4" fiber spacer that goes between the engine and the fuel pump that is supposed to be installed to make the fuel pump work correctly but it was not on my car. I bought a new fuel pump and installed it exactly like the previous owner did, and that also was causing problems with the camshaft and proper working of the fuel pump. so now with all thing being adjusted and installed correctly this care ought to run like a bear or like she did right off the factory floor when made. So I am learning lessons all around but it pays to listen to those with more experience that really do know what they are doing and I hope we will be without mechanical problems on our Toyota down the road for many years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a list of the newly installed items I did on our Toyota that should make here refreshed, and ready to run tip top shape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) <b>New fuel pump</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) New but now rearranged or not needed silicone vacuum lines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8) <b>New V belts </b>installed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9) <b>New oil filter and new oil</b> with 1qt. Marvel Mystery Oil mixed in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10)<b>New PVC valve</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11) <b>New valve cover gasket</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12)New heat riser tubing replaced, will not be needed with new carburetor installation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13)<b>New battery tray</b> installed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14)<b>New Front wheel bearings</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15)<b>New front wheel rotors</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16) <b>New front wheel pads</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17)<b>New rear wheel brake pads, rebuilt kits for springs and plungers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18)New self brake bleeding kit, bled all brakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is all I have to report on the car up to date so now I just have to wait till about wednesday to get it back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday I had surgery in my GROIN area, no picnic there, still having a lot of pain and sex is the last thing on my mind, well maybe I still think about it anyhow. But I had 3 kidney stones piled up on top of each other, about 10 mm in size how ever big that is. But I am still having a lot of pain from the instruments they shoved up my penis, so here is another lesson for you to listen to you guys. Do not dehydrate yourself at our age, late 60's etc. It is easy to get kidney stones, caused by too much Calcium, eating too much sodium, and sweet tea. Drink lots of water every day, every damn day. This surgery will be expensive, painful as it still is and I have another one forming on the right side but hope to flush it down the toilet with water soon, do not dehydrate, period!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for my new plan I am overly excited about. I know I will never get our bus done as soon as I should have in the past. I also know now thanks to Obama and all the other cronies that have ruined any dreams of lots of us making cross country trips camping etc. we will have to change those plans. I will not tap into my 401K to do this so I have made up my mind and approached Linda just today with this thought. After our Toyota is proven to be reliable on a few long distance trips <b><u>I want to purchase a (TEARDROP CAMPER) LIGHT WEIGHT, the "Littleguy" </u></b>kind that has cupboards in it etc. and is very well built but very light weight. I want to make a cross country trip with my wife, two chihuahuas and two guinea pigs and<b> go to Alaska as that part of my bucket list I am becoming obsessed with.</b> This is becoming of more importance especially with the loss of another great busnut, Arthur Griffin and a few more people of my age that we know real well. I just have to do this trip and have the time of our lives doing it even in a miniature camper like the tear drop camper. The cost of traveling will be way, way affordable and sounds like fun as well. I have time to make a plan, purchase a camper of that size and weight to minimize any drag on the toyota as we travel and just do something out of the box. The bus would of been great but I am not giving BP or those who get the cuts from us getting screwed with the high cost of fuel any more profit than I have to and this is my plan. I know you will think me nuts, but just think about the fun we can still have, we will not have all the amenities our bus will but we will have the 6 of us and the rest of our lives to look at all our photos and the blog I will write of our travel to Alaska to remember when we no longer can do anything like this again. <b><u> Life it too short not to go out of the box if you are still able to. </u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well now I have to find out the requirements for our animals to go through Canada, all the paper work involved and shots etc. a route to take,<b><u> I have to find a teardrop camper</u></b>, I will not build one. I need to continue working on the bus until our trip materializes, in the time of year recommended by those having done this before too. I need to gather much information and am excited as hell about it. <b><u> I will not let any, I mean any negativity comments deter me from this plan,</u></b> I hope to get support from those knowing us and knowing my attitude that if I am not dead <b><u>there is nothing I can't do except brain surgery and circumcisions, period!!</u></b> LOL. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to anyone with ideas and constructive suggestions of places and routes to take and places to see. I hope we will get to meet many of you on our trip and when this materializes for sure and we do leave I hope you will tune in to our journey and maybe encourage you too to say to hell with it and lets just do it as part of your personal (bucket list accomplishment). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I think I have burned out my brain this afternoon and this evening, this took quite a while to construct, thank God I can type. I hope I did not bore you absolutely to death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to tell those you love that you do, and MEAN IT!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garylee </span></div>
Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-52323150565232074752014-02-25T18:29:00.002-08:002014-02-25T18:29:27.854-08:00Blog #12, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, "Not Bus Related" Toyota Corolla Update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey Everyone, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been off the writing mode for a few days, I have been working by little ole butt off still on my new (Money Pit) my 1982 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon that did not and still does not run that I traded my perfectly good 1995 Saturn SL2 for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have some information I wish to share with you in case you may need it, I come over it by accident and it saved me a lot of money and I hope to do the same for you if you need it one day or are a mechanic and can use this information. I will get to it shorty, yea right Gary!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow I am trying to remember how everything happened as it did for the past few days. As you remember when I traded even / steven for this car I originally almost bought another Toyota Station wagon that was on the front lot of the car dealer for sale that did run but needed to have a new manifold gasket installed, it had a bad leak. The driver and passenger seats were badly worn and had seat covers over them to camouflage the terrible shape they were in. The dash had 3 big cracks the entire length of the dash. My car I now have has none of that but enough of that, I just wanted to remind you what I almost bought but luckily there was two guys making a deal just ahead of us by 30 minutes that got the car. The only reason for this was because My precious wife took her time getting dressed to go get this car after I seen it the day before and dreamed of it all night and decided I wanted it all night. But someone else wanted it too, a mexican fellow and his brother and they love Toyotas as it seems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well we missed out on that deal but I got these guys business card that just bought this car I wanted originally as they said they know a lot about Toyotas and I know very little, mechanically. I know they are a very dependable car as I owned one and I never had any problem with ours and we had it over 10 years and still had the same exhaust etc. We exchanged pleasantries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and they went on their way but not before I got their business cards. Now a little later that same day I made a deal with the car dealer after they left for a car that was in the back field of the building, <b>non running </b>but better looking as far as body than the one in the front lot that we originally wanted, and nicer interior etc. <b><u> It just did not run,</u></b> (<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Money Pit </u></b></span>to get her going was going through my brides head at this moment for sure, remember the Eagle, 13 years nearly on blocks now)??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I started to pimp out our car from the engine first, I wanted to get the car nice and clean in the engine area and think of my options to get her running again. I was all excited, (as usual and it don't take much on these kind of projects for ole Garylee to get excited). Well I got to looking at my Vacuum hoses and man on this car there is a bunch of them, about 30 or more, all over the lot. Well, they are the original hoses, they have the Japanese logo's all over the hoses and they were tight, tight on the fittings from drying out over the years etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided I wanted to replace all the vacuum hoses right then and there and went to O'reilly's auto store. I took one of my original hoses with me to match it up, the girl brought me a piece of what she thought looked close and I bought 8 ft. of it, really cheap I thought, only $4 for 8 ft. I would see how far this would go and get more after. Well I started to take off the old stuff, one piece at a time so not to get mixed up as it sure would suck to get the hoses crossed etc. As I was putting them on I said to myself, (self, this hose seems too loose to me to have a good seal) but I used up about 6 feet of the hose and I accidently hit one of the new hoses already replaced and the new length just fell off!!! Hell, that ain't gonna hit it, that isn't going to be good at all. I took the rest of the new stuff and the piece of original Toyota hose back to the store and to research what to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well what it turned out is, the length I had was the original Toyota OEM brand of coarse, Stevie Wonder could have seen that for Gods sake. Any how O'reilly's tried to sell me 5/32 and it does not have enough shrink power to hold onto the shaft of any of the fittings to stay in place as I found out. The shaft diameters of all the vacuum fittings is .165. O'reilly's wanted me to try to use 7/64 but that would be too small and too tight and too restrictive for air flow as it would only be .109 inside diameter. so here is the break down in dimensions of what I really needed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vacuum shaft diameter is- <b> .165</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">USA 5/32 tubing diameter is <b>.156</b> = only .010 holding power and could easily loosen and all off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">USA 7/74 tubing diameter is .<b> 109</b> = .056 too tight holding power, too tight and could break plastic fitting very easily and you could never remove in later time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metric tubing needed is 3.5mm = <b>.140</b>, =. <b><u>025 </u></b>holding power over shaft is us used on and sufficient to hold and not vibrate off at any time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, now that is solved, now I go to Autozone, Napa, O'reillys, pep boys, Greenville Toyota. No one has Metric tubing. At Greenville Toyota they would sell me a 3 foot piece off a roll at $1.50 per foot, Well ok, but that won't go far so I said I would look around for more as I need about 18 feet. Well I never found it any place. I called Toyota of Easley and they said they could order it for me, it comes in 8 ft. lengths special OEM Toyota Brand Vacuum hose like what was on my 1982 still, and some of it was still useable but not much. So I said Ok, how much, and he said it would be Are you ready for this now?? <b><u>He said it would cost ($63.68) for a 8 ft. length!!!!</u></b> I said Toyota of Greenville said it was $1.50 per foot and he said not OEM stuff, it must be like Napa and must be 5/32 and they repair their cars with that stuff!!! So be warned what you get in your foreign cars, I just gave you some valuable information that could one day be worth remembering if your care runs crappy. Japanese cars have to have Metric Vacuum hose and not USA vacuum hose or you will pay in the long run. See what Toyota of Greenville must do, they cannot sell OEM hose for $1.50 per foot when it cost $63.68 for 8 ft. of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, what in hell do I do now,<b><u> I ain't paying that price,</u></b> I need two pieces of it, that would be $128 freaking dollars for vacuum hoses, good grief. So I went on line, and searched and searched and found where I could order Silicone vacuum hose, 3.5 mm, in 3.3 ft. lengths for ($3.60 plus $2.00 Shipping Direct from CHINA) and I did, I ordered 6 lengths of it. $33.60 and I get it about March 4-10, 2014 if I am lucky when coming through customs. I am getting the color blue to pimp out my engine compartment a little as you will see when I get it all done, no sneak peaks till it is done though. I am all excited about this project, but I got to get back on the bus, there has been a lot of nice days here but I don't care, the bus can wait, I need a second car now, so my wife says!!! Only kidding me, but she will be nice pimp car. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I go and see the guys that I wanted to approach about rebuilding my carburetor, and they said their father rebuilds the carburetors, and at his house. <b> I ain't moving this car</b> to get my carburetor rebuilt. Another nice guy they work with asked me what I wanted them for and I told him and asked him if he rebuilds toyota carburetors and he also said he does but would take the carburetor off and rebuild it at home. I don't mind that, he come over with his wife, a pretty little girl, they just had their first baby, only two weeks ago, and he he took off the carburetor. Luckily I loosened up every hose for him before he came and it only took 5 minutes to get off the carburetor after marking the hoses the way he wanted. Off he went. I was tickled, he gave me a good price, I got a price of a guy down the road to rebuild it for $250.!!! JC. That seemed high. And my newest best friend -Domingo said he would rebuild it for me and get the car all tuned up and running good for $100!!! <b><u> I did 3 back flips again,</u></b> damn arthritis kicking my ass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well Domingo called me later last night and said he took the carburetor apart and someone already had taken it apart and screwed up a lot of parts inside and it was not fixable without buying a lot of new part and I needed a new carburetor in place of it. JC. Here we go, <b><u>the new money pit.</u></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called<b> O'reilly's</b> to see what new carburetors would cost, <b>$369</b>, <b>+ tax and 90 day warranty</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called <b>Advance Auto </b>to see what a new one would cost,<b> $437, +tax and 90 day warranty. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went online and went on ebay etc. and all over and finally by accident I found a place you will not believe and am passing on to you guys in case you ever need it. Make it a favorite for you or a friend as it is important to find a place like this. I will give you the link in a moment. But here is the skinny, go and check for yourself. In my case, they do not have my carburetor in stock so they have sent me a shipping notice to sent my carburetor to them and they will rebuild it in two days and then send it to me. I will pay them for it when they send it back to me. <b><u>This carburetor rebuild is GUARANTEED FOR LIFETIME!!</u></b> Where in hell you gonna get one like that. Anyhow here is more information on this. <b><u>They will charge me $178.00 </u></b>for the rebuild plus the $36.00 shipping round trip. <b><u>That is all!!!!!</u></b> The carburetor will be set up to install immediately, they will do a flow check and all set up to run so you do not have to set anything when it comes, supposedly, I am ecstatic and hope to help someone else out after telling you of the prices way above for only a 90 day warranty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another good thing that happened today, remember me telling you that I got pissed off at the dealer that I used to get my cutting wheels and acetlyene and oxygen from and they jacked their prices way up?? I wrote on that in one of my first blogs I believe, well yesterday the manager of the local dealer I used to deal with called me and asked if the corporate office had called me as yet. I told him one corporate division had because I sent a long 7 page letter to them and told them they were greedy etc. and way out of line with their prices and I was ordering stuff on line from now on. Well One corporate manager did call me but his division is not in charge of the stuff I was complaining about and he forwarded that 7 page letter to the correct corporate manager that was in charge of that complaint I made. But I shrugged it off, like yea, yea, yea. Bla, bla, bal, smoke up my ass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow, the manager of the store here in Greenville called me yesterday and said, Gary Corporate has called me and said I am to give you a new bottle of acetylene full of gas at no charge to you and would you like it delivered or come pick it up? I wanted to gloat a little so I said I would come pick it up tomorrow meaning today. And I did, well, everyone in the shop was milling around listening, the manager recognized me right off, addressed me as Mr. Gary, damn, I had to turn around and be sure he meant little ole me and he did, I was all alone. He shook my hand, told me that was brave of me to write that letter and that corporate was re examining all their pricing policies of all their products because of me and many prices had already been reduced more than I could imagine and he thanked me to making their shop becoming more competitive as they notice lots of business leaving them. So I guess I did good. Anyhow they carried a new bottle of Acetylene to my car, and it was the next bigger bottle at that, and placed it in my car for me, no charge, another hand shake and off I went. So it only shows that sometimes a complaint made to higher levels can sometimes make a big difference, all you have to do is believe it is important enough to you to fight for and I did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am gong to show you only one photo today, it is of my 4 spark plugs I took out of my toyota, they were black, black with carbon, and had a .050 gap in them. I bet this baby will run like a bear with new carburetor, new fuel pump, new plugs, new wires, new vacuum lines, new paint inside the engine room, and a happy new owner. That is all for tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I did not fall off the face of the earth, I have been real busy since my last post as I have traded my 1995 Saturn SL2 for a 1982 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon that to me is in Pristine condition but <b>when purchased the Toyota did not run!!</b>! I know, I know, what in hell is wrong with this picture Gary?? Well I just wanted to have this car to simplify the answer and it should be running real good by Monday, I hope. I am having the Carburetor rebuilt this weekend, and I am putting in a new fuel pump because of the age of my new toy car and that way <b>for the rest of my life I should not have to worry about it any more.</b> The car was sitting for quite a long time and this is not good for buses or cars. I posted a few photos of this deal on my FB but will re-post them here as well to show you what I started with and when I am done by the middle of next week you will see the end result and see what I have stored in vision in my head all this time. Here is photos of this anyhow: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Saturn the day it was to be traded, even steven for my Toyota.</span><br />
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Only thing wrong with inside, the upholstery on driver seat was dirty, my work car but a goody, 30 MPG</div>
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The engine compartment, not all dirty etc. clean enough to work on if you needed to, I hardly needed to</div>
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Now the 1982 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon the day I traded for her, Even / Steven</div>
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No dents, NO RUST< NO RUST< NO RUST any place</div>
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Front view, just wanting a wash job after sitting for who know how long in the back field</div>
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Even the back end was in great condition, I am a happy camper to find such a good condition car just for Garylee</div>
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Now a few photos of how she looked after her first bath, now she will look better after awhile but just getting off the field where she sat many months if not longer</div>
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Front seats, only tear on driver seat, need to see what can be done to fix, I hope to salvage the original seats as they are, put covers over them to keep in original condition, I just love this car. Almost has a new smell to it when it is in the sun. I know, it is all in my head!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well today I spent the best part of the day trying to find a place to buy new Vacuum hose for my new Toyota and I went to every auto place in Greenville, Auto zone, Napa, pet boys, every place I could think of and all they had was 5/32" which is a hair too big or 7/64" which is more than a hair to small!! I need metric tubing, I think 3mm. None here in Greenville, SC. I even went to a Toyota Dealer and told him I wanted about 18 feet of it, I already used 8 feet of 5/32" I got from O'reilly's, they thought this would work but I was not satisfied with it. It went on too freely which meant to me that it would come off too freely or leak. So I went looking for the stuff I need. <b>The Toyota Dealer had it, but would only sell me 3 feet of it!</b>! <u>What to hell?? </u> He did not want to short change the mechanics supply if needed, The new cars don't use it for gods sake, only old ones, like MINE!! So I knew 3 ft. would not do crap for me and traveled on and went on the internet to try to find it, good grief, it was and still is difficult to find even here, <b><u>What to hell?</u></b>? I gave up a while and went to work back on the Toyota. I will look later tonight on the net. I am mellowing out right now anyhow. I hate when you want to do a search and you get millions of pieces of crap for only one little item you are looking for even with quotation marks around it. Oh well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow I was thinking as I worked all by myself, AGAIN, about the past, how fast time is flying by and how glad I am of doing this blog really. I am saying things not just for me but at times I hope I am speaking for some of those going through the same circumstances as we have and I am just venting in public. Some people probably think, <b>why tell all this stuff in public</b>. <u> WHY NOT??</u> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is my Blog</b></span>, you do not have to read it for sure, I write what I feel at the moment or my thoughts for the day, sort of like a diary you might say but something everyone can relate to if they want and delete or omit if they don't. That is what is good about this stuff, <b><u>you do not have to read it</u></b>, it is not required to be read. Some enjoy it as I get a few emails saying so and it only takes one to encourage me to continue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow enough of that. Today I was having mixed thought of things good and things bad of relationships I have had in the past and I like thinking of the good things that come out of them. I made a post a few days ago to a relative that was complaining about walking 6 miles to work because of the bad weather. I told him I used to walk more than that when I was younger to go see my first girlfriend and would of walked further if needed and think I did. She was a real nice girl back when we went out and I am sure is still today. I have made contact with her on the internet which I am grateful we have for a tool to make contact with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">those in our past like we do. Anyhow you never really forget your first girl or boy friend you fell in love with, I have no idea why that is but you just don't. <b>She was always good to me but I was just too immature and things after awhile did not work out</b> and we broke it off but it was mutual, even today we have the highest respect for each other. Linda, my wife knows all about her, I have told her Just about everything about her and even when we go up North again I wish for us all to get together just<b><u> so Linda knows everything nice I have said about my first girlfriend is true.</u></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know right off what you are thinking and correct me if wrong, you think, <b>Oh, Oh, Gary your gonna rekindle the fire and crap will happen, right?? </b> That is not my intention, anyone that knows me and Linda knows that I am just so nuts in love with her it is not funny. Why would I jeopardize my happiness I have had all these years with someone so loyal and loving as she has been, someone who understands all my mood swings, up or down, someone who ask for nothing for herself, someone who has been my best friend for 32 years now, someone who still makes my heart skip a beat at times when I look at her unbeknownst by her and makes that feeling inside just make me want to do a back flip if I could knowing I sleep with her. Why would I jeopardize that with what few years I have left, Meeting my first girlfriend with my wife is going to be wonderful as I have made Linda know just how wonderful my first girlfriend was way back then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to my high school senior prom with a girl I cannot even remember her name even, but we double dated with a fellow and he was with the prettiest girl I saw and knew at Beekmantown Central School to me. All during the prom I could not keep my eyes off her and her boyfriend suggested we just swap partners as he was attracted I believe in my date. We did not do that as I thought he was kidding, but if swapping was the thing in those days I would of done it, she was hot. Well as things turned out, I turned on the charm and we dated, fell in love and got married. <b><u>Man I was crazy in love, AGAIN, </u></b>but this was the real deal as we got married. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended up having two beautiful sons, Gary ll, and Darren. <b> If we ever did anything right together we sure made two beautiful boys.</b> Well things happened as they do and<b> I promised myself not to ever be hurtful in why our marriage failed.</b> I know a lot of it had to do with my attitude, I never really got over having to get out of the Navy as I did as I loved the Navy but it is not a life for a Married person when I would be as sea a lot. <b>Well, maybe not to a lot of women</b> I would say and I had that chip on my shoulder for many, many years and <b>then I become a very jealous person</b> and that's all it took as you can suspect. So I know of some of my mistakes and<b> I have tried not to repeat them with my beautiful bride Linda.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My oldest Son Gary, and I had an argument the day before Linda and I moved with our family down to Greenville, SC in 1987, I went to Gary's place of employment to say my last good-bye as we were all packed up and leaving that moment but I just wanted to try to patch up things with him but it did not work. We talked a few moments and I got in the big ole U-Haul truck I was driving with all our belongings in it and started to drive out of Gary's employments drive way. I looked in my driver mirror and saw him in my mirror wave to me as <b>I drove off, with tears in my eyes like right now running down my face.</b> <span style="font-size: large;">That was the last time I saw my son alive.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You can't imagine, not for a moment the pain of remembering that last view of my son in that mirror as I drove off.</b> Well we were not in Greenville, SC 8 months and I got a call at work from Linda saying to come home ASAP. I know something happened, What??? She would not say. Well when she did after I got home I just went blank, fell to my knees and what happened after that I can't remember even today. That was on February 12, his 21st. birthday was January 11th, he was 21 years old only 31 days. Boy he was a good looking boy, just like a model, tall about 6'2'', blue eyes that could see right through you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't write much more about it now <b>but will tell you that it was 10 years that I was grieving</b> so bad I can't imagine how Linda stayed with me but she did and now I remember all I put her though and you think I would ever jeopardize that, <u><b>not a chance in hell.</b></u> For 10 years I could not stand Christmas music, I hated Christmas, my attitude just sucked, Sometimes for the first 2-3 years after Gary died from his automobile Accident I would be on my way to work or someplace and just have to pull over and have a hell of a cry, I was so freaking depressed. I prayed to God to let me trade places with Little Gary but that never happened as you can see. But anyone losing their child grieves differently and deeply, it is so hard to express and others to understand if it has not happened to them. At times I would go to town and forget where I was going and why and forget how to get there. I was a real mess, I got lost so many times, your whole world just seems to die with your child. You become a zombie just walking through life barely knowing what in hell you are doing. I had a real difficult time doing my job at GE for many months and man what a attitude I had with guys on the floor and management. It was a wonder I did not lose my job but I think my son calmed me down when things got real bad, sometimes I can't remember the stupid things I said or did. <b><u>I pray you never go through any of this.</u></b> Now maybe you can see why I am writing this stuff down, it is like therapy for me to talk about and sadden up about as well but feel better seeing it in words to share with others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now my Son Darren, That is a horse of a different color, he is so full of life, so much like his dad, <b>(Bet his Mom loves that)</b> and I am so proud of all his accomplishments. He has such a beautiful family, good job and does things with his family I only wish I had to opportunity to have done with both him and little Gary when they were small. I worked and worked and worked all the time at GE all the hours I could, What did it get me. <u>Better not go there Gary!!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda and I together have no children together, but she brought into my life 3 children from her previous marriage and I brought them into my heart and life like they were my own. We went through a lot together, for me to be accepted as part of their family took awhile but worked out quite well. <b> Dominick was my right hand when we lived in Mariaville, NY</b>, we were inseparable and <b>even to this day he calls me Dad and he is not hard to love back.</b> Linda's Two daughters, Nancy and her great family live in Ga, where they all have great jobs and take lots of family trips together which I again did not do for quite some time because of trying to make a living etc. Dominic's twin sister Lisa has two great kids that we used to see very often, and now <b><u>because of SC no grandparents rights we no longer get to see, visit or talk to these grandchildren anymore again.</u></b> This is like a grieving time again we are going through, but now we are older and it hurts even more but there is millions like us in this country, and many thousands here in SC that legally this is allowed to happen. Nobody prays harder than we do, <b>in the meantime our grand-kids get older, so do we</b> and we have no idea what to expect when we finally get to see them LEGALLY again when no longer can this be prevented from happening, EVER!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I did not get much work done on my engine this week except for going last week to Gene Russel's and getting two used aluminum valve covers for my new engine to replace the 2 steel one's I had on it when I purchased the engine from Ed. The Steel valve covers don't seal down very good and allow the engine pressure to push fuel out the valve cover gaskets and down the engine making a mess. so I cleaned them up, I had to remove a vent cover from one of them and a oil fill opening from the other and blank off the valve covers with aluminum, then I painted them with Chrome Paint to make them nice and clean to at least look nice when I put the engine back in anyhow. I would hope the chrome paint will stick for a while anyhow but it has to be better than the old raw aluminum look that they had before I cleaned them up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After bringing back Ed's engine, Now Mine, I had to repeat what I did to my old one, I had to pressure wash it and inspect it for anything missing or needed. What I had to replace even though this engine was rebuilt 49,000 miles ago etc. I had to find out now. So I again capped off every opening possible in preparation to pressure wash. I had to rig up a gasket under the covers that Ed made out of wood to take the place of the exhaust manifold that was removed <b><u>to give to Kentucky Steve</u></b> as he needed some. I did not want water from my pressure washer to get into the engine as I washed it down. I got out my pressure washer and for over an hour I washed and washed all the grease etc, off that I could to get a good look at what I had to do. After the engine dried in the sun I started the duty, again of looking deeper at what I had to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I removed all the air box covers on both sides of the engine under where the exhaust manifold is supposed to be. Since I did not have any Manifold Exhaust on it had very little problem removing the air box inspection covers. There was absolutely nothing in the air box covers which was a relief to me for starters. I temporarily</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> put the air box inspection covers back on knowing I was going to put them back on with new gaskets and new bolts. All external bolts were going to be replaced and all those internal that I would be working with also would be replaced, <b>that is just me,</b> and each one would be <b>tightened to a Detroit Diesel Bible torque spec.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I knew I had to change out my old oil pan on my old motor to the the motor as we damaged the new engine oil pan trying to turn up straight the new engine while at Eds. That was no big deal changing out the oil pans. I made my cradle just big enough, to slide out the old oil pan and after cleaning off the gasket surface real good, put the new oil pan and new gasket on the new engine. I did not tighten down the new oil pan as I knew the oil pan had to be lowered to assemble the bell-housing to the engine and attach the oil pan to the bell-housing</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The engine camshaft drive gears have to be removed to remove the 3/16" thick safety protection plate behind the gears to install a new sealing gasket from the engine to the plate. You have to remove the gears and protection plate to install the new engine to protection plate gasket other wise you will have a mess all over the bell-housing</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with engine lubricant on the outside edge of your entire bell housing</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and have another oily mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an investment well worth the money for a engine rebuild, repair or anything for cleaning of parts. Purchased from Harbor Freight 10 years ago, just now using it!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well the deal for my new engine with Ed Brenner has been made, all parts I
believe I need for the new engine have been removed from my old engine and & I have cleaned up my old bell housing to bring with us to Ed’s to reassemble to his
engine for ease in transporting in the u-haul trailer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Days before Linda and I were to
leave to go get this new engine I told Ed I would go to my metal supply vendor
and try to get him a supply of raw stock metal also as a gesture to thanks for
his good deal on this engine. I went to
this vendor and of course<b> I had to dig out metal from a DUMPSTER like I like to
do</b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FREE STUFF!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">! No shame here though, I am the only person allowed to do this from this particular vendor.,
what a thing to boast about you are thinking eh??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Well this privilege of dumpster diving has saved me about $5,000 maybe or more</b> for
metal alone in my bus conversion over the period of 13 years now, it has to be
more than that but just estimating. <b><u>What
do you think now???</u></b> It was sure worth it
to me and still is at the cost of metal now days. I dumpster picked about 1200-1400 lbs to I
would estimate of raw metal for ED, maybe a little more but just guessing. My personal dual axel trailer wheels were squatting on my trailer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pick up my new engine</b>, and I arranged to get a 6X12’ U-Haul trailer for $39 per
day with insurance. I picked up the trailer the day before about noon and
brought her home and loaded it up with the raw metal and wooden cradle I made days earlier for the
engine to sit on when I brought it back to our house safely on the trailer. I also put on board 2X4’s to anchor the
engine in all directions from moving and also the bell housing from my old
engine. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my jeep I had tools of all
kinds, nylon straps, sledge hammer just in case, she was pretty packed with everything
a guy can think of and I believe we used everything I brought.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I strapped everything down and was ready to
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phone call from Ed, OH, OH</b>, I thought the deal was off!!! NO, something else, Ed said he was moving the
engine into position for us to easily load on the trailer the next day when I
arrived and when he did <b><u>the engine rolled over about 90 degrees. Oh, crap, not again.</u></b> This just happened to me the week earlier and
I was alone. Well at least Ed has a fork
lift to help us get it back up right!!
All night long now I was trying to turn that engine back up right in my
mind, there is only one lifting point to lift from not two. What in hell to do now. <b>Not a good night for sleeping</b>, well that is
me. The ole adrenalin was flowing all
night long,I had headaches galore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and my mind was just a running all over </b><span style="font-size: small;">trying to turn that darn engine over in
my mind. Well we had to go through the
damndest hilliest mountains on the way to Murrells Inlet, SC you ever saw and
my jeep just seemed to keep struggling to get up these mountain roads, every
one of them and there was a crap of them.
My jeep sometimes downshifted and the </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><u>RPM’s raced up to a speed I have
never seen before up to and over 5,000 rpm’s. </u></b><span style="font-size: large;">
Now that was scary</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and it sure put me on my toes each time I went up a
hill. It did that 5 times I believe but
I kicked it down out of cruise immediately, thank God as quickly as I felt it
happen. But I kept thinking, “What to
hell”. Now what is happening, maybe I
had on more of a load than I though and here it is pitch black out, no traffic
at those hours and all kinds of stuff goes through your mind when you imagine
mysterious things happening that never happen before. Then I notice my fuel consumption was showing
up way, way more than normal, so much more that I got out to </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">check to see if I
had a hole in my fuel tank</b><span style="font-size: small;">. </span><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Nope,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: small;"> all
was good there, and the load was not shifting or anything. So on we went. It would be a 5 hour trip to Ed’s total.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and my fuel light come on,</u></b><span style="font-size: small;"> I overfilled the car before we left the house, what
to hell, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">only 256 mile trip total??</b><span style="font-size: small;">. A
gas station is on the corner of where Ed lives, I decided to fill up to relax a
moment, not sure what to expect with a turned over bus engine and now </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">what is the
problem with the car??</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Oh God how am I
doing??? </span></u></b><span style="font-size: small;">We filled the car back up with fuel again. The car was
nearly bone dry of fuel. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There we were, we arrived at 9:30am on the nose
and there was ED, pacing back and forth in his driveway near his garage in
front of my new engine which appeared turned sideways!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Here we go</b>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I calmly backed down the driveway with the trailer like this happens
every day and it would be a piece of cake!! <b>NOT!</b>! I backed up as close as I
dared and macho me gets out and scanned the situation and wished I were still
on my way there but shook it off and said to myself,<b> “Self we got a situation
here”.</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well Ed explained all that
happened and the poor guy I am sure did not sleep all night either.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I could tell he was all shook up and tried
and tried by himself to up right that motor and the more he did the more it
turned downward. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Been there, Done that!!</span></div>
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scenarios of turning this engine</b>, but disaster in my mind clouded each thought
we each had. We had one big obstacle
attached to the engine that really complicated the entire problem, it was the
back motor mount bracket that was still attached to the engine and you would
have to lift the engine at least 18” high maybe to even start turning the
engine and this was a dangerous move. We
had wooden blocks, thank God I brought some 12” ones with me, we had them all
over for support in case the engine slipped or dropped or anything
happened. You will see in the photos
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engine turned over</b> even with the fork lift at the forks were shorter than we
needed, with the help of a little ole 2 ton engine hoist and a lot of (gonads
and stupidity) we got her done, one inch at a time. You talk about relieved. This 2300 lb. cubicle can kill you in a
heartbeat, no warning, just BANG, your dead!!
ME!! I was on the ground!! Well that did not happen as if it did you
would not be getting bored to death at the moment of reading this blog. We got the engine safely secured on wooden
blocks, bolted on the bell housing I brought up and now was ready to put her in
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With the help of a little ole 2 ton engine hoist and a lot of guts we got inched this engine over one inch at a time till it started to turn over in the opposite direction which as you can see pleased the hell out of me. I no longer could crack an walnuts in my butt, the worst of this part was over, thank God!!</div>
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push engine on the cradle</u> I made onto the trailer. We had to re-modify the wooden cradle I made
so the engine would go in sideways in the trailer and start the engine into the
trailer and I used one of my heavy duty nylon straps hooked onto the front tongue
of the trailer hooked onto the engine to pull the entire assembly onto the
trailer on click at a time. It took a
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to leave, my inspector wife, Linda said, (that front back tire looks really low
on the passenger side of the trailer)??
Huh?? Sure does?? Ed gets his tire pressure gage and sure enough,
a tire needing 65 lbs. air pressure only had 10 lbs. in it!!!!! </span></div>
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were pulling that trailer for 5 hours sideways</b> with the load we had, all
uphill, in the dark and used a full tank of fuel to do it. We could of easily had a flat tire with all
that metal, can you imagine the accident with all that metal on highway 26 at
4am in the morning. Good grief!! Well we put 65 lbs in the tire, checked the
rest which were good. We listened for
any leaks, none at that time, <b><u>I kissed Ed and shook hands with Claudette</u></b>, <b>no, I mean the other way around,</b> then
we left for home. I was to tickled about
this deal though <b>I could have easily kissed him.</b> It was about 4pm when we finally left Ed’s driveway. <b>Oh Man we were going to be traveling during
the supper hour in all that traffic </b>with a 2300 lb. engine and <b><u>my sphincter
muscle was so tight I could crack walnuts but off we went.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the care handled way, way better, she downshifted way less but this might have
been because most of the trip home was downhill too, but we consumed only ½
tank of fuel altogether as well on the way home. I sure
felt a lot better about that. When we
returned the trailer, I told U-haul of the tire being down in pressure, did not
get huffy or anything and <b><u>they subtracted 1 day of use from the bill which again
saved a few dollars. </u></b> Being respectful
can pay off many times and did this time as well. I will surely recommend this shop to anyone
needing a rental u-haul just for this gesture.
It does not take much to please me, just showing respect and believing
what I told them to be truthful as I was willing to pay full price anyhow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well we got the engine home, <b>now how in hell
was I going to get this monster off the trailer,</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ALONE!!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Never thought this far ahead. But again I have a vendor that I have
befriended over 8 years that has a shop 2 miles from me. One hell of a good guy, he is a struggling
bolt and nut selling vendor, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">he sells me
all my bolts and nuts for his cost,</b><span style="font-size: small;"> can you imagine again the bucks I have
saved. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">I mean every bolt</b><span style="font-size: small;"> I need. I
have repaid him for this by giving him free labor for a few days several times
sorting out and doing inventory work and anything, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">I mean anything</b><span style="font-size: small;"> no matter how demeaning it may be to others to just
show my appreciation for his kindness and support to me for my bus conversion
project. Well, he owns a small front end loader that can only
pick up 800 lbs. max</span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">. and he offered to
shut down his shop</b><span style="font-size: small;"> and come over to help me unload as he knew what I was
doing and when I was arriving home with my new engine!!! </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Who in
hell else would offer to do that</b><span style="font-size: small;">?
Talk about a support system, </span><u style="font-size: 12pt;">that is what drives me to complete this
conversion</u><span style="font-size: small;"> and I just cannot let these people down, my great supporting
wife or myself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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side with the bucket of his front end loader on the side of the trailer and me on the other side with my little ole 2 ton engine
hoist we slid that darn ole engine out by me pulling out the trailer with the jeep, a little at a time supporting one end
of the engine cradle on blocks and pulling the trailer out with the jeep a
little at a time. T<b>odd’s front end
loader was at a maximum lifting capacity (800 lbs) </b>and we just made it. I almost tipped
over my engine hoist. I have no idea how
in hell I would of done this without Todd’s help. I just have not idea; God
can’t do everything for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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supported on 12” or higher blocks and had the trailer completely pulled out of
the way and again I did 2 more back flips.
Oh my poor back is killing me.
Todd was such a ray of sunshine in my life that day, maybe really saved
my life to be honest, I am sure I would of gotten hurt with only a 2 ton engine
hoist to pullout a 2300 lb. engine, a solid cube of man killing metal for sure.
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for only 1 day as I explained earlier, <b>(saved more money again, yippee) </b>and it
seems I just keep getting a little help here and there every day from the good
lord one way or other just to keep me honest and above water. Sometimes I have to ask him, <b>“How my doing”,
</b>he is probably just smiling down stroking his beard if he has one, amazed at my
perseverance and thinking one day I will be rewarded, big time. <b><u> I have been with a wonderful wife and family,</u></b>
the rest is just perks I have to earn and those friends I meet on the way are
ones I need to thank one day, one at a time, I really want to do just
that. I am getting mushy here, sorry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stuff and I was finally alone with my new engine I got to sit down and just
look and see what I got to work with.
First thing again was to tape up everything and get ready to pressure
wash her and see what needs to be done next, and putting her on the new cradle
after I remove the old engine from it was the first thing to do. So out come the duct tape again, closed off
all the opening and out come the pressure washer and 1 hr later she was drying
in the sun. I had a little trouble
getting the new engine off the wooden shipping cradle and onto the metal
assembly cradle but I did it with that little 2 ton crane where the engine sits
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is now secure, easy to maneuver around by myself and work on, assemble parts
and paint and soon rig up for the home made DYNO test of mine to make sure she
runs good at running tempt. Before I reassemble her into the engine
compartment. That will be a special blog
just for that operation,<b><u> I will not sleep a lick that night, can you imagine
the excitement,</u></b> like the only kid as Disneyland, yea baby!! Don’t worry, it will be on video for you all
to see. <b><u>13 years and you hear a 2 stroke that will be in my bus running for the
first time</u></b>, we will bring her up to water temperature, engine running
temperature, oil pressure, test of my new air throttle, man what a freaking
testing day we will have. I plan to hook
her up to my radiator too, all outside the engine on the engine cradle, that
will be a kicker, <b>only a 2 stroke lover would understand. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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link to view, just click on this link to go directly to them:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-89420754430350913612014-02-06T11:21:00.002-08:002014-02-07T07:48:18.858-08:00Blog #8, Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Engine removal from bus, cleaning and inspection & inspection of engine compartment<div class="MsoNormal">
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this new program I am using, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.blogger.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. I was writing over 1 ½ hours waiting for time
to leave to go to Gene Russell’s place of business in NC to pick up two
aluminum valve covers for my new engine.
I have one aluminum valve cover and one steel cover, that stinks, locks
like hell and the steel cover will leak oil eventually as they do not seal very
good, they do not clamp down very good as they are too thin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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already as you know I can, I saved it, (I thought in a separate area)
<b>BUTTTTTTTTTT</b> when I come this evening to
continue I found out that I had to publish it also <b>then make adjustments</b> as
this <b>FREE program does not save a DRAFT like Wordpress does!!</b> Wordpress does not present videos which I
want to also do and Blogger.com does??
JC, <u>you just can’t win.</u> This is
what you put up with for free stuff, especially software. <b>Butt wipes</b>.
Anyhow I have to rewrite what I wrote today like I did before on
wordpress. Well I have made up my mind
to write all my stuff from now on in a word document program and copy and paste
in the blog after and add my photos etc. after I copy my text into the
blog. I will outsmart these butt wipes
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I spent several days studying my engine lay out before I attempted to
unhook my engine to pull it out. <b><u>Now again, my information is intended for newbie’s,</u></b> you old-timers will get bored,
<b>(good bye) </b>I am sure I will bore you to death.
I sat down and figured how I was going to make a engine dolly to roll out the
engine after I jacked it up enough to release it from the engine framing and
then be able to roll it out of the engine compartment, but all this has to be done by me all alone, <b>(as usual)</b>
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be busy on a project such as this when needed, then again maybe you have good
friends that will just jump right in and go for it just to be a great
friend. A piece of advice though, <b><u>do not
allow any drinking of alcohol until the end of the work day. </u></b> Working on these damn ole buses is one
dangerous son of a gun and gravity of a falling part will kill in a second. <b>You
will have to live with the pain of a loss of a life, limb and law suit for the
rest of our life</b>, think it over. One
reason I work alone, a<u>nd no kids, grandkids etc, in work area ever!!!!</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cradle</b> that would also have a area for 4 jacks that would be placed
to jack up the engine on the 4 corners of the oil pan. You will see how this set up is used when under the engine photos are seen. NOTE: the extension on the left of this photo was intended for the support of the transmission, <b><u>this is not needed,</u></b> it is a waste of time and material and I am passing this onto you. The engine is quite capable of supporting the transmission </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">without</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> this extra support which also hinders hooking up under the bus, <b>eliminate this from your cradle</b> if you design one similar one to this. I will measure my cradle one day and include a drawing, this worked for me, not probably the best but worked for me.</span></span></span></div>
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<b>I had to place this cradle under the engine a couple of times to get the exact location</b> of where the jacks would sit on the cradle, <u>you have to work off center line of the engine</u> and the cradle to keep everything on a straight controllable plane, it will be easier to control cradle movement and placement of the jacks. It took nearly a 7 lb. roll of mig wire to weld this baby up, overkill I am sure, that is me though. All metal is 1/4 inch thickness, steel wheels and 4 ton jacks. This will lift and move your engine without much effort and remember you are lifting this engine only about 3/8 inches total. A guide to keep the jacks in place will be will be shown in photos. </div>
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This is the best photo I have of the 4 jack locating bars I welded to the engine cradle I made to keep the jacks in place from moving around but enough movement to let them center under the engine. you have to locate them and tack weld them in place <b>when the cradle is located and centered under the engine </b>where it will be to hook up the engine to. But everything has to be done on the center line of both parts, you cannot hurry this up, you will be on your back, it will be uncomfortable but that is the fun part, and well worth the effort taking your time to do. </div>
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<b>This is a photo of the jack supports that are mounted on all four corners of the engine oil pan that support the 4 ton jacks</b> and they are supported by the engine cradle. Note the bracket on one corner of the oil pan designed to keep the top of the jack from moving around when the engine is moved out, the base of the jack is also kept in a locking position with welded clips to secure it in position to also keep it from slipping or moving when engine cradle is moved. All handles are located so operator, (ME) can crawl under and jack easily a little at a time to keep the engine level as you jack up to about 3/8" total in height. <b>You only want to lift the engine high enough to miss any obstructions of the engine framing</b> and not hit the overhead framing with the engine governor. It is kind of close in there if you are not observant and careful. </div>
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The front corner of the engine supported by a jack mounted similarly to the back end. You will have to remove two bolts on each corner of the oil pan, use a piece of cardboard and cut it out to a template to use for the brackets needed to fit in the corner to hold the jacks in place when the brackets are bolted in place. this too will take time, but well worth the effort. </div>
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Two opposite corners have different design brackets needed to support the 4 ton jacks, remove 2 corner bolts, use cardboard template to fit bracket then make out of 1/4" plate metal and rebolt after making a tubing insert for the jack head to fit into to locate jack from slipping when used. </div>
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the wiring from varmints eating through it. I made a 90 deg. Corner at the
end of the run to go into the back engine power panel that was in the way of the
air horn. So I had to open up the back
bedroom floor compartment access to the engine to remove the engine air horn
and then that problem was solved. <b>Of
course the air horn was on tigh</b>t as the bolts had welded themselves to the engine. Then I also realized there is only about ½” of height to jack up the entire engine and because your engine governor would hit the frame as well so you had to jack up only about
5/16” to slide out the engine. <b>Piece of
cake!!</b> I made sure everything was
unhooked, all the engine linkages, air lines, fuel lines wires etc. I checked
several times for anything small and hidden <b><u>and there will be</u></b>, a wire here or
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<b>OK, OK, Now I see a big problem</b>, gotta remove the darn ole rubber air intake and (air horn), the gray tubing on the right of photo feeds all my wiring I re-ran 10 years or so ago to my engine compt. power panel and <b>was surely in the way of removing my engine </b>with the airhorn and intake elbow mounted to the engine, so I had to remove and this eliminated all of the stress. Had a hell of a time removing the air horn, the bolts welded to the engine from heat etc. but I did it. Removing engine now would be a piece of cake, The overhead clearance now was still gonna be tight but doable if I only lift the engine about 3/8" which is more than enough to move the engine out and miss anything else on the engine framing.</div>
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Engine / cradle ready to hook unto lawn mower for removal from engine compartment</div>
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pull out the engine, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">very slowly </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and she crept out like a thief in the
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pressure wash and inspect my original engine. I unhooked the
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Another view of the engine being pulled out of her resting place with my 22 hp. Troybuilt lawn mower. She had her hands full, but I did not overwork her any. </div>
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<b>Here is how it looks with the extra tent coverage</b> I have to work under when I hand push the wheel engine in and out now which is nice out of the sun and I can put a cover over the front if needed but I don't work out there is it is under 40 deg, I am too dam old now, <b>have to pee all the time if I do.</b> </div>
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I had to add some paint to frame after rework, ole surface rust was starting to take over and I sure did not want that to happen. Sure looks a lot better but rework on the overhead still needs to be done and will before inserting new engine. Will repaint areas of the engine compartment if needed to cover weld splatter. </div>
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inspection covers was huge chunks of liners that had been smashed and thrown
into these covers.</u> I was devastated,
pissed and more pissed. What to hell
else could happen?? I took photos, went
on line and sure enough busnut Clifford Allen come on board and <b>told me these
were definitely chunks from a broken liner and the engine was probably needing
rebuilding !!!</b> JC!! I thought!! Oh Crap,
I got Stuck again. </span><br />
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Parts found in one of my air box covers, now you can see my concern when found, butttttt, I did not visually see any broken parts through the inspection port hole and should of taken more time to investigate and think on. I still believe my old engine is good as I did not find any evidence of damage looking through the air box inspection hole or any evidence of broken metal in the oil pan, none!!!</div>
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This was the metal found in the second air box cover that just cinched I had a problem and all panic hit me at once. <b>I just knew I was doomed, AGAIN!! </b> NOT!!</div>
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& Ole Kentucky Steve both seen this information on the Eaglesinternational
Bulletin board and called me and told me to <b>call Ed Brenner</b> and talk to him about
his 8V71 Engine he was selling for nearly 1 year and was recently rebuilt
49,000 miles ago. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>So I did,</u></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I made a
deal and glad I did as only a couple of days later a young fellow, Josh Brannon
called him and wanted to buy Ed’s engine and Ed told him it was sold to me and
he would not back out of the deal. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u> I
love you ED.</u></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Don’t feel bad now for
Josh, I sold him my other engine I had for sale that had Jake brakes at a
reduced price to pass on the good deal that Ed gave me on the engine I needed
for my bus and now Josh is putting my engine I had for sale in his band bus as
I write this blog. So we all made out I
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remove my bellhousing</b> from my old engine to put on Ed’s engine to transport
the engine safely to my house to prepare to clean and paint etc. Little did I know I would find more problems
when I removed <b>parts from my old engine that would not be useable </b>on the new
engine and need replacing to work on the new engine? I found out fast as I started to remove the
parts needed, <b>the only usable part I would have really would be the bell
housing</b> itself and the transmission. The
clutch, clutch plate, and flywheel would all need replacing, at a cost if purchased
new way more than the cost of the engine I just purchased. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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one of my vendors that I have been getting parts from for several years, I
purchased a new clutch plate and clutch at vendor cost and </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">saved over $250</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, and
my good friend Kentucky Steve brought me a flywheel he did not need as he
installed a automatic Allison 740 transmission in his converted bus, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>lucky
bum</u></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. So now all I have to do is get the
flywheel Steve brought me surface ground to remove any minor surface stress
lines in the plate and </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">also a saving of over $500 -$2,000 </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">according to serial
number of engine if purchased from a Detroit Dealer </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(I love you too Steve)!</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">! So now you can see the importance of good deals
in this hobby. You need more than deep pockets;
you just need good friends as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Photo BELOW of the flywheel I removed off my old engine </b>for my new engine, the stress cracks on my old engine are so bad & the cracks so so deep that they penetrate through the flywheel into the bolt holes that support the flywheel, This makes the flywheel unacceptable and unusable for use. This also means that someone rode this clutch till it got so red hot that it was near exploding, just think about that one the next time your ride your clutch for a length of time or don't double clutch and overwork your clutch for any reason. <b>This is not cheap, replacement new is from $500 - $2000 depending upon the year and model of your bus from Detroit Dealer</b>. <u>Keep that in mind too next time you want to be a hot shot with that left foot. Keep it off the damn clutch unless you are shifting!!</u></span><br />
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Another close up of millions of heat stress cracks in my flywheel, there was 6 that were straight through the <b>flywheel that could easily caused the flywheel to fly apart under use!!!! anytime!!!</b></div>
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<b>Now what do you think </b>when you see an actual heat stress crack extended down to the bolting surface of the flywheel, think this should be used. If I did not tear down this engine, I would not have known this condition existed, you can easily see what no one will tell you about when you buy used. </div>
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covered it, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">removed the flywheel, inspected it, found it to be not usable for
service</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> so replacement had to be done, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">as well as the clutch and clutch
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cleaned it, re-tapped re-tapped every hole, painted it and prepped it for remounting when
I received my </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">gasket set sent to me by busnut Clifford Allen, at no cost to me.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> This
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great day it was to go to Gene Russell’s Diesel Garage in NC.</b> He has stuff all over the lot, he took time
off from his schedule and busy day to help me find the things I wanted, gave me
advise I really needed and the weather for lurking around a place like that was
just the best ever. I can’t wait to go
back again one day, make this a place to go for Detroit Diesel 2 stroke parts,
call first to make sure he has something though, then enjoy a planned day trip
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-46998527082307045352014-02-04T13:31:00.000-08:002014-02-05T15:34:11.764-08:00Post #7, "Bus stuff," 8V71 Flywheel removal, inspection & replacement<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey everyone, Well I am trying to get back working on my bus conversion project, I have spent a lot of time on personal comments on this blogging project of mine and just wanted to let you know that I am like everyone else with same problems as everyone, short on money, hate the dam political controls on us now and so on and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">Anyhow, have a little patience with me again here, I want to learn how to categorize my bus information on "Wordpress" and this seems like greek stuff now until I complete my first post. I will pick up on what I am working on now and take my time and back track and by categorizing and dating things you will be able to see things in sequence I want to present them for you. There has been one person who expressed interest if he could do what I am doing as he wants to and I want to assure him that he can. </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b><u> NOTE:</u></b></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> since this post was </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">originally</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> written I have since modified and converted it to Blogger as I believe the softwear on blogger will be easier for me to use and do more for me at the same price, </span><span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b><u>FREE!!</u></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I will do all I can to simplify everything as much as I can. </span><b>Much of this stuff I will be blogging about will be too simple for many of your old timers </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">so you might as well <u>just as well take me off your favorites list unless you want to laugh at me while you drink your morning coffee.</u> I will probably be wasting your time and you will probably say to yourself, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>what does he think, we are all stupid or just out of 3rd grade??</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> This is not my intention, I just want to help those that have not ever done anything like I have done and are thinking of trying to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>I am sure even you old timers had to learn to get the knowledge you now have,</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> <u>it is too bad that a lot of you do now wish to share that knowledge to those that really would use if they just didn’t have to always pay for it all the time.</u> </span><b>Anyhow!! Well Today I dived into the Christmas Presents</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> that My buddy Steve Gains aka (Kentucky Steve) brought me I think on Thursday evening. Thursday or Friday, grief, I don’t know what to hell today is really. Anyhow I couldn’t wait to get started, cold or not and man it has been freaking cold here in SC for days and days. I can’t remember it being this cold in 27 years really. I wonder if Obama had anything to do what that??lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Well I could not work out in the open so I brought the flywheel Steve brought me and I desperately need to complete my new 8V71 assembly into </span><b>one of my 5 sheds </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I have here, I am a male hoarder, not whore!!. This shed is insulated and I have one of those kerosene heaters in it and had it toasty warm in 7 minutes and I was </span><b>whistling a Yankee</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> song after I got warm again and started to clean up one of my new christmas toys. In this bus conversion blog am including photos of just my clean up of the flywheel and </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the importance of re- tapping of all the holes in the flywheel</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> now while you can. While the flywheel is on a workbench and you are comfortable working on the flywheel before I have the clutch surface of the flywheel ground for re-assembly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I have also given submitted photo of </span><b>tools needed for newbies that would make the job easier that I use</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> to clean up the engine parts, but </span><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I forgot to mention <u>SAFETY GLASSES and Hard Toed Safety Shoes as well.</u></span></em><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> This Baby (</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">flywheel & starter gear</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">) is heavy, </span><b><u>if dropped it can cut off a foot,</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> or toe in a second or make your toes thinner than two ply toilet paper!! Without me having to mention it all the time,</span><b><u> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(ALWAYS)</span>assume</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> you are to wear safety glasses and safety shoes when working on your bus conversion. You will thank me one day, I assure you. Ok, enough for that and I will not mention that too many more times,</span><b> I know you hope not.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I wanted to clean up the flywheel of surface rust and debris in the holes and remove the surface rust </span><b>as if it were not going to be</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> ground and was just going to be reassembled. This gives you an </span><b>opportunity to further inspect for damaged threaded holes</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, deeper cracks like in my old flywheel which I will include a photo of here in this blog also for example to see. But also so you can be sure that there is no burrs of any kind on any surface of the starter gear surface that will sit on the grinding table that will decide the flatness of your flywheel plate while being ground. One little burr can make your real flywheel plate ground at an angle and cause contact of your clutch against this plate to be on one side of the plate when activated when you hit the clutch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Taking your time on anything to especially being done to your engine </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">is money in the bank to prevent premature breakdowns because of assembly mistakes or not taking the time to prevent possible catastrophic engine failures that could cost big, big money on the road. </span><b>But this also give you an opportunity to inspect every aspect of your engine</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> for incorrect bolts used or overtightened bolts, broken lock washers, missing lock washers, rounded off bolts from overtightening. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is so many things that a close inspection can discover <u>that a rebuild shop cannot</u></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><u> </u>as they cannot take the time to look at absolutely everything you will be able to do, this takes too much time and </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>you will not be able to afford the rebuild shop the extra inspection time</u> and question their process anyhow especially if they found nothing.</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I will tell you what I just accidentally just found a few days ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had intentions to remove and replace all the brass fittings and draining valves of the engine block. well I took off the two pet cock drains right under the exhaust manifolds. <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T<u>hey were plugged to the max with debris, grease, dirt</u></span><u> </u>and I have no idea what else, photos also will be in this blog as I am now talking about it so might as well show it to you to inspect when you do. <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>A rebuild shop probably will not do</u> this as I had a hard time removing these pet cocks, they were there a long, long time.</span> I now have to flush out my engine as I have no idea how bad this debris clogging is any place in this cavity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This could have made my engine run hot,</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> plugged my heater core and heater hose in time</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, who knows just what else could have happened!! Another lucky find from inspecting and taking my time!! Something else for you to remember to look for. Remember, (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>REPAIR SHOPS ALWAYS ASSUME, A BUS OWNER HAS DEEP POCKETS,</u></span></em><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> YOU ARE ALWAYS IN A HURRY TO GET ON THE ROAD AND </span><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN</span></em><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, <u>THEY CAN STICK IT TOO YOU WITH A SMILE AND THEY DO).</u> Now this is just a warning of some, not all shops, but on the road you do not always have the option to shop around at <u>$200-500 towing charges</u> if you pay out of your pocket. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TAKE YOUR TIME</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, I WILL HELP YOU AS MUCH AS I CAN OR SOMEONE ON ONE OF THE BUSNUT BOARDS CAN so that things like above do not happen to you on the road. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Minimizing the chances of your engine overheating is money in the bank, I am sure these simple things are overlooked many times if not nearly all the time as being trivial.</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> They think your radiator is undersized, you are overweight on your bus, you are lugging your engine, so many things and it could be something </span><b><u>as simple as a plugged water cavity </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">going through your engine!! Now I will start to add some of the photos I talk about above, and hope this blog does not lose your interest but make you think how simple things of prevention can possibly prevent future breakdowns thousands of miles from home. This is one of the two drain pet cocks located under each side of the engine right under the exhaust manifold. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto;"><img alt="P1000605" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-66" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000605.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Close up view after the removal of one of t</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he drain pet cocks shows that the water jacket is completely clogged with debris</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> making the possibility of ever draining this engine if needed impossible. Also it looks like this water jacket could be contaminated through out and needs to be flushed. This water jacket being being clogged </span><b><u>also would cause the engine to run hot </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">and <u>clog the entire heating system I intend to use</u>. This was a good find, I </span><b>am sure never would never be looked at when a DD shop </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">rebuild is done. It would be to time consuming and costly to do unless requested by the owner of engine. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="P1000606" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000606.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> After digging out what could be dug out of the water jacket this is what is left needing to be flushed out of the water jacket. </span><b><u>This debris has to be old coolant, dirty oil mixed in it, grease and dirt who knows where it came from</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> and just plain filth that could have come from the work done from the previous engine rebuild? Not sure where it all come from but flushing of the engine just has to do much to make the engine run cooler now. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="P1000610" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-65" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000610.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">The is the inside of the real pet cock, completely clogged, impossible to be used to drain anything. This draining pet cock was cleaned out entirely and then found to be seized up and needing replacing and was. This was the case on both sides of this engine. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="P1000607" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-68" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000607.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">This is a photo of the Original flywheel from my old 8V71 engine, deeply cracked from heat, The cracks extend into bore of flywheel up to the bolts holding it into engine. This flywheel is absolutely no good. Someone really rode the clutch on this engine for some great length of time to heat this plate up to this extent. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="P1000439" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-70" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000439.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">One of the many deep cracks as well as the thousands of smaller deep stress cracks in this worthless flywheel. Value of replacement flywheel </span><b><u>when new, $500 -$2000 from DD dealers </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">depending upon the model of bus and SN of bus to decide the FLYWHEEL only cost. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000440.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000440" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-71" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000440.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Here is close up of one of the many deep cracks extending right up into the bolt holes of the flywheel, this baby had to had gotten really red-hot to do this damage. </span><b><u>No way this flywheel can be salvaged.</u></b><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000445.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000445" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-69" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000445.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Another close up of the extent of the depth of the heat stress crack </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">induced into this flywheel by the previous operator making this part of the engine absolutely no good. </span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000444.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000444" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-73" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000444.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Photo of tools normally used to clean up of engine parts, clicking on the photos will enlarge them so reading the descriptions is possible, I took this photo after I had already started to initially started to clean this wonderful gift from Kentucky Steve, my new flywheel. Now I had to continue to clean, retap and remove any burrs off this flywheel before bringing to a shop to have ground nice and flat. There is slight stress cracks but it will only take a few thousandths off to clean up to smooth metal. </span><b><u>The cost of grinding flywheel is $75.00,</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> the </span><b><u>savings of this flywheel from Steve is from $500 – $2,000????!!!! </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Crying out loud!! From a DD dealer by the way. I love you Steve!!</span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000699.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000699" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-75" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000699.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Already started to clean up of flywheel. </span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000700.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000700" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-76" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000700.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Clutch wheel surface of flywheel to be ground flat is all cleaned up and ready to be ground nice and flat. </span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000701.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000701" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000701.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Other side of flywheel, Starter / gear end assembly is ready for clean up, this has to be as clean as possible, all burrs removed to prevent tipping on grinding table so Flywheel will be flat when assembled and clutch will hit on all surfaces 360 deg. when the clutch is applied. </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="P1000702" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-78" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000702.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Gear end of flywheel all cleaned up and deburred ready for grinding. a big improvement from above photo. </span><a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000703.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="P1000703" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-74" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/p1000703.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Well this is the end of todays accomplishment, probably not exciting to you but it was to me, look at the money Kentucky Steve saved me on this. </span><b><u>Rebuilding a bus engine is just nothing you want to take for granted that will be a piece of cake, unless of course you have very, very deep pockets</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. <u>In that case you don’t need to read all this stuff, </u>you will be paying some smuck to do it for you, like me!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Good Night, now I hope to put it in my categories section, good luck to me too. </u></b></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well this is Tuesday, January 28, 2014.</span></em> It is still cold as all get-up outside, only going to be in low 30′s, good grief and a snow storm is expected tonight as well. What in hell is happening to our seasons, everything is all messed up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I Stayed inside again today, I have worked for the past two days on a new computer I wanted to tell you about, I will probably send it back </span><b><u>but highly recommend it to like your parents and grand parents</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> to use. I will explain why I am sending it back too, I hate to but it will be best for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I purchased this </span><b>(“WOW Computer, First Street, for Boomers & Beyond) </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">from <u>an article I found in a AAA magazine</u> I believe. I called about it, I liked the pitch and looked up on Google and found it to be a pretty exciting computer to consider to have for LIFE!! BUT, I found out that with </span><b>the little experience I have picked up over the past 10 years this computer will not do all the things I enjoy doing </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">like running more than one window at a time and working from more than one at a time which is hard to break.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">I will list the pros and cons for you to consider, </span><b style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;">this is great for anyone with no experience or very little computer experience</b><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> as you will not have habits like mine that make this computer not acceptable for what I enjoy doing. I will list the on-line link to their website to go read for your self, so you can also forward to others that you feel may be interested for their parents or grandparents to encourage them to use the net in their relaxing days in their easy chairs etc. This really is great for them I promise, and very easy to learn and it has many built-in video tutorials that anyone can watch over and over till they get it on their own. Teaching seniors computers is not an easy thing to do, but this computer can do it all by itself, </span><b style="color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;">I have used their personal technical assistance twice already and that convinced me that this is not the computer for me </b><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">and darn it I have to send back in a day or two. I called to talk to a personal Tech to convince myself my </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">suspicions</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> were correct about what I am about to tell you so that you get the straight skinny on this product if you are computer literate then don't buy it, you will not be pleased and it is a beautiful computer but not capable to do all you can do not I assure you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am writing on it this moment but here is the link I promised 1st so you can go see about this great media tool:<em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (may have to copy and paste)</span> </em> <a href="http://www.mywowcomputer.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.mywowcomputer.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for the list of pros for this computer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You will never have to replace this computer for life</span>, it is upgraded by mfg. automatically at different times you are notified of. You do not have to worry about it ever being outdated with windows 11, 13 etc. This is not Windows formatted software computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) T<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his is Linux supported software</span> like that used at Govt. offices. There are no windows to speak of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You will have a LIFETIME of free virus protection</span> you never have to invest in again, or be bothered with having your computer be looked at by an on line Doctor, you know what I mean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free lifetime replacemen</span>t should the computer crash because of computer software glitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">5)</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;"> USA </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>online</b></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;"> and phone technicians</span></span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">, 7 days a week, controlled hours though </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">thought</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> time zones.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) Free photo software</span> I have not yet used but I am sure it is simplified for newbies to use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7)<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WiFi ready if you wish to use that feature</span>, recommend direct connection for less chance of interference with internet connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8)<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> No SPAM or mysterious advertisement</span> pop ups any time!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9)<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4 USB Plug in ports</span> for cameras, printers etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10)<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This computer will use only (HP) printers</span>, about $59 at Wal-Mart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This computer has book reading feature</span>, not used by me yet, similar to Nook. Purchase of books possible to read on computer anytime you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Write program works grea</span>t so far, done all I wanted to do and easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">13) </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You have 30 days to try computer</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> and then send back if your are not satisfied, need to only pay shipping, $40 I believe. That gives you enough time to try to train your parents etc. to see if they enjoy getting on the net and finding others like them as well and maybe old friends from years way back or with interest similar to theirs. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>NOTE:</u></b></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I have already sent mine back after only 3 days of using, </span><b>no sense keep trying to use something you know will not work for you if you are used to using many programs at once or windows at once. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14)<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The computer is controlled either by (wired mouse – included, Touch screen controls,<em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> or you can buy a</em> wireless mouse)</span> The touch screen controls is really cool to use even on scroll bars. Everything actually can be done by touch screen nearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> There is way too many more features of usefulness to include them all here</span> but this is truly the tool to encourage your senior loved ones to join the net with the rest of us young bucks and buckaroos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">16)</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You will have main menu buttons on the left side of your computer screen</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> that with a mouse click or press of a finger on the screen will bring you right to your mail, internet connection, photos etc. Everything is simplified and at your </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">fingertips</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> and very visible</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have and recommend getting the 22″ screen</span>, it is wonderful to view, everything and make as large as you need and have it all on the screen and not off to one side and not visible. Every program you go to on your computer you will have the left hand menu visible the entire time if you want to go someplace else but the computer will remember where you were at last when you press the proper button to go back to that area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The internal speaker system is</span> clear, clean and controllable enough to enjoy your music, video tutorials or anything audio on the web you enjoy. External speakers is not really needed. The audio Quality is great.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">NOW FOR THE CONS THAT MADE ME SEND THIS MACHINE BACK</span></u> ONLY BECAUSE OF MY desire to USE MANY WINDOWS AT ONE TIME TO WORK WITH.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) <u>You are Unable</u> to install any software from the internet</span> through downloads like my program AVS I use all the time for Photos, Videos etc. This is one way they control no viruses to get into your computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">2) </span><b><u>You are <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unable</span></u></b><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to install any software from stores lik</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">e Best buy or any place, this also is for the same reason as #1, to reduce any viruses on your computer and I have lost 2 complete computer systems to viruses in the past 10 years!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">3) </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><b>You can only</b> </u><span style="font-weight: 700;">have one MAIN email acct. nam</span></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">e, but 2 other names that you have to work around to get to after loading in you email system. Older </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">seniors will normally have only one name</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> and a real one at that, not one like skinflint etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>You do not have</u> several windows you can open at once</span> to work back and forth on like I am used to using, You will only have one window at a time to use, making it simple to remember where you are working and not confusing trying to keep remembering where you were last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">5)</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;"> <u>You will have to learn</u> to use some </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>keyboard</b></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;"> features</span></span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> for (Cut & Paste) that we normally do with a click of a mouse, but that is minimal problem when you learn it I am sure. I just get impatient trying to remember, CRS, Can’t Remember Stuff!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>The cost of this 22″ beautiful computer is $1,079 + shipping,</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> you can bargain the shipping if you are nice and get it sent free, just be nice, tell them Garylee the busman sent you, Only kidding, this won’t get you nothing but it will show that we are spreading the word among us old timers and we can be powerful when we wish to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I hope this information is informative to you and worth considering for your senior loved ones or those you have highest respect for, </span><b><u>the price is good considering it is the last computer they will ever have to buy for life and all the features that are included for life. </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Just think about it, </span><b><u>LIFE!!!</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Don’t forget to tell those you love that you love them and mean it.</u></b></span></div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-13260029467129755712014-02-04T11:34:00.002-08:002014-02-04T11:37:01.334-08:00Blog # 5, Christmas for Gary from Kentucky Steve, Thanks to those contributing to conversion, Grandparents rights in SC, SUCKS!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">Today was a pretty good day too</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">, I got a phone call last night that a good busnut friend </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">(Kentucky Steve) </b><u>aka Steve Gains.</u><b style="text-decoration: underline;"> </b>Steve Said He</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> was coming this way from Kentucky to pick up farmed out material from another busnut friend here in </span><span style="line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">CHESNEE</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">, SC </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>(Eric Brown</b></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">) and Steve had loaded his vehicle up with all kinds of bus stuff he no longer needed or wanted!! Yipeeee, And was bringing it to my house!! <u> </u></span><u><span style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">Man, Christmas all over for just me!!</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> Steve knows I am a dumpster diver!!</span></u><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> I could hardly sleep last night, those not into bussin will never understand,</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>ever. </u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Well I got everything ready around the bus for Steve to see from his last visit on improvements I have worked on and sort of wanted his approval I guess of my hard work and design of things I had done since his last visit. I don’t get many real viewers of my work, </span><b>hell, I don’t get any really. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Well Steve came just as it was getting Dark, </span><b><u><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but I had flashlights</span> ready!</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> We spent some time going over all my latest improvements and he picked up a few things he thought he might want to do </span><b>which tickled the hell out of me</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> as I put a lot of thinking time in every aspect and move of every part of my conversion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then steve opened up his vehicle back-end to show me <u>all my new Christmas Presents</u></span><u style="font-weight: inherit;">,</u><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I could not wait. NON BUS LOVERS would not understand!!! He brought me another bell housing which I need to go on my old engine I took out of my bus so I can re-assemble my old engine, Pickle it with oil and put it in long storage if it is ever needed. </span><b><u><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEVER</span> to be sold.</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I do not think there was really anything wrong with my original bus engine to begin with now after much investigation but we will stick to the </span><b>new engine with only 49,000 miles on it after a rebuild </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">and maybe this old engine out of my bus will never have to be reused in my life time, I hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">Here is a photos of my new 2 stroke Diesel, </span><span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b><u>ain't she pretty,</u></b></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> 49,000 miles from a face lift, can't wait to here her purr and pull that load of steel </span><span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b><u>I been working on for 13 years now this March, 2014.</u></b></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> It's gotta be hard to understand to those not committed to something for that long, but some of us know that drive after all that time, not to think of the $$$, thank god for the support of friends, vendors that have given me breaks on my supplies and of coarse my biggest support of all my best friend in the entire world who has never </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">wavered</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> in supporting me, my beautiful wife Linda. We are getting there baby girl. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Now this photo is nothing, <u>I mean nothing like she is going to look like </u>when she is all dressed up and ready to go back into her working spot in the bus.</b> You will see, I am thoroughly getting excited after all these weeks of prepping this baby for her new home. Gotta give her a test run though on my test stand with gages, radiator and the whole shebang all hooked up first. No one in a hurry here, can't wait though. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Steve brought me a pair of steel valve covers I am feverishly going to exchange for aluminum ones, 110 volt welding machine he does not need any longer, a sandblaster tank set up, engine air filter canister (big), a</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nd a very, very much needed new flywheel with gear ring valued at between <u>($500-$2000) </u>brand new at a detroit dealer depending on the model of the engine!!</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> So you see why </span><u><b>I still believe in Santa from Kentucky!</b></u><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Steve sure saved me a lot, I mean a lot of </span><b><u>money </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">and that is what a good friend will do that does not always put profit on everything. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clifford Allen did that for me too not too long ago</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> and I am grateful as he too contributed to me being able to use the money saved from items he sent on other things I needed. </span><b>Eric Brown also </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">has contributed to my bus conversion knowing I am a dumpster diver converter!! </span><b> I intend to pay that kindness from these guys paying it forward as often as I can</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> to others. There is no greater feeling to help others that need it when they are struggling to give them a boost of encouragement like has just been given to me like from guys like Steve & Clifford & Ed & Eric.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>My good busnut friend Ed Brenner gave me the best deal ever</u></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> on this new 8V71 engine I am now preparing to install in my bus for weeks now that I owe him big time for and will never forget the terrific deal he gave me. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I tried to pass that on in my way when I sold my engine with the jake brakes</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> to a nice young fellow (</span><b><u>Josh Brannon) </u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">just a couple of days ago and will continue. </span><b>It feels good to just give,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> what you receive in return cannot be put in monetary value and at times this is worth so much more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is only one more thing that could make me happier today</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> & that is to get a phone call from our Grandkids here in SC that </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we have not seen in 39 days</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, thanks to </span><b><u>(No Grandparents Rights)</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> supported by the politicians of SC. Other than that this has been a great day. </span><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Update,</span></u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> the number of days now, (February 4, 2014 is <span style="font-size: large;">(51 horrible days),</span> the SC Parental System SUCKS when it comes to </span><u style="font-weight: bold;">Grandparents rights, just SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! </u> I hope you never ever have to find out for yourself, the pain is unbearable at times, you world is so cluttered at times and hard to make decisions, it is just hard to explain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great night, what is left of it,<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>tell those you love that you love them and mean it. </u></span></span></span></div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-7750073972810667742014-02-04T10:44:00.003-08:002014-02-04T10:44:54.176-08:00Blog #4, Sale of 8V71, Josh Brannon, Shop Supplies, Eagle Design, Welding shop complaint<header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 474px; padding: 0px 30px 12px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well today was a good day, first of all a lot of people had the day off as a Holiday as it was a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Not all business voted to take this day off but those that did I am sure had a wonderful sunny, warm day to just do what ever. Hope those that could enjoyed themselves for this 3 day weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">As for me personally it was good too, I did not celebrate this day for that reason but I did sell one of my 3 8V71 engines to fine fellow, Josh Brannon of Murrells Inlet, SC. He came here real early this morning, he hired a rental fork lift from a rental place to come and load up his truck with this 2300 lb. payload and he was astonished how much his 6' box truck squatted down. </span><b style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;">Me too!!</b><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> We had to wire the tail gate shut, the engine was about 2" too long to shut the tail gate properly!! Yikes!! But we got her tied down safely and off Josh went. Josh bought my 8V71 with Jake Brakes on it because his engine on his pretty Eagle Band Bus puked on him and he was in dire need of a replacement. He has a band, the </span><b style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><u>“Josh Brannon Band”</u></b><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> that tours the South East and plays the newer country music that the new kids like. I asked him if he plays Merle and he said yes, and asked him if he plays Web Pierce, and he said </span><b style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><u>"we don’t go that far back"</u></b><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">–<u>Haha.</u> He doesn't know what he is missing for us old </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">timers</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> does he??</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Josh is a fine fellow, he gave me one of his music CD's and I am listening to it now, pretty good for new country, </span><b>I still love my oldies,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> just like me. Straight from the heart stuff, but got to give this guy credit. Good looking son of a gun too there girls, </span><b>Tim Mcgraw style walk etc.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Look him and his band up on the net, </span><b>“Josh Brannon Band” </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">for his next tour and dates of appearance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I got to go do a little shopping for shop supplies. I went to my favorite welding shop to get 6″ cutting wheels, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit;">they went from $2.59 only 2 months ago to $4.59 today <u>(good grief). </u> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">They said they had a price increase!!! Hell that was thievery and I let them know. I told them I would shop on-line before paying that freaking price and will. So stupid, like the post office, raise the price of everything, handle less to hopefully make more, BS!!!!!! Not with me. No wonder business are failing, greedy SOB’S. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit;"><u>UPdate,</u></b><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> When I came home I ordered cutting wheels off the internet, the same size I was asked to pay $4.59 each for at the welding shop, I got 50 of them for $58 shipping included!! </span><span style="font-style: inherit;"><b><u>I also sent a letter to the welding company corporate office,</u></b></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (not cool sometimes) and expressed my </span>displeasure<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> with their price increases of their products and told them also what I did on ebay. Long story short, I feel better, saved a lot of money too. </span></span></div>
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<span id="bb_tlft" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jan 30, 2014<span class="endedDate" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">04:49:06 PST</span></span></span></div>
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Cypress, Texas, United States</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">I did some more cleaning of parts to put back on my new engine, these parts Ed just sent me I forgot to take when I picked up my new engine from him, so tomorrow I will put that on and put on my miter box. What a bummer that is, the design stinks, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;">I think <u>Stevie Wonder </u>could have made a better design frame for the miter box </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">and better looking too. It hangs down there off the back of the engine like it was a practice assembly job for a newbie right out of grade school to design to me. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> I hate it but I don’t have time to reinvent every damn thing on this bus. Miter box is the center / lower part of photo of engine still in bus in this photo. Ugly ain't it?? Just hanging there, has a purpose but ugly contraption.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;"> So back on it goes, once the door is closed on the back no one sees it until you open it at a rally and there that crap is. </span><u style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px;">Anyone else bothered by this ugly design besides me??</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">My good friend Kentucky Steve is coming here I believe Wednesday to bring me a new flywheel I need that he did not as he put on a Allison 740 tyranny,</span><b> lucky bum. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> He earned it though. I can’t afford the automatic transmission, I just have to draw the line someplace, that is it for me. $2-3000 is too much for this 68-year-old man </span><b>too invest for someone else to enjoy down the road.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I wanna drive this baby for a while after all this time. Anyone blame me??</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I am starting to babble as there is not much going on today, I will get to the bus stuff soon, I promise.</span></div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-82588243418088341152014-02-02T16:47:00.001-08:002014-02-04T11:42:10.235-08:00Blog #3, Pretty Depressed this day, Went shopping at the $1 and had a ball, who would of thunk it??<div style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<b><u>NOTE: this blog entry also is transfered from my earlier post on Wordpress</u></b>, so that I will have all my blogs in one area, bear with me till I get caught up if you have already read this, I will be making fresh blogs very soon. One of the reasons also I am changing to Blogger is I believe I can do most of what I want here without having to upgrade which you have to on Wordpress, We'll see in time. Thank You for viewing, Garylee</div>
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Hello, hello, hello, Well I am still trying to get a handle on this blogging experience, have not tossed the computer yet with all the instructions but lots of the <span style="font-weight: 700;">instructions are for the upgrades</span> that you are trying to be sucked into and <span style="font-weight: 700;">looks like I will be</span> as I want to do more than the "FREE" software will allow me to. You know the old saying, Not one damn thing in life is free!! They will get you someplace. Well I will continue here for free for a few days, I got too much to do to learn the rest of this Wordpress Jargon anyhow now. Be patient with me, I wish to include videos etc. <span style="font-weight: 700;">but that is the "Premium" package!! Of course!!</span> I should be grateful though at least I get to communicate at this level and hell just 10 years ago we did not have this tool, so I'll put up with it. <em><span style="font-weight: 700;">Thank you Wordpress even though I ran off at the mouth, so sorry!!</span> </em> Thats more than Miley Cyrus would say!!LOL I want to take the time to thank a good busnut friend Paul lowery for his assistance in keeping me out of trouble with this Wordpress blogging, thanks again Paul.</div>
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Well it is Sunday, nice day out, sunny but not too bad, middle 40's, spent the day with my pretty bride going shopping, <span style="font-weight: 700;">of all places the Dollar Store.</span> Man what a hoot, they have more stuff in there for a lousy $1 than you think and we bought plenty, good stuff too. Cleaning stuff, little do dads and storage things and all kinds of stuff you would pay lots more for at any of the MART stores. Try it out, go with the wiffe or boyffe and check it out. We just had a good day going to different stores and being together for a change instead of me working on the bus in my shop and then me and my bride meeting up at the end of the day and me falling asleep with the 4 little critters on my chest as usual, (Chilly, Angel, Peaches & Piper). With all that warmth on your chest you will fall asleep, fast.</div>
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Both of us, Linda and I are pretty depressed emotionally lately, not to expose too much of our personal business but we miss seeing our only Grandchildren that live close to us and we have not seen since December 15, 2013!! This is not easy to accept being grandparents, It sure not easy to explain but in SC stuff like that is allowed, NO GRAND PARENTS RIGHTS OF ANY KIND!! This SUCKS!!!!!!!! But this cannot keep us down much longer, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Our Grandchildren are getting older FAST</span> and these SC politicians here that commit incest on there own use these stupid laws to prevent kids from seeing their grandparents until adult age nearly if a parents exercises their parental rights for preventing children from seeing their grandchildren for some godforsaken reason. <b><u>Just pray this never happens to you</u></b>. <u>It is just a bitch and anyone going through this understands and we sure feel awful for you.</u> We have never prayed and cried so much as we have this second time this has happened to us with the same grandchildren!! Well enough for that, <b><u>you get the idea I am sure.</u></b> This may be private family information, but there are millions of grandparents that go through this same crap for reasons they have no control of and these <b>young kids of ours that need their asses kicked</b> but that would be against the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enough for that, forgive my ranting, my attitude might show up at times, maybe it did a couple of days ago when I scrapped my 1st. second blog, this one is not too bad I don't think. Just truthful for anyone in our place, maybe those doing it will realize how we hurt inside and at our age how much more time on earth do we really have left??</div>
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Well I am finally nearly done with any personal introductions to my blog, <b>you must have some pretty good Idea who I am about by now.</b> I have to get to the meat and potatoes of my intent for writing this blog in the first place pretty soon or I will lose my busnut buddies that were interested in my bus conversion for the past 12/13 years. I may have a little more to say for the next couple of days but I'm nearly done. <b>Just wait till we get to September 11 or better known as (9-11). </b> You will probably run me off on a rail. I hope not.</div>
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Hope you all had a wonderful, safe weekend, <b><u>Don't forget to say "I Love you" to all those you do.</u></b></div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-87902808909013734612014-02-02T16:31:00.001-08:002014-02-04T11:40:21.675-08:00Blog #2, My Good Friend and Family, Joel Meza at Charleston, SC, Navy Days and some photos of other good friend Ted Peralta and some of our Navy LIberties<div style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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I had written a long blog yesterday but before publishing it, thank God I proof read it and realized that a few people reading between the lines would probably had taken what I said to heart and gotten hurt inside so I scrapped it all. I said I would not do that and have no idea why I wrote the way I did. It was not out of anger, just rambling on and I promised to myself now, not to say bad about past relationships and situations unless they are (Political) and I will warn you ahead of time when I do that if you are a (Obama Lover).</div>
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Today I was working outside, cold as all get up though, only high 30's in Greenville, SC area, but Sunny. I worked still on my bus engine, I found a lot of thing I wanted to do before test running my new Bus engine on a test stand and I spent the day replacing all bolts possible and painting the engine was just a couple of those things I wanted to do.</div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">As I worked I got to thinking of the great days I spent in the US Navy, 1963 - 1967 on board the </span></span><b><u><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea, CVA-43</span></span></u></b><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">. At the time I was on her I was married to my first wife and being in the Navy and being married sometimes can be quite hard to do as you are at sea a lot especially on an aircraft carrier. I did not realize when I was on that ship how much I really loved it as my wife was lonesome and wanted me to get out when my time expired and I did. That was the biggest, biggest personal mistake I ever made and I still regret it every day since. I really did love the Navy & I still do. I love the military and </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;">I hurt every time one of our young kids gets killed in those <u>senseless wars</u> or what in hell they all them these day now</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">. I will rant on an on one blog about that too but not today, not too much any how.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">While on the Coral Maru, (</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;">our Ships </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Nickname</b>) I became good friends with Joel Meza from Utah, and Ted Peralta from California. We all met up again after 44 years, thanks to this great tool, the internet. I am still in contact with Joel, the great man he is always reaching out to me to do anything in the world I may need. Ted has contacted me occasionally but has become a very successful business man and travels a lot overseas so I do not get to see or hear from him as often but I am so glad to hooked back up with him and I still miss him. The three of us sure had some great times getting drunk, partying in Olongapo, Philippines, Guam, Japan, any place really we pulled Liberty.</span></span></div>
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At one time just before I got out of the navy<b> I became their Petty Officer in charge</b> of their shop but we did not let this interfere with our partying and friendship for the duration of our enlistment. I had a lot of photos of us I sent back home when I was overseas<u> but they were misplaced</u> and I only have a few left I could find to have as personal mementos for me to also enjoy sharing with you all.</div>
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Two years ago Joel come out from Utah with his wife Dora in their RV on a 30 day trip and My wife of 30 years, LInda and I met them in Charleston, SC. We went on a visit to the museum ship<b> USS Yorktown, CV-10</b> and had a memorable blast, (<span style="font-weight: 700;">well Joel and I did) Navy guy thing you know. </span> We saw a plane tied down on the flight deck on the Uss Yorktown that was flown by one of the pilots <b>from our little bitte ole ship</b>, his name was Ltcr Bob Shumaker, <span style="font-weight: 700;">and it had the <u>Uss Coral Sea written on the side of the plane</u></span>. You can't imagine how tickled this made us both. Well it did us anyhow. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Couple of old softies I guess. </span></div>
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I have some photos of our ship that I am so proud to have served on and I actually cried when I saw photos of her being sold to India and being cut into pieces and sent there to be melted down and made into computers or some damn thing. It cost $86,000,000 to build her, and they sold her for $750,000! You have to be a military person and attached to a ship or company of some kind to understand the feelings I felt seeing this happen on the internet after serving on her and being part of her for 4 years. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Those never being in the military of any kind would never understand what that is, <u>so don't try</u></span>. I am just a sensitive bastard for sure at some thing, well many things!</div>
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I went to Great Lakes Training Center for Boot Camp for 12 weeks, in August of 1963, man it got cold fast there though in October let me tell you. Anyhow I got my first leave and went home the same day President Kennedy was assassinated . To me he and president Clinton were the best Presidents for the common people in my life time. The reason I loved Clinton, Well, everyone was working that could work, the stocks were all up, people were making money all over the lot, he did not take any BS from anyone from any country. <span style="font-weight: 700;">But best of all,</span> when every male dignitary that visited his office after hearing about what Monica did with all the cigars on his desk did, <span style="font-weight: 700;">I can imagine how many of those dignitaries gargled for days and days</span> after smoking one of those great ole cuban cigars that Clinton gave them with that southern smile of his when he did knowing those cigars would have that lip smacking taste on them, ha-ha lol!!!</div>
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Now I want to let you enjoy the few photos I do have left of my Navy days, of friends and our ship, I still love to relive them days in my mind, can't believe they were so darn many years ago already. Hope you enjoy them. Garylee</div>
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Joel Meza and I after 44 years, we both are a lot fatter, but man we miss each other and still got the ole memory of our ships hats forever.</div>
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Me with with my bride Linda, Joel with his Wife Dora and their Daughter Tammy who was our tour guide while we were in Charleston. what a blast to get together after so many years of absence from each other, so many laughs, I almost had to buy depends to wear. Love you guys.</div>
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As the Flag and sign signify, Joel and I will always stand united and if we had to would fight together in a fox hole with no bullets and just a butter knife to the end. You're a good friend Joel.</div>
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The height of our trip to the museum of the Uss Yorktown CV-10 was to see an actual plane from our old ship, the Uss Coral Sea, CVA-43, this made our day. <b><u>Those non military would not understand, ever.</u></b></div>
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This was the first pilot from our ship during <span style="font-weight: 700;">the Vietnam shameful mess we were sent in (over 50,000 men died there) we did not win and now McDonald's flourish all over the place, </span> that was shot down, rescued and got to fly again and this was his plane. This was a kicker, even though the war itself sucked.</div>
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This is information of the <span style="font-weight: 700;">H.L.Hunley t</span>hat was found in the bay off Charleston and carefully copied for viewing from the civil war days, this information might be useful to those historians interested of what transpired in those days not so long ago before the internet.</div>
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Here is an exact replica of the H.L.Hunley, it was very exciting to see just how advanced the intelligence was at that time of history, the bodies of the men sacrificed in that ship were still in the ship when found.</div>
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This was me, I had hair then and was skinny as a rail and we were cruising for weeks with the ship on the Tonkin Golf with my good friend Ted Peralta, who taught me at the time to play chess, I never won, I think he planned it that way but we had fun anyhow. Ted is now a very successful business man, he was then too, he knew how to run a successful slush fund, all military men know of what they are. Like credit cards today but only cheaper interest then I think than credit cards are now!! Thieves!!</div>
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My high school graduation picture, big ears, class "C" student, could have been a class "A" darn it, fell in love early, you know what that does. I had hair then, that was good.</div>
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The photo on the right is Me and Ted just relaxing, of course drinking under age, but in Guam there is no age problem. If you are military and can build bombs, you can drink. We even got to water ski there in Guam too, they treated the military good, of course we were their only revenue and after two six packs each, we spent money. Not many girls, they kept them hidden from us, can't imagine why, we were only at sea for a couple of months!!</div>
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This I Joel Meza, compare this photo with one above at beginning of blog, What a difference, he looks like a mean little bastard here but he was the best friend then and even better now.</div>
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This cute little virgin just stood out as she strolled down the street at 3 am on the main street in Vegas, I just had to have a photo. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Almost got my ass kicked by her pimp,</span> I thought she was a showgirl, instead she was a hooker for the freaks and I was supposed to either pay to photograph her, $25 or pay to play with her. I did neither, I tried to convince my wife to get an outfit while we were in Vegas to make some money on the side getting photos, she almost gave me a knee in the gonads. That was that.!! You gotta watch what you do in Vegas, it just costs Money for <span style="font-weight: 700;">everything.</span> Just sit and watch, with mirror sun glasses on is the best advise for first timers. Just observe how to operate, keep your wallet in your front pants pocket with a rubber band around it and go back home as soon as you can!!</div>
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Ted and I at his house in stockton, Ca, look at the setting where he lives, the back of my house has a sewage treatment plant in back of it. Only kidding!! Anyhow, we are celebrating 44 years since we were in the Navy together and now here we are, one foot on the banana peeling and one on the ground together living it up at a barbecue together at his beautiful home.</div>
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I only have a few photo I can post of our ship I took of the net, I hope not to get in trouble, I had some of my own but as I told you earlier they are no longer in my possession for the rest of my life I guess. So this is all I can dare to show you, she was a grand ship, we ate good, had good jobs, had good liberty, if you went on liberty and did not come back to the ship without a footprint on the front of your white shirt you did not have a good night!!! lol.</div>
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This is a picture of the USS Yorktown CV-10 in Charleston you should go tour if you have the opportunity. If you are not military you probably would not appreciate it, I will never figure that out, why a healthy man in particular will not consider serving his country or preparing to if needed as in the reserves.</div>
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Garylee1945http://www.blogger.com/profile/16795561680685070984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136809873506083025.post-33681782434787279922014-02-02T08:23:00.000-08:002014-02-05T15:32:52.891-08:00Blog #1, Introduction of Garylee to blogging, What my blogs will be about, Hopefully<br />
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, <a href="http://busconverter101.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/thursday-january-16-2014-starting-my-first-blog/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2014, STARTING MY FIRST BLOG</a></h1>
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My Name is Gary LaBombard, aka (garylee) I live with my family in Greenville, SC area and I have been thinking of doing this for some time, I am not sure how many viewers will be interested but I hope those that are will receive some information that is useful to them and some humor that will also make them <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">laugh at (ME) with me</span> at times. I am a serious person at times in things I do until I achieve them and then make humor in trying to teach others through some humor of my mistakes which even I love to laugh at. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But not at the time of learning, I am a serious bugger then</span>. What in heck is he talking about you ask? Well hang on, I have a lot to say as some of you know and being retired have time on my hands to say a lot.</div>
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I do not know all the in’s and out’s of this Blogging stuff, this is my first day and already I fell asleep reading all the instructions of this blogging stuff I can do, so now I have to learn by my mistakes already I guess as I go. I probably fell asleep because at my age (68) we do that at times very easily you know.</div>
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I wish to categorize my entries so you will have choices to go to see things I post that do interest you and bypass those that do not interest you in the least. Not everyone is interesting, some a little, some a lot but not everyone all the time. I am in there somewhere with many, or think I am!</div>
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Some of my blogging categories will be about some of but not all of my family life, sex life is out entirely and yes even though Miley Cyrus does not think sex after 40 does not exists she has a lot to lean that the sex she has is (Rabbit Sex), right?? But I will not discuss that any more. Anyhow I am a real animal lover as you can see by my profile photo. I will talk about and show humorous photos of our family animals as they have grown up. If I use the word (I) a lot it is because I have to other way to describe what this blog is about, me, my family, my animals, my bus, my music, my busnut friends and my bucket list.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">I will sometimes have political views you may agree or disagree with, man that sure has happened in the past on some bulletin boards I was a member of, especially over the existing administration and all the flubbing up of all our lives they are doing and always, always on the anniversary of (9-11) which I take a pounding on from sympathizers every year. </span><b><u>Please do not take any offense to my political views,</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> I am old vet, love this country and Flag we fly, love to pray in public, salute the flag, believe in protection of family and self with a gun if needed, </span><b>but have no intention to infringe on anyone with my personal beliefs to upset them in any form or way</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. But most of my thoughts are on my loves of helping people, sharing knowledge on my hobbies, (music, bus conversions), traveling and attending rallies such as Bus Rallies. I used to Video many rallies and have posted many of these bus rallies on Youtube, </span><b><u>(garylee1945)</u></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> there is information to help encourage seniors my age to get instruments like mine and learn to play and sing music from their time era (and mine) they love to hear. I am self-taught and want them to know they can learn too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">At the moment I am still playing everyday music to keep in practice, I have self-taught myself the (boogie woogie) which I love playing for 2 hours per day. That is the happiest hours of my day, all my problems or thoughts that caused me headaches during the day all go away. I play fast, loud and make my voice hoarse as I sing my heart out singing Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Jerry lee Lewis and many, many others. Man what a hoot and I started doing this at 51 years old. Take that Miley Cyrus and stuff it you know where you rubbed that foam finger of yours. </span><b>See what I mean</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. Hope I made you laugh and not cringe here!!</span></div>
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Also at this moment of time I have worked feverishly on our bus conversion, I have worked on this project for 12 years, it will be 13 years this April 2, 2014. Yep, I know, I’m slow but I’m being as thorough as a brain surgeon believe me. I hope to never have a break down in the rest of my life concerning anything I have mechanically done to our bus. It is a 1973 Model 05 Eagle, once used by Trailways Bus Company when they were in business.</div>
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There are many busnuts, about (5,000) throughout the USA I am told that probably know of our bus, I call her <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(The Rustless Money Pit</span>) and through pictures and explanations in this blog you will see the reason I reached this name. The name will one day be changed probably but not sure when or what to but we will see.</div>
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I want to continue on this blog with what I am doing up to date on my bus engine for those following me the past couple of months and I will post here previous things I have done in other files separate from my present bus engine work. This information may be confusing to those just starting to read my blog and getting to know of me and not knowing what I am talking about but just be patient and if what I am saying makes a little sense you will soon catch on to what I am all about. Not all my information will be about buses. I have as much to learn about blogging as you will have to learn about the author. He ain’t no Einstein believe me!!</div>
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To bait you a little bit into my bussin part of my blog I am posting 3 photos below, the blue bus is of a good friends, Dave & Carol Lang and their (flxible Bus) that Dave Converted to a motor home over a lengthy period and what a beautiful job he did.</div>
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<a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/2y.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="#2y" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/2y.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></div>
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This is our bus below that we purchased April 2, 2002, this is how she looked when we purchased her that day, but man she don’t look that way now and hopefully she will look and maneuver better than she did when she was born. When will that day be, only God Knows I think?? But I ‘m getting close. The original name of our bus was the Bottomless Money Pit but that name was already taken so I had to change it after I got to inspecting it and knowing that I had a bucket of rust to fix and realized this bus had sat on the bottom of the ocean right next to the (Titanic) for many years I believe!!</div>
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<a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/1.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="#1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/1.jpg?w=300&h=198" height="198" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></div>
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The bus beautiful Eagle bus below is one proudly owned by Manny & Darlene Montesino that I hope to have our bus look like one day when complete.</div>
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<a href="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/oureagle05.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #24890d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="OurEagle05" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" src="http://busconverter101.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/oureagle05.jpg?w=300&h=225" height="225" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></div>
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I just had to give you an idea what us busnut do and are about and just a taste of what one thing this blog of mine will have information about if you should be interested.</div>
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I believe this should be enough for an introduction, I hope to see you make my blog one of your favorites in due time <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and that none, I mean none of my comments about any of my thoughts or beliefs offends anyone ever.</span> That is not nor ever will be my intention, life is too short, friendship is too important and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">always saying “I love you”</span>goes an awful long way in making a friend feel appreciated.</div>
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The end for the 1st. day, Respectfully and I love you all,</div>
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Garylee</div>
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