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I thought you were going to say never saw a 'sign'. Just take off where you wanted

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That too.

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Fixed my central heat. Had this house six years with no heat.

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First time I saw Taylor Park was in 1967. I thought it looked like pictures of Alaska. :)

Took me a while to actually live there.

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Was it still a logging camp then? Was the reservoir there then? I'll bet the road wasn't paved.

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The Trading Post was there (started in the 1940s by my friend's dad).

The reservoir was built in the 1930s.

The road was dirt from about Almont onward. Just one lane most places. Around the dam it was very narrow with a few pull outs for passing. It was that way until I think the spring of 1977* when the county widened it out in a few places. Then in the mid-1980s they blasted it all out real wide and paved it up to the Cottonwood turnoff, bypassing the Trading Post. Before that the road went right through their parking lot, and the gas pumps were right in front of the (old) Nugget Cafe. Many times I drove my logging truck through there.

* Hah, I sound like Ian Tyson: I was broke in Wickenburg, the spring of '77 :lol:

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What a difference 900 miles makes....

I plowed a path in my yard so the oil man can deliver me another 300 or so gallons of oil today. I have a 330 gallon tank and this time of year I get about 4 weeks out of it.

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Rich84 same deal here just with propane it's only for my cooking and water heater . I called them and told them to skip this months fill . I still have 3/4 of a tank so it's good till end of March. Really didn't want to clear a path to it

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Well finally got around to fixing my XL7 . Had a seized alternator new one put in but the registration and inspection was expired. So I've been driving it till the computer reset about 150 miles . So now it passed inspection so I can register it again . Get back into the driveway and the trans cooler rubber line blows out trans fluid everywhere. So it's going to be a nice sunny day and 28° Saturday and I'm doing this in my driveway

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That sounds expensive. I don't have a clue what heating oil costs.

Yeah I hadn't cared about trying to fix it. The a/c works great the other 11 and a half months. :D It just needed a heat pump compatible thermostat.

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Not too bad now around 2.15 a gallon .

My little rubber transmission line turned out to be the external cooler . The factory replacement is $347.59 .... not . Going to put a 79$ dollar aftermarket on it . For now I just bypassed it to move it around

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While I was fixing the xl7 the power went out . So far it been 4 hours central Hudson says 10 pm but they also said at 4 o’clock 8 pm . So having a homemade mulled hard apple cider with Burban . Cheers

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Working on a wood carving out in the garage "shop". Shirtsleeves. I had to take off the flannel shirt when I started doing some real work. This thing may be finished before I die.

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mmmmmm....we think alike:tim::tim:

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I cranked my Gretch Streamliner up on my old Washburn amp.(It's a loud one) :metal:

Then my wife screamed at me that I had about 2 seconds to stop or I would get divorced again.:(

She just doesn't appreciate good music. Or maybe she just didn't hear any. :smoke:

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And in your favorite mug

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Your hand is looking good Mark. Seems like it's healing up nicely. :)

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That one only had a few stitches just before surgery. But both have healed nicely. My hands have never been so soft and clean

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Yesterday afternoon the snow on the slab in front of my barn got soft enough to clear spots to set deck blocks. I decided building a temporary shed to move things from in my barn to was the thing to do, until the move is done. I brought home the deck blocks and 4x4s Friday, already had the 2x8. Only, not all four pieces I needed were under the tarp. Turned out a lot of pieces were shorter.

I got the posts and all but one of the beams up. Woke up to snow

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Brrrrrrrr!! :lol:

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I was wondering why you were moving a barn a little bit, but never read back carefully enough to see why. I think I see why now. :D

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I need to have Guinness Book of World Records come take a look at that bohemous tree! I'm working toward moving on from this place, so this is my minimalist way of solving the tree into the building deterrent. I'd like to trim the tree and prefer leaving it standing anyway.

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Spent the weekend removing old caulk from the master bathroom shower and recaulking. Pulled down the vent fan/light for some cleanup, too. Brought my small compressor in the house with my brad nail gun and fixed up some loose baseboard trim as well. Been working on my truck for the past 2-3 weekends so I decided to knock out a few off my honey do list before she started feeling slighted.

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I'm just playing around in the the stock market.

It beats working for a living.

My latest... Dogecoin. I got in early :)


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Is that your reflection I see in your mug?:lol: Glad your hand is doing better!

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The wife and I drove home from Salem Ma. yesterday right into a snowstorm for about 100 miles. The roads were pretty greasy but I took my time and we made it home in one piece. Came home to a freezing cold house (43*). The furnace was not running. It seems that the oil delivery that I got on Friday must have had quite a bit of water in it. I had to drain almost 5 gallons of water and oil to clean it out. Thank God nothing in the house froze. Not sure how long the heat was out, we were gone for the weekend.

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Bought a rear diff for my dodge 3500 cast rotted away not the tube or cover :crazy: found it's a common problem with AAM rears . Picture of the rot hole that I sealed with JBWeld so I could use it around the yard . Truck isnt used much in winter so limited salt exposure. Rest of the undercarriage is in nice shape

Recycler Rear came off a southern truck

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Hope you called the company . That happened to me at my rental home company paid to pump out the tank refill. And the tune up on the furnace and water heater. At least the renters were home when the heat crapped out

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Ya I should use non reflective things when I take pictures

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Last time I had a diff looking like that I could pick out shrapnel.

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I have seen several diffs (front and rear) that were cracked for various reasons, mostly under the general category of abuse, but I have never seen one rust out? How the heck does something full of oil rust like that?

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Agreed totally! I would have been more than livid over that!

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I've had oil pans and trans pans rot out. Never a cast iron rear .

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I took the training class to renew my CCW permit. Good for another 5 years...

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I paid my taxes. Ouch. I need a write off. :waah:

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I’ve been messing with this 3306 cat for a week or so on and off. I did a full rebuild with all new consumables on it 3-4 years ago and it sat for a year or so before we sent it to the field. Once there it ran great but started loosing oil pressure after a few weeks. We ran it an entire summer before the pressure got low enough we couldn’t run it anymore. I had 2 spares at the time so we swapped another one on and it’s been fine. We used the other spare up right after Christmas so it was time to tear back into this one... I pulled it a good ways down leaving only the head, complete valve train, and rotating assembly in the block. Turns out the oil pressure relief on the then new oil pump was never torqued down at the factory. The bolt backed as far out as the pump housing would permit. Bearings and internals still look brand new. Slapped a reman cat pump in it and start sealing her back up. Just glad it was something simple. Sucky part is that’s just one more part im going to have to inspect going forward. Here it is ready to come off my engine stand. Pardon the mess below. You never can get all the oil out before you pull the pan.

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I sent one batch of stuff off to the accountant Monday after waiting a week after the end of January for everything to come in, then the next day another 1099 comes in :devil: Screw it, I had the number - let's see if the CPA complains.

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That's quite and engine stand. How did you get into diesel repair Tyler?

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I do it all. I had the fab shop build that stand 3-4 years ago. Has an 60:1 gear box on it that’s rated for 5 or 6000lbs. Note the oil tank up top. I’ve got a pump below that runs on 12v that I use to prime the galley at 15-20 psi on some of the builds. More and more it seems like I’m the guy that always gets sent to the stuff no one else can figure out or knows how to do. Job security.

I’m getting ready to go fix a water truck as we speak. That particular 06 is actually a t/a natural gas, about 200 hp at sea level. I do most of the more invasive in-house heavy diesel work on our water trucks, rig up trucks, backhoes etc. we have a parts changer truck mechanic that does the maintenance related stuff. I do all the other major engine work that we don’t feel like farming out.


Progress from yesterday afternoon

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I was into my Cat engine a couple times. It had the notorious 2-piece piston failure and the first time I tried to save money and didn't replace the other three :rolleyes: Both times were out in the woods of course. Second time late in the fall and it was raining. I rigged a tarp over the rack and brush guards, and had my fiance' out there greasing and handing me new bearings while I laid on my back in the mud.

Then later I worked for some folks in the winter doing carpentry and mechanic work, and he had me do a ring and bearing job on one of their D-2s. At least that was in a shop with a wood stove and a log beam to winch the head off and on. But those big cast iron oil pans and the transverse spring are still the worst part.

Don't know if you know this but those old four banger diesels if you didn't change the sleeves the pistons had to go in from the bottom because the rod journal is bigger than the bore! I had to have somebody stick a screwdriver in the wrist pin when it came up and then I crawled out and put on the rings and compressor and tapped it back down into the bore. Fun, fun! :)

These days I do most of my mechanic work with a check and a pen ;)