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What kind of jobs? I'm just curious.

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Some damn good jobs if they are real. Several Project Manager offers.

I can send you the link if interested.

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Thanks, but I used to think I'd want a management job at this point in life. I now realize I only like doing that on my own work and if I work for someone else I want less responsibility. I like the regularity of hours being employed. While not allowing as much time, it works out well to allow my doing my own side projects. Mostly, I want the time for my own work for my own self, which is where I had planned to be at this point in life. I'll get there!

I was just curious because I know we are tracked in all our activity on the net. Not just searching or the sites we visit. I have had ads pop up related to conversations I've had online. Pretty creeeepy.

About my '72 K2500. It's been parked due to an annoying repair that has me hung up. One of the starter bolts snapped off when trying to start it after filling up. I had repeated starter problems and and ended up going to a hi-torq mini starter. I let it get loose thinking what I was hearing in sporadic engaging was poor power supply letting it kick-out as it had been doing with other starters going bad. I don't know, I guess I was being dumb. I should have crawled under and checked it out. So the bolt is broken up on there a ways. It's a hard position and location for me to drill and the drilling needs to be very accurate. The drill blocks seeing what's going on. I've had ideas on how to handle it, but the cold hard fact is I need to pull the engine, put it on a stand, and flip that sumbugger over. I just need the time now. It's been dripping oil and that had been getting on my nerves. So this will give the chance to do oil pan, front and rear seals as well as trans seals. Might as well do the transfer case while I'm at it. The exhaust was getting tired, had patched it up a couple places, so new pipes as well before she hits the road again. The paint on the hood has been popping off bit by bit for years, which also bugs me. So with that off I can take care of that properly. It's a lot for me to get done with projects I have on the house. But just setting a plan feels good. Just wish I had started in sooner. I miss driving it

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EDIT: I'm not deleting this self-duplicated thread so LIZ can see it

Thanks, but I used to think I'd want a management job at this point in life. I now realize I only like doing that on my own work and if I work for someone else I want less responsibility. I like the regularity of hours being employed. While not allowing as much time, it works out well to allow my doing my own side projects. Mostly, I want the time for my own work for my own self, which is where I had planned to be at this point in life. I'll get there!

I was just curious because I know we are tracked in all our activity on the net. Not just searching or the sites we visit. I have had ads pop up related to conversations I've had online. Pretty creeeepy.

About my '72 K2500. It's been parked due to an annoying repair that has me hung up. One of the starter bolts snapped off when trying to start it after filling up. I had repeated starter problems and and ended up going to a hi-torq mini starter. I let it get loose thinking what I was hearing in sporadic engaging was poor power supply letting it kick-out as it had been doing with other starters going bad. I don't know, I guess I was being dumb. I should have crawled under and checked it out. So the bolt is broken up on there a ways. It's a hard position and location for me to drill and the drilling needs to be very accurate. The drill blocks seeing what's going on. I've had ideas on how to handle it, but the cold hard fact is I need to pull the engine, put it on a stand, and flip that sumbugger over. I just need the time now. It's been dripping oil and that had been getting on my nerves. So this will give the chance to do oil pan, front and rear seals as well as trans seals. Might as well do the transfer case while I'm at it. The exhaust was getting tired, had patched it up a couple places, so new pipes as well before she hits the road again. The paint on the hood has been popping off bit by bit for years, which also bugs me. So with that off I can take care of that properly. It's a lot for me to get done with projects I have on the house. But just setting a plan feels good. Just wish I had started in sooner. I miss driving it

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If the bolt is broken far enough up, maybe you can get enough of a drill bushing into the hole to keep the drill from walking over into the threads.

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used EDM services several times with great success

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I like this idea, I've never thought of that before.

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Good idea. I thought I posted about trying that. It's just a hard location and position to be in relation. What I had for a bushing needed to be almost as long as the drill bit to be sure it remained in the drilling location. I just want to work on it on an engine stand drilling down with full vision. Then I'll reseal the bottom end and transmission

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I feel like I sold an old friend last week. We bought this Duramax new and it is my favorite truck of all time but you can't keep 'em all.

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Man, it still looks brand new. Whatcha gonna get into now?

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Ram Cummins.

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I'd like to find a regular cab like that. You're going to miss that one

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That's what I wish I had bought. I was just a little impulsive when I bought my truck. It's nice. I like it. But... :confused:

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Larry, I bet that red truck resale-d pretty well. I'm still in shock of what that era of trucks are bringing money wise.

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I got $16,000 out of it.


We had the truck detailed and put it in a warehouse, thinking we might have to put it back in service. A friend of mine walked in here one day looking for a clean truck for weekend and out of town use. He couldn't pay me fast enough. He had looked around and this was the configuration he was looking for. It has a brand new Allison transmission.

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See! :lol:

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Well, we did it. Our realtor neighbor called last Tuesday and asked if we would sell our house. She showed it Wednesday night and had us an offer by nine PM.

Lucky for us we have an apartment to move into. This should be fun. :metal:

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This will be fun to hear about. Jumping into an apartment while building a place, once you get all that worked out. Sounds like you'll be gettin' busy.

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Was your “Realtor neighbor” ready for a new neighbor? :)

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No, she was ready for a commission. 😁

She didn't get rid of me. she just moved me over one space.

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Whoa, that was fast.

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Congrats Larry. I think. :lol:

My wife has this wild hare she wants to sell our house while everything is selling like crazy. The problem is replacing it or even more difficult. Finding an acreage in our range.

What do you have in mind now Larry? Shop/house?

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I bet HE wants a little cabin and a big shop or a shopdominium. But SHE wants...
... what SHE's gonna get! :cool: Ah, all that comfort will be easy to get used to. I know she's a good designer that you can go along with. I hope you all enjoy the experience. It's something special for sure.

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haha,, I do remember something about a tree on the property line ..with a neighbor ,,seems like that was when he first moved in... Or he might want to move further up in them Ozarks and get away from people.. I did mention to him about my nephew who moved out from Ozark City up a highway some 16 miles from a town .. Could be that ......happy for ya Larry where ever you land at as long as you got a garage or shop for all your trucks and cars.

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larry... your views on this thread are catching up to my old million posts thread.

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This thread was started as tongue in cheek fun being poked at FB with people posting their every move. I had no idea it would take on a life of it's own.


That said, everybody's dog must be healthy, nobody has offered up a cheap brain surgeon, I have eaten a lot of biscuits and gravy and I still eat a prune every day.

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1973 somewhere in southern California. She had me and the truck about a year when this picture was taken.

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I remember when you started it. I had to reread the title a few times. never would had guessed it would stick either.

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I remember at first I treated it like my impression of Facebook. I reported what I ate that day.

So Larry (the other one), I guess the new truck got old and she got... more experienced

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She was so naive and believed everything I said. Boy, did she ever wise up.

She kept me out of jail though.

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:lol: Usually the last part is the other way around. Glad to hear you never went back. :mm:

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I wish I had found these before the scrapper did.

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So sad......

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WAIT!! What about that passenger door?? :whine:

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:( :( :(

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I remember going to the junkyard, eh, "Automotive Dismantler", in the early '70s and seeing a pristine '63 or '64 Nova convertible waiting for the crusher. Heartbreaking, to say the least. And he wasn't parting with it. I suspect that it was going out as "#1 tin", and may not have had a clear title. I've seen that happen.

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I gave the Longhorn her semi annual bath today.

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No kidding! The door. the hood, lot's of good stuff on that truck. What a shame.

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looking good Larry! :c2: