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Woke up in Yuba City around 03:30 , had some light breakfast @ the hotel & went out , washed the truck's windows , lit it off and checked for an exhaust head pipe leak (negative) , checked the brake fluid , oil & ATF (all O.K.) after a while my brother got up and drove to freindly Oroville , gassed up and headed North on Ca. Rt. 70 , a wonderful country road , almost immediately I lost a cylinder to a fouled spark plug and so had to limp into Paradise . Ca. on 5 & 1/2 cylinders as # 6 kept cutting in and out as we ascended Pent Road North of Rt. 70 ~ it's a beautiful back road , steep and twisty so feathering the throttle up it isn't my idea of fun but eventually we arrived a the nice LEO's place where I bought a 1977 Chevy 292 complete and a whole buncha other bits (side loader three speed tranny with OVERDRIVE or slightly over scrap value .

Then I popped the hood and removed all 6 spark plugs and ever so carefully scraped them clean of accumulated oil deposits whilst he looked on , asked questions and told me about his LEO / T.O. life in Paradise ........

It was pretty nice if hotter than heck .

Spark plugs all clean I re installed them and my trusty 250 roared into life and off we went , I stopped and got some pix of me and the rig with engine in the bed on top of the Butte ~ if they come out I'll post them up here after I get back to L.A. ~ I'm bedding down to - night in Modesto , Ca. and need to inspect a Diesel Rig in Fresno to - morrow .

I'm sure there was more I wanted to tell but it's nearly midnight and I need to sleep occasionally , my alleged mind is confuddled now .