Yeah, so fuck the new year. I resolve to stop being so goddamn happy and positive this year.
Just kiddin.
Whoa, Colorado was awesome, I've been home for a while now. I left just as blizzard2 was rolling in, my legs were shot & I pulled a back muscle pretty good. I didn't trust myself to stay off the board with fresh snow piling up, so I split. Actually, I figured I might as well get back & get a couple days into the yellow mustang before having to get serious about getting work caught up. So I got the motor & trans out, degreased the engine compartment. took the new motor down to the crank, rods & pistons. I really should take it to the machinist & have the cylinders checked for wear & whatnot. But I can't imagine I'd end up paying less than $500 to have it torn down, hot tanked, checked out and re-assembled & that's what I paid for the motor & trans... I think I'll just pull the main caps & if the bearings don't have grooves or discoloring I'll just start bolting it back together. Newer 5.0's are the same basic motor as the 289 that came out, but I have to swap oil pans & oil pickups. Even if I wasn't going to change cams I'd still need to pull everything off the front to add a fuel pump eccentric on the cam gear & swap timing chain covers so I'll have a dipstick hole in the front & I can run water pumps and alternators that spin the v-belt direction rather than the serpentine belt direction. One solution always introduces at least two new problems... (notice- the resolution again)
t-shirt hell is probably not new to anyone, but I'd not been to the site for a while, there's a few that are superb:
I can't decide which message I am more drawn to, the explicit or the implicit. Regardless, this shirt just makes me giggle uncontrollably:
I also quite like:
and this is cute. Cute and likely offensive, so I wouldn't actually WEAR it:
I could give two shits about offending the colorblind, the damn freaks. So the winner of the bunch is definately:
Just kiddin.
Whoa, Colorado was awesome, I've been home for a while now. I left just as blizzard2 was rolling in, my legs were shot & I pulled a back muscle pretty good. I didn't trust myself to stay off the board with fresh snow piling up, so I split. Actually, I figured I might as well get back & get a couple days into the yellow mustang before having to get serious about getting work caught up. So I got the motor & trans out, degreased the engine compartment. took the new motor down to the crank, rods & pistons. I really should take it to the machinist & have the cylinders checked for wear & whatnot. But I can't imagine I'd end up paying less than $500 to have it torn down, hot tanked, checked out and re-assembled & that's what I paid for the motor & trans... I think I'll just pull the main caps & if the bearings don't have grooves or discoloring I'll just start bolting it back together. Newer 5.0's are the same basic motor as the 289 that came out, but I have to swap oil pans & oil pickups. Even if I wasn't going to change cams I'd still need to pull everything off the front to add a fuel pump eccentric on the cam gear & swap timing chain covers so I'll have a dipstick hole in the front & I can run water pumps and alternators that spin the v-belt direction rather than the serpentine belt direction. One solution always introduces at least two new problems... (notice- the resolution again)
t-shirt hell is probably not new to anyone, but I'd not been to the site for a while, there's a few that are superb:
I can't decide which message I am more drawn to, the explicit or the implicit. Regardless, this shirt just makes me giggle uncontrollably:
I also quite like:
and this is cute. Cute and likely offensive, so I wouldn't actually WEAR it:
I could give two shits about offending the colorblind, the damn freaks. So the winner of the bunch is definately:
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you're so sexy, btw.