I'm only 68, still a pup! but I hire my car work out anymore.
I'm only 68, still a pup! but I hire my car work out anymore.
I retired a few years back. Wish I had done that when I was younger. The first few mins. after I wake up I still think I'm in my twenties. Then reality sets in...Good grief, I hurt some days. unclemikeinct
the problem is your head still thinks you can do stuff you used to do but your body says no way pal.
Due to the price of primers, warning shots will no longer be given!
I had to repair a rear flat tire that rolled off of the rim of my John Deere 4020 tractor and then remount and set the bead for inflation. I realized right off the bat I was long gone from 28 and at 68 it was a work out I do not want to do again anytime soon.
This afternoon I removed the carb from my old '72 Ford grain truck, to fix the accelerator pump leak. I really need to do a valve job on it, but after leaning over the radiator for an hour, my back said no way I'm going to pull the heads. I'll find some young guy that wants a weekend job.
I don't mind working under a vehicle so much, as I can take a little nap under there and if someone drives by and sees me they just think I'm working hard
Hi Roy.My Dad used to say"Beware the golden years.They just might be brass plated pot metal".
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war,or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Hi GG.Heads and intake manifolds are easy.For heads,make a plate that bolts to the intake side and do the same for the exhaust side.Drill a hole at the front and rear intake and exhaust port area of the plate and secure an eye bolt in the holes.Hook your cherry picker to them and hoist away.For the intake manifold get one of those lifting plates that bolt to the carb mount pad a lift away.Works a treat,and no more sore back.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war,or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
I am slowly learning it is sometimes easier to write a check rather than do the work myself. Washed my car last week, scrubbed the tires and wheels and then dried it off. You would of thought I had just finished running a marathon.
Gettin old sucks.
East Tennessee
The best is yet to come my friend. Good luck.
when working in the shop or the reloading room a long magnate and those long reach grippers are my friend .
Yesterday, my wife tells me that the Roofers are coming out to replace the roofs on my shop and garage. I had to move over a ton of lead and stack it at the far end of the property after removing it from from the outside wall of the shop and a thousand pounds of well casing pipe from the outside of the garage to allow the men safe access to both roofs. It took me all of nine hours to do both jobs and I feel it but the "work-out" loosened up the joints enough I can continue on today with moving 55 gallon drums of used oil which I heat my shop with. I'll be draining those bad boys into 5 gallon carboys! (I'm not that stupid to try to move them filled.)
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
I am doing head gaskets on my 1992 Toyota , I am getting it done but not like the old days, I used to be a mechanic at the local Toyota dealer so I have done this before , I got out of being a mechanic 15 years ago , for various reasons but being hard on the body was one of them. Pretty clear to me that I couldn’t go back to doing that 8 hours a day .
Your brain can write checks your body has trouble cashing.
Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative.
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