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Monday, July 19, 2004
Motocycle Update
I went to the shop for a short while yesterday (less than an hour). The only thing I did was clean the dirt out of the bead of the front tire of the motorcycle and air it back up. The dirt was from the wreck.
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Here's the hole in the block of the Volvo. You can see part of the cylinder wall through the hole. 
Thursday, July 15, 2004
April-June Update
There are now two Caddys down at the shop. There are also two Volvos ... left. There were two other Volvos, but Gerald scrapped them.
He had been told that one (which was given to him) had either a cracked block or a bad head gasket. We thought about pulling the head with the engine in the car, but he decided that he wanted only the transmission. So, we pulled it over on its side and were getting ready to pull the tranny when I discovered they problem with the engine. It had obviously thrown a rod, punching quite a hole in the side of the block. Gerald thought that it could have been fixed with JB Weld, but we didn't do anything with it since he was scrapping it anyway.
Now we're down to the two Caddys, two Volvos, the firetruck, his Chevy pickup, and his Jeep Cherokee. We haven't done much the first half of July, but Gerald hasn't stopped nagging me about fixing Shafe's motorcycle (Honda CBR1000). I've got most of the parts lined up, but haven't had a whole lot of time to work on it. With Shafe moving back into the area, no doubt we'll be spending some time down there working on it. Regardless, Gerald won't let me work on Jill until the bike is gone.
He had been told that one (which was given to him) had either a cracked block or a bad head gasket. We thought about pulling the head with the engine in the car, but he decided that he wanted only the transmission. So, we pulled it over on its side and were getting ready to pull the tranny when I discovered they problem with the engine. It had obviously thrown a rod, punching quite a hole in the side of the block. Gerald thought that it could have been fixed with JB Weld, but we didn't do anything with it since he was scrapping it anyway.
Now we're down to the two Caddys, two Volvos, the firetruck, his Chevy pickup, and his Jeep Cherokee. We haven't done much the first half of July, but Gerald hasn't stopped nagging me about fixing Shafe's motorcycle (Honda CBR1000). I've got most of the parts lined up, but haven't had a whole lot of time to work on it. With Shafe moving back into the area, no doubt we'll be spending some time down there working on it. Regardless, Gerald won't let me work on Jill until the bike is gone.
