a 2 hour struggle,,,,

Yes kids, there is a reason your old man told you to lube that gasket on the oil filter,,,

Obviously not O.E. which it’d better not be,,, BUT, you can see that I musta pulled every trick in the book (and created a couple new ones) to get that thing off Twuck. You can even see where I ended up using the demo-hammer to drive it off at the last. (Totally last resort as the chance of FUBARing something is HIGH!)

And once I was done getting that bastach off, I had to go back in with a die grinder and surfacing pad to clean off the old rubber seal that had bonded to the oil cooler diverter. Rubber and metal LOVE each other, and like a couple of horny puppers, can get “stuck”,,,

Lube the gaskets; make EVERYONES lives down the chain, much easier (and more than likely, YOURS) Don’t use the used oil, use the fresh stuff in the bottle; just a little does wonders.

And thats my PSA for the day.

Harmonic balancer enroute, Bloo sits for a few days until that arrives and I can get underhood again. A little saddened by this as I have been truly enjoying driving her. She isn’t the comfort queen that Buffalo is (bench seat vs captains chairs, manual everything, where Buff is powered) But she RUNS and she RUNS smooth with gob-lots of power just waiting to be employed. I really don’t wanna F! something up by running with a noisy HB: could spin that first main bearing or something, like goobering the timing gears and chain,,, then we’re talking REAL WORK for repairs. No thanks! I’m lazy like that: why add to the work load?

My days with a real work truck in use are delayed just a wee bit longer,,, Is what T’is,,, My expectations got ahead of reality again.

Live

LEARN

Laugh

Love

LOAD!