called it again
“No work today”
sigh,,,
won’t be idle though. Going ahead and cleaning up what I can while I can. Lots of goop on those parts in Bloo/from Bloo: tar like Goop,,, prolly why she burned out that bearing, too thick to move and plugged up passages. Da thinks it was like that when she was parked and why she was parked, and I can’t say he is wrong. BUT, y’all heard her when I first got her runnin’. Smooth quiet-ish (seeing how she had NO exhaust), definitely not knockin’.
Anywhuzamacullzit,,, things to do while I wait, so its yet another “hurry up and wait” day,,, Polish boots, press fatigues, dust the already dusted crannies of imaginary fae poop,,, or in this case, a bucket of solvent and toothbrush to scrub caps and oil pump/strainer clean. Little things to help insure a good install. (and yes, some of the scrubbing will be done on my back in the truck, getting those rods cleaned up.)
more laters as I get my day along a little further.
L,L,L,L,L!
(, ‘)
Dio's Workshop 
Always sumpin to clean, ain’t there? OTOH, too clean ain’t usually a thing, now izzit? Sucks to hafta do it on yer back, though. I’d be willin’ to bet yer right about the goop pluggin’ up (or at least greatly restricting) the oil passage, too. Before long, she ain’t a-gonna have that problem anymore, though.😉
Hatez that ya hafta have a $0 (income, that iz) day to do it, though.
Mikee’s take on the not knocking thing iz that all the goop wuz taking up the slack, so’s it wuzn’t audible, and it just took that long fer it to get washed away. At any rate, it weren’t audible.
Remember them L’s!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:23 am
That ‘taking up the slack’ thing is why I say putting that slushbox oil in ‘did it to me’. Better now than later fer certain.
Yeah, clean is relative and aint no such thing as ‘too clean’ (so ling as it aint dry on assembly)
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December 8, 2025 at 8:35 am