Not So Pro 3

[3browns]

Somehow, I'll guess that you've seen the old trick of touching bumpers and then using a pair of the old ratcheting bumper jacks to bridge the positive battery terminals, to jump off a car.

Man, that would have never occurred to me but I will see if my ancient brain will keep track of that one

The company had a "twin plant" across the border in Juarez and I would have to go there and do stuff the locals weren't capable of, installing precision bearings in molder motors, hydraulic repairs, etc, but those guys could do more with less than anyone I had ever seen like arc welding holding up just the glass for a full face mask in front of their eyes

The best was once we were out 4 wheeling along the old railroad bed between El Paso and Columbus New Mexico and we came across this ancient flatbed with a couple of Mexicans standing around the open hood, and one kid up on the edge if the hood opening peeing in the master cylinder. They had broken an ancient rusted brake line and used about the only tool they had, a pair of vice grips, to finish breaking the line and then they folded it over, crimped the fold, and repeated that a few time until it was shut off. Then the kid peed in the master cylinder and they used the same vice grips to open the other bleeders and get most of the air out of they system. It was a good enough fix that by the time we got there they were almost ready to roll

I would never have thought of that

 

[legdelimber]

The radiator dope might keep the coolant in, but how well does a heater or defroster work afterwards?
should mention that I'm meaning with any vehicle that has one.
I never liked the stop leak dope for the noticeable defroster/cabin heat loss after using it.

 

[dall]

Speaking of Bojangles how is Dall's bro friend doing? Heard he's down with the sickness...

lol Gfy

I'd rather hang drywall every day for the rest of my life. But that's just me.

I’ve never seen you hang drywall

 

[timg]

These Colorado diesels are awful to work on.
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What's up with the General Ed.
That's an iron block LOL!

 

[timg]

They can - for $1,750 custom made core 6” deep and then labor… So they patched what they could and sent me home with it and a jug of Northern Rite-Way Stop Leak that they swear by. There’s no oil cooler or heater core or anything else to worry about on this thing - just the air radiator and the engine.

I hear ya. I had a 4" small recore on my 2010 tractor recently. It set me back $600. Feeling your pain.

 

[Loony661]

Well, no major leaks, but a couple small ones that were expected from what the radiator shop told me. Hopefully they seal up over a few heat cycles in the near future. I’ll have extra coolant with me and some more of that stop leak as well.. Now that I ran out of daylight, I’ll have to finish putting the machine back together in the morning (limb risers, hood brackets, panels, etc).

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

The last time I tried winterizing a pressure washer by just blowing it out with compressed air cost me the pressure washer

This time I am trying this stuff

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I hope it’s good for my complexion because I just took a bath in it

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I had the machine tipped up thinking the maximum amount of product would stay down in the pump and the stuff shot 6 feet up in the air when I hit the button on the can

Hope it works

It works, I used it for years.

The past 2 years I just made sure the pump was totally drained and took it off and I keep it inside.

I tell ya what product I would suggest and it won't clog up your tubes.
KSeal In a blue jug with orange label. I'm a believer.

Winterizing pressure washers.

On 3 @Mastermind...

I'd Move.

 

[timg]

Winterizing pressure washers.

On 3 @Mastermind...

I'd Move.

No Adam, Radiator repair in little blue jug LOL!
You know like Bojangles happy meal in a bag for some.

 

[Mastermind]

I'd Move

Fughin Aye.

 

[full chizel]

Speaking of Bojangles how is Dall's bro friend doing? Heard he's down with the sickness...

So our resident Marine gots the clap.

 

[GCJenks204]

Evening all. Been feeling like crap for a few days, wifey made me take a test today and it came back positive for the Vid.

F@cking sucks.

 

[Dream]

All yinz guys are talking about backstraps and such but none of yinz is talking liver and onions

Yinz is weird...

Liver and onions is fer the mornin of a hog-cookin.
Thats what we used to do anyhow.
You show up at 0300 to build a fire in the drum to cook the pig and bring in the "renderings".
Cut a few strips of thick bacon and save the rest.
Grind up a little sausage and season with black pepper, red pepper flakes, salt, and a little sage.
Slice up a little liver and some onions.
Crack a few eggs and scramble in a hand full of shredded cheese and some brains.
Pork brain and eggs with cheese is a taste you cant replicate or describe any other way.
Let me just say that you have to disconnect completely with the whole "brain" thing if that bothers you.
The part a pig thinks with just so happens to be AMAZING in scrambled eggs.
I would desribe it as gravy, but not runny.

 

[3browns]

Liver and onions is fer the mornin of a hog-cookin.
Thats what we used to do anyhow.
You show up at 0300 to build a fire in the drum to cook the pig and bring in the "renderings".
Cut a few strips of thick bacon and save the rest.
Grind up a little sausage and season with black pepper, red pepper flakes, salt, and a little sage.
Slice up a little liver and some onions.
Crack a few eggs and scramble in a hand full of shredded cheese and some brains.
Pork brain and eggs with cheese is a taste you cant replicate or describe any other way.
Let me just say that you have to disconnect completely with the whole "brain" thing if that bothers you.
The part a pig thinks with just so happens to be AMAZING in scrambled eggs.
I would desribe it as gravy, but not runny.

I hate you...

 

[3browns]

Liver and onions is fer the mornin of a hog-cookin.
Thats what we used to do anyhow.
You show up at 0300 to build a fire in the drum to cook the pig and bring in the "renderings".
Cut a few strips of thick bacon and save the rest.
Grind up a little sausage and season with black pepper, red pepper flakes, salt, and a little sage.
Slice up a little liver and some onions.
Crack a few eggs and scramble in a hand full of shredded cheese and some brains.
Pork brain and eggs with cheese is a taste you cant replicate or describe any other way.
Let me just say that you have to disconnect completely with the whole "brain" thing if that bothers you.
The part a pig thinks with just so happens to be AMAZING in scrambled eggs.
I would desribe it as gravy, but not runny.

We used to kill a hog at the plant the end of January and did much the same, rendered it down in a cut down drum, make chicharrones and then carnitas after and some guys brought stacks of fresh tortillas from Juarez, guys would bring big bowls of salsas, guacamole, etc and we would have a real feast

The last one they did before the plant sold right before Christmas the same year my wife decided she needed to go into labor with our first son and I had to leave before the first bite

Heavy sigh

 

[Lnk]

Liver and onions is fer the mornin of a hog-cookin.
Thats what we used to do anyhow.
You show up at 0300 to build a fire in the drum to cook the pig and bring in the "renderings".
Cut a few strips of thick bacon and save the rest.
Grind up a little sausage and season with black pepper, red pepper flakes, salt, and a little sage.
Slice up a little liver and some onions.
Crack a few eggs and scramble in a hand full of shredded cheese and some brains.
Pork brain and eggs with cheese is a taste you cant replicate or describe any other way.
Let me just say that you have to disconnect completely with the whole "brain" thing if that bothers you.
The part a pig thinks with just so happens to be AMAZING in scrambled eggs.
I would desribe it as gravy, but not runny.

The disconnect part is harder for some of us apparently. While it may be delicious, I can't want to try that.

 

[sawmikaze]

I'd rather hang drywall every day for the rest of my life. But that's just me.

There used to be a black girl that was a street walker on Liberty Ave. That went by Bojangles...my dad said she was there in the 80s.

 

[full chizel]

The disconnect part is harder for some of us apparently. While it may be delicious, I can't want to try that.

Yeah, hold the pig brains and bring me biscuits and gravy instead.

 

[3browns]

The disconnect part is harder for some of us apparently. While it may be delicious, I can't want to try that.

I guess growing up going into Mexican dominated markets for 20 years and seeing whole beef and pig heads in the display cases kind of took the mystery out of those kind of things for me

When we went across the river to the Central Mercado in Juarez it was an enormous open air market and you went back a hundred years in time

They sold every hind of meat you could possibly imagine from all over Mexico and Central America

Iguana, monkey, tapir, etc and you knew what it was because they were skinning and butchering it right there in front of you

 

[Mastermind]

The disconnect part is harder for some of us apparently. While it may be delicious, I can't want to try that.

Good stuff Larry. You should try it.

 

[Dream]

The disconnect part is harder for some of us apparently. While it may be delicious, I can't want to try that.

LOL!
Was one of those things my grandfather told me that stuck with me.
He grew up in the depression years where they would eat whatever they could get.
He would NOT eat chitterlings(fried pig intestines). He said that was just disgusting.

He said if I was at a hog rendering and they cooked brains and eggs to just eat it and dont think about it, because it was REALLY good.
It's not one of those things I would actually make to eat, but I'm glad I got to experience.