mike6024

I was born 1960, my father was born 1917, and his father 1872. That can happen when men have children when they are past 40.

The hitch on a trailer carrying a pizza oven that disengaged, careened across Lakeville Highway and smashed into a car, killing the driver, was not strong enough to pull the weight of a 3,950-pound pizza oven owned by local restaurant Rosso Pizzeria, CHP investigators said. Investigators determined that a hitch on the trailer carrying the oven disengaged because it couldn”t handle the weight. The safety chains weren”t in place and the trailer didn”t have an automatic braking system. The lawsuits have been filed against the driver of the van toting the oven, Rosso Pizzeria owners, as well as the trailer manufacturer and its owner.

Serious snow tires I suppose. Never seen tires like that on a light passenger vehicle, but I don't live in snow country.

Those are not even 50-series tires. They are even lower profile. The 20″ Legend wheels are mounted with 255/35 front and 275/40 rear Milestar tires.

I need a good oil can like that in the picture. Remember our family used to have one long ago.

The bid is $695. Already over priced. It is rusting to hell. Needs to be painted right now, because the roof has been sanded down in an aborted attempt to prep for paint. But then would you paint it without fixing the rusted through areas?

Here is a video series on rebuilding the straight 8 He discarded the original bolts and used hardware store stainless with star washers. Not good.

What is this? I don't remember ever seeing my dad use it.

$1675 sales tax is a rip-off. But in California it would have been more. 9.5% for me.

I'm not recommending that thing. I know nothing about it. I just posted a link for reference because someone brought it up. I'm not sure what the friction mechanism inside is. It's not like an oil filled shock absorber.

Mercury's version of the Ford Maverick?

https://www.harborfreight.com/trailer-sway-control-kit-96462.html

Yeah the locksmiths say Triflo is the best lube. I have been using it. Available at any hardware store.

Remember the rock climber who had to cut his hand off with a pocket knife when it got hopelessly wedged in a Vee-shaped crevasse?

I had a key that would not turn and the locksmith cut what he called a TALLER key for me. By taller, that means the old key was worn, and also the disk tumblers in the lock cylinder were worn. So to compensate for this wear, they cut a key with teeth on it that are higher. The distance from the back edge of the key to the tips of the key teeth is adjusted to be greater, than if you were just to copy the current key. So I found it worked. The taller key turns easy in the cylinder.

Recognize the red emblem, or whatever you call it?

I'm surprised 42.5k is considered high.

Here is another good story. When Governor-General Byng came to town When the car bogged down between May and Keno City, the governor-general rolled up his sleeves and lent a hand. Gold commissioner George P. Mackenzie is to the left. (Courtesy/Yukon Archives, Finnie family fonds) There have been many governors-general who have visited the Yukon since its creation as a political entity June 13, 1898. None was more heartily received by Yukoners than Julian Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy. The following day, Byng, M.P. George Black and others, mounted their vehicles and departed for the silver mines at Keno Hill. The governor-general mixed easily with everyone he met, and, when his automobile became bogged down in a boggy patch near Keno City, he rolled up his sleeves and pitched in to help extract the wheels from the greasy mud. Byng toured the mines, twice descending into the depths for a hands-on exploration of the mine workings. That evening, before retiring to his bunk in the mining camp, he made a point of talking to each and every miner. Returning to Mayo, he was feted by the residents in the Pioneer Hall, where he was made an honorary member of the Mayo Pioneer lodge. Miners from every creek in the district descended upon Mayo for the occasion.

Yeah. Wasn't there a song like Whittier Boulevard? Downey is right near Whittier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdKdC6bRtos

You're right! Locomobile. George Black completed the first automobile trip between Dawson City and Whitehorse in December of 1912. It took three days. The Yukon automobile wasn’t yet ready for the Yukon roads; the return trip took a week, and Black had to complete the final leg of the journey in a horse-drawn sled. (Submitted/The Firth Family collection) The dream of an automobile road that connected the two cities was a long time in coming. Joe Boyle, the Klondike mining millionaire attempted the trip from Dawson to Whitehorse with his wife Elma in a heavily laden 20-horsepower automobile in December of 1912, but he had to give up and transfer to the regular stage coach. White Pass Superintendent Herbert Wheeler sent an auto from Whitehorse to meet them at the Takhini River crossing. Commissioner George Black bettered his arch-rival Boyle when he attempted the same trip. Accompanied by Chester A. Thomas, the assistant manager for the Yukon Gold Corporation and driver George Potter, Black left Dawson City at 3:20 a.m. on the same day the Boyle arrived in Whitehorse, and arrived in Whitehorse three and a half days later. The last leg from Carmacks to Whitehorse took them a mere 12 hours. The total running time for the trip: 35 ½ hours. Fulfilling an election promise, the government had relocated the overland road to pass through the active mining on Black Hills and Scroggie Creeks. Despite wet weather during the summer of 1912, the road was completed. Black’s trip was made to dispel criticism about the condition of the road, and to demonstrate the viability of travel by automobile. But it was not without its perils. The 60-horsepower Locomobile ran out of gas short of Wheeler’s Roadhouse, just south of the Stewart River, and had to be pulled by horses for the last five kilometres. This should come as no surprise as the automobile consumed gasoline at the rate of one litre for every 1.7 kilometres traveled. The trip almost ruined the automobile: “The big machine was considerably ‘racked’ when it reached here (Whitehorse),” reported the Star, “the tires being worn down to canvas and nearly everything loose that was not riveted.” https://www.yukon-news.com/opinion/hard-travel-over-the-yukons-winter-trails/

FIRST AUTO and its CREW. DAWSON to WHITEHORSE and RETURN.

If you were a starlet who wanted to drive down Beverley Boulevard to Nieman Marcus and get noticed you might want one. But you would not want an ugly gray color with a dark red interior.

I found out why my well pump is not working. The impeller broke apart. So I will be without water temporarily. See about buying one on Tuesday. It quit working on Wednesday but then on Friday I did some work on the jet and restarted it and for some reason it pumped for a while and I watered the garden, and recharged the tank, but then it quit again. Now I know the real problem.