From the Twitter post,

“Bro didn’t test the engine, he summoned a demon”

Listen to that fucker snarl!

Literally ran that guy out of the garage.

RIP.

I just saw it from an Email alert from the LA Times.

Looks like somebody found some extra money while the government is shut down yesterday.

It went from this,

To this,

You can see the shit falling out of that “Cloud” at about a 45 degree angle.

Yeah, tell me again that’s a fucking contrail. I’ll believe my own lying eyes thank you very much.

https://www.tiktok.com/@keenanhane4/video/7561017946617810207

Sent to me by The Tactical Hermit.

This blows my mind.

The old guy is 91 years old and he dug this giant stump out by hand, by himslef.

My back hurt just watching this. This was a multi part video series and this was just the latest installation.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the venerable Old School Chevy Small Block Thermostat and housing.

Two bolts, one gasket and one hose clamp. Everything is right up front and on top.

My Wife’s 2004 Ford Focus has a plastic thermostat housing, which at $150, has already had to be replaced TWICE because it cracked and started leaking.

Now get a load of this fucking horse shit,

Whoever came up with that fucking nightmare should have had the taste slapped out of his mouth.

I swear on my Mother’s grave that if I somehow manage to outlive the old Dodge truck I drive right now, that I am going to scour the internet until I find a reasonably priced early 60’s Ford truck that isn’t rotted out and I am doing whatever it takes to make it run and drive.

I absolutely will not pay money for one of these later pieces of shit for any reason.

Preach it honey!

If you have ever wondered about the little fuckers I think this should confirm your suspicions.

There’s a reason I call her Little Darlin’…

Courtesy of my friend Irish.

I’m serious, while this guy lays out a litany of the illegal shit the democrats have done over the last ten years, there is still enough left unsaid to fill a fucking novel.

Chapter after chapter after chapter.

And not one of these dirty motherfuckers has seen the inside of a jail cell yet.

If the video doesn’t work, go to this Link.

It’s funny how the government is shut down and for the first time in recent memory there isn’t a Chemtrail in the sky. Very unusual for around here.

Portland International airport is only about five miles from here, if that. Usually the sky is hazy and full of long white clouds criss crossing the entire sky with shit drifting down out of them.

Every, Fucking , Day.

The Wifely Unit had to take a road trip today that we knew about well in advance.

Almost a month agao I made an appointment to have all of the coolant hoses replaced on her 2004 Ford Focus because I instinctively knew I wanted nothing to do with that.

We took it up there last Monday, they called Tuesday and said because it’s so old, some of the hoses are now obsolete and they couldn’t find them locally.

The lady was nice enough to do some homework and found a complete kit, made out of Silicone, on Ebay.

Chinesium of course but the whole kit was only $225 with free shipping on a slow, leaking boat from China.

That was cheaper that just the ones she could find locally.

They will be here either late this month or sometime around Mid November. The lady said that the ones on there were still in remarkably decent shape and that the Wife shouldn’t have any problems until they get here.

That amazed me. 21 year old heater hoses?!

I have NEVER seen such a thing!

The second I saw this kit on Ebay, I knew I had made the right call on not doing these fuckers myself.

Take a gander at this shit,

ELEVEN FUCKING HOSES!!

Every single one of them is a molded hose too.

There is also some plastic tube in there somewhere she says that likes to break when they take everything apart but no word on that yet.

Some of those hoses are absolutely BURIED down in that engine bay and pretty much have to be replaced from the bottom.

I am expecting at least 8 hours of labor.

In the mean time, the lady also said the thing needs a battery, I know it’s at least 3 years old but I told her I would take care of that plus the wiper blades.

Um, yeah, about that.

Because I have been using the same little auto parts store for years that is just down the road from this repair shop, I get a pretty hefty discount, normally.

Except tis time.

That dinky assed little battery cost me almost exactly $200 with a trade in.

Because chattering wiper blades are a huge personal pet peeve of mine and the cheap ones always wind up chatterng, I have been getting the Silicone wiper blades for her car the last several years.

Of course they are two different lengths, because fucking Ford.

One is 19 inches long and the other is 22.

Those were $32.99 EACH.

So the total between one battery and two fucking wiper blades was $266!

My achin’ ASS!

Then I spent almost 45 minutes cleaning out the battery tray and battery cable ends.

Once I got that and the wipers done I started in cleaning the windshield and other windows. They have been filthy for months but the old lady says it doesn’t bother her.

She doesn’t drive at night.

The last time I had to drive that thing at night, the windshield would turn into one giant halo every time someone would come at me with those damn modern headlights, I couldn’t see a damn thing.

So i cleaned all those, vacuumed the little pig out and then started cleaning all the plastic interior parts. That’s when I remembered the dinky little light for the gear shifter indicator had been out for a long time so I got some tools out, got on Youtube and watched a quick video on changing that little light bulb.

Oh yeah, Ford strikes again, I had to take the arm rest off and remove the entire damned center console from the car to get to it. Then it was literally a dinky little bulb.

Since I am a pack rat and I worked for Ford back in the 90’s, yer damn right I still actually had some of those little bulbs and I also actually knew right where they were at. I had to use a pair of pliers to twist the socket out and put it back in and while I had that filthy console out I did a DEEP clean on that sumbitch.

After I got halfway done with the console, she came running out saying she had to go somewhere NOW, so I picked up the loose stuff and let her go. She comes back about 45 minutes later and the first thing she says is that the drivers window is grinding. She opens it and when she closes it, I can hear a grinding noise.

GREAT!

All I did was clean the fucking thing!

But I has a secret weapon for sticky windows and I go dig out a spray can of clear Silicone and spray the shit out of the guides.

It keeps doing it until I did the one right on top of the inner door panel and it finally shut up.

After that, I finished putting it back together and finished cleaning the inside up.

All in all, I spent damn near six hours on that stupid Hoopty but she was really tickled when I got done so it was worth it.

The moral of this story is for any of you that does some of their own repairs is to find a small local auto parts store.

Start using them exclusively and be really nice to those people. It took about a year for them to start giving me a discount but since then I have literally saved hundreds of dollars because of it.

Some things I don’t get a discount on but the ones I do add up fast!

It’s obviously staged but still funny.