Turns out this is a Chinese ad for a phone but it still cracked me up.

What a dumb motherfucker he is.

As is mentioned in the video chock full of Mark Carney memes, Don’t EVER try to tell us Americans not to do something.

Because this is what you will get.

I’m sure this is just a warm up.

Dumb Bastard asked for every bit of it.

That is some serious effort and I love how they repurposed so much stuff and made it cool.

The engines in the Sprites and Midgets don’t have a rear main seal.

They have like screw threads on the rear of the crankshaft and like a small cup cast into the block on the backside. There is a small flat plate that bolts at the top and the clearance between it and the crankshaft is critical to keep the oil from getting by

It literally screws the oil back into the oil pan.

See item # 35 for the plate I’m talking about.

.That damn Sprite of mine literally used to leave a trail of oil behind it. One drop every 8 imches or so and it would leave a little puddle under it every time I parked it.

Part of that was because I didn’t have the $75 PCV Valve assemnly hooked up.

See Item #30 at right for that contraption.

The bottom slides into a rubber hose that fits on a nipple in the middle of the intake manifold and the other hose goes to a nipple sticking out of the timing chain cover.

When I last tore the engine down and rehoned the cylinders, I took care of both of those issues.

I bought a $250 Billet Aluminum rear main seal conversion kit and “machined” the back side of the lip on the flywheel down that slips over the back of the crankshaft flange for clearance by 1/4 of an inch using a pneumatic die grinder and a bunch of Roto Lok surface preparation discs and then hand polished the flange for the crank where it fits into the flywheel. That’s what the seal rides on and it works like a charm.

I also paid the $75 and got a new PCV valve and hooked it up.

Now I have something as rare as hen’s teeth. A 1275 CC A Series British engine that DOES NOT LEAK OIL!

Like old Harley’s, THEY ALL leaked a little oil. Now mine doesn’t.

It’s nothing short of a miracle, I’m serious.

I’m still having trouble with it popping out of 2nd gear when decelerating so at some point I’m going to have to pull the engine and transmission FOR THE SEVENTH TIME and when I do, I’m going to swap out the tail shaft housing from the last one I had in it that I put a brand new rear seal on because this one is worn and it does drip a little gear oil where the driveline slides in when I park in the driveway because it’s sloped.

But other than that, I am very happy to have cured that oil leaking shit.

I can’t tell you how glad I am to see a light at the end of the tunnel after all the years of busting my ass.

I came from a time when safety was talked about until sketchy shit needed to be done and then all of a sudden all the bosses had somewhere else to be while it got done.

Those days are long gone. Probably a good thing but there is a point when stuff like this is so over the top that guys are going to spend all their time looking over their shoulder instead of actually getting work done.

People are going to get fired for stupid shit at a time when every blue collar industry out there is screaming at the top of their lungs for people to fill literally millons of empty slots.

I’ve been sitting here on my butt playing on the internet, waiting for plans to develope for later today.

I got up a few minutes ago and damn, I am stiff and sore all over!

I couldn’t figure out why until it dawned on me.

It’s from climbing in and out of that damn Sprite yesterday and driving it around with my knees crammed up under the dashboard like Bugs Bunny!

LMAO!

A sure sign I’m freaking old now.

Now I AM going to change that damned seat!

I thought this was bullshit at first but I am seriously impressed with how it came out.

Well, the 3 minute part is bullshit but it does work.

Since it was originally built in 1964 but has so many different parts from so many different years on it that I couldn’t even tell you how many.

Baiscally the only original parts on that car that I can say for sure is the body tub, the doors and the trunk lid.

I have literally changed every single other part on that car at least once or at least had it off the car and rebuilt it.

I had to go buy a new battery for it but I took it out on the road, with a new registration form AND INSURANCE, for the first time in over a year today.

I went up to the pharmacy and then over to my son’s house a couple miles away and took my Grandson out for a drive and then him.

The first time in 20 years that there has been a passenger in it except for Jesse a week or so ago and we didn’t get out on the road and the first time I have gone more than two miles away in at least two years,

I put over 15 miles on it today easily.

Now I have to get a different front seat for it again This one just ain’t working for me.

I can barely get in and out of it and I am crammed way too far forward. I may just say Fuck It and get a cheap racing seat for it and call it good.

Tater was a genius.

If you do then you are a Geezer like me now because they have been gone a long time.

I ran across this little trivia video about what ever happened to the red pistachios and thought it was interesting so I’ll share.

Although he was most famous for that early role, he was in scads of movies and shows, including Home Alone as the pretentious Concierge at the hotel Macaulay Culkin terorrized.

The Rocky Picture Horror Show was a cult film that went well past anyone’s original expectations and is still popular to this day.

I can remember going to the Bagdad Theater in Portland way back in the day with my brothers and cousin’s to watch it and was surprised to see the people in the front row jumping up in costume and mimicking the lines even then.

He made it 80 years of age just like Dolly Parton so they both had good runs.

It’s worth noticing their passing.

No 200 mph parades here.

This is about when I started watching racing on television. I can still remember watching the Daytona 500 when I was five years old.

I haven’t watched a NASCAR race in so long that I honestly couldn’t tell you when the last one I watched was.

There was a time long ago now when my entire family knew not to bother me around Memorial Day.

I watched the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca Cola 600 back to back every year.

I grew up around racing. My Dad raced cars from before I was born into the Mid 60’s and then Moto Cross into the early 70’s.

Now I won’t watch any of it.

Literally.

As usual, catching is another story.

Me and little Jesse are headed about an hour and a half away to a big reservoir.

Hopefully there ain’t a whole lot of walking involved.

Back later.