For those not aware, I've had a Chevy LUV, with a 350 Chevy in it,
at my older son's place for quite awhile. A long while in fact. Long
story, maybe later. It had a clapped out 350 in it when I got it from
the older son, in trade for something, can't even remember what now.
I'd driven the thing once or twice before when the engine was running,
and even with that POS engine, it's light enouh that it was F*A*S*T,
traction being the main problem. So, of course I got an engine built to
put in it. A 350, that should put out about 420 HP. I din't want to go
overboard. Well, the younger son had a Chevy 4X4 pickup, with a strong
crate engine, but he really wanted my engine. So I made a deal, he got
my engine, I got hs engine (about 300 HP, which was still probably at
least 100 more then the old engine had), and he'd hel his brother hook
every thing up. Well, the engines got swapped, his truck was runiing -
great I might add, and my truck sat. From what they'd told me, about 4
hours work by the two of them would do it. Didn't happen.

Long story trying to make shorter, it looks like the LUV may
actually get worked on. It's ben moved. The bed and cab have been
cleaned out. Apparently they're going to pull the engine and trans (350
trans), to weld something under back in place. I'm trying to convince
them to put the engine I had built in, because the younger son doesn't
run the truck - apparently the price of the premium it takes is too much
more than the regular the crate engine used. Me, I'd be happy to pay
the extra, I don't drive that many mile a day anyway. Don't know if
that'll happen or not. But, if not the crate engine should be good.
They've got a Lunati cam they want to put in it, but I'm trying to get
them to hold off until I get it on the road and sort out the traction
first. But even more important, it'll be on the road sooner if the cam
gets put in later.

It's got a S-10 rearend in it just nw, somewhere around 3:40
gearing. The older son took it to the 1/8 mile strip with the clapped
out engine and it still got 80+ MPH, with the one tire spinning about
all the way. I'm thinking about 4:11s with a locker. Hehehe

I figured for a long time they didn't want to work on it because
they figued I'd kill myself with it. Apparently not, they were just
too idle to do it for me, but always had time for their own projects.
Bottom line, I think the older son's wife finall got totally fed up with
it being in her back yard. LMAO She's a great day-in-law. So there
may hope of me hauling Ash at last.

Future plans include cutting one exhaust pipe off short, so it
doesn't show, and maybe putting a chroe tip on the other, maybe even one
of those coffee cn exhaust tips, the type that adds 50 HP.

Please Car Gods, Manny, Moe, and Jack, get on my sons' asses for
me, and make them get this done for me. .Life is good, it can get even
gooder.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

On Jul 7, 2:24?am, (J T) wrote:
For those not aware, I've had a Chevy LUV, with a 350 Chevy in it,
at my older son's place for quite awhile. A long while in fact. Long
story, maybe later. It had a clapped out 350 in it when I got it from
the older son, in trade for something, can't even remember what now.
I'd driven the thing once or twice before when the engine was running,
and even with that POS engine, it's light enouh that it was F*A*S*T,
traction being the main problem. So, of course I got an engine built to
put in it. A 350, that should put out about 420 HP. I din't want to go
overboard. Well, the younger son had a Chevy 4X4 pickup, with a strong
crate engine, but he really wanted my engine. So I made a deal, he got
my engine, I got hs engine (about 300 HP, which was still probably at
least 100 more then the old engine had), and he'd hel his brother hook
every thing up. Well, the engines got swapped, his truck was runiing -
great I might add, and my truck sat. From what they'd told me, about 4
hours work by the two of them would do it. Didn't happen.

Long story trying to make shorter, it looks like the LUV may
actually get worked on. It's ben moved. The bed and cab have been
cleaned out. Apparently they're going to pull the engine and trans (350
trans), to weld something under back in place. I'm trying to convince
them to put the engine I had built in, because the younger son doesn't
run the truck - apparently the price of the premium it takes is too much
more than the regular the crate engine used. Me, I'd be happy to pay
the extra, I don't drive that many mile a day anyway. Don't know if
that'll happen or not. But, if not the crate engine should be good.
They've got a Lunati cam they want to put in it, but I'm trying to get
them to hold off until I get it on the road and sort out the traction
first. But even more important, it'll be on the road sooner if the cam
gets put in later.

It's got a S-10 rearend in it just nw, somewhere around 3:40
gearing. The older son took it to the 1/8 mile strip with the clapped
out engine and it still got 80+ MPH, with the one tire spinning about
all the way. I'm thinking about 4:11s with a locker. Hehehe

I figured for a long time they didn't want to work on it because
they figued I'd kill myself with it. Apparently not, they were just
too idle to do it for me, but always had time for their own projects.
Bottom line, I think the older son's wife finall got totally fed up with
it being in her back yard. LMAO She's a great day-in-law. So there
may hope of me hauling Ash at last.

Future plans include cutting one exhaust pipe off short, so it
doesn't show, and maybe putting a chroe tip on the other, maybe even one
of those coffee cn exhaust tips, the type that adds 50 HP.

Please Car Gods, Manny, Moe, and Jack, get on my sons' asses for
me, and make them get this done for me. .Life is good, it can get even
gooder.

Jack is the journeyman car god, JOAT. Manny and Moe are just
apprentices.

I've been looking forward to riding in this truck for several years
now. In fact, if I remember correctly, tis project began before I move
to West-By-God more than five years ago.

Hell, I've been back three years, almost long enough to get over the
regret I had for leaving home for even a couple years. Ah well. That
little adventure (as any sensible person knows, adventure is the
result of poor planning) was final proof on my inability to function
in the corporate world. I keep forgetting to cover my back, and I show
my dislike of working at the instruction of truly stupid people in a
rigidly defined world. Same reasons I didn't re-enlist in the Marines
so long ago.

"Charlie Self" wrote in message

regret I had for leaving home for even a couple years. Ah well. That
little adventure (as any sensible person knows, adventure is the
result of poor planning) was final proof on my inability to function
in the corporate world. I keep forgetting to cover my back, and I show
my dislike of working at the instruction of truly stupid people in a
rigidly defined world.

I recall the tales of your "adventure" frequently.

My last foray into the "corporate world" was 44 years ago and I don't regret
it, especially after seeing the "security", once their best argument for
being subjected to the indignity, evaporate for so many of my
contemporaries.

Never thought I'd live to see a pHD in Geophysics, or a man with both a JD
and pharmaceutical degree, "unemployable" because their jobs were better
held by some dufus, incapable of understanding the why of the brim on a
baseball cap, and whose sole qualification was the stupidity and **** poor
education that allowed upper management to pay him less, leaving more spoils
to feather their own nests .

Same reasons I didn't re-enlist in the Marines
so long ago.

I resigned a commission for basically the same reason ... a war I could
take, but the politics of peacetime was revolting.

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Sat, Jul 7, 2007, 11:20am (EDT+4) (Charlie*Self)
doth sayeth:
Jack is the journeyman car god, JOAT. Manny and Moe are just
apprentices.
I've been looking forward to riding in this truck for several years now.
In fact, if I remember correctly, tis project began before I move to
West-By-God more than five years ago.
Hell, I've been back three years, almost long enough to get over the
regret I had for leaving home for even a couple years. Ah well. That
little adventure (as any sensible person knows, adventure is the result
of poor planning) was final proof on my inability to function in the
corporate world. I keep forgetting to cover my back, and I show my
dislike of working at the instruction of truly stupid people in a
rigidly defined world. Same reasons I didn't re-enlist in the Marines so
long ago.

Hah, I'd even pray to the Car Gods clean up guy if I thought it'd
do any good. And, yeah, it's been years. Not telling how many times
I've heard, "Oh, just buy this part for it, and we'l get it done."
Shoulda been talking to the dau-in-law all along. If my back and joints
woul have let me, I'd have done it myself. But that ain't happening. I
saw the younger son get in the engine compartment of the GMC, curl into
a ball, and work on the carb. I couldn't do that when I was yung even
Damn kids. As long as yuur heart's in good condiion, I've still gotcha
in mind for a ride. I've got some traction cures, and won't need the
boys to help wtith those - thenkfuly



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

Sat, Jul 7, 2007, 10:07am (EDT-1) (Swingman) doth sayeth:
snip Never thought I'd live to see a pHD in Geophysics, or a man with
both a JD and pharmaceutical degree, "unemployable" because their jobs
were better held by some dufus,snip I resigned a commission for
basically the same reason ... a war I could
take, but the politics of peacetime was revolting.

I used to get a LOT of, "Sorry, but you're overqualified, and
wouldn't be happy in the position" Constructive age descrimination
actually.

I punched "send" by mistake while responding to Charlie. I actually
enjoyed my Army time, most of it. Got up to E-7 considerably sooner
than average. Then stayed in promotion limbo. Partly came from telling
people things they didn't want to hear, such as the then Sergeant Major
of the Army what I thought of "his" Army. Well, he asked. LMAO He was
making a world tour of out of the way foreign bases to "boost" troop
morale. I'd been planning on telling him, but my boss talked me out of
it. OK, no prob. He was going thru, with a handshake, a "How you
doing?", and on to the next hand. With me he stops and wants to talk,
apparently the only guy in the building he wants to talk to, someone had
to have set me up. Quite possibly our section sergeant major, he was a
drunk, and sexually harrassing one of our female troops, but nothing
could be proved - her word, his word - and I think he knew she went to
me for help. Anyway, it was all "yes", "no", "fine", for half a dozen
questions or so.. Then he asked "the" question, "How does your family
like it here?". So I told him, in detail. LOL You should have seen
the look on his face. Priceless. But, what te Hell?, I was still
having fun, unttl my last assignment. We got a commander in who was the
biggest dipstick I've ever seen. I had just enough time in to retire,
so wound up doing just that. No real regrets. No biggie, I'd have made
a damn good master sergeant, but probably a poor first sergeant anyway.
Doesn' matter, I was ahead anyway - my original ambition was three up
and one down, and there I was, three up and two down. LOL Good times
with great guys. Life ain't bad, as long as you learn to take the good
along with the bad; and don't sweat the small ****, anythng under 15
pounds, you haul up by rope. Sempr Fi. LMAO



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

"J T" wrote in message

than average. Then stayed in promotion limbo. Partly came from telling
people things they didn't want to hear, such as the then Sergeant Major
of the Army what I thought of "his" Army. Well, he asked. LMAO

LOL ... know the feeling. Went from a battery command in RVN straight to a
battery command in Germany where, shortly thereafter, a full bird
_attempted_ to chew my ass out claiming to have "seen" a candy bar wrapper
in the back of a deuce-and-a-half in the motor pool after a **play war**
exercise ... my immediate "You gotta be f*ckin' kidding me!!" stopped him in
his tracks and scared my boss (a LIC) so bad I do think he **** his pants on
the spot.

What the LTC didn't know, and what this joker discovered in a private
conversation a few minutes later (which included the obviously heretofore
unanticipated come-to-Jesus revelation that, if you're gonna play a certain
game, you can't be stupid, you can't afford to get caught, and, when you do,
you damn well better be prepared to live with the consequences) was that
someone on his staff had tipped me to the fact that they, at his direction,
had "edited" and re-published, under my signature, my unit's Material
Readiness Report to make his command figures look better.

(My boss marveled at how I could always tell his boss to go fug himself, and
get away with it.)

The sad thing was that many of the senior officer's at that time were
playing similar games in "peacetime" Europe. Particularly those who had not
had their "ticket punched" with a combat command in RVN, and, with rank
fairly easy to make at the time, were desperate to "get theirs" at all
costs.

IOW, politics, not military ability, was the name of the advancement game,
and it probably still is. (It was, coincidentally, the first time I ever
heard/came into contact with the concepts of "political correctness" and
"affirmative action", which speaks volumes about the era.)

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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:07:41 -0500, "Swingman" wrote:


I resigned a commission for basically the same reason ... a war I could
take, but the politics of peacetime was revolting.

I work with a guy who commanded two nuclear subs. The stories would
curl you hair...

I do enjoy the non-political "E2 Hawkeye carrier landing in bad
weather to meet with the admiral" stories, though. G

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Went over to the older son's house today, to pickup some new oak
flooring he'd rescued from a construction site, it was gonna go into a
bonfire. Nice, and free.

Now that he's got all the trash out of the cab and bed, checked it
out. The bed's got a cople of rust holes, but mostly quite solid.
Cab's got a couple of rust spots, but solid. Inside some previous owner
had cut holes in the transmission hump, to put in sme odd-ball shifter,
then never patchd the holes, no biggie tho. Couple of small rust holes
in the floor, the rest is soid. Top of the dash had some carpet on it,
and it looks like it mutated, need to find something to cover that. The
seats are dirty, but in good conditon, not ripped or anything. he wans
to get some different ones to put in, I say just clean them up. .The
finish is mostly gray primer, with some red and blue spots, along with
some surface rust. The hood had a large hole cut in it.

They took th radiator out, the kid fixed it so it sets in a channel
at the bottom, and at the top a piece of angle iron that's held in place
by two bolts The kid somes up wit some great ideas at times, it stays
put, but comes out very easily. He also had cut out most of the inside
f the feners too, didn't have that last time I'd looked. No prob, I
don't drive much in the rain anyway. Lightens the fron up some too.

No bumper on the fron. I'm thinking about putting on a chunk of
2X12. Some people are sure to call it a "rat rod". I've got news for
them, it is gonna be a sleeper, NOT a rat rod. With it looking as it
does, it'll also be a beater. As i go along I'll be cleaning up te
rust, and putting some paint on it. A paint job apparently
automatically disqualifes it from being a "rat rod. Then it'll be a
driver - and still a sleeper. It's got a performer manifold, along with
a Q-Jet. I've already ld them, the Quadrajet stays, good mileage with
those small primary, and that wonderful sound of gas beeing sucked in
whn those big primaries kck in. Of course, I'll only drive it for
mileage.

It's all set for te engine to be pulled, so it looks like it may
ctually proceed. Ah well, everyone needs hope, so I'm hoping.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

J T wrote:
snip

No bumper on the fron. I'm thinking about putting on a chunk of
2X12. Some people are sure to

There are times I would be sitting in my truck behind another
vehicle at a red light and the light turns green to go, and *then* they
turn their left turn signal on while there are a boatload of vehicles
coming from the opposite direction. That is when I wish I had a 4" X 12"
for a front bumper and I would surely shove them clear across the
intersection and half way to where I wanna go before I stop pushing!
Anybody else feel that way?


It's all set for te engine to be pulled, so it looks like it may
ctually proceed. Ah well, everyone needs hope, so I'm hoping.


Good story, JOAT, hope it all works for you.


JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

On Jul 7, 12:23?pm, (J T) wrote:
?If my back and joints
woul have let me, I'd have done it myself. But that ain't happening. I
saw the younger son get in the engine compartment of the GMC, curl into
a ball, and work on the carb. I couldn't do that when I was yung even
Damn kids. As long as yuur heart's in good condiion, I've still gotcha
in mind for a ride. I've got some traction cures, and won't need the
boys to help wtith those - thenkfuly


Yes, well I could use a couple of boys around here. My heart is fine,
but my lungs show the effects of too many cigarets, even though I quit
18 years ago, my joints show my father's inheritance for me--excessive
arthritis--and my knees show the results of being a clumsy **** on off-
road motorcycles.

I'm looking forward to the ride.

On Jul 7, 11:22?pm, "Swingman" wrote:
"B A R R Y" wrote in message

I do enjoy the non-political "E2 Hawkeye carrier landing in bad
weather to meet with the admiral" stories, though. G

One of the things I liked about aviators for the most part ... you can't be
a dumb ass and live to fly long.

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Uh, some. I'm not sure I'd go along with that after two years in a
light helicopter squadron. Some of those 21 year old flight suit
commandos can scare the **** out of you when they're taking it easy.