Lee and group. Mostly what I have been drinking is stout coffee but I did have a couple of beers through out the day.Yes Lee I am building a landing strip for Santa. Actually as Paul Harvey would say, here is the rest of the story. I did not give the whole story because it was very late and I had to get up early meaning for 2 nights in a row I was averaging about 4 or 5 hours of sleep. So heres the hole skinny. Saturday morning At about 7 AM Waldo picked me up and we went back and started ripping off the shingles on him and his wifes garage. About noon a friend of mine from out of town joined up with us and about sundown the funb began. Waldo dropped My friend and I off at my house and we through the engine hoist and floor jack in the back of my S10 and drove it out to the concrete slab where the Jimmy was awaiting surgery. We hooked up the hoist and as My friend slowly jacked up the motor I jacke up the tranny with the floor jack. I did this so I could lift the tranny off of the cross member. Once the bolt was free of the cross member I shoved the cross member out of the way landing it firmly on my middle finger causing me a bit of discomfort. OK really it hurt like hell. We jacked up the motor some more and pulled it out. Now for the fun part. We dragged it around to the back of the Jimmy. The motor and the arm of the hoyst would not both fit in the cargo space so we shortened the chain and still not enough room. We got in as far as we could and then repositioned the chain using only the back bracket on the engine. Now it was in about half way. With the motor and tranny together seeming to weigh several hundred pounds and the floor being carpet we had great fun prying and pushing and pulling. Some how we got it most of the way in. Now we still could not shut the back gate. He told me we still needed to go in another 3 inches or so. We had room to pivit the tail end of the tranny but we could not seem to get it to budge. Having been a wrestler I was used to using my legs and I lerned a lot about leverage. So I told him to step back and I sat on the tail gate, grabbed the back post of the jimmy and with my feet, gave it a good shuv and we were in. We put up the tail gate and called it a day. I Pitty the poor basterd that has to take it out. Now it is about 2 in the morning and I finally get to bed. 6 the nex morning up again to get on the roof. 7 We put up the new sheeting on the one side of the roof and then I climbed up on the roof to drag the tarp over to to cover the roof. OH did I mention it was raining the whole time. 8 Well after dragging and nailing several small and large tarps I climbed off the roof and we were done for the day. 9 That was more than enough fun for one week end. 10 So there you have it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee A. Stone Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] THE ENGINE IS FINALLY OUT OF THE JIMMY what have you been drinking Robert? your subject line says the engine is out of the Jimmy but you say you have been on the roof most of the day. do you have a roof project to tell us about? are you setting up a landing strip for Santa ? No way you have that engine mounted on the house roof or . did you? Now I've got to wait until tomorrow to hear" the rest of the story.". Lee -- I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a congressman. -- Will Rogers [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
