Can you feel it? Can you see it?
The nights are cooler and the leaves are changing. Fall is here and our favorite time of year is right around the corner.
For me, summer has been unusual. I'm battling a bit of a hip issue that has been going on for about 1-1/2 years. Time will tell where that takes me, but I've been pretty inactive all summer. But a steroid shot and cooler weather must be my short term fix to improve my attitude.
I accepted a new role at work last December. I've been at the mill for 30 years now, the last 17 being a Senior Project Engineer. With this new role, I've been asked to develop a Facility Preservation position and also manage the mill's Emergency Response Team while I begin the twilight of my career. Every day is challenging but I am blessed to work with great supportive people and am proud to call the mill home.
I did manage to fix up my back-hoe that I shared earlier with everyone. I used it around the tree farm here to pull stumps and other stuff. Pretty fun unit. It goes up north to the cabin on Monday where it will spend the fall improving access to maple trees, making roads and clearing land.
I pulled the motor on the 66' Mustang and had that rebuilt. Not so funny story about that. I put a set of NGK plugs in the V-8 289. The motor has a slight miss, so I was replacing the plugs with the correct Autolite 45 plugs. When taking the plugs out, they were breaking loose very hard. I know I did not put them in that tight, but it took a good size cheater to break them loose and once broke loose, they screwed out by hand except for one
The #7 plug decided to snap off. Really, it just snapped off. The hex broke right off the steel base. And unfortunately, I'm not getting that out unless I pull the motor again. Grrrrrr. I've been evaluating my inventory a bit and decided even I have more Diablos and parts than I could ever need. So I am backing down on some things and you can see that on the Parts Page. I'm not doing any restorations this year as well. I hope to have more time to enjoy winter this year with that change.
So that has been my summer. I want to hear about yours. I know there are literally hundreds of you who read this forum each week, but there are only a small number of people who check in regularly. Let this post be my challenge to you to just reply to the post and say Hi to everyone. And if you have some stories to tell, we would all love to hear them. If you lost track of your password, send me an email at bruce@gogodiablo.com and I will reset it for you.
Come on everyone! Let's hear from you!
Bruce
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