Hey Nate, Thougth you might like this . After the kids scarfed down my special burgers tonight, we roasted some marshmallows...I mean breather caps. Andy
Uh , Oh ~ Uh , there -was- a horse hair element inside that , prolly all gone by now so don't be surprised if it begins to spit oil on your freshly painted rockerbox....
I agree with Nate. Not the item you want to have a cook out with. Probably done wasted it at this point. Also causes the ladies to have a fit. Next time try baking your breather down draft tube now thats a flame.
Hell ; Throw some beef / chicken on there and chill some drinks , we'll not waste a good fire anyways
Then I must have misunderstood an earlier post where you said to cook it on the Barby. Did you mean the road draft tube and not the breather?? Well, anyone got an extra breather cap???? My bad. Andy
This is just too darn funny. I know it's misfortunate for you Chiro and I'm not laughing at you but with you. Nate did say the road draft tube not the breather cap. Eh, we all make mistakes sometimes.
Graceful I want to commend you Chiro. I think you did a wonderful job of gracefully admiting you made a,a,a,a ,a !!!MISTAKE!!! Even though I have done some things that were a lot worse... I LAUGHED OUT LOUD when I read the post Boy did I need that laugh. Got to tell you'all something that happened this week. Kinda long but here it is. My father in law was going to have half of his roof re-shingled... it's a long story, he does things like this, so don't ask why only half. Anyway, my lazy brother in law who gets FIRED from every job he ever gets said he wanted to do it and it should have only taken a couple of days. Been working on it 7 days, not finished YET. Well, my father in law told one of his workers to put the trailer in the back yard where the shingles would be thrown down, put a tarp down and load the shingles on top because the trailer boards had space between them and he didn't want the nails to fall through and fall out down the 1000 ft dirt drive. Well,,,,,,,,, guess what, he pulls the trailer in the back yard, lays a folded tarp down on the ground beside the trailer, NOT IN IT, and loads the shingles and pulls the trailer down the drive. OK rocket scientist Michael (his worker) guess what happened? NAILS GOT DROPPED OUT ALL THE WAY DOWN THE DRIVE. When my father in law, well lets just say HE was to mad to even spit. It was one of those times when it was "just too wet to plow" as they say. When my father in law asked what in the world he thougt he was doing he said. "I did what you said", "I layed a tarp down" I'm still laughing about that one. I'm not going into the stupid things I've done. Chiro your just too funny... what do they say? "to err is human" and "those who make a few mistakes are probably the ones doing all the work" TB'sD
See this is why Nate maybe needs to start drawing pictures with his posts Some of us are visual learners. Way to go Chiro made my day with a laugh Thanks
see, chiro, i'm glad you posted a picture. had you not, we may not have picked up on your folly, there. i commend you, sir. we shall all learn from mistakes made on this site. ok, enough babbling. sorry for the mix up, man. keep posting pics, though!! jon
awesome story TB's D that is one of the funniest stories I've heard in a while. Gave me a great laugh this morning.
Well, I sure am happy that all of you got a good laugh at my expense. I had a good laugh at myself as well, I tell ya. Having a B'Day party for my baby girl today and was outside showing the truck to the family and friends. AFTER they all went inside, I sneaked a peek under the cover of that Barby. Well, well, well. Thank Goodness we left the cover down and most of the coals had burnt down from dinner the night before. Apparently, there wasn't enough heat to do any damage to the horse hair element. The breather was just FULL of oil and was leaking down constantly and making a real mess out of the rocker box before I cooked it. I guess there was just enough heat to cook out the oil that was in it without cooking the element and ruining it. Too cool. Thought I was pretty much a fool about it, but sometimes even fools get lucky . If you thought that was funny, wait till I post pictures of my oldest soon working on the motor. You'll get a good laugh out of those pics, too Andy
Body Work This guy is a real captain genious. I know this is at his expense as chiro put it, but! I got to tell this one. Michael (father in laws worker) was told to back the 1 ton up to a gooseneck trailer a few weeks back. While in reverse he (brain belch here) decided to leave the drivers door open so he could see better around a telephone pole that was, you guessed it, beside the drivers door. Well, he backed up, ran the door into the pole, didn't damage the door even a little bit, but, bent the hinge. My father in law being the good hearted person he is said after 2 weeks of crawling into the passengers side said "Michael, see if you can straighten the hinge so the door will open and shut. Michael being the brain surgeon he is. (keep in mind no visable damage to the door) takes a 4 ft pry bar, sticks it between the fender and the door (door closed) and begins to wack the heck out of it with a 4 pound sledge. Oh, no. (father in law in town at this point) Michael, pries, wacks, beats, pry's some more times, gets door open, wacks some more, beats, bends, and whala. The door opens and shuts perfectly. Father in law now home. sees door, grabs michael by the neck (literaly) face red, blood pressure off the chart, pulls back to punch michael opens mouth (&#($^(^@#$^#%@#(%%@#&%#$(#&%$@^%^#%. Says, Michael "get the #%$)@#* off my property before I kill you. (and he NEVER uses foul language) UH, well now needs new fender, door and hinges. It still ain't funny too him. but he didn't fire him. go figure wasn't too long ago that he was told to move a bilge pump so he wouldn't run over it. Got out of the truck, moved the pump over a few feet and backed right over it. DESTROYED in one fatal blow... I could go on and on, this guy is a continual barrel of EXPENSIVE laughs. TB'sD
Ha Chiro, We were not laughing at ya but laughing with ya. I could tell some crazier stories then that. Crazy way to clean out your breather but ha it seemed to work. Was a classic photo with the breather above the flame.
Congrat's Chiro on the lucky save. Glad all is well now, I think we'll keep this a secret just between all of us, okay! TB's D. That guy you speak of is awesome. I'd love to just set and watch this guy work. I think it would be funnier than any chevy chase movie could even think about bein. Just don't let him touch the boopsters truck ans we'll all be okay. We had a guy at our shop (no it wasn't me I promise) that did pretty much the same thing when backing off of the alignment rack with the drivers door open and took out the alignment rack controls and bent the door, hinges, and the left front fender in. I thought it was pretty funny but the customer that was setting there watching him do it didn't find it as funny as the rest of us did.
Yeah, The falmes you see in the pics are due to the oil leaking out of the breather onto the hot coals and flaring up. You can see thesmoke, too. As soon as I closed the cover, the flames went away. Guess there just wasn't enough oxygen to keep the flames high, but just enough heat to cook out all the oil in it. BTW, it got full of oil when I left it on the engine when I turned it upside down on the engine stand to work on the bottom of the motor with my son. Turned it back over and wanted to kick myself in the butt when it started to leak down all over the rocker box...Duh!! Check "kids and their truck" thread for more pics of my son drilling out the flange to make ready for early type front engine mount. Classic!!! Andy
All's Well That Ends Well O.K. Andy , glad it all worked out O.K. ~ I was going to write up how to re-stuff it with a ' Sally Scrubby ' but you saved it allready . You might want to go buy a quart of Gunk (brand) Engine Brite and invret the oil fillter cap in a narrow cup and fill the cup with the engine brite untill it's totally immersed and let it soak a few days , remove and drain the cleaner back into the can for future use then flush the bejeebers out of the cap untill the water runs clear.... Shop working stories eh ? O.K. here goes one : I hired this gay S & M guy ' Nigel ' from England , he was a good worker and honest etc. , after I got him to stop wearing the studded dog collar as it scared the colledge girls who made up 1/2 of my customers he was working out very well . His studded leather motocycle jacket had a ' Cord De Guerre ' (!SP!) sort of thing on it , in reality is was an S & M tit clamp , a chromed chain with a small alligator clamp on each end , he'd clip this onto his nipples and lift weights with it (hey , I'm an eaqual opportunity employer 'K ?) to keep his husband happy and so on . So ; we also had this Cha-Cha Girl named Rosie who used to come 'round with Wild Man , she was ready for most anything once you gave her a Qualuude or two (this was a long time ago , dig ?) One fine day I was sitting on the 4' tall pile of cylinder head cores eating my lunch with gusto and Rosie was idly fooling with Nigel's jacket and noticed the chain thing had clamps on each end , took it off and looked at it , asked me what it was for ? I said " it's his tit clamp " and took a large bite of my burger and then was horrified to see Rosie clamp the alligator clamp onto her prefect boobie ~ she began screaming and running around the shop , I nearly choked on my food and fell off the pile of cylinder head backwards , the commotion brought every one else who had been up at the sidewalk for some reason , come a-running ASAP as they thought I was killing poor Rosie ~ She was pissed off for a week or so but it wasn't MY fault I guess you hadda be there....
Girls and their trucks VWNate, I can't top that one, pretty funny. But, At the ripe old age of 15 I had up to that point lived a fairly sheltered life and had not yet seen the world through the eyes of a man so to speak. One day while working at the gas station an old truck drove up to the pumps. (back when only full service) I proceded out to the truck and noticed two males and one female. I walked up to the window and got my first full shot of, well lets say, the things that make the upper half of a female different from a male. These three had been hauling hay all day and I guess in Texas we always want to be different. She was sitting there in her drawers and cowboy boots, the men had on short pants and cowboy boots, they were hot and sweaty and she acted if there was nothing wrong. She said fill-er up and wash the windows. That was the best winder cleaning job I ever did, just don't know if I got anything off the window but I sure wiped on it for a long time. Well I've since grown older, and have a different perspective on things but still can't get that picture out of my mind. She never flinched. In Texas it's not illegal to go topless (male or female) as long as no one is offended. Well back then, I was surely not offended. I always looked forward to her coming into the station, but she never furthered my visual education from then on. I learned a lot of things back in the days of my youth, some probably not worth repeating. TB'sD
You gotta love Texas! Back when i moved to texas, 1977, you could still have a beer sitting on the dash of your truck. What a revellation! But i'd trade it in a minute for what Boop's dad saw!
