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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Hour Log

Week of 2/5/12 24.3 hours

Total Hours: 199.4

So I haven't posted in a while because I haven't been doing much lately. I will be starting here in the next few weeks at Farmers Equipment in Lynden so I have been demoted to "delivery boy" at Northland Diesel. I can't blame them, why would they want to train me for someone else? The main reasons for leaving Northland for Farmers Equipment are hours and commuting time. My rig isn't exactly a Prius (not that I want one) so the gas bill adds up fast with a Bellingham trip every day. Plus I will be getting in a lot more welding at Farmers. Anyway I'll keep you all posted as I move along.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Todays doing...

Well this was my ride for the day :) I spent almost the whole day running around Seattle area dropping stuff off for customers. Although I'm not a big fan of diesel cars I must say this VW Jetta TDI Wagon was a very good ride! One of the customers had a shop back in the foothills and that's where this 6-speed diesel really shined! Fun stuff =D

Wisconsin Motor...Take 2

So the Wisconsin motor that Lynn and I rebuilt the week prior ended up spinning a bearing again. I guess that's what you get or a cheap/quick rebuild job. But the good this is it lasted long enough for the owner to take care of a few customers so he wasn't in a bind for time. So this time we pulled the bad motor out and stripped it down. The crank was ruined from the excessive heat but luckily the crank in the spar block looked good so we mic'ed it and it was still in good shape. So we moved all the components from the bad block over and rebuilt the motor on the spar block. Once it was all back together we tested it out and it all ran great. So we ran it at several different throttle positions for about 2/3 of the day to break it in and then returned it to the owner. So far its been holding up well under heavy use.

Mike's Dodge...continued

So this is the day we got the motor remounted in the truck. For this stage I mainly just helped Mike by being his assistant, grabbing tools, checking bolt torques, and such. Once again Mike took his time to explain all he could to me while we were working and I learned much from his experience.

I really should have posted a lot closer to this project because I can't remember all the details.