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I can't recall how I learned to adjust my valves but I got me some feeler gauges and did it often on my '69 Volvo. I did lots of work on my car by learning mostly from my friends.
 
I can't recall how I learned to adjust my valves but I got me some feeler gauges and did it often on my '69 Volvo. I did lots of work on my car by learning mostly from my friends.

Friends back then were the youtube of mechanics.
 
On a related note, Portland is farther west than any other major city (above 400K) in the United States.
Someone somewhere pointed out that there's a place in Oregon that's farther West than anyplace in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii.
 
Friends back then were the youtube of mechanics.
All I had were repair books, Schuck's auto parts, IPD and friends to guide me. I changed oil, disc brake pads, made temporary repairs on my distributor, added a spark enhancer, changed and set the gap on valves, cleaned and rebuilt the carbs, replaced a muffler, replace s couple of broken u-joints, replaced my battery, light bulbs, fuses, lenses, trim, windshield wiper blades, gear shifter, broken lug and I don't recall what else. You learn when you're broke and you need it done.
 
Someone somewhere pointed out that there's a place in Oregon that's farther West than anyplace in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii.
I don't think that is true. The Olympic Peninsula part of Washington juts out further west than any part of Oregon
 
All I had were repair books, Schuck's auto parts, IPD and friends to guide me. I changed oil, disc brake pads, made temporary repairs on my distributor, added a spark enhancer, changed and set the gap on valves, cleaned and rebuilt the carbs, replaced a muffler, replace s couple of broken u-joints, replaced my battery, light bulbs, fuses, lenses, trim, windshield wiper blades, gear shifter, broken lug and I don't recall what else. You learn when you're broke and you need it done.
put a cj-5 body on a '58 willy's frame, swapped the flat head 4 for a buick v-6 and hooked it to the t-90 trans and had a fo'real stump jumper.
 
I don't think that is true. The Olympic Peninsula part of Washington juts out further west than any part of Oregon
Just looked it up. Correct.
 
Someone somewhere pointed out that there's a place in Oregon that's farther West than anyplace in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii.

Actually, 2nd farthest point. Cape Blanco

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cape_blanco/#.X7J7g2hKhPY

Windswept Cape Blanco—situated at N 42˚50'08.12", W 124˚33'51.16"—is the farthest western point on the mainland of Oregon. It is also the second-most westerly point of the contiguous United States (Cape Alava, Washington, exceeds Cape Blanco by some nine minutes of longitude).
 
Actually, 2nd farthest point. Cape Blanco

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cape_blanco/#.X7J7g2hKhPY

Windswept Cape Blanco—situated at N 42˚50'08.12", W 124˚33'51.16"—is the farthest western point on the mainland of Oregon. It is also the second-most westerly point of the contiguous United States (Cape Alava, Washington, exceeds Cape Blanco by some nine minutes of longitude).
More like 3rd. No. 2 is 20 miles North of Cape Flattery in Washingt0n.
 
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This was quite interesting.
 
FOOTBALLISMS ;


"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football".....

- John Heisman



"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

– Bear Bryant / Alabama



" It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!”

- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money, and we don't have any."

– Erik Russell / Georgia Southern



"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

- Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Notre Dame



"When you win, nothing hurts."

- Joe Namath / Alabama



"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

- Frank Leahy / Notre Dame



"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."

- Woody Hayes / Ohio State



"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."

- Bob Devaney / Nebraska



"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."

- Wally Butts / Georgia



"I never graduated from Iowa. I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."

– Alex Karras / Iowa



"My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor.”

- Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee



"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades."

- Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State



"Always remember Goliath was a 40-point favorite over David."

- Shug Jordan / Auburn



"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me ." He said, "Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren't any good."

- Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State



"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."

- Bobby Bowden / Florida State



"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. DANCING is a contact sport."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State



After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was; "All those who need showers, take them"

- John McKay / USC



" If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”

- Murray Warmath / Minnesota



"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb To be a back, you only have to be dumb."

- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches"

- Darrell Royal / Texas



"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking."

- John McKay / USC


"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



Ohio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players: "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.”

Why do Auburn fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.

What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? Drool.

How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb? None. That's a sophomore course.

How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk? The cow fell on him.

Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. One of them said, "Look, a dead bird." The other looked up in the sky and said, "Where?"

What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? "Will the defendant please rise."

If three Rutgers football players are in the same car, who is driving? The police officer.

How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.

What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? A full set of teeth

University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week. The other half will have to dress themselves.

How is the Kansas football team like an opossum? They play dead at home and get killed on the road
How do you get a former University of Miami football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza

One of my favorites:
An unrecalled college football coach talked to his star running back. The running back had just received his report card: 5 Fs and one D.
The coach, after thinking about the report card, put his arm around the player and said "Son, it looks to me that you've been spending too much time on one subject."
 
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