Jack,

See Eric's post in For Sale, Wanted, Trade - of:

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thnx, jv

I agree being retired is a busy time but and its a big BUT the things you doing are mostly things you pick and enjoy at your own pace life is good after retiring It my personal opinion but it beats anything I've done till now.

G'day Randy and Mal, With regard to Eric's thread you have to admit that when you are retired, you don't have any more time to do things, it all gets eaten up with administration, etc. Most of my friends in my age group are retired but complain about the lack ot time to do things.
I have a theory that when Australia went metric we lost 2 months and went to a ten month calendar.
I understand that our incoming government shall legislate for a 26 hour day AND THAT SHALL GIVE US ANOTHER TWO HOURS PER DAY to work on our cars, etc. I hope that it works out.
Best regards and keep up the good work Peter Toet

A lot has happened since my last entry. We pulled #1 main and found copper on the bearing - not good. Then we found two newer con rods on cyl #1 and 2 - worse. I noticed the factory oil baffles on one cyl head were on upside down. They fit under the valve springs which meant that all the valve springs had been removed for some reason and the baffles were installed wrong when they put the valve springs back in place. One of the baffles is missing. That is not a big deal but just demonstrated the sloppiness and ignorance of whoever worked on that engine. After asking for local opinions on machine shops competent enough to do this job properly and not getting any solid definitive answers I expanded my search and on the advice of two Packard friends I chose to haul the engine down to NJ for a complete overhaul. This will include installing hardened valve seats and stainless valves, cutting the crank (if needed), new pistons (probably), cam and lifters and a complete engine balance. I can only hope the block is OK and is not cracked anywhere. This will take a little extra out of my sock and cut back on my plans to buy all of you a Christmas gift - sorry to disappoint. I did make the 820 mile round trip in one day and was bushed when I finally got home. I did have a nice visit in NJ and saw some Packards I hadn't seen before. All in all a productive trip.

Amen, brother!

Eric, Sorry but I have to say it but, "I'm retired" so every day is like a holiday!

Ahh, the joys of a PC! Since you switched over to the new chat, me and my Mac have had ZERO problems. My wireless connection, however, is still a POS. Time to buy that new Apple wireless router!

I volunteered to work today, as it's triple time, so my 8 hours I'm working will be 24. I couldn't turn it down. God, I LOVE the aircraft industry!!!!

I have to work today :(

It would be nice if I could have spent the day starting to clean up my car.