Things I Don’t Do Anymore
I used to fix my own cars until they started making them so you have to be a computer expert to figure out what’s wrong with them; or at least that’s the reason I gave myself for stopping. There was barely a DIY job I wouldn’t have a go at; no matter how daunting. I don’t own a house anymore so it’s easy to justify why I gave that up. Sex is a third thing that has been consigned to the category of erstwhile activity.It’s an age thing, really, I just can’t be bothered anymore. I certainly don’t miss lying underneath a jacked up vehicle covered in oil and grease, and the thought of never drilling another hole in another wall carries absolutely no regret whatsoever. As for sex; apart from the odd day after I’ve had an erotic dream, I can’t really say I miss that much, either.
God! I’m getting old.
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Harbaaaaaaaaaal
What about the bird pies, are you still partial to those?
Your problem is you're forgetting how good it feels to stand back and say " job well done" and done so by me ..
All you need is a reminder and it so happens my cars in need of fixing and the legs on my bed are broken again, perhaps with your DIY skills you could fix them
I was working as a race mechanic at a foreign car dealership in New Jersey when a couple of men in suits came in from the government and asked if they could test the exhaust on a bunch of new cars. They had some kind of a meter with a flexible hose they stuck up the tailpipe pretty much like what they do today. But back then it seemed kind of weird. What they were gathering was a baseline reading on a lot of different cars when they were new and not worn out. I happened to have my bosses Mini engine on the engine dyno doing some advance curve and exhaust length tuning so I asked one of the techys if they would like to stick their probe up the tailpipe of the race engine on the dyno? I thought one of the guys was going to wet himself he was so thrilled with the idea. Well, they hooked their exhaust tester up the the engine on the dyno and I ran it through a dyno run at 500 RPM intervals from about 3000 RPM full throttle and full load up to redline of 7500 RPM.
After the run I said, Well, what did you find? The guy said it is so clean it would pass emission standards that haven't even been established yet. He went on to say it would probably pass an emissions test at least 5 years into the future. This was absolutely not surprising to me because a race engine is tuned to extract every last speck of energy out of the fuel mix.