Transmission shop: "sorry, we don't resurface flywheels anymore or know anyone who does, the industry's gotten away from that because of liability concerns."
Me: Dick the Butcher was right
Replying to @dbennett_ks
Guy at NAPA: "yeah man, I just think people don't do that anymore"
Colleague a few years younger than me: "people still get flywheels resurfaced?"
<headdesk>
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Sometimes I think my wife forgets that I jumped a 10' wide creek on my BMX bike in 5th grade and landed it.
She would lock up that attitude if she remembered what I'm capable of.
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She broke up with me at what had been “our” restaurant. You could hear the gasp of the sandwich artist.
Tried to drop my tractor flywheel off to have it ground, but the machine shop has the wrong size grinding wheel. Even better, the local NAPA has no idea who in this area can resurface a flywheel. Come on, man.
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Just had an AI porn ad pop up in the middle of trying to read a Christianity Today article about a mission hospital in Kenya and if that doesn't sum up the Internet I don't know what does.
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With all the Anakin posting I thought I'd add this. When Revenge of the Sith was bootlegged in China and then back translated to English, the Jedi Council was translated as "The Presbyterian Church" or "Hopeless Situation Presbyterians", leaving us with this gem:
Filled out my ballot. Basically a waste of time in WA, apart from the minor satisfaction of voting against anyone endorsed by shitbag @GovBobFerguson.
Pulled the lift pump to clean sludge and a disturbing number of metal bits in this sump, and noticed the PTO tailshaft looked rough. Here’s what’s left of the mating needle(?) bearing. Lovely.




















