Hey that looks like my drink of choice, only replace the rum with gin and the Coke with tonic water, diet of coarse! Oh yeah, and a splash of lemonade, just waiting for Leonard to chime in on this one.
Same house but as you can see Mary slowly moving remaining car parts to back bedroom that I haven't been able to hid in closets and actually find room for in garage. What is an alfaholic to do?Isn't this the house with the kitchen piled high with Alfa parts. Only one plate and one drink? Wish I was there to "help" you out![]()
Thanks for the post especially for meHappy hour, food on the bar and soap by the sink, living in high cotton.
Hey that looks like my drink of choice, only replace the rum with gin and the Coke with tonic water, diet of coarse! Oh yeah, and a splash of lemonade, just waiting for Leonard to chime in on this one.
Neither do I but it sure helps to have FEW hours of manual labor behind you before it is 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE!Jon doesn't even need to be remodeling/working on the cars to have the drink!
DON'T I KNOW IT. just today a simple thing like adjusting/replacing/adjusting/then replacing blown fuse caused by replacing/adjusting, etc., the neutral/park start and reverse light switch in 91L verde project turned into over an hour just to get back up lights for state inspection tomorrow I hope.Steve...yea good times in FL. I hope to get enough work done on the 164B and Berlina this fall so I can get started on the red 164S this winter. I really need to get lights in the green house. The Berlina is really taking more time than I'd hoped.
Thanks for the complements on my remodeled digs! Actually this one is a rancher with everything on one floor bedrooms down the hall and only two of the four finished right now. Bedroom 3 is my office and Alfa library and master one now under construction/destruction so it has overflow Alfa parts and construction debris.Thanks for the post especially for me
I'm not familiar with the term 'living in high cotton', but I can certainly guess from the opulence evident in the pics.
The single dining option (and no plate for the bread) actually looks rather like one of my concoctions - I find that less time spent in the kitchen leads to more time spent in the garage (and vice versa).
Your living room and dining areas appear to have a Tardis quality, no doubt helped by the upstairs location of the bedrooms. I couldn't make out a single Alfa part in the pictures (except possibly in the Priority Mail bag), so it seems that you have won the war (or lost, depending on your viewpoint).
What is the highly-futuristic-looking device installed in the wall where one would expect an open fire to be?
I won't get into the topic of drinks (I don't, except once a year or so) but let's just say that my chosen mixes have the appearance of meths (and probably taste similar), or, the more Campari the better.
One day I might have to post a response showing my place, but right now the volume of junk would horrify (e.g. the two windscreens leaning against the couches, various giant cardboard boxes, old Commodore computer collections).
Michael, I liked your choice of words, particularly 'recalcitrant' (one of my favourites). Why is it that the average Internet-forum tends to attract the sort of people that have difficulty with spelling "blow of valve", but the Alfa Romeo forum has people like you aboard...
Cheers,
-Alex
Jim,Looks like I missed whatever was going on ....... AGAIN! Sounds like some cool drinking and eating, Steve. Was this engineered by Mary Lee? Hope so. Hope it was all respectful. Sounds like Alex liked it!
You had to "Mill" shims? OMG, the thought of shimming the valves were enough to keep me from buying one many years ago...
No way, car only has 48K on it. We will overcome engineering miscue. We milled valve shims aka lash caps. Same style as Alfa but 7mm ID vice 9mm used for most Alfas.Are the gaskets at least reproducible in terms of thickness at a specified torque? Wowee.... If things are milled too thin (yes, I understood your milling of shims and am asking about the things you are shimming), can they be welded back up? Ouch. Or maybe you should get a new valve job?
Michael