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I haven't bought any piston rings for a 4 stroke in a while..Overhauling a 153CID Chev inline four from a boat..The perfect Circle ring set I got is interesting...The box says made all around the place some in USA (where the hell is that??)...India...Argentina....Brazil...some place in the South Pacific etc...The box has the usual three compartments seperating the rings by groove...All the rings for the top groove are marked right...The ones for the second groove have two marked wrong and two right..The oil rings seem OK....Yeah I know it could be just a mistake but the point is I find parts like this all the time that don't match made is so many places...Hard to understand why they make one ring each in eight different place across the world...NAFTA..Bah!!!!.....The last 153 I overhauled ..number two rod shell wouldn't fit because the old one had been ground on the end to fit because the rod cap was made wrong...The engine was made south of the border so that explains that......Al...

Have a 98 sable, need a power door lock actuator. have no clue where they make em, but they are precious, $70 or so. have one i bought for my last chrysler minivan, makde in england my rockwell international. $15. both very similar, both plastic., the cheaper one screws together and can be fixed (it is why i have not installed the new one) the Ford one, well, it is glued/snapped together and the snaps broke...am trying to fix that as $70 is too much. a real PITA to pull from a junk yard car though...

I cannot understand how it can be cheaper to make a part in china/brazil et al and ship it here. they still need machine tools, etc and i nknow labor is less and environmental lawas are laxer, etc, but ever ship something internationally? not cheap. every try to to buy something from overseas? them foreigners act like they don't unnerstand plain inglish!

Streets summed it up a lot...I won't go into the Union thing...I get too PO......The owner of a small tire maker here in the real USA was on a radio program recently and he claimed that the Clinton bunch offered him something like $200 thousand to help him move his operation to China..He said he told them to stick it..He was not going to let his workers down...Our tax dollars at work again.....At least there is one good ole boy among us...Theres me of course...and OH yeah..you....and you....OH you know!!!........Speaking of the Clinton gang..My favorite bumper sticker was "IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT"......and THROW OUT BILL TOO !!!!.....Hillary Dillary Dock...The crook ran up the clock.The clock struck four.. but there was more....an open seat for sen a tore....

Originally posted by inlineidiot
Speaking of the Clinton gang..My favorite bumper sticker was "IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT"......and THROW OUT BILL TOO !!!!.....Hillary Dillary Dock...The crook ran up the clock.The clock struck four.. but there was more....an open seat for sen a tore....

When I bought my 1972 Suburban it had a similar bumper sticker. I liked it a little better. It amounted to "Impeach Clinton and her husband, too" I liked it enough to give it a home. It is still on the thing along with the greatful dead bears and a few others.

Sharin Peters Clintoon....That is GREAT!!!...I've got a couple female friends that think the moron walks on water...Can't wait til I get to tell em whats her name is now Sharin Peters....You can always tell a woman..You just can't tell em much... ....OK OK You gals out there..relax I were only fooling....I asked Dave Barry if I could run as vice prez on his prez to be ticket..I was going to run as ..Al Not Gore....Thank God that guy went away....PROBLEM!!!...Willy won't.....He keeps popping up making million dollar speeches....He was in Seattle recently...I could not believe the people that flocked to see em....Of course you have to think to yourself......."OH YEAH SEATTLE"..that sums it up......I can see the place from the beach near here...Thats as close as I get........It's really screwed.....HEY STREETS!!!!...I bought all four wheel cylinders for one of my 65 Chev trucks...They say mde in USA....I'm gonna go smell em right now...THEY BETTER SMELL LIKE OHIO!!!!!....( The guy down the road a piece says all the good stuff comes from Ohio)....

Why did the chicken cross the road????......To catch the bus to OHIO silly....Let's see.....Since I'm 39 going on 71 it must be I've known that ditty for..............let's see.......NINE YEARS!!!!!!.....Yeah...

Here this should help your "love fest". And remember, Hillary is Streets Senator!

Holy smokes Uncle Bob !!..you're right...Hey Streets...How about a comment or two on your views on your infamous SEN A Tore...??....

Hey streets, don't sugar coat it, how do you really feel

Ok Streets...It seems you don't care for Sharin Peters....OOPS !!!!..I mean it seems you don't care for your sen a tore...OOPS....I mean it seems you don't care for the better half of our last prez (the slime ball wan't MY prez)....OOPS...I mean ...oh heck....I sure got my answer!!!!....I think its time to drop the subject....Problem is...... who is going to pack her up to the tenth floor of a tall building....Um..let me think......I know who !!!.....

Of course Al, and I, have a senior senator here that is a real prize too! Each year, Senate staffers have a poll, ranking each senator on their "intelligence". Our Ms. Murray ranked #49 in the last poll!!

Ok Uncle Bob...You mention Olympia around me and you're going to get frothing at the mouth like Streets and his not favorite sen a tore... whats her name....Ms. Murray ..well....Not now I'm in too good a mood....I'll tell a story later on what happened in kiss your arse county..er I mean Kitsap County a while back..I'm still in too good a mood to tell it right now...Al...

not a bad idea there streets...the glue i tried is holding it together, but not tight enough. gum bands (as the locals here call em) just might work...been thinkin wire, duct tape, cloth soaked in epoxy...gumbands will work!

Unions have their place I suppose, but that place was 50 years ago. My cousin worked wummers inthe steel mills here (mid 70s) and made more pushing a broom than he could make as an engineer! fortunately he chose to be an engineer, as in 82 or so the mills all here collapsed.

almost all politicans seem to be two faced liars, but try it sometime and you'll see that to be elected requires the support of them with money, and to gets that money they promis this or that, and then that or this. and then to get a bill passed, they has to trade votes with all dem other politicians...

how 'bout we all run for judge jobs and toss em all in jail for contempt?

Originally posted by screamer63_1979

how 'bout we all run for judge jobs and toss em all in jail for contempt?

I have oft thought of being a lawyer just so I'd have the chance to be a judge. I would love to be able to throw someone in jail for contempt. The best thing is is that with a contempt charge, it is all the judge's call. The only problem with it is that you wouldn't get to see the politician's face on their prison honeymoon

local magistrate here is retiring after 13 years. was appointed by guvner and then elected twice (6 year terms). Had NO experience - was not a lawyer or even a paralege. was a secretary. apparently was on union grievence comittee (sec'y in a steel mill, gotta be a steelworker. luv dem unions!)

she was active in local democratic party - fundraisers, working polls, etc. whe know hte politicians and democratic party leaders, so when the previous magistrate retired she managed to get appointed. no experience necessary!

local township supervisor job opened up so i figure i might run. i called the local republican comitte folks 4 or 5 times... no repsonse. i tried the democrats then, still no respoonse. i weren't askin fer money...just that to get on teh ballot you need 10 or15 signatures from the same party. short of going door to door or hanging out in front of hte grocery stores on a saturday afternoon i don't know 10 or 15 folks let alone 10 or 15 in the same party! so i figure that is what the party is there for...yeah right. i guess i never gave them any money so they didn't know my name.

perhaps i can find a judge that will let me change my name to Jack Shitt. I'll be famous - it's easy to find folks that know jack shitt!