Thanks Jay!! I don't mind sharing the shop with the nuthatch except that he keeps pooping on my jeep.  Not a good look for him! Surprisingly pleasant in the shop with the Carharts and my little electric heater - supplemented with a bullet heater to bring things up a few degrees. Looking forward to a balmy 20F tomorrow! Heat wave - woooo hoo!😍 Best my friend!

HA!  This whole replace/validate/resuse thing is funny. I am really against the entire disposable society premise that we live in.  That said, time is valuable, so maybe that is the right metric? I know people who just pull engines from these vehicles and drop them off at the machine shop. $6k later they install a fully rebuilt engine. Betting the machine shop absolutely loves this type of customer. Seems wasteful to me....but then again, what do I know?Thanks buddy...happy to be back in the roll as well. 

Sounds like it works great for you! Lots of ways to skin these cats....but they all look like work!  Hope you are enjoying your machine.

Glad you enjoyed Robert!  Thanks for your support!

No sir!  Wait until I put these newfangled valve stem seals on the intakes....she is going to be the smoothest, no-oil-burning Champion 6 in the Western Hemisphere!  We did check all of the bearing clearances when we started the diagnostics...all basically new.... Thanks for the well wishes...kinda fighting shape...getting ready for the HUUUGE snowstorm this weekend....will probably be a wimper, but it is definitely going to be cold. Getting my ducks lined up so I can spend the snowstorm in the shop, working on motors!  Best!

Steven Briola Not a great excuse to be honest....I am trying to clear up some space in the shop so this entire process becomes more efficient. Feels like I need to be making more technical videos...the "entertainment" part is fun, but folks seem to respond more to the skills/info stuff....

Appreciate it Steven! Glad you enjoyed the video and learned something. Merry Christmas to you and your family too!

Happy Holidays Robert! Glad you enjoyed it - feels like some of this information is "semi-lost"....trying to get it out there as I learn it!

Appreciate it Adam! Happy Holidays to you too!

Yea baby! Another project to fix that door stop properly....of course requires a fix to a split post...etc., etc....LOOK at that butterfly!😂.As for moths in the thought closet, I am going to compile a list of Jay'isms...YOU WATCH!  Plenty of gems in these comments...😍