Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?
Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?
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Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?
Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?
crack in the output bearing retainerQuote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
ah. Then JB weld (but Karl already knew that!)
yup that's all it needs to get roadworthy is to get the motor started....Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
I said running and driving. It ran and drove. Roadworthy is subjective, you read craigslist, you should know that!
i spent more time putting the thing on and off trailers than i did trying to get it "running and driving"Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
He's not going to sink the kind of money into it to get it to where i wanted to, so i dont feel bad about selling it.
I think you have the wrong definition for "Fleming" something out.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
If it helps, I damn near put the thing in the lake getting it off the trailer the first time....Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
And like Jerry said, now that it runs all it needs is interior, paint, body work, go through the brakes, go through the axles, tires, etc....
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."Quote:
Originally Posted by mudtoy67
:gigem:
I was just joking, but mostly what I had in mind was that the reason this thing got put out to pasture was that the HOA needed to see it start up and move under its own power, which Karl seems to have done in about the time it probably took Jerry to load it on a trailer and take it to the storage lot...
To me "fleming" a project is to take something with smoe potential and then complete destroy it in as many pieces as possible and sell. For example:
Robert had a CJ, but then he decided to remove axles, engine, etc.. Then he decided to put some bastard dana 60 in it. Mean while he tore apart a sun beam. At the end of the day he sold the CJ, thereby fleming it out.
I think of it as buying something, sitting on it for a period of time (may or may not involve disassembly and/or bastardization), then selling at a loss. I.e. "I flemmed out that silly little diesel volkswagen pickup for $200 and a lawnmower engine after purchasing for $200, having it transported from Corpus for a handle of Jack, and storing it for a year at $25/mo."
That's not Fleming....that's just dumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
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But I got a handle of Jack out of it! :gigem:Quote:
Originally Posted by mudtoy67
See...the key to a good flem is that at least one person wins. Just not Flem. (the flem, the flem-mer?)