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The other day, my wife accused me of dressing up as Matt Damon’s secret agent character.
She must think I was Bourne yesterday
A man is walking past this house when a used condom comes flying out of the second story window and lands squarely on his head. Rather disgusted and absolutely furious, he goes up to the front door and starts pounding on it:
An elderly man opens it and asks him what caused him to knock so loudly.
The passerby asks. “Who’s in your upstairs room?”
The elderly man replies. “I can’t see how it’s any of your business. But, since you must know, my daughter and intended son-in-law are upstairs.”
The passerby hands him the used condom and says. “Well, I just wanted you to know that your intended grandchild fell out the window!”
I’m not saying my wife’s fat.
But she wants to live on Quality Street.
My girlfriend just sent me down the shop to get some orange juice but i forgot what one she wanted, i rang her and she said concentrate you silly bastard. I tried to but i still couldn’t remember ffs!!.
As Meghan is an actress, couldn’t she play Yoko Ono,the woman who split the Beatles………..or doesn’t she want to be typecast !
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Micks.
My best mate’s wife was pregnant and he asked me to be godfather. So I threatened his family and killed his horse.
I think it’s disgusting the way Prince Harry has treated his adoptive family after all they have done for him.
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IJ was talking recently of the oem PVC LS Barbells, here’s my recent experience.
Have read quite a few threads here about LS rear main leaks, though none appear to cover this!
While having the LS7 clutch replaced on my 6L Crewie late last year we found the rear main seal was weeping so had a new one installed at the same time.
After a few months the rear went from a weep to dropping a considerable amount of oil.
Spoke to my repairer, who then stripped it down & mentioned it was leaking from the seal & it must be a faulty one! So it was replaced again. A few days later the same started happening again.
In the meantime I started researching this leak referring to a few forums & GM shop manuals.
I read an article about cylinder block & rear cover plate porosity issue that can occur with these ally blocks.
GM in the states did a recall there where people were experiencing this leak.
With this info I bought some more parts, thinking this could be my problem, also read up on the
LS using a pvc barbell oil bypass behind the plate also.I bought a billet ally one to replace this as the rear plate was coming off anyhow.
Whilst doing my research found the GM oem rear plates come with a seal already installed in the plate!! I referred to the engine manual in fitting the rear plate which described the installation using
An alignment tool to correctly centre this plate around crankshaft rear boss. It appears GM spares are selling parts contradictory to how they should be installed!!
With this knowledge I bought that plate & ordered one extra rear main seal. When I received the plate removed the seal & threw it away.
Bought an an alignment tool
With all spares in hand had my repairer strip it down for another go, removed rear plate & no signs of engine block porosity or rear plate problems either.
What we found was the oem barbell appeared to be bleeding a considerable amount of oil from the block into the rear plate area.
NB the rear section is not intended to be under full pump pressure hence over pressurizing the rear seal causing a premature leak.
Traces of this bleeding off can be seen from the barbell to the right extending to the rear main seal.
These barbells are generally firm in place & need to be picked out of the block, mine basically fell out. The new billet one fit firmly & have a blind thread in the rear to extract it.
Fitted the new rear cover & gasket applied RTV to both bottom corners where meets sump edges.
Fitted alignment tool & centred plate, torque all bolts & removed tool. Fitted seal & reassembled
& reinstalled box.
No apparent leak now will be monitoring this, hopefully it could help someone else chasing this same problem/leak.
In conclusion it appears GM spares are setting most repairers DIY guys up to fail by selling a complete
Rear plate with fitted seal. When in reality fitting this would be hit or miss!!-
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Queens Inspection
The Queen is inspecting 3 armed forces personnel, 1 from each of her fighting forces.
She asks each one what they would do if they woke up and found a camel spider in their tent on operations?
The squaddie says, 1 would reach over, grab my bayonet and stab it to death!
The matelot says, 1 would reach over, grab my boot and batter it to death!
The airman says, 1 would reach over, pick up my phone, call reception and ask, who has put a tent up in my hotel room?
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