I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

[Meadow Skipper]

…I could eventually drop the engine onto an old school 12 bottle beer case in under a half hour.

…because you got a lot of practice. That’s how it was for me.

[Darren Jakal]

we used a plastic milk crate. unbolt the motor - lower it on the crate - push the van away

Yea, the key is to push the van off the motor.

And yes, I did it a lot. Had quick connects on the wiring.

[PB]

So how do you then raise the engine back up into the frame after repairs???

[Meadow Skipper]

So how do you then raise the engine back up into the frame after repairs???

Why I carried a scissors jack.

[Darren Jakal]

Why I carried a scissors jack.

Yea

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Yea, the key is to push the van off the motor.

And yes, I did it a lot. Had quick connects on the wiring.

The engine in my Transporter was light enough that I just supported it with a floor jack and rolled it out the back. I would pull my motor to adjust the valves. I could pull the motor, adjust the valves and replace the motor in 45 minutes or less. It was pretty leisurely.




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[MontuckyFried]

So many of these are SO universal, huh? Especially the waking you up right when you pass out to discuss important stuff. LMAO!

[old goat]

I
On topic, I was trying to explain the Double Slit experiment to my wife yesterday. .

Why?

[Name Redacted]

Wife makes a lb of nice crispy bacon, just how I like it. "No! don't eat it all! I am making a salad!" Why the fuck would you ruin bacon by putting salad on it? Ugh....

[basinbeater]

^^^ c'mon now. Put bacon on everything. Eat some now, set some aside for your next sandwich, enjoy the bacon on salad. Then eat some more bacon. Your wife gets props!

[XXX-er]

Wife makes a lb of nice crispy bacon, just how I like it. "No! don't eat it all! I am making a salad!" Why the fuck would you ruin bacon by putting salad on it? Ugh....

I do that in the oven on a cookie sheet but then I freeze it so i got bacon to put on ever thing, I can make a bacon egg cheese samich every morning without having to cook the bacon so its cleaner and faster

[basinbeater]

Line the pan with foil before adding the bacon and cleanup is super fast. Don't even have to clean the pan.

[XXX-er]

I often use a foil liner ^ for other stuff but I'm cooking 5 or 6 trays of bacon in sucession which makes a cereal bowl worth of grease so I gotta pour it off, put in the freezer which makes it easy to thro out a big frozen chunk

[halliday]

Save the bacon fat. I keep it in the freezer and use it for everything like pie crusts, seasoning for home made gravy, and biscuits. It's great to have around.

[seano732]

No lies told.


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[Meadow Skipper]

^ troof.

[seano732]

^ troof.

Like seriously man, I tried to institute a” if you aren’t in the same room don’t try to talk to me rule” YEARS ago, and it’s still the same shit. Bonus, my daughters do it now too…

[PB]

HOLY MOTHER OF DAWG

Warning: this only gets worse with age.

[old goat]

Bacon fat keeps in the fridge. I use it a lot for browning meat for stews and ragus.

[XXX-er]

Bacon fat keeps in the fridge. I use it a lot for browning meat for stews and ragus.

yeah i freeze some in a smaller glass jar for this ^^ but I end up with probably 10x as much bacon grease as this which gets frozen & thrown out

[riser4]

Like seriously man, I tried to institute a” if you aren’t in the same room don’t try to talk to me rule” YEARS ago, and it’s still the same shit. Bonus, my daughters do it now too…

My hearing is even worse. "If I can't see your face I can't hear you." Most of our conversations still involve shouting what from the other room.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> "If I can't see your face I can't hear you."

My wife - she'll be hiking ahead of me talking to me. I don't even say anything any more.

[AK47bp]

My wife - she'll be hiking ahead of me talking to me. I don't even say anything any more.

So another weird female phenomenon.

Even in the store, she’s 30ft ahead in the aisle talking to me with her mouth facing away from me. I don’t even bother.


Then she starts going off about how I never listen and this and that and something else, I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention.


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[bennymac]

My wife is always getting mad at me for forgetting something and saying “we talked about this”

Now granted for sure there are times when this is true.

But there have been enough times where I can demonstrably prove we have not talked about something that it has become evident (to me at least) that what often occurs is she has deliberated on a topic or an idea in her head and later she remembers this all as a conversation that was had.

[paulster2626]

My wife is always getting mad at me for forgetting something and saying “we talked about this”

Now granted for sure there are times when this is true.

But there have been enough times where I can demonstrably prove we have not talked about something that it has become evident (to me at least) that what often occurs is she has deliberated on a topic or an idea in her head and later she remembers this all as a conversation that was had.

Happens all the time. Like, okay, maybe I forgot the conversation we had about what particular mustard I was supposed to get from the store, but when you tell me that I forgot I am responsible for supervising 8 kids at a birthday party alone, seems like something I'd remember.