On Thu Apr-11-2013 08:31, TOM WALKER (1:123/140) wrote to ROGER NELSON:   
      
   RN> TW> I never did do the the Tourist ride but in my younger years I did   
   RN> TW> hike down into the Havasupai Indann reservation and ride a Horse   
   RN> TW> out, The owner wanted soem supplies form the trading post up on the   
   RN> TW> canyon rim at the head of the trail A frend and I took them up so   
   RN> TW> they could be loaded and brought back down with the next pack horse   
   RN> TW> trip.   
      
   RN>If I survive my upcoming knee surgery and go west (that sounds   
   RN>familiar), I just might be able to get on the saddle without help.     
   RN>Only then will I know which one of us is right, although I should    
   RN>point out I'm not disagreeing with you -- I'm just stubborn when it    
   RN>comes to things I've done in the past.   
      
    TW> Ask Roy, I have a bit of stubborness myself. :-)  :-)   
      
   I have limited myself to changing spark pluge that I can reach because the   
   torque required for them is well within my capability (so far).  Gone are the   
   days when I'd try that on a V-8 Chevy because on the rear ones, 5, 7, 6, and 8   
   requires getting under the car to do that.   
      
    TW> And I hear you. I tried to wrok on cars wel past the tiem when a   
    TW> reasonable man would have given it up.. My last gasp was Oil   
    TW> Changes and I finally had to give that up a little less then two   
    TW> years ago. I guess  I should jsut rembember the good tiems as for   
    TW> over 50 years I did almsot all of my repairs except Body work and   
    TW> Automatic transmissions. And since for many years because of    
    TW> necessity I picked my vehicles from the Consumer Reports "Worst    
    TW> Used Car Buy" list. I even had my own Tow Bar so I could rescue    
    TW> the wife when her car quit. Frotunatly I only had to do that four    
    TW> times. On one occasion I changed the timing belt in the parking    
    TW> lot where she works. Adn twice I had to rescue me secong son. He    
    TW> was a driver that was hard on cars. He had two Mercurt Capri v-6's    
    TW> which had a Composition fiber tweeth of the timing grar. He    
    TW> shucked it twice and I had to change it. It hapened enough that    
    TW> the Mercury Dealer has a special gasket kit for Timing gear    
    TW> replacement.    
      
    TW> In the last several years the Realities of Old Age have really ghit   
    TW> me hard. I had to give up working the San Diego County Sheriffs   
    TW> Volunter Patrol after a little over 10 years and also My playing   
    TW> "Apprentice Machinist and General Maitenance gofer" at the Campo   
    TW> Railroad Museum Facility also after a little over 10 years.   
      
   "Good soldiers NEVER volunteer for anything."  (-:   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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