Exhaust Gasket Blow Out

Posted on September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 by Okierover

The Big White Bus started sounding like she was losing a catalytic converter. The sound started as a ticking. However yesterday and today I knew it was a blown exhaust gasket and a missing exhaust stud. I naturally assumed the worst had happened and I would need new exhaust pieces. I was prepared to replace the exhaust starting with the Y. It’s Frankenstein’d together as it is. The next problem or failure is going to require a new exhaust system. I thought that was now. […]

Zombies? Don’t get me started…

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Okierover

…too late.The Walking Dead starts back up with a new season this Sunday. I have threatened to stop watching several times. I don’t think the writers are very “realistic” in their thinking. I know their objective is to keep people tuning in and to that end it seems they are succeeding. The show is set[…]

Holy Crap on a Cracker

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Okierover

Yes, that is a broken water pump pulley.How does a water pump pulley get broken you might ask?That’s a good question. As you know the two pulleys you see here are nested and bolted to the water pump shaft. You don’t expect that to EVER fail. When I saw that today and said the very[…]

Marine Corps Reserve…Yeah, It was just like that

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Okierover

Yeah, my enlistment looked just like that.Except, I lived in Oklahoma, no ocean beaches.And, I didn’t drive a Corvette, I drove a Ford Maverick.And, I didn’t have a girlfriend, I was lucky if I could get a date. My friends would ask me, “Do you play G.I. Joe this weekend?”Yeah, my enlistment was just like[…]

Preppers Anthem

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Okierover

If you don’t watch “Doomsday Preppers on the National Geographic Channel” (National Geographic) then this song really doesn’t mean anything to you other than a message about how we are destroying the world around us. To those of you who do watch “Preppers” you “get it”. I enjoy watching the Preppers show. I have learned something different[…]

Winter is Coming

Posted on December 8, 2012April 18, 2014 by Okierover

I love that line, “Winter is Coming”. If you are a fan of HBO’s Game of Thrones you know the phrase Winter is Coming has a special meaning. It is appropriate in this post because ONE, winter is indeed here although you wouldn’t know it in Oklahoma; and TWO, it implies that there is a[…]

Color matters?

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Okierover

According to an iVillage post the color of your car says a lot about you. I’m not so sure about that really. I’ve read a few pages that say what the TYPE of car you drive says about you. I will acknowledge that this is at best pop-science. One of my favorite television personalities, Sheldon[…]

Encourage them

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Okierover

For a moment I want you to think about how your Land Rover makes you feel. Soak it all in. No matter which model you drive, be it one of the modern classics like a 90s model Range Rover or a 1947 Series 1, you know how proud you are to drive it. You are[…]

Oscar Goldman???

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Okierover

I found a fun site through the Retro Thing website.Its a collection of photos taken from his car while driving. It’s part of his work, that is catching people in the moment. Click the picture to see the gallery. One day in 1989, Andrew Bush came up with the brilliant notion of attaching a camera[…]

Window Regulator Installed

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Okierover

I got some happy time with my Discovery yesterday. Several things had piled up and she demanded a few hours of quality time. The weather was predicted to cooperate and it did quite well. It was a pleasant 55F outside. Which was nice compared to the 10F we woke up to the day before. So[…]