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last night my wife finished the last coat of stain on her furniture and tonight plans on putting the urethane clear stuff on it. If she gets that done then hopefully some time this week I can get my nephews to come up and move the furniture upstairs in its spot and the midget will be free to be rolled outside and a battery put in it and a startup attempt can be made. I want to here that baby come to life. Then I can test drive it and give it a mechanical shakedown. With any luck it will all work and I won't have to pull the engine or anything.
 
Update, the bride stayed up to the wee hours last night and finished completely with the furniture. At my suggestion /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif Now its just up to me to organize some muscle to get the furniture moved upstairs and then the midget will be freed up. I can hardly wait now. Even on one leg, I will figure a way to do this. The weather is in the 50s, so the time is right.
 
Best of luck, careful on the leg.

Patrick
 
That-a-way to motivate the spouse! Careful on that leg, find some good help to get it all moved. Good luck.
 
drooartz said:
That-a-way to motivate the spouse! Careful on that leg, find some good help to get it all moved. Good luck.
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Another 30 minutes on this leg moving machine and then I am going to call and see if my dad and one of the nephews is available. I fear I have run out of motivation with the spouse and should leave her out of this /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif I have a lot of cleaning up to do before I roll the midget outside and I need to find a pipe to put over the end of the exhaust pipe right now comes out under the bottom and there is liable to be all kinds of crap come out of the motor on first fire up. Latrr today or tomorrow. I know I have oil in the differential, the tranny, the motor, water is full, some gas in the tank and a 5 gallon can just in case. I figure I will unhook the coil wire and spin the motor over until it get oil pressure before trying to start.
 
Should be fun! Nothing like hearing them run -- well, I suppose driving it is even better.
 
Hah, I am so tired. I would love to regal you guys with tails of a 1275 engine starting up. Alas, it was not to be today. I did manage to get the nephews to move the furniture upstairs and the midget is free to come out of the garage. Just as that was done I was getting into my 4wd kia to go down to my dads house 300 yards away. I hear the phone ring but there was no way I could crutch my way to the phone in time. I just let it ring. I crutched on to the kia and got in and started it up. First time driving since the knee surgery (doc said it was ok after a week). I go down towards my dads house and meet him walking up the drive. He says "did you see the leak"? I said what leak? He said the water leak up at the road(it was him that had called me). We drive up to the road and the manhole for my water is gurgling water out the top(not real bad). I crutch back to the house and get some channel locks, stick my arm in that frigid water(sweatshirt and all) laying on the ground so as to protect my knee and I cannot turn the valve off. We go back to my house and cut a couple slots in a piece of pipe so it fits over the valve. By now the water is muddy and cannot see the valve. I get my barrel pump (and cranked) and we crank and crank and crank to get all the water out of the man hole. Finally we get it down and just then the wife pulls up wanting to go in the house and take a shower before work. I turn the water back on no sooner than I turn it off. She's done and we pump it back out and I find the leak in a pvc pipe fitting. The problem is mine. Back to the house and get some digging tools. I can't use a regular shovel with one good leg so I get the wife's hand shovels and start digging. Nephew show up and help a little. We get it all dug down and me and my dad go to (s)Lowes and I am dog tired crutching through that place. Got $20 worth of fittings (never try to save here you can use them later)and back to the house. Its getting dark on us now. I saw through the pipe with just a hack saw blade and put new fitting in place(along with a union should this happen again. This did the trick and my dad and I fill the hole in. I am totally exhausted,I must have crutched a mile today and it does wear you out. Only had a piece of cake at breakfast and that was it. Now I am having a beer. Tomorrow will hopefully be the day. I got the battery from my dad and the midget can be rolled outside. I am back on my knee machine again and eating and drinking. My knee seems no worse for wear, my shoulder however that needs surgery is very sore from all the cranking of that pump. Must have pumped 200 gallons today. I shall sleep good tonight. Sorry to ramble on so, its just that I had hoped to give good news. Stay tuned.
 
Life always seems to get in the way...

I hope tomorrow's a better day.
 
You and me both. At least the water job is done and it was not cold weather here today. Over these past couple of months I have gained a whole new respect for handicapped people. Everything is 10 times as hard. Tomorrow the midget. I have a few things for my wife to do when she gets home from work. Like get the battery out of the kia and put in in the midget, and put some oil in that barrel pump that was not supposed to be used for water before is siezes up. Very handy pump from harbor freight for 20 bucks.
 
Bad day that turned out well it seems.
 
Sorry to hear it, hope you have a running Midget tomorrow!
 
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