Haven't left just yet- shakedown tomorrow. I am hoping we dont sink before we even leave.

I am going to place an order for the silicone hoses when i get back from the shakedown.

I really need to force clean the passages again, and get the block brush out.

Man this looks so good!

Am a week away from sailing a shakedown (wtf- I’ve only been home 6 weeks) so I was cleaning the garage up for a professional foundation company to come and fix a void I have under my garage. I got tinkering on the truck too. I drained my gas tank. Souls have done this months ago. Sure smells like t...

you've all seen my three... the schnauzerhaus

Diesel (14), Kaiser(2) and Hilda(6)

https://smsautofabrics.com/ . Yes, they can duplicate them exactly, including embossing the lines and detents. . Also, I can order additional material for altering a pair of the aftermarket door pockets to match. I will simply buy the re-popped black ones, and have a local upholsterer stitch up new...

very cool. wish i knew all this years ago. i ended up buying a stainless steel kit for the truck which was not very good.

So I’m just not sure which direction to go on my engine, loss of power, it has a tick.... Here’s what I just did to move forward. Gonna take me some time as I’m leaving again on deployment AGAiN.... I spent 200 days of 2021 at sea... :barf: Found the 300 distributor I got from that dude up in Freder...

Congrats on the Mini pup. I have three now. Rescued the latest Kaiser about two months ago.
Hilda and Diesel are working on accepting him.

i would go if i could. I am sailing again in two weeks. for a 60 day patrol- where we are living on top of each other for the whole time- but no one has been so sick they couldnt work. and not everyone was getting sick. But I can't leave the state to go to a function like this. weird right!? hope yo...

https://i.postimg.cc/gJ4T1cxy/20210410-181423.jpg I did some compression readings on all the cylinders yesterday. They were all over the road. https://i.postimg.cc/90Mn2396/20210410-153758.jpg #1 80 #2 85 #3 105 #4 100 #5 100 #6 70 I tried this one a few more times and came up with 30 twice! I did ...

https://i.postimg.cc/50wTsZTw/IMG-20210407-084059-192.jpg Pulled the oil pan. Started inspecting all the rod caps and then found the forward crank cap finger tight. Whiskey tango foxtrot! Way back like two years ago, remember the exhaust valve seized due to the oil tube slipping and the valve didn’...

https://i.postimg.cc/4NzjRxMG/20210328_181816.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wTKnrmwF/20210328_181823.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/05KLZf0b/20210328_181827.jpg There are some scratches, it’s been in a box for a few years in my garage. It did clean up a bit. I was going to powdercoat it for my truck but decid...

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9VkK7NK/20210327_170527.jpg wOdX_XNqOwQ It is time I start a paper notebook on my projects. So I know where I am, and what I leave off on when I deploy again. Today I am going to figure out these shift links. https://i.postimg.cc/1XqSydMg/20210327_173531.jpg My last attempt at...

Ill post the phot here.

I got a call that kicked me in the gut. My detainlung officer misspelled Shore Duty as A F L O A T. I am walking down the pier to another ship that does the same thing I’ve been doing the last two years, except the new tour is for three years. Sister ship to the one I am on, but supposedly in great ...

Yeah, they changed stuff again... original post was in 2017.

I was down in the Gulf of Mexico at sea and it was snowing out there. Wild.

No updates. Still lurk around though.

Leaving on my last deployment with this unit. Will be back in a few months with either a transfer order or a retirement letter.

This ship is killing me slowly.


You all take care- see you in spring.

Tom, we still do in the service. We flew our flags at half mast. I live in the Norfolk area which is a huge military presence with army, navy, CG, marines, AF and nasa here. (Does space force actually exist? Anyway, the local news did a special and the radio station I listen to did a “back in the da...