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Sorry to hear about your grandfather! Yes a 68 Corvette would be a very nice car to get back on the road, even if you just went to the odd car show with it. It is always a difficult time when someone close to us passes away, the closer they are the harder it is. It has been almost 3 months since my wife passed on suddenly, and it still feels like it was just last week in some ways. I guess my best advice is to appreciate people while they are with us, and don't take people for granted. Also, do our best to heal hard feelings between us and friends or family, as we never know when our number is up so to speak. I bit my tongue a few times during my wife's last few weeks, just over little things, and I am so glad I did, because I would feel like a total arse now if I had of said something nasty to her. Sometimes is is best to listen to that little voice in our head that tells is not to do something!

No, in Ontario near Kingston

I will see if I can do a vid about that soon.

A video would be great! I just need one and it's $24 for a pkg of 4!

Yes, sometimes it is necessary to be able to keep driving the vehicle. It does make the CAT worthless for resale to a recycler. I had to do that to a guys car that was only 2 years old, he drove on terrible bumpy gravel roads, and it broke the internals of the Cat loose, and blocked the exhaust. Once we punched it out he could drive the car again.

Hey, thanks so much for watching the video! My videos are far from polished gems, but I do the best I can with little resources :) You look to have a good music studio there, and your results sound Awesome! I have some funny lyrics for "Little Deuce Coupe", but haven't found any suitable karaoke versions for it. They all sound canned or tinny to me, but your music is great. Thanks again for taking the time to play the music that you do, and put it onto youtube to share it with everyone. I remember the days10 or 12 years ago when they went by view counts instead of all the ads that are there now, it seemed much better, and us little guys stood a better chance of having people watch our vids. Now it seems to have gotten too commercialized, so the little guys get lost in the shuffle. Back then one of the first people to watch my videos was William Shatner (Captain Kirk from Star Trek) it was so great to have him leave a comment on my little channel. It was almost like getting his autograph. One thing I like about youtube is that you can contact people all around the world, I have people in the UK, Australia, Europe, Canada and the USA who visit just to check in to see how we are all doing, and I have to admit that this contact has helped me through this tough time after having my wife pass away suddenly. Luckily my mother live a few blocks away, so I visit her pretty much everyday. Sorry for being so long winded, you take care for now. Miles

Yes, she was a bit of a speed demon, but she was safe about it. She would come roaring into the driveway faster than I liked, but mentioning it never changed anything! :) I have seen some seriously unsafe driving the last few years, in fact just Friday night coming home I saw a blue car make 2 unsafe passes on a 2 lane highway, both times a car was coming the other way. I am NOT a slow driver myself, so when I say this person was driving dangerously, I mean it. It is kind of a crazy thing, but I think excessively slow drivers cause more accidents than fast drivers, because people take chances passing the Butt Draggers, then have a problem because they are ticked off at the slow poke!

Yes, she was beautiful, but no she didn't have a Charger, I had a 72 Charger with a built up 318 which was more like a 340, and would keep up with a 5 liter Mustang. My son has it now, and has dumped in a 500 horse 440, the car is Scary! My channel logo is of the 318 engine doing a burn out, and the vid of it is one of the earliest ones on this channel. I had to stretch the facts in the song to fit somewhat with the original words, but when the 1000 horse Hellephant came out I knew I had to incorporate it into the song. I have 3 or 4 more verses that I couldn't fit in, like: "I heard last month she almost got caught, while racing Avril's Lambo for a parking spot. (Avril Lavigne is from Napanee) Also "The Hellephant comes out on sunny days, and if you hear it Trumpeting, Get out of the way!" and finally: She's gonna get her car crushed sooner or later , cause you can't out run the OPP's lasers! (OPP is the Ontario Provincial Police)

@@ChargerMiles007 So Avril Lavigne is from Napanee? Yes nice video of your remembering ur wife. Ths

Yes, Ellen sure liked her flowers! They are doing well this year, I keep watering them to keep them alive in her memory. I like them also, they sure add a lot of color to the yard. Sometime soon the Hollyhocks will flower, she didn't plant them, they jumped the fence from next door, and started growing in our yard, so I water them sometimes also. If it was destined that my wife had to pass on, I am glad it was in the spring, so that I have all of these pretty reminders of her presence. If it had happened on a gray November day, it would have been so much harder to deal with! We all have our own ways of dealing with a personal tragedy like this, for some reason I find comfort in making videos and singing songs about her, and sharing them with family and friends. Even messaging with you like this helps me out, so thanks for commenting, i really appreciate it. I know we all have our own group of people we know, but is it just me, or are people dropping like flies, and I don't mean from old age. There seem to be a lot of people dying suddenly form blood clots, strokes or fast acting cancer, none of these apply to my wife, but it just seems like an increased incidence to me. Take care.

The 3.5 horse horizontal shaft engine is very rare here where I live for some reason, not sure why. I have around 500 Briggs engines that I have collected from scrapyards here in town. Out of all of those engines I have only found 1 or 2 3.5 horse horizontal engines, and the model 110... 4 horsepower horizontal shaft is equally rare. I have lots of model 6 2 horse , model 8 3 horse, some model 10 4 horse and lots of model 13 5 horse engines. But the 3.5 seems to be scarce around here. My youtube friend "SuperKonr" mailed me up 1, and my son has since bought a couple of them online for use on mini bikes. Perhaps they are common where you are, but I just can't find them. I have tons of 3.5 horse vertical shaft lawnmower engines, but not horizontal shafts.

@@ChargerMiles007 I bought a model 9 3.5hp off my step dad's brother for $10.

As far as parts go, I would look on ebay. I sent my engine back to the scrapyard, as it was taking up way too much shed space. But I did keep a few of the parts, like a piston and rod, and some of the sheet metal shrouding, and perhaps the magneto. If yours is a VE4, I could have a look for the parts, and sell them to you cheap, though mailing stuff always costs too much these days!

Howdy, thanks for commenting! I liked that Volare, it was an impressive car, I will watch the vid again to see it in action. I wonder if they will have any Arm Drop races this summer, or if covid did it in. I will have to ask my son about that, he is in touch with the guys that organize it. My wife passed away a few months ago, so I could use a good Saturday activity to get me out of the house, so I stop doing crazy songs like "The little old lady from Napanee" that I just uploaded today, I was up until 3 in the morning working on the vid for that! Does the Volare still run? I had a 77 Volare with the slant 6, I have a few stories to tell about that car. My cousin had a blue 4 door that had the 4 speed floor shift manual overdrive transmission that got excellent gas mileage with the slant 6 engine. I looked high and low in the scrapyards, but I never found one of those transmissions anywhere.

Dangnation that Volare is FAST, it passes everything but the gas station! :)

I found the pistons to go back in fairly easily, you just have to lube the cylinder and the piston and seal with brake fluid. I sanded the cylinder with fine sandpaper to remove any rust, the same for the piston. You just have to see how well it works when you do a road test after the brake job, and keep an eye out for any leakage, and check the brake reservoir often the first few days, until you know it isn't leaking, and that you can trust it. Hope that helped.

@@ChargerMiles007 Thanks! I've already been successful in reinstalling them. I unfortunately found a pinhole in the boot, which is what must have caused the rust to appear on the inner seal and the piston to eventually stick. I'm now trying to order a replacement kit, which aren't easy to find in Canada...like everything else. Love the learning though...

Hi, I have been meaning to e-mail you forever, and just keep forgetting to do it! I am doing OK, but my brain doesn't always seem to function quite right, and I forget little things. I will send you an e-mail, though I can't be sure it will be very long, I was up until 3am finishing the video "The little old lady from Napanee" about my wife having a lead foot, though the 66 Charger and Hellephant motor is all phantasy, unfortunately! :).

My son worked using an NC milling machine, so he milled the cylinder to a basic size, then I honed it a little bit to the finished size. Without the circle milling feature, it would be a real pain to get it to be circular. I guess a boring bar on a milling machine would work also.

Yes, taking care your wife is worth more than any old lawnmower, for sure. I would gladly get rid of all of my engines to have my wife back, but unfortunately no such deals can be made in this life. Value her company every day, you will never regret doing so.

Yes, it would be nice to get it going if you have the time to do it.

Yes, I remember Canadian Tire here used to sell 3.5 HP Briggs powered lawnmowers for $99.99 for years, then inflation hit.

Yes, it has worked out fine.

Sorry about the delay, I am no expert on this subject, but mine had a similar situation, and it was the speakers. I think I ordered mine from Walmart in the USA, You should have a look online at the HHR Forum, I am sure you will find info there.

Thank u so much for the reply. No need to apologize, I get it. I was late watching this anyways. I truly appreciate you responding at all! ​@@ChargerMiles007

Probably the speakers need to be replaced.

Thanks. I haven't gotten around to working on it yet. Been too busy trying to keep my old cars running. Still part way thru a timing belt job on the Focus, lots of fun!

I wondered that also, only thing I can think of is its the most direct exit for grass clippings given the centrifugal force and velocity of the air being pushed by the blade.

I think it is because that is how a centrifugal pump would be made. Later they moved the discharge between the wheels to be more uniform and stop scalping the grass.

@@ChargerMiles007 ah true, real world application.

Yes, I replaced it with an old steel rimmed tire.

Thanks, I appreciate your message, due to the forward passage of time I am being forced to move on with life. However it is going to take a long time to work thru the grieving process, which they say has 5 stages to it. I am still at the start, in spite of the fact that I was there when she passed, attended the funeral etc. I still have trouble believing it has happened, and isn't just a really bad dream! It was all so sudden, you come home from work on a Friday to find an ambulance in front of your house. My wife lived another few days, but she was never conscious, and once they told us there was no hope, we had to let her go. She went very quickly, and she was in no pain, so that was a blessing. I believe in an afterlife, so I am sure I will see her again, but the separation causes a very real pain. I think of her often, and remember the good times we had together. We were only married about 13 years, which wasn't long enough, but I am so glad that we had that much time together. We met by chance at a dance, she noticed me, and asked me to dance. Our courtship lasted about a year and a half, and had a few rocky moments, but we got over those, and we were a good fit for each other. She put up with my small engine hoard, and I helped her grow her elephant collection :) I am glad I have a youtube channel, as she appears on some of the videos. Sorry for rambling. Thanks again for caring. Miles

Yes, Mopars can get in your blood! My father was a died in the wool Chevy fan, but his last car was a 72 Charger, he liked how it looked.

Yes, it could be off of an old tiller. I found one with an engine like this about 10 years ago, I should have just bought the whole machine, but they charged by the pound, it it was a heavy tiller! I did get the engine though, and old casty like this.

I have changed my mind, and will restore the 1968 lawnmower I found last week. It will take me a while to do, as it is gardening season, and I put in about 2/3 of our normal garden, so that takes time everyday to water.

Thanks, yes these old engines are being scrapped everyday, so they are reducing in numbers. I MUST save all of them!!!! LOL

It has worked out pretty well for my son.

Thanks for your concern, I appreciate it. I am slowly getting over her passing away, but it will continue to take a long time. It was just such a shock, as there was really no warning.

Thanks Mel, I appreciate it. My mother and i put the garden in today, man was it hot work! I have never seen so many wasps around, I used 3/4 of a can of WD40 killing them when they landed on some wood i have near the garden, I guess they bite it, and use the wood fiber to create their honeycomb.

Yes, our 4 cats do want to be loved quite often. They know she is gone, because they were acting strange for a few weeks after.

Thanks, I appreciate your message. Yes, she really was a nice person. I think she was my soul mate, though I am sure some people don't believe in such a thing. I had no idea how much I would miss her until she was gone, or how big a part of my life that she was. I simply can't replace her, and I have zero inclination to want to. I am trying to continue to do what I did before, like going to the scrapyard, and making videos, as well as fixing my cars etc. That is just who I am, so I don't want to try to make any radical changes. Giving away, or getting rid of her cloths, yarn and some of the stuffed Elephants is difficult going.

Thanks, one thing my wide did well was sing. This song is not truly representative of her talent.

Hey, thanks so much for the kind words. Yes, we did have many happy memories, which I am grateful for. She was losing weight for about 4 years, so we knew that couldn't go on forever, but how suddenly she became critical was a real shock for us all. If this sudden down turn hadn't happened, she would have had surgery to fix the problem in late May. So it is a bit of a kick in the gut that she didn't live long enough for that to happen. I just have to go with the belief that she is in a much better place now, and doesn't have the 2 or 3 migraines per day that she has had for a few years, and that for some unknown reason, that this was just her time to go. I wish we had more time together, but I don't make the rules. All I can say is, don't take your loved ones for granted, as events like this can happen with no warning. Without going into details, I bit my tongue a few times during her last few weeks, mainly over small things, and I am really glad that I did, or I could have some serious regrets (which I don't) thank goodness. Sorry for saying so much here, I guess i just need to let it come out. You take care.

Thanks, much appreciated!