Memorial Day Thanks to All Our Armed Forces, past, present and future.

~ DEBT ~

Young men's lives forever lost
Is it ever worth the cost
Pictures of men who lived and died
Honestly, I almost cried

Sitting in my room so warm
While they fight, enemy storm
I shall get down on bended knee
For the freedom that you’ve given me

Never been in a battle zone
Debt to you all that I own
Some will say I have no right
But because of you, I sleep at night

Will Bow my head at the wall
Give my thanks, those that stood tall
I was but a little tyke
When you fought like hell, day and night

Enduring battle, these men did pray
Oh God, please Lord, not today
Protesters at home, Stop! they cried
While across the world .... a soldier died

Author
WooleyB

Getting Rid Of Rust in Gas Tanks.


Some of you with older Iron may notice that your tank/s have rust inside. Then you also notice that your fuel filter seems to be getting clogged a bit more as your ride ages. You do check your fuel filters do you not? Minute particles of rust can and will, over time, ruin a carburetor if left unattended. Being that there are so many small holes inside the carburetor it only takes minuscule amount to give you hard starting, bad idle or worse, a dead engine in the middle of nowhere. On a fuel injected engine the rust can wreak havoc in the injectors as well causing a sporadic spray in the nozzle. (ask an older guy what that means ladies next time he takes a leak. Then you'll know why the toilet lid is wet. lol) Its akin to a water hose when you hold your thumb over the flow of water and the spray is harder to control.

Anyways, if you don't like messing with harsh chemicals an environmentally way to get the rust out of a tank, (Tank/s removed from the motorcycle of course) is with good old BB's. Pour in some BB's, put the cap on and put the tank on a paint shaker. Now I know that not many of you have a paint shaker handy but a small paint store will sometimes do it for you during an off hour. Your best bet is to wrap the tank in a heavy t-shirt or some foam to keep the noise down. After that's done, pour out the BB's and blow out the tank/s with air before using a tank sealer you can buy at automotive shops, bike shops or marine shops. Don't forget to replace your fuel filter before gassing her back up again.

Here's another fuel tip: Sometimes water gets in your fuel by either a bad sealing cap or even from some gas stations underground tanks. If your engine was running fine before you fueled up and shortly after begin running erratic it may be from water in the fuel. Water can also accumulate in your fuel tank from a motorcycle that has been sitting a few days with half a tank or less of gas. Humidity can also play a roll on just how much water condensates inside you gas tank/s. A good rule of thumb (thumbs a little guy you know) is to completely drain your tank/s at least once a year. More if the humidity in high in your area. To do this, run your bike down until you have to put it on reserve then make sure the fuel shut off (petcock) is turned off. Grab a clean gas, remove the fuel line from the shut off (petcock) attach a short piece of new fuel line to the petcock and the other end in the gas can. Turn on the fuel valve and let what is left in your tank/s drain into the gas can. Pour that gas into your cars fuel tank instead of on the ground. The small amount , even if it has water in it, is so mute when it mixes with twenty gallons in your car and it will burn out.

Water is heavier than gas and will settle in the bottom of you motorcycle gas tank right at the fuel valve. That means that your float bowl gets a heavy dose of water instead of gas causing the engine to not start or be hard to start until the water has been expelled.
When I used to fly in small planes with a couple of friends we always checked the fuel for water before we took off. Under the wing is a little valve for a special bottle to fit into. We'd take that little bottle and push it into the hole to drain out a few ounces of fuel. Then when we held the bottle up we could see if any water was in the bottom of the bottle. (Mix some oil and vinegar together and you can see what I mean). I often wondered just how many bike shops simply drained the gas tanks and carburetor bowls after checking for water in the fuel and charged a hefty repair bill for something so simple.
You can buy a medium sized syringe at the drug store to syphon off fuel from your from your tank with a small fuel hose attached to the end where the needle was. Insert the hose into the tank all the way to the bottom and pull the syringe plunger to fill up the syringe half way. Pull it out and look for beads of water in the fuel.

It all sounds so complicated but its not really after you have done it once.

Television Ratings down.

NBC, CBS, ABC and a host of other networks are losing viewers and they wonder why. If I was a member of the Neilson Rating families I could tell them a few reasons. For one, all of the cookie cutter shows that have no originality. Just how many cop shows can we take until there is burnout. Lets see another show with kid stars making adults look like the idiots and the children who are always putting the adults in their place with all of their vast knowledge of life.

How about to many commercials thrown at us all at one time. What a pain in the ass it is to be watching a movie or a show and there is more commercial time than there is actual show time. Then when the show does come back on you have those annoying little pop up ads at the bottom of the screen. You can't even get into the show and enjoy it with all of that going on. Besides that, with the flood of commercials at every break, none of them have a chance to sink in and are forgotten as soon as the next one is shown. I find myself getting tired of seeing ten minutes of long commercials that have nothing to do with the product anyway and turning the station.

Usually I head over to Discovery, Hallmark, amc, History or Nick at Nite where the commercials are less and the shows are better. Turner classic is another good one I like to watch.
With the price we all have to pay already for cable it stinks to be bombarded with so many commercials and then only getting a fraction of actual show or movie. The movies have been cut to pieces so more commercials can be shoe horned in and most regular sitcoms are only a total of fifteen minutes because of the commercials. If you picked up a Newspaper and it was loaded with mostly ads and very little content, would you continue to purchase that paper? I think not.

Loose the pop up ads and lesson the commercials. It's like watching the Daytona 500 and having more caution laps than racing. Soon you get bored and move on because you've lost interest. Bring back movie night like the Wonderful World of Disney used to do. Perhaps go back and look at the old hit shows for research to see what worked. I mean, Ford did that with the New Mustang and look how that has soared.

Here is a tip for all of you who do those forward, forward emails.


We all get these things from friends, co-workers and family in our email. But did you ever wonder just how your email address gets around and you get loaded up with spam?
Someone sends you an email and in the email it says to forward to ten friends or something like that. The email will also say something along the lines of keeping it going so as not to break the chain. Forwarding the email in itself is not the problem but if you look at all the other email addresses left on the one to you, there are email addresses listed from people you don't know.

Jane sends it to you and ten other people. Those ten people send it on to ten people they know. You send it to ten people that you know and then, those ten people send it to ten people they know and so on and so on.
Thing is nobody deleted any of the addresses from the previous people so you email gets around and viola, the spam clogging up you in box gets heavy real quick. Take a look at the next forward email that you receive and you'll see how the email addresses keep stacking up.
If you are going to forward one of these chain emails to people you know at least delete the previous addresses before sending it on