Spare Motors...gotta have a couple.

What a wonderful day.......my daughter and i got the 340 TA short block loaded on the trailer and got the cherry picker back on the trailer...every is good..get to garage....unload cherry picker..hook up short block and raise it....move trailer out from underneath it.so far so good....

The cherry picker is on dirt...and we need to move about 10 feet to get it on concrete does not want to move......ok...we move pick up without trailer to drag with strap to get cherry picker lined up with the concrete.......ok....we get it line up...and get can not get it to move.....caster are buried in dirt....

so we back up the old truck to now push the cherry picker into the garage and it works........we had to move a water hose......and as the truck drives away the trailer ball on truck catches hose and snaps pvc water line .......that house has good water pressure..with no shut off for the garage...i have to run to street to shut off water to house too....so my garage floor is now flooded....I get the squeegee out......I keep a box of pvc fitting and we remake the manifold....and i squeeze the water out...lol

We get the TA340 on the engine stand ....we start to remove oil pan...i ask her if we drained the pan went we removed the engine..she dont remember ...and neither do i....take all the bolts and I hit the pan with a rubber mallet....it was full of oil....now i got 5 qts of 30 year old oil on the garage floor that i just squeegee water out ...no cat liter...just paper towels....

Headed for the Mexican Restaurant for lunch....the oil will still be there went we get back...LOL...