Vacation is always too short

Once again, I wind up waiting awake as my vacation ends.  I feel like it went too quickly, that I wasted too much of it, that I wish I had one more day with my kids.

Thankfully, I have two more days when this hit me this year.

Tomorrow we have more fun...

Thus Endeth the Lesson

I just now finished the training material for the EMCTA exam tomorrow afternoon.  I'll spend the morning reviewing and taking the EMC practice exams. 

Wish me luck...

What I'm up to

I started in on a new EMC certification, the EMC Backup Recovery Technology Architect.  You can read my narrations here.

More to come, but not right now...

Suburban: 3, Greg 2 - Game Over

Well, I reassembled the Suburban and fired it up.  I was ecstatic that it started and I drove it for the first time in months.  My heart sank as it lost power after about 15 minutes and I could almost not get it up to 30 miles an hour. 

I did a compression test.  No compression on cylinders 4 or 6.  All others appeared fine, so I tore into it again.  I pulled the valve cover off the passenger side and adjusted the valves.

No compression.

A quick phone call to my good friend Mike, and he confirmed what I feared.  Most likely when I over-tightened the rockers on the initial reassembly, the valves bent.  To repair this will require going even deeper into the engine, pulling the heads and resurfacing them.  Then, we hope there are no holes in the cylinders.  It's more than I'm up for, and I'm a little heartbroken and a little p***ed off.

Beaten by a $1500 truck...

Shucks...

Success

Now we'll get it timed and see if the knock is actually fixed.  I started this in May.

Gee, it will be nice to have this done.

About to try starting the truck

...again...had it down to the valley, and now I'm bringin' 'er out.  I'm a little anxious and hope to report success in a couple hours.

Just want to play

and not be working on this truck anymore.  Confound it, anyhow...