Re: Robert Trottmann Award for Valve Covers

From: Preacher (preacher@carolina.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 18:24:18 EDT


Damn you man! You said the " T****** " word ! ! ! Have you no shame? have
you no concern for your fellow Dak drivers?

Ok people.. park em! Noone drives until we hear about a non-list member
getting hit...

Sheesh... some people's kids....

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----- Original Message -----
From: Wisotzkey, Rich <Rich.Wisotzkey@gd-wts.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: DML: Robert Trottmann Award for Valve Covers

> I probably shouldn't admit this, but I believe I deserve the "Trottmann
> Award" for my valve cover installation. I ordered a set of the black
> aluminum covers from Koller Dodge. They ran me around $93 plus shipping.
>
> A simple install right? I'm sitting on the floor turning the screws in
for
> the baffle plates and all the sudden, "SNAP". All crap, the screw head
> twisted off. Ok, no problem, just drill out the screw. Well, this went
ok.
> This is where I should have stopped and epoxied in a new screw. But no, I
> had to try and remove the remainder of the screw with an easy-out
extractor.
> Any guess what happened? "SNAP", the stinking thing broke off in the
boss.
> Now I'm really stuck. I can't drill this out with regular bits. This
was
> the first and last time I ever use an easy-out again!!!
>
> Off I go to see my machinist buddy. He didn't charge me anything, but
after
> all is said and done, it cost be 4 hours in time (work and rag chewing
time)
> plus $40 to replace the carbide end-mills that were destroyed trying to
> remove the easy-out.
>
> Now I'm back to where I started after drilling out the screw, only with a
> bigger hole and the finish all messed up due to being clamped in the vise.
> I try sanding down the finish for repainting. This stuff does not sand
well
> at all; they're powder coated. So now off I go to see my friend at the
> coating shop. Well, I wound up having them stripped and re-powder
coated.
> Here goes another $70, but they do look sweet. Much nicer than the
original
> finish.
>
> So now they are finally installed. (Pics coming when finished with other
> mods.) It only cost me around $210 for a $95 set of valve covers, and an
> additional two weeks time.
>
> That's it. Hope I didn't damage my reputation to badly. This was a
simple
> project gone extremely wrong. Hope some of you got a good laugh out of
it.
> I know I did after reading the original "trottmann story". Catch you all
> later.
> Rich - Ashburn, VA



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