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pocojo

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Hello All,
I want to send out a heartfelt good luck to all who helped me in gearing my rear diff. As a rookie this was the hardest mechanical challenge I ever had. I absorbed the useless barbs from the ones who slid out of the uterus with this inherrent knowledge of setting up gears, and really appreciate the ones who helped me along with this unwanted project from hell as without you I could never have pulled this off. At my age (75) I should be sipping fine highland scotch in front of the fireplace and not on my back on a cold driveway. For those who helped me I wish you the best in life, for those who barbed me in my worst of times, I wish you a catastrophic differential failure when you least expect it. Have fun with that and my New Year's resolution is: PUSH MY GIVE A S__T BUTTON. Good luck to you all,

Pocojo

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pocojo said:
Hello All,
I want to send out a heartfelt good luck to all who helped me in gearing my rear diff. As a rookie this was the hardest mechanical challenge I ever had. I absorbed the useless barbs from the ones who slid out of the uterus with this inherrent knowledge of setting up gears, and really appreciate the ones who helped me along with this unwanted project from hell as without you I could never have pulled this off. At my age (75) I should be sipping fine highland scotch in front of the fireplace and not on my back on a cold driveway. For those who helped me I wish you the best in life, for those who barbed me in my worst of times, I wish you a catastrophic differential failure when you least expect it. Have fun with that and my New Year's resolution is: PUSH MY GIVE A S__T BUTTON. Good luck to you all,

Pocojo

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Great job! I hope I’m half the man you are when I get your age.
 
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pocojo said:
Hello All,
I want to send out a heartfelt good luck to all who helped me in gearing my rear diff. As a rookie this was the hardest mechanical challenge I ever had. I absorbed the useless barbs from the ones who slid out of the uterus with this inherrent knowledge of setting up gears, and really appreciate the ones who helped me along with this unwanted project from hell as without you I could never have pulled this off. At my age (75) I should be sipping fine highland scotch in front of the fireplace and not on my back on a cold driveway. For those who helped me I wish you the best in life, for those who barbed me in my worst of times, I wish you a catastrophic differential failure when you least expect it. Have fun with that and my New Year's resolution is: PUSH MY GIVE A S__T BUTTON. Good luck to you all,

Pocojo

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I’ma firm believer that doing things like this keeps us young. As soon as we stop….

Good on ya, Poco.
 
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pocojo said:
Hello All,
I want to send out a heartfelt good luck to all who helped me in gearing my rear diff. As a rookie this was the hardest mechanical challenge I ever had. I absorbed the useless barbs from the ones who slid out of the uterus with this inherrent knowledge of setting up gears, and really appreciate the ones who helped me along with this unwanted project from hell as without you I could never have pulled this off. At my age (75) I should be sipping fine highland scotch in front of the fireplace and not on my back on a cold driveway. For those who helped me I wish you the best in life, for those who barbed me in my worst of times, I wish you a catastrophic differential failure when you least expect it. Have fun with that and my New Year's resolution is: PUSH MY GIVE A S__T BUTTON. Good luck to you all,

Pocojo

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I just finished a rear end set up (my 3rd or 4th time inside a diff, and 1st complete redo) in my garage, with a lift, here in temperate south western Oregon. In those fairly ideal conditions, it went pretty well but was a challenge nevertheless and took a long time. But you, on your back, in the snow, at 75? Strong work and I hope it lasts forever👍
 
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Woodrow said:
I just finished a rear end set up (my 3rd or 4th time inside a diff, and 1st complete redo) in my garage, with a lift, here in temperate south western Oregon. In those fairly ideal conditions, it went pretty well but was a challenge nevertheless and took a long time. But you, on your back, in the snow, at 75? Strong work and I hope it lasts forever👍
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Thanks for the kind words, I grew up in the era where you took pride in yourself and like the USN Seals ethos, never quit. I think that is a fading mindset of our society today. When I was 16 I was changing transmissions in the streets of NYC. My creeper was a refrigerator carton. I guess thats why I was stupid enough to take on this horror project. Once you succeed in something like this there comes a sweet satisfaction of accomplishment few will ever experience. Many years ago someone inscribed on the walls of the airport in Da Nang VN. " For those who fought for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know", I never fought for my life but simply adapted that statement to every thing I did in my life after reading it. There is certainly a sweetness to pulling something like this off successfully but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Happy New Year brother,
Pocojo
 
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pocojo said:
Thanks for the kind words, I grew up in the era where you took pride in yourself and like the USN Seals ethos, never quit. I think that is a fading mindset of our society today. When I was 16 I was changing transmissions in the streets of NYC. My creeper was a refrigerator carton. I guess thats why I was stupid enough to take on this horror project. Once you succeed in something like this there comes a sweet satisfaction of accomplishment few will ever experience. Many years ago someone inscribed on the walls of the airport in Da Nang VN. " For those who fought for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know", I never fought for my life but simply adapted that statement to every thing I did in my life after reading it. There is certainly a sweetness to pulling something like this off successfully but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Happy New Year brother,
Pocojo
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Best ethos statement is I will not fail.
 
I’m taking notes. 🙂

I find all these things to be true.
 
Mike_H said:
I prefer to think that failure is just the first step of success. You learn from failure. The big mistake most make is giving up after failing. That is the real failure.

@pocojo good on ya for getting it done! Love to hear about the success stories!
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Perhaps I should have stated that the USN SEAL ethos ends with the statement, I will not fail.
That’s good enough for me.
 
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Mike_H said:
I prefer to think that failure is just the first step of success. You learn from failure. The big mistake most make is giving up after failing. That is the real failure.

@pocojo good on ya for getting it done! Love to hear about the success stories!
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Failure doesn’t get ya, quittin’ does.
 
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