Sunday, July 19, 2009

We're not in Kansas anymore?

Darian was sentence to time in the hoosegow at the Dalton Place..................

Liberal Kansas ................guess who came from here? Well Dorothy of course.......I guess the Munchkins shipped her house back from OZ....................



Meade Kansas was a hide out for the infamous 1800's Dalton Gang.
This reportably was their joint..............for a "nominal fee" we could have gone in..........it was closed.


Unfortunately my sentence was a bit tougher than Darians'.............
We fought 20-30 MPH head & leftside winds all the way to Texas. 50 miles from home the old BMW crapped out on me. Started hitting only on one cylinder. I reached down while moving and pulled the left plug wire and ....no change. Luckily a picnic area was up the road so pulled in and started checking things over. Plugs were a bit sooty so cleaned them & swapped them side to side. Ran it down the road a mile and still missing. Had good spark / compression so decided that a carb problem was the deal. Pulled the left side carb diaphragm and it was split wide open. I've seen them fail a little at a time with pin holes but never saw one come apart like this.............

Of course I carry an extra one...........three to be exact.......a quick change and away we go.....First time the old Hag has ever bit the dust on the road...........home safe and sound at 5:30 PM. We've now gone North / South / East / West..............we'll need to get creative for the next trip....

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