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Re: strange objects in cylinders
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Posted by Rufus Windrow on October 20, 2003 at 18:25:55 from (209.47.89.105):
In Reply to: strange objects in cylinders posted by John Zmurchyk on October 20, 2003 at 11:51:58:
Yer probably not gonna believe this but back in 1926, Festus Grimes pulled apart the power plant on his YKW (you know what) tractor and lo and behold, there was nothing inside at all, just a big old empty cast engine frame on the outside. It had worked fine up until then and he only took it apart to try to find his wife's false teeth that had somehow fallen into the turnbuckle adjuster when she coughed while cranking the engine. Nobody could ever figure out how or why that engine ran like it did. He just bolted it back together and it ran perfectly until WWII when it was melted down for scrap iron.
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