sniper sighting

[drbassman]

Glad you could get everyone up to date.  We were concerned about ya!  Don't be afraid of a transplant, the drummer in my old band had a heart transplant almost ten years ago and he is doing great.  You are in my prayers, hang tough!

[Rob]

Prayers from here in FL Snipe!

[Pilgrim]

Sniper, hang in there.

And don't forget the condenser and the wires. the condenser doesn't USUALLY go out - which is to say, just often enough to be a problem.  Also, plug wires should be cheap and are good candidates.  If you haven't changed the plugs, do that too.  Sounds like a short between wire/plug and block to me.

If you can start it at night, you might see a spark jumping and that will show you where the problem is.

[sniper]

I have blue spark at the right time but I replaced the cap , rotor and points just the same as they had a lot of wear. am tearing the induction/exhaust off right now and so far have found plugged breather holes in the 1943 Marvel cast iron updraft carb and leaking gaskets all over the system leaning out the mixture. muff muff muff pop.

I bought a valve cover gasket and an intake/exhaust gasket along with a new carb mount gasket. compression seems to be fair on all 4 cylinders. I will reset the valves and replace all the gaskets along with opening up the breather holes in the carb and pray that it works.

OTOH: Spiritbass, I am having Rick restore my 60's 2-12 cab, replace the grill (not an original one and turned 90 degrees the wrong way) with oxblood cloth and recover my 50 watt amp head cab with blonde tolex to match the bottoms. wish I had a 100 watt amp.

that is a beautiful cab you have. bet it sounds like a million bucks.

[uwe]

I start testing to see if I can be put on a transplant list Uwe when I give the Dr the okay. I have to get my head wrapped around the whole transplant ordeal/idea first.

Thank you for asking old friend.

Take your time, but unless things have changed much, you should consider that transplant rather younger than when you're older. I haven't kept up with dialysis development in recent years, but isn't there a limit to its effectiveness timewise?

We once had a "four kidney drummer" (his quip, not mine). He was on dialysis and on a list, when his time finally came (this was before he was with us), the police picked him up after the encore of a gig (had gotten the address from his mom, this was in the eighties long before cell phones) and rushed him to the hospital. Unfortunately that kidney didn't start working properly, but they left it in as it did no harm either. Only kidney no 4 a few years later worked (and hopefully still does, we lost sight of each other). Again, this was in the eighties, so it is all anecdotal evidence and the failure rate of transplated organs is these days much lower.