Well, I pulled the heads off of my tired 1800 last night thinking "All I had
 was those bits of metal in the oil so these heads should be fine....." Not
 so lucky! Three of the combustion chambers have cracks running from the
 exhaust valve seat all the way through to the exhaust port <visible from the
 other side!>. Bummer. Suitably depressed about the new need for remanufactured
 heads I went inside to work on my taxes. I owe the state big time. Like as
 much as a GEX rebuilt for my bus. Bummer.
 
 Back out to the garage to poke around. I'm peering down into the engine case
 with a flashlight and notice that my cam has the two little cast bands around
 the center bearing - I thought "doesn't it say in Bentley that the cams with
 the two little bands are for engines mated to an automatic transmission?" I
 look it up and that's what it says. Bummer.

 What do I have to do to lift this curse? Is there some way I can get the 
 Hon. Slimey Pete Wilson <please DO vote for him in the primary and please
 DON'T vote for him in the real race - we'd like him to stay out of the state
 as much as possible, but sure don't want him to become president> to pick up
 the tab for my rebuild? 

 Dave "bummer" Kautz