Date:         Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:05:34 -0800
Reply-To:     Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
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From:         Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
Subject:      Rules to live by.
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From Diesel Injection Service, >www.dieselpage.com/art1022tc.htm


"The Ten Commandments of Diesel Maintenance"

1. Thou shalt keep thine engine clean and in adjustment that thy life in
its company shall be long and that the owner shall increase thy job longevity.

2. Know thine engine and all its parts and functions, else thou shalt be up
some tributary without means of locomotion.

3. Be not wise in thine own conceit. Remember the factory instructions and
keep them holy, lest false repairs be thine undoing.

4. Be not loose in thy jaw hinges for no man knoweth all about diesels. The
truly wise absorbeth much knowledge and exceedith little, and he who so
doeth shall gain repute among his fellows and favors among his superiors.

5. For all things in this life that thou desireth, thou shalt also pay
plenty, and for the wisdom of experience, no less. Advice from the
multitudes costeth nothing and usually is worth as much.

6. In the books thou mayest read what to do and when, but only the voice of
experience may tell thee why and how, else reading of what and when shall
but plague thee with somke.

7. God maketh the earth rotate endlessly without bearing or oil, but not
thy diesel.

8. Curse not thine engine when it turneth not. Curse rather thine own neglect.

9. Steam engines and gas engines may long turn over though sloppy: a diesel
not so. With gauges and mikes be thou ever busy.

10. The eternal eye watcheth universal operations, but thou shalt not rely
upon it as to thy diesel. Thine own vigilance is the price thou payest for
thy job.

T.P. Stephens aka Doktor Tim
Surveyor, Mechanic, Poet, Philosopher
San Juan Island, WA