340 r.i.p.

d55dave said
Hmmm...looks like one of the wire clips off a throttle cable. Wonder how it got past the pick up screen?

That's what it looked like to me. I rented garage space years ago that was a couple miles from my house. I did a first fire on a fresh motor through open headers one Saturday afternoon. 20 minutes of run and I left to get a soda at the corner store. Some neighbor dropped a handful of nuts / bolts down the carb while I was gone. Next fire was expensive. Most of it got blown out the exhaust , but a 3/8 - 16 X 3/4 socket head got wedged between an intake valve and seat. I never figured out who , and that sustains my belief in karma and the hope that they paid for it. :D

MTmopars said
Bismarck isn't bad. Williston, watford city, Minot, Sidney... Those rea are the Wild West. Bismarck you can still find housing at decent pricing. Sidney you can rent a room in a trailer house for 7-800 a month. McDonalds rarely has the lobby open, drive thru only. Gas is 40cents higher there than here only 50miles away. Walmart in Williston doesn't stock shelves, they roll pallets of stuff into the isles and walk away. People squatting under mobile homes because there is nowhere affordable to live. People from the south come here and think that because their diesel truck is jacked and has huge mud tire they can still run 80-85 on the packed snow and ice. Drugs use is going nuts. I've never seen so many you g people making 6 figures with black teeth. Man camps, hundreds of dudes crammed into little living compounds. Sexual assault is jumping through the roof, with man on man becoming more prevalent than man on woman (see man camp).

Hey........it's a living. LOLOLOLOL Any time you have a gypsy work force , things go to hell in a hurry. They ran a pipeline across N.D. and northern Mn. to Superior , Wi. There was a trail of arrests that followed each segment of the build and if the given municipality only had fights and DWI's , they were lucky.