Topic: a spider... really?

[Industrial Cafe]

this was under the shift cover of a motor I picked up.

[kslrr]

Oooooo, fossils.

[Gordon]

I once found three dead geckos and one live one inside the exhaust system of a '71 VW bus that I bought in Austin, TX.  This was after I had driven it about ten miles to my apartment.  I still have no idea how that last one survived the trip.

[Industrial Cafe]

geckos are actually the master race. and are slowly taking over.
tell me you haven't watched the commercials with hipno-messages in them.

here's what went down
The three dead ones were scouts and the one you found alive was obviously a hostage they were taking back to their leader.
the hostage must've gotten ahold of weapon of some sort, incapacitated its captors, relieved them of their tiny oxygen masks, and they were overcome by the fumes.

[hoodellyhoo]

When we began to do restoration work on my grandpa's 1937 John Deere B we found a cricket sitting on top of the oil pump, perfectly preserved in oil. This is a motor that was never opened up so who knows how many decades that thing could have been sitting there.

[merc2dogs]

 When I bought my old 46  Willys CJ2a,  it had sat for 30 years in the guys garage, got it home, and primed the oil pump threw some gas and a battery in it and it fired right up, but wouldn't rev much over an idle. Played with it a while, but still couldn't get it to rev. was running great, so we were sure it was nothing in the engine, shut her down and tried her again, my brother was out turning the distributor, and I was in the driver seat, he turned the distributor a bit too far and she started to stall out, I mashed the go pedal at about the same time he spun the distributor back. She let out an ear numbing 'KAPOW' and started reving up real sweet, just like it's supposed to, but was LOUD. Shut the jeep down , figured I blew out the exhaust, so I climbed outto check it out and when I turned around, the front door to his house had a big hole in it, went in and found the back half of the muffler, abunch of straw, and 6 dead mice in the middle of his floor.

Ken.

[Steve F]

When I bought my old 46  Willys CJ2a,  it had sat for 30 years in the guys garage, got it home, and primed the oil pump threw some gas and a battery in it and it fired right up, but wouldn't rev much over an idle. Played with it a while, but still couldn't get it to rev. was running great, so we were sure it was nothing in the engine, shut her down and tried her again, my brother was out turning the distributor, and I was in the driver seat, he turned the distributor a bit too far and she started to stall out, I mashed the go pedal at about the same time he spun the distributor back. She let out an ear numbing 'KAPOW' and started reving up real sweet, just like it's supposed to, but was LOUD. Shut the jeep down , figured I blew out the exhaust, so I climbed outto check it out and when I turned around, the front door to his house had a big hole in it, went in and found the back half of the muffler, abunch of straw, and 6 dead mice in the middle of his floor.

Ken.

Oh, now that's funny!  Especially about the hole in the door!     

[Duke McDukiedook]

Better than a bannanna in the muffler any day of the week.

[Bob Wessner]

When I bought my old 46  Willys CJ2a,  it had sat for 30 years in the guys garage, got it home, and primed the oil pump threw some gas and a battery in it and it fired right up, but wouldn't rev much over an idle. Played with it a while, but still couldn't get it to rev. was running great, so we were sure it was nothing in the engine, shut her down and tried her again, my brother was out turning the distributor, and I was in the driver seat, he turned the distributor a bit too far and she started to stall out, I mashed the go pedal at about the same time he spun the distributor back. She let out an ear numbing 'KAPOW' and started reving up real sweet, just like it's supposed to, but was LOUD. Shut the jeep down , figured I blew out the exhaust, so I climbed outto check it out and when I turned around, the front door to his house had a big hole in it, went in and found the back half of the muffler, abunch of straw, and 6 dead mice in the middle of his floor.

Ken.

Oh, now that's funny!  Especially about the hole in the door!     

Made me think, "Honey, I'm home." 

[MickeyX]

When I bought my old 46  Willys CJ2a,  it had sat for 30 years in the guys garage, got it home, and primed the oil pump threw some gas and a battery in it and it fired right up, but wouldn't rev much over an idle. Played with it a while, but still couldn't get it to rev. was running great, so we were sure it was nothing in the engine, shut her down and tried her again, my brother was out turning the distributor, and I was in the driver seat, he turned the distributor a bit too far and she started to stall out, I mashed the go pedal at about the same time he spun the distributor back. She let out an ear numbing 'KAPOW' and started reving up real sweet, just like it's supposed to, but was LOUD. Shut the jeep down , figured I blew out the exhaust, so I climbed outto check it out and when I turned around, the front door to his house had a big hole in it, went in and found the back half of the muffler, abunch of straw, and 6 dead mice in the middle of his floor.

Ken.

Woah! So did you have to buy him a new door? 

[MickeyX]

I'm so glad this one didn't happen to me...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/carsnake.asp

Or this one...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/2405592/

Proof that snake oil is not a curative measure for your engine.