NPR Car Talk Puzzler from 9/27/14  By  surfpick (Read 2,461 times)

I'm gonna' guess he got a jump from somebody passing by.

>'Kat

He's going to need that preparation H if he doesn't get the girl home on time.

Thank you, Robert, from New Hampshire. 

I should have paid more attention to that show. I remember they were trying to get their RV or something to start. I can't remember how they got it going. Didn't they crank a generator or something? Those flat head sixes are some neat old engines. Everything was easy to get to. That's what I like about our scooters. They are easy to work on.

OK
Motor home won't start. Walt curses.
Jesse; "What's wrong? It's turning!"
Walt; "There's not enough amperage to turn the engine fast enough to allow it to fire."
Jesse; "Well how about my robot idea?"
Walt: "No Jesse, I can't build a robot that will rescue us."
Jesse; "Well make the engine turn faster then, so it will start."
Walt; "The compression won't allow the crankshaft to turn any faster, using this battery."
Jesse; "Well lower the compression then!"
Walt: "Yes, Jesse, I'll design a new engine with low compression & we'll leave the plans next to our bodies, so this never happens to anyone again. I CAN'T lower the compress.......

Walt leaps to his feet and shoves aside the Preparation H & the olive oil setting in the toolbox and grasps their single tool, the pair of pliers. Jesse follows him as he runs outside, yammering excited questions a mile a minute.
Walt traces two of the distributor wires and removes them from sequentially firing cylinders.

Walt grips the tips of the spark plugs with all his strength and twists and loosens them. He removes the plugs and runs back to the cockpit. He pauses and then pumps the fuel and turns the key. The engine spins faster as it gets to the two empty cylinders and the momentum gets the next cylinder in line to fire. The beast coughs and sputters and manages to keep running but sounds even worse as it begins to run on just 4 cylinders.

They let it run until the original battery is charged enough to start the engine with the spark plugs replaced.
Jesse says; "Yes BlTCH!"

I don't remember them having olive oil and preparation H, but it sure sheds light on the true nature of their relationship. Too bad our guy wasn't driving an RV. He could have tried that too.

Don't worry. It's all very macho.

Oil wrestling (Turkish: yağlı güreş), also called grease wrestling, is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. The term "güreş" is shared with other forms of wrestling practiced by Turkic-speakers across Europe and Central Asia, such as the Uzbek kurash, Tuvan khuresh and Tatar köräş. The wrestlers, known as pehlivan Persian: پهلوان‎ meaning "hero" or "champion") wear a type of hand-stitched lederhosen called a kisbet (sometimes kispet), which is traditionally made of water buffalo hide, and most recently has been made of calfskin.

Unlike Olympic wrestling, oil wrestling matches may be won by achieving an effective hold of the kisbet. Thus, the pehlivan aims to control his opponent by putting his arm through the latter's kisbet. To win by this move is called paça kazık. Originally, matches had no set duration and could go on for one or two days until one man was able to establish his superiority, but in 1975 the duration was capped at 40 minutes for the baspehlivan[clarification needed] and 30 minutes for the pehlivan category. If there is no winner, play continues for another 15 minutes—10 minutes for the pehlivan category, wherein scores are kept to determine the victor.

The preparation H is for if you strain yourself and get a hemorrhoid. hahaha

HA! Great idea!