On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:39 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:13:58 -0400, "Billgran"
wrote:

If it is a 1996 engine, the trim button is on the left (port) side of the
motor pan.

Hey Vic - you paying attention here?

No, missed that. This port/starboard stuff sort of comes naturally to
me. Though I've been out over 40 years, I'm just getting over calling
a staircase a ladder.
IMO the port/starboard rule should apply to cars, carts, horses and
anything else that moves and has a front that looks different than its
rear.
Don't know how many times somebody said "You'll find the thingamajig
on the left of the engine" only to be asked "Is that the left while
standing in front of the car and facing the engine, or from the
driver's position?"
Even "the drivers side" can fall down, since there's left and right
hand drive.
Port/starboard always works. Even for a horse, or a chicken.
Think horsemen use the term "off side" but I don't know whether
that's port or starboard.
If they said port or starboard I would know. Every time. Even if it
was a unicorn.
Reminds me of a physics prof I had who was all pro-metric and sung its
praises as being so much better than any other measurement.
When he got on that real heavy in class once, I asked if he felt so
strongly about that would he agree to changing time measurements
to metric. Clocks and calendars.
He acted like I was crazy.
Sonofabitch gave me a B despite my acing everything in the class.
Wondered a few times if the low grade was because of my metrics
challenge or because the current Miss Chicago - who always sat next to
me in that class - was sweet on me.
The prof and her were Greeks and it was a tight community, and she
told me they were family friends. And protective.
He probably gave her an A, and despite looking like a goddess she
twern't too bright.
If I wasn't married I might have given him reason to flunk me.
Politics. It was a lot more fun then.

--Vic