Ignition points Pt. 2
I miss the days of pulling a 218 stovebolt or 239 Flat head for twenny bucks and have it running by nightfall.
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Always been a Ford truck kind of guy . Could do an engine swap on one ,solo, in less than a day . Easy, only needed a 1/2 , 3/4 , 5/8,9/16 and I think a 7/16 with a 11/16 wrench. Chain hoist and a floor jack and we were in business .
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Speaking of Ford Trucks, I had a 51' Ford pickup w/a 351C and a C10 Automatic and a bunch of other goodies. Man would I like to have that back. (Almost as much as my Worked 67' GTO.) 🤔😣
And.......
Then.........
Etc.......
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My first car was a '52 Ford Customline 4 door with the 239 CID Flathead. I took it into the high school shop and completely rebuilt it. Bored .030 over, turned the crank down .020, and shaved the heads .010. All new valves, pistons, rings, etc. A fella in town heard what I was doing and brought a gift for me, a set of scavenger headers and a Weiand 6-pack intake manifold and two more carbs! I had to build my own linkage for the three two bbls, but I got it done.
I sure wish I'd had the foresight to hang onto that rig. Sniff...
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Ah the days you could be your own mechanic. I remember helping my mom and dad with all the fixing we had to do with our second and third hand vehicles we had.
When the alternator went out on #2's car when she was in high school she panicked. I explained we would do it ourselves. She was in doubt but we got a new one and changed it out. She still brags about it to her mechanical engineer husband.
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Worked with my dad on his dodge vans many days. Which is why I will never own a dodge van.
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pulsarnc: 29993194323227/comments/29993194419355
Always been a Ford truck kind of guy . Could do an engine swap on one ,solo, in less than a day . Easy, only needed a 1/2 , 3/4 , 5/8,9/16 and I think a 7/16 with a 11/16 wrench. Chain hoist and a floor jack and we were in business .
And you could sit on the inside wheel well while you were working on it
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pulsarnc: 29993194323227/comments/29993194419355
Always been a Ford truck kind of guy . Could do an engine swap on one ,solo, in less than a day . Easy, only needed a 1/2 , 3/4 , 5/8,9/16 and I think a 7/16 with a 11/16 wrench. Chain hoist and a floor jack and we were in business .
Can you translate that into metric please for the unknowing............😀 For some of us that's all we know, inches.
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Folks, being a mechanic is part of owning a ford.
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Talk about an inside working on your vehicle, vehicle? My 1st vehicle was a 1961 Ford econoline van. The engine and cowl was located in between and slightly behind the two front seats.
That was a great ride in 1970's Miami. 👍😁 It had the obligatory two sunroofs, wood 4×6" bumpers, wood paneling, orange/yellow s h a g carpet, 8 track stereo and speakers, fender flares, Candy Apple red paint job, raised bed in the back w/drawers underneath, etc. etc.
Yeah a Dad's Dream, when I pulled up to pick up their daughters. 🤔😉😂😅😆
After that, it was a 69' VW Karman Ghia. Ahh..............good times.
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Junkballer: 29993194323227/comments/29993171496731
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Can you translate that into metric please for the unknowing............😀 For some of us that's all we know, inches.
12.7
19.05
15.875
14.2875
11.1125
17.4625
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I had a 51 Ford pick up with Chevy 327 with about 350 horsepower.The suspension was fine for a 85HP flathead,but you could get in trouble fast when you put quadruple the horsepower on king pin and bushing steering components.
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12.7
19.05
15.875
14.2875
11.1125
17.4625
I held off for years before buying metric anything, now they're the first tools to go missing around here 😠. I could/can spot a 1/2 or 9/16 socket several feet away, many just by the fingertip feel of it. All the metrics sockets & wrenches look pretty much the same, have to look close at each one to find the size I need. Ba-Humbug !!
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Oh the good old days so much simpler not 100 wires countless sensors switches vacuum lines 13 different size fasteners
And of course room to work lol
Like some of you i could pull repair and have motor back in within a day and not rushing
Same changing Transmissions just me no floor jack. It was years before i could buy a floor jack or even a solid floor to work on just set it on my chest push into place now i could not even lift a gm turbo 400 with out a eng hoist or several floor Jack's
I truly enjoyed working and repairing cars
I guess it just gave since of accomplishment at the end of a project
Flip side in never jumped on the computer trend now I am lost at the simplest problem
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Talk about an inside working on your vehicle, vehicle? My 1st vehicle was a 1961 Ford econoline van. The engine and cowl was located in between and slightly behind the two front seats.
That was a great ride in 1970's Miami. 👍😁 It had the obligatory two sunroofs, wood 4×6" bumpers, wood paneling, orange/yellow s h a g carpet, 8 track stereo and speakers, fender flares, Candy Apple red paint job, raised bed in the back w/drawers underneath, etc. etc.
Yeah a Dad's Dream, when I pulled up to pick up their daughters. 🤔😉😂😅😆
After that, it was a 69' VW Karman Ghia. Ahh..............good times.
I had a 1985 Chevy conversion van. The left front plug on those was known as the "permanent plug" by all who ever tried to replace one. It fouled out in August on a road trip home to Arkansas. Given the option, I would have gladly paid someone a goodly sum to change it.
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Junkballer , unfortunately I became fluent in metric due to getting my first motorcycle at age 14 . Was never without one until 5 years ago when my arthritis made me give them up so a total of 49 years riding Still have the tools from the first bike .A 1967 yamaha trailmaster 90
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pulsarnc: 29993194323227/comments/29993183682331
Junkballer , unfortunately I became fluent in metric due to getting my first motorcycle at age 14 . Was never without one until 5 years ago when my arthritis made me give them up so a total of 49 years riding Still have the tools from the first bike .A 1967 yamaha trailmaster 90
I can definitely relate to the MC's and ownership growing up and into adulthood but this cash starved Rednecks only available metric tools was vice-grips, adjustable wrench and a hammer, they fit most of my simple metric repairs. 😊
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My first metric tool was a 10mm socket also the most lost and replaced tool I have ever owned lol
Years ago I helped one summer at a uncles core business he would travel around to junkyards scrap yards buy up engines Transmissions and all related parts
We would break them down into basic parts he had core dealers he would sell each part from transmission shops to eng rebuilders and a lot to middle men who dealt with large rebuild company's starters ,distributors , basic every part of the drive train
Also damaged engines and parts were broken down to be sold for aluminum and cast iron
Any way I had to buy a 10mm socket to take down some Transmissions
After that metric tools just started to accumulate to now I have a tool chest with metric funny they are used the most go figure and of course the one with sae tools
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Junkballer: 29993194323227/comments/29993171886235
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I can definitely relate to the MC's and ownership growing up and into adulthood but this cash starved Rednecks only available metric tools was vice-grips, adjustable wrench and a hammer, they fit most of my simple metric repairs. 😊
Same experience here.
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Wanna have some fun?
My Jeep Wrangler has mixed Metric and Standard. (What the heck?) 🤔
Pick one and go with it.
*Never ran in to that B4. (Just Stoopid.)
(But) I gotta say - my Smittybuilt front winch for my Jeep, was the same. 🤔
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Points, a flathead, generator, a dimmer switch on the floor, a PTO winch, and you could basically rebuild it top to bottom with a screwdriver and a 9/16" socket. I need to get back to that. Even though I drive one now, I loathe vehicles that won't function without a computer.
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What year @Gunnut358?
My next door neighbor/buddy has several.
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1952 CJ3A.
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The only reason I had metric tools was the motorcycles all came with tool kits . As I sold off old bikes I kept the tools .
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I just want to know the meeting place of all the 1/2 inch sockets and open/box end wrenches. Mine all left and if I knew where they meet I could get them back.
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susie: 29993194323227/comments/29993211224987
I just want to know the meeting place of all the 1/2 inch sockets and open/box end wrenches. Mine all left and if I knew where they meet I could get them back.
I have found tools in quarter panels and in the front fender panels when taking them apart .even a pair of vise grips that must have left clamped on at the factory
I use to spend my saturdays in a local JJunkyard few miles from our house we lived in years ago
I would be stripping parts from popular cars like mustangs and camaros then reselling them thru local trade papers like the trading post
I still have tools I had found in junk cars some left by owners and some I am sure another parts picker had forgotten
Cars were just towed in and left unsearched at that time
The owners of the scrap yards knew me well and teased me about so many visits I would make a pile of parts by the office and then when finished ask for a price usually 10 to 40 dollars I was not going to get rich but was fun and made enough to help fund my car and gun addiction
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If Joe ever worked on and played with them old vec's he would not even speak about going electric.
Some people drive old vec's for fun, I drive and repair them because I have to.
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If all the wrenches and screwdrivers I lost while plowing ,breaking ground ,discing and planting were to sprout and make a crop, I would be rich! There are hundreds in the ground on the old farm .
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pulsarnc: 29993194323227/comments/29993217616155
If all the wrenches and screwdrivers I lost while plowing ,breaking ground ,discing and planting were to sprout and make a crop, I would be rich! There are hundreds in the ground on the old farm .
Sounds like you were sowing the wrong kind of crops!
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