Quote from: frnkeore on March 07, 2024, 01:03:01 PM

All good points.

Wait? What, what.....what just happened here?
Did Frank just agree with Bill and Brent?
Where am I? What has happened to this place? 


I get the serrated cap concept, but don't like the idea on a steel rod. Just like the 'cracked caps' they use on today's engines, they are a one and done deal. For an aluminum rod, they make good sense.

 

Yes here was the solid porcelain on powerlines black or darkbrown on the outside white inside
Dont remember what was on telephone lines
I think i have a couple insulators somewhere in the barn.If i found them i can send you and Doug one eash if you
want an Swedish insulator to the collection
One of the last powerlinepoles still standing was actaualy in my yard.
when i came home from a journey to USA i saw a pole layng i my yard what hapened here
Then i saw the powerline ower to the neighbour was gone.

The day after, when i cut the lawn the mower hit something hard, the hub for the rotary blade split. It was the crimping pliers for the conections
the lineworkers had dropped.
Perfect for crimping conectors on the cabel to the starter and groundwires
It have a rotary wheel with i think six different dimensions
I decided i borrow it from them untill they ask for it Then if they give me a new hub for the blade they can have the crimper

I heard there was activity in the sky the other day, and heard some thunder i did not recognice,
But thought some plane was flying lower than usualy. Found out we got a couple of B1B Lancer From
Bomber task force Stationed at the local airforcebase from friday. What a cool plane hope i get to see
it fly over

Tonka, one of the best things to ever come out of the great state of Minnesota.

The name still exists, but Hasbro Toys bought the Tonka Toy Company out in 1991, closed the MN headquarters and moved manufacturing to Rhode Island.  The toys are all plastic these days.  Capitalism tends to punish companies that build consumer products that last for 3 generations or more.

Building Tonkas out of plastic what a sacrilege. The ones responsibel for that must be brougt in front of a jury of us.....mature boys
and severly punished .
I had the loader and the roadgrader we built quite a big systems of roads, used tincans with both ends removed as culverts
The best dirt to build roads we found were the sistern dad had for tractor Diesel. That dirt mixed with  leaked and spilled Diesel
was claylike you could form balls out of it.
Poor mother loved when i came in after a hard days work on the roads with clothes impregnated with Diesel

Yes Dough we used to do that behind the schoolbus we get of at the first stop in the village and grab the rear bumper on the bus an let of close to home.
One time a guy hit a bump in the road that made him flying and he stradled the pole to a mailbox right in the crotch :'(
We let go and run to him where he was lying in fetal position white in the face moaning my balls, my balls, ooohh my balls
took a good five minutes before we could help him up and limp him toward his home,

When i was at Eriks place today another guy, Billy showed up. He remebered when he almost froze to death when we was and fetched a 8 3/4 rearend out of a 58 Desoto in a swamp.
 Was  about 30 minus about a mile hike in kneedep snow he had not enough clothing . Me and Erik working on turning the Desoto on its side so we sweated, Billy got coolder and coolder i had to kick down some dead small pinetrees and make a fire to taw Billy up.

If somebody told me to that stunt today,  my answer would be,,,,just shoot me here and now

Took the day of from all chores and visited my childhood best friend. We go back pre Tonka Loader age
Somewhere there we started building and modifie stuff, putt tooths on the bucket on the Tonkas

Is Tonka Toys still in buissnes? our loaders is now used by third generations. Thats quality toys

Built a lot of   "gocarts" dunebuggys and other "deathtraps"as kids
between my and his  father that had a gasstation and car repairshop there was a lot of usable junk to play with
Before women came in to our lifes and confiscated our creative hours

Was a fun day, We had a lot of laughs about old memorys and ate some grilled pickeled herring (noooo not the rotten kind  ) and had a few beers

He is building a 55 Chevy wagon



















And here is his stepsons LS converted -67 Camaro SS. Just finnished ready for tech inspection 8.00 tomorrow morning







Maybe im an old fart but i find LS engines ugly, valve covers is outright discusting if you ask me



After passing tech on with some classic slotmags after polisshing and new tires

The consensus seems to be :
Iron block/Iron heads: set per cam card or maybe +.002  Most say per card
Iron/Aluminum: -.006
All aluminum: -.012

There was a good procedure on the Bullet:  set cold per above, heat cycle engine once or twice.  Run engine to op temp, then set one one cylinder to hot spec per cam card.  Let the engine cool, take a reading on that cylinder - there's your cold lash for that engine combination.

That is what i usualy do

Quote from: Heo on February 09, 2024, 12:51:50 PM

I like motorcraft TA-31 im a Big believer after i sealed a pinhole in the radiator with water still in it
Color werry close to Aluminium easy to take apart. Even get british motorcycles to stop leaking
Sealed a crack in a board on the boat

Yeah, but the real test would it stop an oil leak on a Harley?

I have a friend that have a panhead chopper, One time he said to me look att this shit it is an oil puddle under it
and i dont even have an engine in the frame Maby i give him a tube of TA-31 Chevy guy as he is