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Aug 3, 2003 | 07:49 PM

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4tl8ford

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Good job,George,except where the bird crapped on that tube(or is that your weld

George/Earl uses a SCHTICK welder

Aug 4, 2003 | 06:39 PM

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I liked the "Schtick" welder comment! Nice fix for a sorry but all to often seen problem George. You wonder where they get the guys that design this stuff - no cracks on engineers, I've had the pleasure to work with some real good ones, but then there are the others that act like they were trained at the Yugo factory. Course if that was true it would have shipped equipped with a stack of oversized washers to pile under the wing nut in the first place! Tidy...not!

Flathead Fords for ever - keep em running!

Aug 4, 2003 | 07:23 PM

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GEORGE! Stop!.... Reading Oilleaks remarks regarding engineers took me back to my engineering days in aerospace. I think we may have jumped the gun, buddy. Perhaps we are too quick to criticize... I believe this was the answer we were looking for. Did Yugo make trucks?

(loud Canadian laughter in the style of RMF)....

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Aug 4, 2003 | 07:30 PM

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I think the engineer that designed this piece wore a blue and white stripped hat and had a one-track mind.

Aug 4, 2003 | 08:34 PM

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Earl

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Gawd Peter, I feel so stupid.

Nice job with the photo editing software. Now, could you touch up my welds in the other picture so they don't look like a three-year-old did them?

Aug 4, 2003 | 10:00 PM

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Himmelberg, George, Penn Dick,Oilleaks

All I can say is -

Thanks,

Aug 4, 2003 | 10:05 PM

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Fergie's "sleeve" idea is a good one. I had a similar problem with my battery hold down: wing nuts, washers, then 1/4" rubber grommets all on a long, thin "J" rod. I fabbed a steel bar that went across the top of the battery from post to post and secured it down with the wing nuts. Clamped the battery down solidly in place; situation resolved.

Daryl