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Reminds me of the last time I took a flight. Went from New Orleans to Dallas/Ftworth, Delta Airlines, short lay over then 4 hrs to SanDiego, at the ticket counter I was asked smoking or non smoking before my seat was assigned.
Back then when I was young and dumb and full of.. well anyway, back then I was a smoker, puffed happily along all the way across the country at 35,000 feet, landed, went to the local Mickey D's and used one of thier little ash trays but it wasn't the new fangled aluminum ones they started using, it was the glass one, the one they stopped using because people were stealing them, lol.
I look back on my life to those days and wonder how the hell I made it this far. How many years did I take off my life span living the reckless life I did back then? Well crap I digress, but yeah I'm old too. lol
I wonder how many people still have a chuck key for an electric drill.
Like a few others I have as many as four different Milwaukee corded electric drills---made sure I had extra chuck keys and the removable cords as well. A few of the metal cases as well. Those things are just scary strong!
About 6-months back I bought a Dewalt 60V cordless drill and yup, it came with a keyed chuck. I supposed they figured out that a keyless chuck wasn't strong enough to handle the torque.
Like a few others I have as many as four different Milwaukee corded electric drills---made sure I had extra chuck keys and the removable cords as well. A few of the metal cases as well. Those things are just scary strong!
The tool with the hook is a valve compressor for VW Rabbit engines, both gas and diesel. It loops under the cam, compressing the valve and its cap.
The cap has shims in it that set the lash. You remove the shims and replace with different sizes to adjust the lash.
Makes sense, I have a similar specialty engine tool for the same type of cam/tappet system, it's required for the 96-99 Ford Taurus SHO V8 engines, I made the mistake of buying one when I worked at a ford dealer, customer traded it in, had low miles I thought and was in premium condition other than an engine tap. lol.......
Ran great for a year and always told my self when it comes unglued, I'll put it back together, I had Ford engine repair under my belt so no problem, .... until the tap turned into a knock and 8 cyls of power dropped to 7 while producing a smoke screen on the interstate at 70mph that James Bond would envy.
Found the engine was designed by Ford, redesigned by Yamaha then put in the car at the factory. Had a similar tappet adjustment procedure with 32 measurements, 32 possible shim changes, x $6.50 each. Nothing else included. Just the shims.
After feeding that money pit another year, the transmission started acting up. Donated it to charity and rode my motorcycle for a couple years.
I made a decent amount of money buying and selling Rabbits for years. Very few people understood the Bosch injection system on the gas models, and people really didn't understand the diesel. The diesel used the same gas block with a different head, a fuel pump mount, and a vacuum pump where the distributor went for the power brakes.
No one ever adjusted the valves on any of them, making that tool, and lots of different shims mandatory.
I drove a Rabbit diesel for years, 40 + mpg. We had a gas Rabbit before I really got into buying, selling, and repairing them.
I made a decent amount of money buying and selling Rabbits for years. Very few people understood the Bosch injection system on the gas models, and people really didn't understand the diesel. The diesel used the same gas block with a different head, a fuel pump mount, and a vacuum pump where the distributor went for the power brakes.
No one ever adjusted the valves on any of them, making that tool, and lots of different shims mandatory.
I drove a Rabbit diesel for years, 40 + mpg. We had a gas Rabbit before I really got into buying, selling, and repairing them.
Had a 70 Beetle, use to screw with rookie parts kids, tell them I needed a lower radiator hose for my bug, watch them scramble to find it in that 10,000 page parts book on the counter
VW has a special place in my heart. Always wanted a Thing (Aka "Kubelwagen"), the Rabbit when it first came out was what I thought a well thought out car and really neat looking for the time. And of course the most famous one of all, .. who the hell doesn't love Herbie the Love Bug?
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