My Bad!!!
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My Bad!!!
I have got to be dumb as a rock! Only I could order new brake shoes and new wheel cylinders.Why should I thinks 43 year old hydraulic lines would break? How dumb is that? Ordered new lines tonight. If confession is good for the soul....forgive me.
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heh heh heh! i hope you dont think you are the first to do that!
try ordering new cylinders with out the shoes, or points with out condensor, or the condensor and no points!
i even spent 3 days trying to get one started after a tune up once, helps if you put the ROTOR back in!
try ordering new cylinders with out the shoes, or points with out condensor, or the condensor and no points!
i even spent 3 days trying to get one started after a tune up once, helps if you put the ROTOR back in!
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huh. how about putting in a new distributor, and then freaking out when it don't start?? i did this 2 weeks ago on a piece of jap scrap for the girl across the street.
as i was walking into the house to get the gun to shoot it and put it out of its misery, i noticed i forgot to plug the distributor in.
gettin old an forgetful sucks.
as i was walking into the house to get the gun to shoot it and put it out of its misery, i noticed i forgot to plug the distributor in.
gettin old an forgetful sucks.
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Sure ... you think that's a boner ... try installing and removing an automatic transmission 12 TWELVE times on gravel, alone, uphill while burning out two starters and solenoids (1 of which caught fire) until somebody told you that there is a bushing in the crankshaft that has to be removed TO CONVERT A STANDARD TRANSMISSION ENGINE TO A FARGING AUTOMATIC!!!!!!!!! ... I have never been so close to setting a vehicle on fire in my life ... by the way ...I am now a self proclaimed expert on solo automatic tranny conversions on gravel uphill ... NEVER AGAIN ... that's what I said about crazy women in my life as well .... sheesh
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never mind that ... the farging brass bushing was beyond my tool range ... so i pounded drilled augered my farking life away for hours after the tranny fell on my farging right arm ... in the rain ... after I finally got the blasted piece out ... buddy decides to call me up and tell me that if you have a piece of pipe that fills the hole in the centre of the bushing, then take a grease gun and push grease behind it, the bushing falls out without any effort ... I didn't know whether I should laugh, cry or rub my belly ... all I knew was that fuzzy sock sucker was so close to making his wife a widow ... sonnamagucci ... nothing worse than good advice after the fact ... sheesh ... corksmoking bastages I say ...
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Well since we're confessing. Could not get the timing right on my 351, dang near ready to order a new harmonic balancer cuz the outer ring must have slipped...... Half a cup of coffe later, hooked the timing light to number 1 plug wire instead of number 2, timing was right on the spot!!!!!
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Proably would be a short forum, I've noticed a lot of the "experts" on here have never made a mistake...............
Us Ranchero and Econoline guys are pretty much in the minority, guess I like it that way........
Us Ranchero and Econoline guys are pretty much in the minority, guess I like it that way........
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I could fill up a thread with my antics. I'm just finishing up a re-wire on a friends truck, I cant believe he's still speaking to me, much less, letting me work on his truck!
On a side note, I have tried 4 times to remove different pilot bushings with the 'grease method', and never been successful. The last time I vowed to beat the next person that recommended it to me with a slide hammer puller (the tool that I always end up using). So dont feel bad, I doubt that it would have saved you any time.
There is nothing -- absolute NOTHING -- half so much worth doing as simply messing-about in old trucks, but it sure doesnt always go smoothly!
Apologies to Kenneth Grahame.
On a side note, I have tried 4 times to remove different pilot bushings with the 'grease method', and never been successful. The last time I vowed to beat the next person that recommended it to me with a slide hammer puller (the tool that I always end up using). So dont feel bad, I doubt that it would have saved you any time.
There is nothing -- absolute NOTHING -- half so much worth doing as simply messing-about in old trucks, but it sure doesnt always go smoothly!
Apologies to Kenneth Grahame.
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hehehe. i tried to set the timing on a chubby once for almost 2 hours. then a chubby loving friend stopped by, and asked why i had the timing light on #2 wire. DOH!!
what can i say?? i know fords, not chubbys.
what can i say?? i know fords, not chubbys.
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heh, heh, heh, you guy's are a riot!
put a new cap on the old 78 e350 once, took 2-3 days to realize the coil wire was in no.1 hole on the cap! god i hate 460's in vans!
lets seee, what else have i done.
did the pilot bushing thing a couple times, forgot to take the nuts off the torque a couple times going in and out. changed 3-4 alternators the notice the reg. is unplugged. left a couple carb base gaskets out over the years. crosswired so many i cant count them all. even bolted a drive shaft in once, with pushing the yoke into the tranny! [must say tho, that one was in about a foot of water on a country road in december!]
put a new cap on the old 78 e350 once, took 2-3 days to realize the coil wire was in no.1 hole on the cap! god i hate 460's in vans!
lets seee, what else have i done.
did the pilot bushing thing a couple times, forgot to take the nuts off the torque a couple times going in and out. changed 3-4 alternators the notice the reg. is unplugged. left a couple carb base gaskets out over the years. crosswired so many i cant count them all. even bolted a drive shaft in once, with pushing the yoke into the tranny! [must say tho, that one was in about a foot of water on a country road in december!]
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Lets see if I can open another can ... my brother in law who wouldn't know a dipstick from a can opener poured windshield wiper fluid into the brake resevoir ... made sense to him ... sheesh ... needless to say ...
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