A couple years ago I figured out that if I had started a family at the same age many people do, I could actually have grandchildren older than some of the users in this forum.

About the same time I also figured out that the over 50 crowd in here is also a very small minority, which really surprised me.
And then I got to thinking, a lot of you guys are working on engine technology and trucks that are older than you are.
Not that that is a bad thing, I still remember when I tore down a Model A motor that we had down on the farm on a welder.
What they did back in those days for things like front and rear main seals that were made out of thick felt was amazing.
Thin grooves cut at angles on the crank seal surface that pulled the oil back into the oil pan with crank rotation when the engine was running.

Water pump seals made out of jute, you could rebuild them and had to keep grease in them so they sealed.

Starmilt and I are about the same age, so be nice to us as if we were your grandfather's.
The way we learned things was a lot harder than it is today.

Well after a 9 degree night, our equipment and dump truck don't want to run, and everything on the jobsite is snow covered and frozen, so a short day for me.
But while I was out this morning, I see that I have a broken pivot on my snow plow, so I will probably go take it apart and make new parts for it today since we are supposed to get hammered again tomorrow.

 

LMOA the school of hard knocks had some good lessons to be learned for sure.
It would have been great to have had this forum in 85 when I bought a wrecked idi and put the motor in my 76, but then again I didn't even know how to turn a computer on.

 

They had computers back then??? I took the family to Disney this fall and we stayed at the Pop Century Resort. The resort had all the century's represented with building size icons, example, the 90's had a huge cell phone and a lap top computer decorating the hotel. The 70's had 8 track tapes of some of the big hits in the early 70's. My wife didn't know what an 8 track tape was!

 

Just because they had them didn't mean I knew how to use one . Besides that I don't know exactly when MR GORE invented the internet.

 

Before 1981, a computer was the size of your house, and probably had a 240 volt power supply.

The PC, released in October 1981 by IBM had a price tag of around 6500 dollars, two 5.25" floppy drives, no hard drive and a 12" monochrome monitor. And was the birth of the computer as we know it today.

March 1983 IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT and it becomes an instant hit in the marketplace. Features Intel's 8088 cpu, 128Kb RAM, 40Kb ROM, 5.25(360 Kb) floppy drive, 10Mb hard drive, (8) expansion slots, serial port, keyboard. Retail price $4995.

The internet as we know it today, sort of, did not exist until the 90's.
Back in those days, nothing moved, sound was rare, pictures were rare mostly because of very slow dial up speeds, I still have a couple 300 bps modems from the BBS days, text only messaging boards.
Yes I started into the internet in 91 if I remember right.

If you really tried hard, you could start finding information about something in the early 90's, but it was much harder and nothing like FTE existed yet.

Far cry from the cable internet today with anything just a few mouse clicks away.

 

I think about that all the time, Im 19 and the only vehicle I own that is younger than I am is my 98 Toyota 4runner. But hey I like working on the older stuff, my theory is if it has lasted this long, it should keep going for awhile. Plus the older stuff is much simpler to work on, but you guys already know that.

Congrats Rupejosh!

 

lol i wonder how long it will take u to start going mad with power and u get to decipher all my unreadable posts for the noobies

 

i fixed it for you joe.i translated it for everyone.lol

 

How did you do that? It was all spelled right and I could actually read it once and understand it all lol.

 

i showed joe my super duper moderator powers and fixed the spelling.lol not everyone can speak joe-anese

 

well me and him started at the same so he read a lot of my post on

 

Your posts drove bonkers for awhile man. It was like reading chinese or something and I cant read chinese!

 

lol bonker i herd some things be for but never bonkers lol read some for my early post know that will make ur head spin lol

 

you are learning to speak all english pretty good now.way better than the joe-anese!!lmao

 

funny real funny ya i speak all english pertty good now