Old timmer tips or tricks!!!

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Originally Posted by vara4

Yep Hoss; thats exactly what I am talking about.
Thats a great trick or tip, But I am not sure what kind of tire pressure
it would give you. Would it be enought to get you to a station or some
place to get air??? I have not done it but have seen it done several
times with differant kinds of sprays. It's a good emergancy fix.
Also which fluid works the best???
Kurt

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Vara4,
That's an old trail trick for off-roading when someone pops a bead off of a rim, aired down and into contortions. Starting fluid (ether) works best, but I've also had people swear by brake cleaner. A healthy shot into the tire, then use the can and a lighter as a torch to shoot the flame into the void. When it works it pops the tire back on and the heat leaves some residual pressure, but the pressure drops very quickly as the air cools to ambient. You still have to have an air source to get driving pressure.

Thanks Rspears; I have seen it done on You tube and had some friends tell me about it growing up in Vegas. Lots of friends driving giant trucks and sand rails growing up out there with the old Mint 400 every year. The good part was when it was over you could find alot of stuff that guys who got pissed off because they broke down so they would just leave them out in the desert. I think I found a little bit of everything back in the day. Kurt

double post couldn't figure out how to deleat need to know that trick haha

TIP. When using plastic wire ties after cutting the long end off use a liter, match, or soldering iron to melt the SHARP edge. Man I have cut myself open on that edge to many times:eek:

Not only was a match book cover about the right thickness for setting points, the area for striking the match worked good to clean uo burnt points, generator armutures, starter armutures, relays in voltage regulators---course I didn't smoke !!!!!!

I used those Mallory dual points back in the day on my big block dodges and had the screws in one come loose, way out in the middle of the desert.
My brother hand me that old match book to re - set the points, { Right }
I had to disconnect one set of points and ran one set back in to town where I proply
took it to the nearest speed shop to have it set by a machine. Kurt

when i had my r code mustang in the mid 70`s it had a dual point distrubutor and it would eat up points about every month .. almost 9 nine bucks a set .. big money when you aint got none .. working at the junk yard i finally noticed that 6 banger maverics had the same points .. buck fifty a piece .. from then on i`d buy two sets of six banger points for the stang ..

Hoss

It should of only eaten one of the contacts as the one that breaks the circuit is the one that flashes--also thats what the condensor was for --to kill that arc as the electric field collapsed

Also the dual points were set wider than the single sets which helped but mostly it seemed that some distributors wore down the rubbing blocks if they weren't properly lubed with -you guessed it--contact lube

One of the best tricks would be to marry a very rich woman who loves Hot Rods, then build a huge shop with an apartment above it to live in... when you figure out how to pull off this trick, let me know!!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL:

no luck so far on that one dave....

I figured out out to get rich from e-bay-------I'm saving metal chips from the engines I do and then if someone of the customers gets famous I'll sell numbers matching date-coded chips from his engine!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

One of the best tricks would be to marry a very rich woman who loves Hot Rods, then build a huge shop with an apartment above it to live in... when you figure out how to pull off this trick, let me know!!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL:

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I believe we have all dreamed of that situation. I'm still waiting for my wife to get rich!!

Richard

Rich wives

Back in the old days, a wife and a couple kids would keep you draft exempt---I had a couple picked out (Marshal Field's young widow and Judith Anne Ford) and quite unexpectedly on a November Thursday, a very prime globally prominent lady with 2 young kids became available----unfortunately, because of unforeseeable downhill consequences, I got drafted on Monday----- Yep, Jackie Kennedy was her name----

Ford2Custom; I believe your wife allready found your family's fortune.
If you can just find a way or a gimmic to sell those Bats she's finding in your house.
Something like Pure breed home invassion vampire bats, $2,000,000,000 serious
callers only. Do you think this might work? Hey a museum could call they like spending lots of money. Maybe you could send it on tour around to all the museums and make lots and lots of money with it. You just need a good promoter. HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

when i built an extremely tight motor back in the mid 70`s it would sometimes require wiring up three batteries ( i think been a long time ) in series to get 24 volts to fire up the stubborn beast .. not really sure how dangerous that was ..

Turn the bolt or nut backwards until you feel the first thread drop in, then start it.
Learned from a elementary school buddy while working on our bikes.

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Originally Posted by chevy 37

If you didn't like that stock muffler on your car or trucks, get it up to atround 50 and shut the engine off for about 5 seconds and then turn it back on. Usually blew a hole in the muffler or blew it completly apart. Caused by raw gas igniting. Not to good for your engine though:LOL:

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I can verify that works - but it may work better than you want. It happened to me once in my '68 GTO, but it wasn't intentional. I was driving along at about 70, and the engine died. It caught again, then I heard a monster of an explosion. :confused:

I pulled to a stop and looked under the hood. The ignition wires were mostly pulled loose and wrapped around the distributor. A weight had come loose and jammed it up. The distributor spun around and pulled the wires. :mad:

The speed I was going, I must have pumped quite a bit of fuel into the exhaust system. I thought the big boom was just a backfire, but when I replaced the distributor and fired the engine, it sounded like open headers. The explosion had split the Thrush header mufflers along the seam and folded them almost flat against the floor. :eek:

I would say try that at your own peril.

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Originally Posted by 42K3

Turn the bolt or nut backwards until you feel the first thread drop in, then start it.
Learned from a elementary school buddy while working on our bikes.

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lefty loosy .. righty tighty :p

chock wheels before you drop a driveshaft when your 8,000lb truck is parked at an incline and its an auto tranny....

also dropping a transmission on your chest and yelling "quick, pull my legs!" is no substitute for a proper transmission jack.

I don't think this has been mentioned but it wouldn't hurt if it has. When you are under the hood working with fuel lines carburetor or fuel injection use a tube florescent light (they have a plastic cover) instead of the old trouble light with the light bulb. Many fires have started when the bulb breaks or fuel hits the hot bulb.

Richard

when removing a stubborn nut or bolt
after waiting for the pentrating oil to soak in
tighten first then loosen

Thats a good trick,Tow'd
Kurt

I recently had to do some work on my old toyota van, put new timing chain ect ect. I was having trouble trying to undo the harmonic balancer, as i don't own a rattle gun. my old neighbour came over to see what all the swearing was about, he said move aside son. he then put a socket on a breaker bar, then put the socket and breaker bar on the harmonic balancer bolt so that the bar was resting on the chassis or ground, whichever was apropiate and told me to flick the ignition key on and off once so that the starter motor would turn the engine. just enougth so that the engine jolts the breaker bar and the nut is undone at the blink of an eye. I thought this was a great trick, as i had been trying to undo this nut for a long time with no luck at all.
barnsey

That is a great trick too.
The last time I had to pull a harmonic balancer off my old 69 caddy
I busted all my knuckels open trying to get it loose.
Thanks Kurt

Use an ice pick to align the sheet metal screw holes
when installing interior carpet or trim.

I had a neighbor in Vegas years ago that used to work at a Ford Factory.
He said a trick the old Mechanic's used to do for carbon build up.
Was to take a quart of trany fluid put it in a gallon bottle and finish filling the bottle up with water, With the car running slowly pour it in to the carb so not to let the car stall. He said it acted just like a steam cleaner cleaning all the valves off and the tops of all the pistons. Kurt

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Originally Posted by bluvelle65

Yep... and remember when you used to be able to get a box of detergent at a gas station with a glass, cup or plate in it? I still have an "Automobile" glass collection that came from the detergent boxes!

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If it's not to much trouble could you post some photo's ?

Ya that would be a cool blast from the past, Bluvelle.
Kurt

For a penetrant with rusty bolts I use a mix of half/half ATF and Acetone.
Wait thirty minutes and everything just pops loose.

I haven't broken an exhaust bolt in years.

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Originally Posted by DeepRoots

For a penetrant with rusty bolts I use a mix of half/half ATF and Acetone.
Wait thirty minutes and everything just pops loose.

I haven't broken an exhaust bolt in years.

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My dad taught me that when I was a young'un, I had forgot about it til I just read it.
Also he would use brake fluid to get dirty old tires black again.
Along the tire theme, to pop a stubborn bead off a wheel, soak the tire bead with Coca Cola.