Thread: Old timmer tips or tricks!!!

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Originally Posted by DeepRoots

right on toofast....
I heard 95% of Chevy cars are still on the road










(the other 5% made it back ok)

yep 95 % of my truck is still on the road . but i missing the 5% from rust love MI with all the salt .soon i am going to have a flip out windshield

The trouble is that so many of the 'tricks' you know you don't think of them as 'tricks', because it's just so natural to do it that way.
It's only when someone says "How did you do that?" that you realise not everyone knows that particular 'trick'.
One of mine?
(Although I'm sure most would know it.)
When you're cutting a bolt (or any thread,) to shorten it; put a nut on first.
It's easier to hold in the vice, and you can use the nut as a die nut to straighten out the jagged cut ends of the thread.

Take the longer Chevy starter bolts and cut the heads off of them and slot them with a cut.When you trying to line up a Chevy auto tranny,screw them into the block on the lower bolt holes to used them as guild pins,then use the other bolt holes with bolts to draw the tranny onto the dowel pins and hold the tranny in place.Then unscrew the slotted starter bolts and bolt on the rest of the tranny bolts.

when was the last time you took your own tire off your car .. broke it down with hand tools from the trunk .. took out the " tube " .. patched it with monkey grip patch kit you always had then pumped it back up with your bicycle pump

Tin foil on a blown fuse, when the dash lights would go out so would the brake lights. I’ve used that when the dash lights would go out on my 61 Vette. Get a piece of gum use the tin foil to wrap around the fuse to make contact. A temporary fix back in the 60’s late at night when the old gas stations where closed. Remember the old gas stations?

Richard

remember? I pumped gas and did minor repair work for one called, "Cities Service" - - ouch I am aging myself again

gas stations nowadays don't carry anything but twinkies, soda, beer, ice and jerky

Originally Posted by MelloYello

remember? I pumped gas and did minor repair work for one called, "Cities Service" - - ouch I am aging myself again

gas stations nowadays don't carry anything but twinkies, soda, beer, ice and jerky

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!

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!

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

Originally Posted by MelloYello

remember? I pumped gas and did minor repair work for one called, "Cities Service" - - ouch I am aging myself again

gas stations nowadays don't carry anything but twinkies, soda, beer, ice and jerky

My first job of paying taxes was at a Gulf gas station for .60 (cents) an hour. This was 1962 (where were you in 62) the good old days. On Holidays the owner would like to keep the station opened late at night, I can remember falling asleep and having customers waking me up to pay for their gas.

Richard

Originally Posted by ford2custom

My first job of paying taxes was at a Gulf gas station for .60 (cents) an hour. This was 1962 (where were you in 62) the good old days.
Richard

MCRD, San Diego going through Electronics school.

Originally Posted by ford2custom

This was 1962 (where were you in 62) the good old days.
Richard

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - -

Married with a young wife, baby boy, driving back and forth to Houston and running the mail room for Atlantic Refining Company - - - "NOT" the good old days !

Originally Posted by ford2custom

Tin foil on a blown fuse, when the dash lights would go out so would the brake lights. I’ve used that when the dash lights would go out on my 61 Vette. Get a piece of gum use the tin foil to wrap around the fuse to make contact. A temporary fix back in the 60’s late at night when the old gas stations where closed. Remember the old gas stations?

Richard

Yep; been there done that, too!
I used to use the aluminium foil out of my cigarette packet.
At least you got home...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I would say try that at your own peril.

If you have to drive a Chebelle, put a paper bag over your head with cutouts for your eyes so your friends don't see you driving it!!!!!




couldn't let that one go by, Greg!!!!!!!!!!!