Thread: Interesting Project (not Mine)

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".....Some things are common sense, but some take some ingenuity and experience......"

Isn't that the truth! Back in the mid to late 60s there was a spell when I was restoring antique tractors. The technology of the era is pretty similar to the old hearse, so most of the stuff was pretty familiar.


Pic 4 by M Patterson, on Flickr

This particular one took a pretty good chunk of my leg out one day when it backfired when I was cranking it to get it started. My own damn fault, I had the spark advance set to fast and was holding the crank wrong (and I knew better but was in a hurry). After I calmed down a bit I realized it could have actually been a lot worse.

It was one of those hard learned lessons I don't want the guy working on the hearse to repeat, which was why I showed him how it should be done.



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