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10-21-2023 07:50 PM #1
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Here's Something You Don't See Everyday
Took a drive out to Camp 18 today family and friends. It's about 90 minutes from my place and they have a lot of unique old stuff.
It would appear that this old truck stuffed an engine. For whatever reason, rather than rebuild it, someone opted to couple a Caddie flathead to the front of the crankshaft and keep on going!"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." John Basil Barnhil
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10-22-2023 04:43 AM #2
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And left the early hydromatic in there to boot.....................git 'er done.............Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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10-22-2023 07:27 AM #3
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old drilling rigs have multiple engines on them. a friend has his dads old driller. has a flatehead for power and 3 4 cyl flat heads to run the drill and lifts. looks like hell but has drilled water wells for over 70 years.
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10-22-2023 07:36 AM #4
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Hydromatic looks like it has a sprocket welded to the output yoke. No telling what it was driving. Backwoods engineering at it's best! Who am I to argue if it got the job done and I'll bet it did.Mike
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10-22-2023 09:17 AM #5
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At a rural tractor pull event in central Missouri about 45 years ago I saw a home-built tractor that was MASSIVE. Only one engine, but it was an early Chrysler Hemi driving a three speed automatic which then fed into a three speed manual transmission. The rear wheels were lugged steel and stood nearly six feet tall. The thing was a Torque Monster!!Roger
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