The "Good old Days" of cars?
06-04-2009 | 03:37 PM
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You guys are f/n OLD!! 
(been there, done that @ 62!)
Anyone want to buy a timing light?? Or should I put it up in the sale section?
Sorry, some fool would buy it and give me crap about how it won't work on their HHR. 
(been there, done that @ 62!)
Anyone want to buy a timing light?? Or should I put it up in the sale section?
Sorry, some fool would buy it and give me crap about how it won't work on their HHR.
And gettin' older everyday ...
06-04-2009 | 10:22 PM
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06-04-2009 | 11:19 PM
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And how could we forget laying on the ground under the car trying to find all those little grease zirks (points)? Then trying to attach the grease gun and pump the clean grease through until the dirty stuff came out. Then wiping it down and moving on to the next. Oh, yeah ... isn't there on in the rear end? Maybe on the u-joint at the rear of the drive shaft? I could never remember which vehicle had this.
06-05-2009 | 12:47 PM
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Oh yeah, that was over 30 years ago come to think of it. I have a compression gauge too, but I think that still has use.
06-05-2009 | 02:23 PM
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My father kept a reinforced garden hose hanging in the garage. Whenever he needed a new length of hose for his '60 Falcon (which seemed to be quite frequently), he'd cut a length and put it on. Can't believe that the garden hose fit, but it did. Weird to look under the hood and see lengths of garden hose running between the radiator and the engine.
06-05-2009 | 02:26 PM
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Here's another thing I don't miss ...
VAPOR LOCK!
Anyone had to sit on the side of a mountain road with an engine that was vapor locked? What fun! There were stretches of road in Yosemite and around Tahoe that I remember had lines of cars along the shoulder that were vapor locked and everyone just milling about waiting for something to happen.
VAPOR LOCK!
Anyone had to sit on the side of a mountain road with an engine that was vapor locked? What fun! There were stretches of road in Yosemite and around Tahoe that I remember had lines of cars along the shoulder that were vapor locked and everyone just milling about waiting for something to happen.
06-05-2009 | 02:31 PM
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Here's another thing I don't miss ...
VAPOR LOCK!
Anyone had to sit on the side of a mountain road with an engine that was vapor locked? What fun! There were stretches of road in Yosemite and around Tahoe that I remember had lines of cars along the shoulder that were vapor locked and everyone just milling about waiting for something to happen.
VAPOR LOCK!
Anyone had to sit on the side of a mountain road with an engine that was vapor locked? What fun! There were stretches of road in Yosemite and around Tahoe that I remember had lines of cars along the shoulder that were vapor locked and everyone just milling about waiting for something to happen.