I was on my way to the airport yesterday to pick up my boyfriend Zor, and when I stopped to drop change in the tollboth the Packford Special got stuck in reverse. I've been meaning to tighten the shifter, but obviously I was late as usual. Anyways, I was now the ***hole holding up traffic, cars were piling up behind me and a tollbooth dude came up to give me a hand. We couldn't push it because I had to have the clutch in and the guy was too old and frail to help, much like most tollbooth employees. So I got on the ground and tried to move the shift lever, it was a friggin' hot day too. I did manage to get it into neutral after I burned my forearm on the broiling exhaust pipe. By now there was an impressive line of lost tourists in their rental cars behind me, all of them way too polit to honk. Just another episode in my reasonably pathetic life.
[ QUOTE ] polit [/ QUOTE ] Huh??? Aren't you the guy that has a problem with people misspelling everything? ( I try and uphold a certain standard, at least 2 spelling mistakes and bad grammar per post...) ****s about your linkage, were you able to fix it enough to drive it home?
Oh yeah Fraz, it drove fine, I had to have some finesse in my shifting method so it wouldn't get stuck again. I tightened it when I got Draglink's shop. His Loc***e was all dried up so I used a mixture of sunflower seeds and Bubble Yum on the nut. It works great, I'm a speed****in mofo now boyeee!!!
Oh hell metalshapes, I did it again, "speed****in"???? I had that last week when I ate chicken vindaloo for three days straight. And slowpoke, ain't that the truth?
Oh haring, I have had the car drive off into a concrete post without me in it. I think it's my brain that's lacking a neutral safety switch.
[ QUOTE ] airport yesterday to pick up my boyfriend Zor [/ QUOTE ] Nads... By the sounds of this statement... you must be from Michigan??? Situation like that really get embarr***ing. That's always a good incentive for me to fix the stuff I alway put off.
[ QUOTE ] Nads: Pick up your boyfriend?? Up until this point, I always thought you were a guy! [/ QUOTE ] Not on weekends! wink, wink.
Nads is what we call a man *****. Zorr is our young hot rod navy friend coming home for a visit and yes they are gay!!
I was trying to figure out why the car was in reverse in the first place and now I got it... They were only strip searching "brown people" in the next line over and Nads wanted to be in that line so he was backing up to get in it!
[ QUOTE ] all of them way too polit to honk. [/ QUOTE ] And all way too wrapped up in their own tight little protective me, mine, I want world to offer a helping hand
You're funny Nads, I wish i could hung out with you some more when i was in Florida. I guess that'll have to wait until i finish the Bird and drive it back over there to show it off
I don't think it's fair that women are allowed to have girlfriends and if we have boyfriends everyone thinks we're gay. I'm a lot less gay than some of the tough guys on the HAMB that took that internet test. I was tested at something like 46%, so bite me. Thanks for thinking I'm funny Flexicoker, the truth is I mask the deep malaise in my soul with a veneer of humor. I'm like a ****ty piece of chipboard furniture that looks good from a distance.
Yeah Deuce Rails, I swear to God I really was. The thing is you can't just buy a shifter for a '56 Packard 3 speed ******, you gotta hack up a generic one. I'm on my second one, the first was even ****tier than this. I've never seen an aftermarket floor shifter for this ******, so I had to severely modify a Hurst unit. The center bolt that holds the shifter mechanism is held on one side by a nut. You can't overtighten it or use a lockwasher because it binds, so every so often I have to retighten it. I'm getting sick of it. When it slops around it's very easy to pop it into reverse, because first and reverse are on the same shift fork. It would be easier to just have two sticks directly attached to the forks (like a jockey shifter) but I'm sure I'd get the things mixed up and attempt to put the car in reverse at 60 mph. If anyone knows of a direct bolt on unit I could use, I'd love to know. I think some '50s Fords used the same transmission. The stuff about Zor being my boyfriend and the Bubble Yum were lies.
[ QUOTE ] Nads is what we call a man *****. Zorr is our young hot rod navy friend coming home for a visit [/ QUOTE ] Helpful diagram? Zor<font color="red">--></font>Nads<font color="red">--></font>Papasmurf
Well Nads, I checked and you are right....you can't just walk in and buy one for a 56. But if it's the 38 - 54 Pac with or without OD, w/ or without round shafts, I could have helped ya with a new Ansen.
Drill it and stick a clevis pin in it? (the centre bolt on the ****** shifter... not the ****** navy hot boyfriend)
[ QUOTE ] You can't overtighten it or use a lockwasher because it binds [/ QUOTE ] Is there enough thread/room to get a jam nut on top of it? Maybe grind two nuts way down (to almost 1/2 their original thickness) and double nut it? You could also get creative and drill/tap the center of the bolt and thread a teeny allen headed plug down there to spread it out, (a-la poly-lock...) ? Just some thoughts, hard to tell w/o seeing it.
Nads i woulda been proud to sit in that queue behind you...mind you every time i`ve been over to florida i`ve been too tight to take the toll roads
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