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Her little cottontail won't fit on there.

 

Back when I was working on Firetrucks, I did this all the time, but with a 48 inch pipe wrench. I even had one cut down with a ring welded on the handle for the hook to go through. 4 and six inch pipe threads immersed in water 100% of the time can get tuff to break loose!




Bones

 

I think I saw a photo posted of when they were dating and he was working on his roadster (while she and her pointy bra were sulking). She was pissed off then, she STILL pissed off!! Some things never change!

 

Check out the bolt on bumper trailer hitch and the extended side mirror.

 

Boat anchor

 

Back in my factory heave machine repair days, we had a forge press we had to pull the flywheel off the crankshaft of. It was one of the few machines we actually had a book concerning operation and repair procedures on it.

That flywheel was 14' in diameter and 18" wide and weighed nearly 6,000 lbs. We had a 12,000 fork lift just for such things. That flywheel was pressed onto the crankshaft and had a safety cap with (12) 3/4" diameter Allen bolts holding it together with a spin on lock nut that was around 12" in diameter. That crankshaft was 10' off the ground. The instructions stated that to pull the flywheel off, you had to remove the 12 bolts (that required a 1" hex head Allen wrench and a 10' pipe with two guys pulling on it), and the cover plate, then heat the lock nut to a dull cherry red and spin if off while it was hot. Once the lock nut was off, you had to put in 12 pieces of 3/4" diameter grade 8 threaded rod that was 4' long. into the threaded holes insert a 100 ton port-a-power (which required a come a long attached to the forklift cage to hold), and install the cap with 12 3/4" nuts. It was advised that you wrap a chain around each 3/4" rod, in case one should break, so it doesn't become a projectile! It took everything that 100 ton port-a-power had to get it to move, and keep moving. The flywheel had to be pressed off (and back on) that crankshaft for its 18" width. All this at 10' off the ground! Those grade 8 threaded rods were good for a one time use, you used new threaded rods to pull the flywheel back on the crankshaft. we had one rod break while we were pulling the flywheel off, it sounded like a missile going off. the chain wrapped around it actually kept it from launching away.

 

Yeah, no cross bolts or adjustable rockers so its a boat anchor....

 

To sum up THAT'S NUTS

 

You missed the aluminum intake, might not be any good. Also the block may be good. Also the heads have the extra boss for extra exhaust bolts. Can’t tell if they are drilled. But could easily be the R heads. I have saved many parts off old “ boat anchors “ . Here is a CJ I salvage some parts off off! They can be a Diamond in the ruff!




Bones

 

Nah, I saw the intake. Everybody changes those out, even on a 360.

 

WELL NOW!!!!
He can just have the car.... Get the car out of my garage, RIGHT NOW!

After its out of the garage, I wonder if he would leave if I just left it run?
I assume he arrived because the motor was still warm, and he was not.

 

He just wants to cuddle with something warm. Never had one in an engine compartment-something to think about I’ve had them on the porch, driveway, up on the rear axle etc but never in the engine compartment. I can’t show this to my wife or she’ll never check oil again. LOL
Dan

 

The factory moved 120 miles out of Chicago to our little burg. They brought over 100 heavy machines, with a few older supervisors, and one old retired maintenance guy. There were only a handful of books concerning most of the WW2 machines. the old guy could only remembered how to make adjustments to keep the machines running. The factory was operational for about 6 months when I got laid off from my mechanics position when the store closed the automotive department.
I started there in the production line, and was able to adjust the machine I was working at to keep it running. That drew notice from the the company brass, and they soon moved me to the maintenance department, where the old guy and two other guys (like me) were kind of keeping the place running.
I had the ability to watch a machine operate, and could visualize what was needed to make it work better.
The heavy machine repair started when we could no longer make them run by just making adjustments. That was a big learning curve. We were fortunate enough the company had enough sense to hired a few maintenance supervisors with machine rebuilding experience. Still, its a wonder no one got hurt through those processes. I did 7 years there, then went back into auto mechanic for a year and a half, only to end up back in heavy machine repair at another factory for another 7 year round. A few years after that, I opened my welding shop.

The big forge machines have a lot of similarities to cars. They have motor (in this case an electric one) driving a flywheel that has a huge diaphragm clutch, that turned a crankshaft and drove a piston up and down, with a band style brake to stop the crankshaft at the top of the stroke. The clutch and brake were activated by an air valve that rode against an adjustable cam and was tripped by a foot pedal to set it all in motion for one revolution of the crankshaft. The bed of the forge press had a set dies, the bottom bolted to the frame, the top bolted to the piston hanging on the crank. The piston was kept centered in the forge by a set of adjustable guides attached to the bed frame. The set of dies formed the hot aluminum or brass slugs into shape. Its just everything is big (50 ton) or bigger (100 ton), or really big (150 ton).
The factory had punch presses to trim the excess metal from the parts. The punch presses were just much smaller versions of the forge presses.

An amazing number of machines operate in many factories with the offset crankshaft, connecting rod, and a piston in guides, with a belt driven electric motor, with a clutch and a brake activated by air, hydraulic, or electric controls.

 

Wait... your wife checks the oil???
It took years for me to finally get my wife to tell me when the car made new noises, or did something out of "normal".

 

Is that why the engine died? Never had one in the car or house but there have been a couple in the shop. Shot at one and hit the can of carb cleaner he was wrapped around. That pissed him off!

 

My chain tong for large pipe had a ring welded to it all so . It was known as the “ widow marker “ . You carry that SOB , back in the right of way for 1/2 mile and your were done for the day . Had a big big tough dude carry it one day . Once to the job site I told him “ you know I have been waiting a long time for this !” He says “ waitin for what ? “ I answered “ the day I could beat your azz !” He just chuckled and says “ well I ain’t there yet so let’s do it !” I had to say “ just kiddin as I took off “ !!!

 

Every time I try to check my wife's oil, I get a big smack upside my head!

 

Maybe your dipstick is too small!!!

 

I remember chasing parts in a factory that had upsetters to put heads on roof bolts. It was the first and only time I've seen a camshaft taller than a man. The #1 guy running them was missing 3 fingers on one hand. He was climbing up to lubricate it, had his hand in the jaws, slipped and hit the pedal.

Lucky and unlucky all at once.

You've led an interesting life. Thanks for the stories.