Technical Hose Clamp Clocking

You all are messed up, or maybe it's me.

 

so that's why half of my switch plates are loose and the other half are broken. What a collosal waste of time. And I ain't buying the clean thing either.

 

I think the acorn caps for the flathead head nuts were invented to cover the uneven number of exposed head stud threads. Few people can install head studs that all have the same finished height. Bob

 

That's why I like to use ****on heads,no one critic them. HRP

 

I always put my Phillips screws in an X pattern. Thought I was ****, I see I'm not alone.

 

How about Bonneville guys, do they have their Dzuse fasteners at 9-3 o:clock for better air flow? Bob

 

Clock them like the factory does so they are hard to get to.

 

Heavy spot ain't necessarily the high spot, and it might help the tire runout to mount the tire high spot on wheel low spot.

http://www.bridgestonetrucktires.com/publications/ra_v13_i1/PDF/ra_v13i1 ask doc.pdf

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=17

http://www.continental-tyres.co.uk/...ervices_uk/resource_library/bulletin_1_en.pdf

Unbalance can be compensated for with balance weights. Rinout can not.

 

I don't do the clocking thing as above posts but I know a few people I would like to "clock"...

 

Easy to space tie wraps evenly - finger length, hand length, what ever you want.
I sometimes wipe the lettering off spark plug wires. Keeps the twists and bends looking even. But, everyone does that, right?

 

Boy, I thought I was getting bad, because I put my tools away as often as once a week!
Clock! I ain't got a clock, I'm retired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Personally I have always put the flat spot of the tire on the bottom. and always perpendicular to the Valve Stem ! It is really hard to achieve on a Traditional car with fender skirts.

 

Thank you guys, I feel much better now.

 

OCD support group. I'm in.

 

I feel better after reading this...I always clock the flats on my rocker arm nuts and sometimes late at night I take off the valve covers to make sure the nuts haven't turned....sometimes several times in the same night.....even if the engine hasn't run.... I really don't trust poly-locs....and I always put 4 periods at the end of each sentence....other than that I'm ok except for the checking to see if the door is really locked....43 times
12 points are difficult to clock but I've mastered it....

 

I keep clocking my valve stems up but they keep changing as I drive!

 

Everybody drank the kool-aid ?

 

I thought about this, got dizzy and almost fell out of my chair.

 

At my first NCRS Corvette judging in the early 80's the guy next to me is jacking up his car and turning each wheel, holding a up a little bubble level, then standing back and looking. I was more of a drag racer guy, so I'm asking myself WTF? Finally can't stand it anymore and ask him, he says "I'm indexing my hubcaps". I ask "did the factory do that?" ... no answer .. I knew right then the NCRS wasn't for me.

Now I work on a collection of cars and that's "just how it's done" according to the **** owner. I do enjoy doing it for him but for myself I let it slide some. He has a pair of '31 Chrysler Imperials, so when ***embling those two cars, they also had to be clocked to each other.

 

Do Flatheads go faster with indexed spark plugs? Bob

 

I hate flat washers not having the rounded edge out, or at the least the same way.
There are others, but that will do for now. JW

 

When I first started building cars, it's something I never even considered. But, as I started learning more and becoming more detail oriented, it's become important to me. It has happened where I see something that looks good, but clocking bothered me. Sometimes it can be over-looked, but as an example, when it's something that has a lot of slotted screws on it, it looks much better clocked. I pay attention to it, and do it on most things. It take very little time, but in my opinion, makes a big difference, and shows attention to detail. I think it speaks to how much you care about the design, but thats just one mans opinion.
But here are two big pet peeves for me beyond that.
One is wiring. Sanitary wiring makes a HUGE difference, and unsanitary wiring can make the nicest car look terrible.

The other isn't really related, but I need to get it off my chest, haha.
I can't stand it when I see a nice custom that has had a lot of work and attention to detail, and a nice interior with a period dash, and then they slap a modern head unit in the middle of the dash. Take some time and hide that thing!

 

I'm beginning to see the light. Anybody know where I can get switch plate screw shims?

 

This situation with BLOWBY begs the question, "Did he end up at Haight and Ashbury streets during the Summer of Love in '68 ?" Got to wonder.

 

Torqueing is required. Clocking is not. Ryan just established a PARANORMAL section for all you guys so you can eat rainbow stew with a silver s**** and drink free bubble up.

 

I have been told that a coil pointing down works better because the "juice", as electricity is sometimes called, more easily runs out to the distributor.

 

Oh, no, you are not alone at all. There are many of you with "problems." Love that Merc. Is the lame job clocked?

 

I heard about a large chemical spill several years ago in that immediate area. Now, I'm convinced.

 

Some call it OCD , others say Perfectionist.