I think I will start using stove bolts so they are automatically clocked. The next time my valve covers are off, I'm going to clock the rocker arms.
I'm guilty of a lot of these things! The clamp indexing, screw slots, wire ties, the flat washer thing, making sure my wiring is nice and neat etc etc I have issues. Hahaha I once drove around a parking lot for 2 hours so when i parked all the valve stems were on the bottom when i stopped Ok maybe i Didnt go that far but...hahaha Tony
Before I go anywhere in my Chevy, I wind up the mechanical clock- does this count as "clocking"? But seriously, when I park my car for the night, I always remove the head and make sure those little arrows on the pistons are still pointing forwards. You can never be too sure.
I hear the Hamb **** *******s club meeting is this Saturday at @gwhite 's house. Activities include ironing your underwear...must bring own iron and underwear.
Howard Hughes had all the screw slots lined up with the airflow on his race plane. But then, he was certifiable....The scary thing about this thread is, some of you guys are serious!
[QUOTE="3wLarry Hey bud, hold my place, I'll be right back, I just remembered I did'nt safety wire my high speed bumper bolts.
A guy parked next to a Mental Ins***ution was attepting to clock all his wheel nuts. Some thing startled him and he dropped all the nuts of one wheel down the sewer. Bewildered and spewing cuss words, he was at a loss as to how he was going to get home. A man standing on the inside of the fence screamed " take one nut each from the other three and put them on that one it will hold you untill you get home". Great idea, said the man, what the hell are you doing locked up in there? I'm crazy not stupid he replied. What the hell this has to do with the topic I'm not sure but its been a slow day.
Hoseclampes are turned whatever way makes them easiest to tighen. Screws end up the way they're turned after tightening to correct torque. People who put looks higher on the list of important things than doing the job right. To those of you who puts shims of the required thickness on every screw to have the heads clocked a specific way at correct torque, I'm impressed. Those of you who over- or undertorque screws to get them turned the desired way... well, they say you shouldn't say anything if you don't have anything nice to say, so I'm gonna be quiet now.
Would that ******* chimp be recently unemployed from FIAT??? Remembering the first look under the dash of a FIAT 850 Spyder...and almost having to call the ambulance...took the old ticker a while to recover... Cosmo P.S. I have been known to clock hubcaps, screw heads, tire markings to valve stems and window cranks. P.P.S. Now that I think of it, I need help. P.P.P.S.S. I've also been married four times. No, that didn't help anything...
Silly...Just change screws around until they seat symmetrically. Buy enough screws (about squared amt.)
I just checked the light switches in my house and found that they are all clocked to 12 and 6 o'clock. Except for the ones that I put in that are clocked to 9 and 3. Now I don't know what to do.
Tie wraps are the lazy man's way of doing wire. Plus they have sharp edges when the tail end is cut off. I installed elevators and escalators for years. The flat washers had to have the sharp side down and the rounded side up. Now I have baby moon hubcaps on my car and I can't tell which way they are facing. Can you help me?
As an old SF native I've pretty much seen it all. It was military when I was young, then came the hippies, then...well you know the rest. Many of the switch plates in my house are missing and the ones that are there are too greasy to see the screws.
Chances are good on that chimp and if it makes you feel any better I married the prettiest girl in the school, uh twice.
I plead guilty------ and I just noticed the top hose clamp is a little off! Got to get after that, Gary
Oooh, those are nice hose clamps. Got a socket that fits them? Wouldn't want to have to wind them with pliers. Like the purple too.
Once your hoses fly off because you clocked em instead of just making sure they are tight you won't worry about that clocking ****.
With all the **** that is going on in today's world and the enormous amount of stuff you need to keep straight to build a hot rod, where do you all find the capacity to worry about clocking?
If you use good tywraps, you don't cut the tails off, you twist them off. This leaves no sharp ends plus they break off flush with the body. Cheap ones will just break....
Carl if anything my hoses are at the most 1/4 turn tighter then they needed. This is all fun, right? Gary
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