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you ever charge up a points type condensor and toss it to someone .. shocks the crap out of them when they catch it

I do like the trick where the guy takes a can of WD40 to get a tire back on the bead of the rim. Not sure how much tire pressure you would have though.
Kurt

Originally Posted by vara4

I do like the trick where the guy takes a can of WD40 to get a tire back on the bead of the rim. Not sure how much tire pressure you would have though.
Kurt

you mean spraying it then setting a match to it .. iv`e done it with starting fluid

Yep Hoss; thats exactly what I am talking about.
Thats a great trick or tip, But I am not sure what kind of tire pressure
it would give you. Would it be enought to get you to a station or some
place to get air??? I have not done it but have seen it done several
times with differant kinds of sprays. It's a good emergancy fix.
Also which fluid works the best???
Kurt

Originally Posted by HOSS429

you ever charge up a points type condensor and toss it to someone .. shocks the crap out of them when they catch it

lmao - - - better make sure you are faster or bigger than they are first

How about pouring a bottle of coke cola (they didn't have coke cola in cans back in the 60's) on the battery post and cable ends. I should have used that trick the other day as we went home on a roll back. The lights were still working but the key would not engage the starter. Hot sun not even a single tool in the car. I was close to a NAPA and a discount store I chose the discount store new jumper cables and a new battery. The car still failed to start. I have my favorite tow company in my cell phone so he took us home. I got prices on a starter $149 plus $22 core charge.

I got out the old faith full hammer and screwdriver since I couldn't get a swing through the exhaust tubes. WD-40 liberal without sparing over the cable connections and a few whacks with the hammer and screwdriver on the solenoid and she fired up. 2000 Neon 4 cylinder our daily driver gets over looked. The simple things can cost and worse yet leave you stranded.


P.S. I thought it was bad with the car not starting: My wife just said there is a Bat in the house (What The He-- is next)

Richard

Originally Posted by HOSS429

you ever charge up a points type condensor and toss it to someone .. shocks the crap out of them when they catch it

When I was a kid in high school working part time at an auto parts store, we would charge up a condensor and leave it laying on the counter. You could count on someone coming to the counter, seeing the condensor and eventually picking it up, it was always a 'shocking surprise'.

Mike

Ford2Custom; Just tell your wife that is not a cape, just toilet papper.
HE! HE! HE! A Bat!!! HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

"The rubber hose spark plug trick!"

I built a '63 Nove hardtop with a "loaded" 327 and Stahl fenderwell headers. It ran like a raped ape.... but you couldn't get to the plugs to start them in!

Just take an appropriate sized piece of fuel line about 6 inches long...wedge it onto the outer end of the plug, and now you can hold and twist the end of the hose to start the plugs in!

P.S.... My ex-wife hated that car ...as it was always sideways!!! (maybe that's why I remember it so fondly! }:-)

HOTRODPAINT, that is a good tip sometimes you just can’t contort or reach the hole and a universal will drop at the last second just before the plug is going in the hole.

Back in the 60's I had a 53 Chrysler work car that I was putting plugs and points in, only I didn't have a feeler gauge. My neighbor an old guy (like Me Now) said to use your match book cover and it would be close enough. I've also helped people stranded on the side of the road by taking sand paper to get the burn spot off the points.

You being a painter me just an armature have more the likely use the paper towel tube to shoot some paint in a tight area with out getting paint on other surface’s when touching up with a rattle can like an engine part.


vara4, That was the first Bat I have come in contact with in my 63 years but he left the house breathing, I just hope he didn't bring his cousins with him. We had a new roof put on the house last year I hope they didn't leave a hole!!

Richard

Originally Posted by vara4

Yep Hoss; thats exactly what I am talking about.
Thats a great trick or tip, But I am not sure what kind of tire pressure
it would give you. Would it be enought to get you to a station or some
place to get air??? I have not done it but have seen it done several
times with differant kinds of sprays. It's a good emergancy fix.
Also which fluid works the best???
Kurt

Vara4,
That's an old trail trick for off-roading when someone pops a bead off of a rim, aired down and into contortions. Starting fluid (ether) works best, but I've also had people swear by brake cleaner. A healthy shot into the tire, then use the can and a lighter as a torch to shoot the flame into the void. When it works it pops the tire back on and the heat leaves some residual pressure, but the pressure drops very quickly as the air cools to ambient. You still have to have an air source to get driving pressure.

Thanks Rspears; I have seen it done on You tube and had some friends tell me about it growing up in Vegas. Lots of friends driving giant trucks and sand rails growing up out there with the old Mint 400 every year. The good part was when it was over you could find alot of stuff that guys who got pissed off because they broke down so they would just leave them out in the desert. I think I found a little bit of everything back in the day. Kurt

double post couldn't figure out how to deleat need to know that trick haha

TIP. When using plastic wire ties after cutting the long end off use a liter, match, or soldering iron to melt the SHARP edge. Man I have cut myself open on that edge to many times

Not only was a match book cover about the right thickness for setting points, the area for striking the match worked good to clean uo burnt points, generator armutures, starter armutures, relays in voltage regulators---course I didn't smoke !!!!!!