Thread: Old timmer tips or tricks!!!

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I used those Mallory dual points back in the day on my big block dodges and had the screws in one come loose, way out in the middle of the desert.
My brother hand me that old match book to re - set the points, { Right }
I had to disconnect one set of points and ran one set back in to town where I proply
took it to the nearest speed shop to have it set by a machine. Kurt

when i had my r code mustang in the mid 70`s it had a dual point distrubutor and it would eat up points about every month .. almost 9 nine bucks a set .. big money when you aint got none .. working at the junk yard i finally noticed that 6 banger maverics had the same points .. buck fifty a piece .. from then on i`d buy two sets of six banger points for the stang ..

Hoss

It should of only eaten one of the contacts as the one that breaks the circuit is the one that flashes--also thats what the condensor was for --to kill that arc as the electric field collapsed

Also the dual points were set wider than the single sets which helped but mostly it seemed that some distributors wore down the rubbing blocks if they weren't properly lubed with -you guessed it--contact lube

One of the best tricks would be to marry a very rich woman who loves Hot Rods, then build a huge shop with an apartment above it to live in... when you figure out how to pull off this trick, let me know!!!!!

no luck so far on that one dave....

I figured out out to get rich from e-bay-------I'm saving metal chips from the engines I do and then if someone of the customers gets famous I'll sell numbers matching date-coded chips from his engine!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

One of the best tricks would be to marry a very rich woman who loves Hot Rods, then build a huge shop with an apartment above it to live in... when you figure out how to pull off this trick, let me know!!!!!

I believe we have all dreamed of that situation. I'm still waiting for my wife to get rich!!

Richard

Rich wives

Back in the old days, a wife and a couple kids would keep you draft exempt---I had a couple picked out (Marshal Field's young widow and Judith Anne Ford) and quite unexpectedly on a November Thursday, a very prime globally prominent lady with 2 young kids became available----unfortunately, because of unforeseeable downhill consequences, I got drafted on Monday----- Yep, Jackie Kennedy was her name----

Ford2Custom; I believe your wife allready found your family's fortune.
If you can just find a way or a gimmic to sell those Bats she's finding in your house.
Something like Pure breed home invassion vampire bats, $2,000,000,000 serious
callers only. Do you think this might work? Hey a museum could call they like spending lots of money. Maybe you could send it on tour around to all the museums and make lots and lots of money with it. You just need a good promoter. HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

when i built an extremely tight motor back in the mid 70`s it would sometimes require wiring up three batteries ( i think been a long time ) in series to get 24 volts to fire up the stubborn beast .. not really sure how dangerous that was ..

Turn the bolt or nut backwards until you feel the first thread drop in, then start it.
Learned from a elementary school buddy while working on our bikes.

Originally Posted by chevy 37

If you didn't like that stock muffler on your car or trucks, get it up to atround 50 and shut the engine off for about 5 seconds and then turn it back on. Usually blew a hole in the muffler or blew it completly apart. Caused by raw gas igniting. Not to good for your engine though

I can verify that works - but it may work better than you want. It happened to me once in my '68 GTO, but it wasn't intentional. I was driving along at about 70, and the engine died. It caught again, then I heard a monster of an explosion.

I pulled to a stop and looked under the hood. The ignition wires were mostly pulled loose and wrapped around the distributor. A weight had come loose and jammed it up. The distributor spun around and pulled the wires.

The speed I was going, I must have pumped quite a bit of fuel into the exhaust system. I thought the big boom was just a backfire, but when I replaced the distributor and fired the engine, it sounded like open headers. The explosion had split the Thrush header mufflers along the seam and folded them almost flat against the floor.

I would say try that at your own peril.

Originally Posted by 42K3

Turn the bolt or nut backwards until you feel the first thread drop in, then start it.
Learned from a elementary school buddy while working on our bikes.

lefty loosy .. righty tighty

chock wheels before you drop a driveshaft when your 8,000lb truck is parked at an incline and its an auto tranny....

also dropping a transmission on your chest and yelling "quick, pull my legs!" is no substitute for a proper transmission jack.

I don't think this has been mentioned but it wouldn't hurt if it has. When you are under the hood working with fuel lines carburetor or fuel injection use a tube florescent light (they have a plastic cover) instead of the old trouble light with the light bulb. Many fires have started when the bulb breaks or fuel hits the hot bulb.

Richard