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  2. 8ntruck

    D-Day

    My dad was in North Africa at the time. Weight & balance officer in the Army Air Corps.
  3. Can have this genny there. $600 Cecil Pond signature included.
  4. MainelyWheelhorse

    What did you do today?

    It’s a 😄
  5. WHX??

    A Nice Score ...

    Yep ... be on a mission from God...
  6. ebinmaine

    What did you do today?

    Earlier this morning I went out to the back 40 (garden area) and used our big walk behind DR Trimmer. Size of a push mower. Works excellent. VERY hard work. About an hour on that was plenty. There's still several hours of work to go there. Then we went hiking up across the street to Bill Merrill Mountain. Just under 4 miles. About 2.5 hours total time. Definitely faster and felt better than either of us was expecting.
  7. ebinmaine

    16 auto

    One of the techs at the GM garage I worked at 25 + years ago used to tell us.. You can almost never loosen it, but you can almost always tighten it. Then loosen. Then tighten. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. What a cool trick. I've even seen a guy use that on the plastic fasteners for a plastic grille.
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  9. ri702bill

    Betcha y’all didn’t know 157

    Yup. Growing up , one of my friend's Dad had a side hustle buying, fixing, & flipping used cars. I fished a fair amount of broken nylon cam sprocket teeth out as we would replace timing chain sets. He taught us how to rod cylinder head oil return holes with a length of speedometer cable and an electric drill. Old straight weight oil sure did gunk up the works!
  10. peter lena

    Betcha y’all didn’t know 157

    @ri702bill back in pontiac days of plastic coated timing gears , did that to cover whining noise, related catastrophic heat failure ? oil sump pick up , starved for oil , by all heat cracked plastic debris . gm dollars saved on poor design , cost them millions , in failures . customer loyalty , worked at buick / pontiac / opel , dealership , pete
  11. Streetrodchev

    D-Day

    Some more WWII trucks on this D Day
  12. adsm08

    What did you do today?

    My morning so far has been working on the truck. I'm waiting for new O2 sensors, so I was looking for things I could do with the cab still up. I touched up a few spots on the frame, and managed to extract the one broken cab bolt from it's mount.
  13. cafoose

    Gas Prices & the BS

    AI Overview As of 2026, there are approximately 20,900 Dollar General stores operating in the United States
  14. squonk

    Gas Prices & the BS

    There are close to 30 Dollar Generals on our way to PA. Randy and I counted them a few years back.
  15. adsm08

    16 auto

    110%. I just did this with the remainder of a broken cab bolt.
  16. ri702bill

    Betcha y’all didn’t know 157

    All too many 409's and 396's were destroyed by folks driving them like they were 283's. All in around 4000 RPM - parts start to scatter if you go higher...
  17. 953 nut

    Blast from MY past

    Bought my first NEW vehicle in 1969. It was a black 1970 Chevy C-10 Fleet side with a V8, Posi traction, and chrome wheels, cost a bit less than $ 3,000. As an apprentice electrician I was making about $ 2.50 an hour so the payments were about one week's pay. In fact the truck payments were more than my mortgage. My present truck (2009 Dakota) cost ten times as much but I suspect an apprentice made more than $ 25.00 in 2009 so relative to inflation the price is about the same.
  18. Streetrodchev

    D-Day

    Some WWII trucks on this D Day
  19. rjg854

    Front End Friday

    At a time when Craftsman actually built quality. And your care and maintenance made a difference also.
  20. Bill D

    Bad Connection

    I use that on all my electrical connections. I only used dielectric grease on spark plug boots.
  21. oldlineman

    Bad Connection

    I have a pint can of NO - OX - ID , that we used on many high voltage connections, 69 Kv through 500 Kv. It has the consistency and look of grease. Works very well on battery terminals also. Most high voltage terminations are aluminum. This can will outlive me and probably my children.Just takes a very thin coat.
  22. 953 nut

    Bad Connection

  23. 953 nut

    Gas Prices & the BS

    It was right near THE Dollar General Store, can't miss it. If you find the correct Dollar General.
  24. oldlineman

    D-Day

    My late father, an Army Combat Medic, 30th Infantry Division,105th Combat Medics, 2nd Battalion " D " Company, 120th Infantry Motors 81 MM, Omaha Beach June 9, 1944. He is and always will be my hero, along with all those of that and later generations that heard the call of their nation too defend her!
  25. squonk

    Gas Prices & the BS

    Just under 700 miles normally for the entire trip. When Waldo and I searched for that BBQ joint, it seemed like it added another 50!
  26. I once dated a girl whos big brother had a new '61, four speed, 409 powered Chevy just so we could go for a ride in it. That was a FUN car! He got so many speeding tickets that he had to sell the car and joined the army.
  27. ri702bill

    Betcha y’all didn’t know 157

    My old girlfriend had a 2 tone 57 Chevy Wagon - the perfect party barge when parked backwards with the tailgate down & glass hatch up to watch the movie... Honestly, in hindsight, the car was more fun than her...
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