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Here's a photo of one of my bearing shells for a 25" engine (237/251/265 cid), with the oversize and other info stamped into the back. The characters are impression-stamped into the surface. There doesn't appear to be any raised material, but the characters are definitely stamped into the surface. I can catch them with my finger nails. These are new bearings (as of a few years ago), not NOS, that had Sealed Power on the boxes, and you can see F/m (I believe that's Federal Mogul) in the photo. I think Federal Mogul owns Sealed Power.

I participated in the insanity that everyone seemed to be doing this last weekend. I got some pics, sadly mostly blurry trying to hold the phone still enough for the light capture. I was hoping for a cool pic with the truck in foreground, but alas...blurry. But here ya go, post what you may have gotten!

I usually have a name for my vehicles ..... The wife caravan was passed down to us when Mother passed away .... Father named it the *******. We changed it to Lady Belle and have taken better care of it then he did .... except I keep blowing up the engine in it 🙄 My daily driver truck is chebby ..... Since it is a step side it looks like it has a big butt ..... So chebby is a mix between chubby & Chevrolet. My Dodge is the Hound dog hauler ..... some day I would like to letter the doors with a pic of 2 dogs and Hound dog ranch Like a business sign. For short I just call it Hound dog. Any car I drive for some time gets a name.

"Big Brown Car" So named by my grandson Jakob, about 20 years ago. He just graduated from college, for a career in the film industry. Granddaughter Samantha ("Sammy") has graduated and is completing her student teaching.

Seems the most does not get a nickname but a few of the foreign ones do get named. I am not anywhere like my counterparts on the British forum where is seems almost mandatory you have the pedigree sorted out and a name for the car. The pedigree takes precedence over its ability to run correctly or be cosmetically correct. I refer to the Morris van as Sir Galahad (but twisted in spelling as Gal-I-had, you do the math) then there is my first Porsche I built in 1984 which is named Madeline. The Plymouth Surburban does get referred to as The 'Burb. The 41 D19 business coupe is the "Big Butt Coupe" My 52 Plymouth club coupe is Slobberbucket II as my father had Slobberbucket as the name for his Plymouth back when a child. All the others usually get referred to as the make or year where but the AA I just call Ohio Red as I bought the body out of Ohio. The 62 Dodges were named in like manner, Jeffersonville Dodge, Indy Dodge, Buford Dodge etc as this is where I bought them.

I just call the DeSoto, The Old Broad. Usually after I've floored it and it downshifts, I say something like, "The Old Broad can still hoist her skirt and move when she wants." I'm more likely to give my motorcycles nicknames, though. My 1979 Honda CX500 is called the Maggot cuz it's kind of ugly and my Russian Ural is called Arpok, which is a version of RPOC, which is an acronym for 'Russian Piece Of Crap'. My French mo-peds are called Phrench Pharts. As far as my other half goes, her name is Cynthia. Because of stitches in my tongue at a young age, I have a problem of not being able to pronounce it correctly, so it's either 'Hey You' or 'Fred'. She calls me 'Bud'.

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just wanted to say thank you for the previous posts about steering gear box adjustment. the cap unscrewed easily and the star washer lifted right off. it is even marked this side up. we adjusted it to just a nibble of free play. it made a huge improvement. we filled the steering box with really good quality grease. thank you again for all the posts that help us all fix our cars and trucks.