Plymouthy Adams

are you allowing the timing cover to establish the centric position of the seal to the crank...the new seal is pressed into the cover..the cover fitted loosely to the block...the seal lubed along with lube on the damper and then the damper placed in position...this will allow proper centric position as the cover is floating loosely...now you can tighten the cover down. Another scenario is a buggered crank with a worn groove that will not allow the seal to seat proper and will need a sleeve affixed.

as Cark said, if you need me I'll be outside parking the cars....been a couple years since the wife and I did our cooking for the family at T-giving as the older generation has now passed and the younger ones are just tooooo busy for family. It was fun for us as the moochers got a free meal with no involvement was pretty much successful events with 24-30 folks gathering to eat. With the passing of the old guard, so goes the family that revolved around them.

not only is there an investment in tools, the very space you create and outfit with lights, air, water, heat and items such as lifts and other larger line items...it adds up quick....but is essential for the DIYer. Today I am in the shop putting my sub assemblies together as I finally am able to start my assembly of my other lift....tickled as a kid at Christmas about any day in the shop, just think of the added joys as it is CHRISTMAS day....

what timing this topic...I just got off the phone with Charlie after calling and wishing him a Merry Christmas and better year for 2021...if you ever get a chance to meet Charlie, I think most will find him an excellent person to know.

Sam you make a good point....I place myself in the realms of reality and with a bad case of caritis. I have way too many cars here, I have them and also accumulate the parts and pack them with their associated project. Will I ever get them done, realistically and with full knowledge of mortality...the answer is a frim no. Do I even care, not at all, they bring me joy just having them here, keeping me active and alive as I search out parts and prepare build plans for each one. The journey is the fun as I have so many times stated....once you arrive, you are just in one place....where is the fun in that. Merry Christmas all, out to stoke the heater and stage the next subassembly for my lift I am erecting.

I think the loss is poetic justice that the guy who pays without question the enormous going rate for repairs and especially the larger swindle know as a "paint job" Guess we all have our own way of looking at things....the work to get there is 10 times more fun that the car when finished....many others know this and why they sell their recent build sometimes at a slight loss just to start another....the real fun for the DIY guy

but it is really so hard to justify the cost of the new vehicles today.....runaway prices is so the norm that the exceeding slanted escalation goes without many actually looking closer at it all....much less questioning it...on vehicles the main issue for me is all the extras are not options....base line models are few...I think that many of the bells and whistles lead to accidents due to distraction on use as much as many of the features are there to try to prevent accidents...they should call the new cars mass transportation devices...as they are built in the manner the masses want....

I bet you at least 15 drunks pulled over because of those flashing lights.....

people need Christmas money....seems they have hocked their good senses already.....

post a classified ad on here....hit the wrecking yards.....not an everyday item but probably out there...

stick with cast iron...it is a proven consistent runner for the street and that occasional strip run...and same with the logs....if you running stock the cam is set up for cast iron even if factory performance with the split duration....if however you want to run headers and change the intake...the cam needs changed to gain the benefit of the better breathing and recoup your outlay of cash......keep in mind that the horsepower gain in on the upper end of the rpm with the cam change and you loose 20-30 HP where you operate on the street.....if you just want the 4 bbl, again cast iron is very adequate and you choice will now be what carb to run...personally, I would go with the TQ....set it up once it stays tuned like forever....but don't expect it to be right out of the box...or from the factory either...they had to detune a bit for emissions..I just looked again, you set up for the TQ now...and if you have a center dump on the right side....you win win already as this appear to be truck logs....they are very adequate...

some folks would have opted for a freezer and just put the bear in there......?

sorry, didn't read the quote in that manner.....went the other way on that one

in for a bit, sipping a cup of coffee....ran the series V as is known as Maker V that was the Moore Drop Forging.....which later become Easco and today if you compare the look of the Craftsman to the Easco...you would quickly say the Easco at x feet and unreadable would indeed be the Craftsman...so probably until maybe the last couple years Easco was still the maker....today's Craftsman socket has a different look with the new 3/8 ratchet that I picked up in a volume purchase. forgot to say....v series started in 1938

yes, but not everyday.....I usually use the speed wrenches when assembling a unit with larger panels components with multiple bolts, put heads bolts in place before starting torque sequence, oil pan and other multi bolt covers.... I prefer running these up and feel the initial squish by hand and not over squish with an air ratchet or other power tool.....I assembled an engine a bit back and was the last time I used mine....they a work saver but many place them aside in favor of power tools. I cleaned this speed wrench and was surprised to find the Craftsman name on it.

I feel you folks pain in having snow dumped......snow is for kids and romantic women....seldom do the two have to deal with it at the level most men do....if you folks recall, snow removal was the last thing that our boy Norm coupe did....another member long gone and missed, his ability to take a ribbing is unsurpassed by any member here today...his round trip from the garage to the curb and back was hilarious...

dang near look right at home in there......go with what you got, spend your money on things NOT ON HAND....got a crumb cruncher looking on I see.....checking up on if you hiding Christmas gifts in the Turkey Truck....

putting together another tool pegboard for the new work bay and digging through some of the tool boxes that came to me from my dad....imagine my surprise at the name of this wrench.....double the surprise as there are two of them....the speed wrench is a Craftsman V series....I would suspect by the art deco handle to be possibly 1940's if I were to guess...and for the superstitious, this is post 666 on this thread started by Don C....

well it sucks but it is far from a victimless crime....the crime is the damage was done and the culprit split the scene and that means now that every person who has an insurance policy is picking up the tab....everyone here is a victim now....my grandson was hit and run a bit back by an elderly couple...their whereabouts is still unknown as they split the scene post haste during the rescue operation and transport to the hospital..

I believe he is...I personally do not recall this being covered but that means diddly squat....

Well, I have seen what has not been for 800 years....what they are calling the Christmas star.....Jupiter and Saturn....side by side....was ok by naked eye but quite different with the binoculars. Get a chance, look up into the night sky....for me, it is SW about 28 +/- degrees above the horizon...

perspective can be as one views things dimensionally or as one may see things mentally....I just wanted to fit in and place blame like everyone else seems to be doing. ?

Thanks to Covid. this is the first year since retiring that I have not toured Europe between Thanksgiving and Christmas , all the other years I did not have the money or a passport.

not sure of the quarter vent screw....have never looked for them before, the clip is available from Restoration Specialties as one source...you may not like them though as the modern felt, whisker or fuzzy as many call them are nigh onto impossible to locate replacement do to construction and spacing of the inner ladder

sometimes it is not just a money thing as it is to rise to a challenge and make a part yourself, as the man says, it is not anywhere near rocket science...just an application of elbow grease to metal...I say go for it and I have all faith you will succeed in your endeavor...many folks here do not have a well equipped shop and little experience in fabricating items....they buy from the shelf, while there is nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with making your own either.