Plymouthy Adams

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.

hopefully you are not trying to read the air gap...?

regardless of chassis ground the device will need be connected + and - respectively....

is this unit farmed out at this time and why it may or may not be on the chassis?

in another 30 years.....flounder about at a greater state of confusion...

therein lies the importance of marking and at least ensuring on removal the position of the rotor when on TDC..and also NOT to rotate said crank till you have reinstalled the distributor. Wish I had a nickel for every one that was "absolutely not 180 out" Factory timing which is the relative 7 position is obtained by proper installation of the oil pump to the cam. While the engine can be timed at any point on wrong insertion of the oil pump, one must make this mental note and clock the towers as needed to compensate. However I have never thought it practical to deviate from proper assembly as such time down the road it often will rear its ugly head in such cases as this....you now have the opportunity to place things back proper and thus be able to with some degree of certainty, follow the book. TDC is established and verified by the access hole in #6 cylinder postion on the head and by valve to determine if TDC 1 or 6 at that time. You can short cut by doing TDC and if it does not start immediately, rotate the shaft 180 and not bother to check the valves with access plate removed or doing the compression with finger as you position the crank TDC. This #6 access is ball park only as only a pison stop and degree wheel will establish true TDC

I see the picture dates are 15 years old....old photos or camera date wrong...if date is right how well did the cab fare out in the weather with no glass....some of these survivors have amazing stories and will to live.