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I read where metal bonding is stronger than a weld, so ‘glued’ a plate over the break in my EMPI frame. If this is a mistake, I can still weld.

I have enjoyed this post. All the different bikes, fun to learn about them. I grew up on pones, so i”m a horse person.

9-15-38 Who, still vertical, can top this? I grew up sans electricity, radio, roads, toilet paper. My uncles rolled their own,, brewed their own, drove model A cars. Most today doesn’t even remember black / white TV.

jerry, age 93.

Wow, didnt know that, well then I have a V8 for sale. H,mm,m. I have a T5 transmission will put that behind the engine. that will allow me to do all I will ever need to do. TKS for the heads up.

So a V8 into my truck is not an easy swap?`

I just bought a 277 semi hemi (poly I believe) for my truck. I hate to remove the flat head, but I need more power. Any suggestions? I

That’s where I thought it was! Yes. Will repost. TKS.

Who has put a 318 into a pilot house? What transmission did you use?

This was a ground driven hay bale elevator. We attached ours to an extended bumper hitch on our trucks to load them. Did not take very long, but the person on the bed truck making the stack was quite busy. Our alfalfa bales weighed about 100#s each. We were just teenagers and evidently quite strong. No wimps in our family. We would haul home a pair of truck loads twice each day, unload by hands and put the bales into the large stack for winter feed. then do chores after that. It was just how we worked and lived. We do not own any of what we had.

I put in a rubber grommet in the rod end from Ace. It is only a snug fit for noice control. Nothing special about it.

Ive met a few interesting people, but you exceed all of them. We will have to take a drive with our two cars when I get mine on the road.

Putting up hay stacks. We did 30+ stacks like this. I was on the stack topping it out. Which means i was building a crown so water would shed off. We had a massive trailer, 24’ L X 16’ W with a tilt bed, tandem dual oscillating rims and tires and a camel winch which pulled the entire stack on in about 5 minutes, once the cables were in place. The meadow of 120 acres was about six miles from the ranch. So at thanksgiving I would haul to the ranch three stacks a day. It was not hard work, i really enjoyed that exercise.

WW II. We loved to watch the airplane flights form Detroit to LA. 40 planes to the squadron, usually 5 or more per trip. The fighter planes and especially the P38s were our favorites. Fuel, rubber, sugar, flour, rationing (for which farmers were exempt,). The name Tojo was both amusing and frightening. I strikes me strange today, that I do not remember Pearl Harbor. After the war, tractors were again available. That meant the slaughter of millions of draft horses once valuable suddenly required feed but useless. Our beautiful bay team were shot in the back pasture, perfectly healthy horses. In 1948 the rural electric program went into affect. Called the REA, we received electricity on the ranch in 1948. Was at first strange to have lights in the BARN and a yard light ALL night. Could recall more, but this is enough.

Los, this will be brief, but will be a response: I grew up in Western Nebraska on a wheat and cattle combination ranch. We were on the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills and had no neighbors to the east and south, only miles of native grass. At first we had no road to rhe ranch, no electricity, no running water, radio only until sundown. At age 7 we lost our mother to kidney failure, a new wonderful mouthy 18 months later. I am the middle of two brothers,, five years separate the oldest from the youngest. Starting at age 14 I spend many days driving a Model D John Deere tractor plowing, etc the soil which I loved to do. No sun shade, a gallon jug of water morning and afternooon. We milked cows before and after tractor work and did that year around through high school, I graduated from high school in 1956. I did not like college yet went and became a high school teacher and debate coach. At age 66 I returned to the university and did all reaquired to earn a MA, but did not do the thesis. Those college kids were smart but extremely naive. My debate teams won the state debated tournaments four out of five years, Never done again in that high school. Left education and went into box and machinery sales in the California fruit basket. Married at age 22, have three children one in Indiana, one in Maine, and now one i Virginia, thus our desire to move east to Maine, probably next spring. My first car i paid $40 for, a 37 Ford two door sedan. I drive it up to 60 mph then discovered it had mechanical. Scared me so much I seldom drove it. My second car a ‘50 Plymouth fast back. Drove it from Western Nebraska to central California and back. Never tuned it, just changed the oil and drove it sensibly. Experienced the great blizzard of ‘49, 50 inches of snow with 70 MPH winds for two days. Didnt leave the ranch for four weeks. Ive been on a horse from age eight, branded, casterated, fed bucket calves, Had my hand in a cows rear to my elbo to turn around a baby calf and then pull it out to live. When I see the soft lives of todays young people I am not very sympathetic, so of course believe the current government leaders are stark crazy and do not understand what they are destroying. I am a conservative born again Christian of the Mennonite culture and Lord willing will turn 84 in September. When I bough my truck 14 years ago,, i knew nada about auto mechanics. That has been the most satisfying time and item of my life. That is a very short autobiography and hope it was not boring. chow, Pau Flaming aka pflaming.

Will wait until I’m able, then pull the doghouse and swap in a good engine. I have T5 transmission which I will swap in at the same time. Ive turned the corner on this malady. Fatigue still an issue but sore throat, coughing, head cold are gone. Still have the effects of the lyme infection but starting to feel human again. Yet will not get active for another week, then just a small project a day. ; Thankyou for you support. Others are struggling also, some much worse so I’m thankful for my improvement.

I do, just was wondering. Pulling the doghouse and swapping engines not physically possible just now. But today I feel like a human again, so I trust in a few weeks will get somewhat back to “normal”. I really miss my truck. I have a T5 transmission I want to put in when I do the swap. Then I will have a GREAT truck. Best health to all, trying times.

Question. Is it possible to repair a knocking rod without pulling the engine on a 218 B3B?

Dont know the politics, but I’m just recovering from covid type effects on top of the Lyme infection and iit has been a TOUGH time. I think I turned the corner yesterday, feeling more human today. Best to all, these are not the “best of times”!

At age 83, infected with lyme, near deaf, and now struggling with covid, I read your courageous account with great interest and full respect for your candid reports. Your name is on my prayer list. May God provide. Paul

Very interesting.

Very interesting.

Saw this test on You Tube. Interesting results, i use only liquid wrench.

“Drift off” well, not always. No forum is perfect, this one remains my only source for Mopar Flatheads, google also works well for me. But then, I have slowed way down.