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Lucky duck! I wailed on mine with a steel hook on a 2lb slide hammer & it doesn't budge. I'll maybe have to cut it up.

Hey, that thing is made to last forever. I sure like the reversible nature of the jaws (unlike my "donut" type puller legs, which do not reverse.) Anybody seen a "backwards" leg set on a donut style puller?

I've been trying to post this pic for over a week, but my internet connection was on the fritz. This is the hub puller I made for the 5 on 4.5" hubs. It's a circle of 1/2" plate, which I got as a scrap, a 1.25" dia fine thread grade 8 bolt, a nut. and a pass with the MIG. I drilled 5 holes and use 6" long bolts to the hub. This one works better than my factory made puller on a 4.5" bolt circle & it stays nice and straight. With this design, you can wrench it up tight, then smack it hard with a 4lb hammer, and there's no chance it'll go crooked. With the "donut" type, it's sometimeshard to keep the donut from turning, and that throws the legs out of alignment. I just put a wrench on that big nut and everything's stable.

Glad I read this thread, as I'd never thought about the positive ground/electrolytic capacitor issue myself. I come from the vacuum tube days myself, and as a kid I'd pick up old TV's and fix them. This always meant a trip to Radio Shack to use the tube tester. Last time I was there, the people working the store had all been born in the IC era & would have had no clue what a tube tester is.

You can put heli-coils in the hub. I've fixed a couple this way & it's easy enough.

Was his case heard by a petit jury?

Clearly you were a loose canon. Or cannon, LOL (The devil made me do it.)

After moderating a few different forums over the past decade or so, I gave up on caring how people spell or write, or whether their grammar is too "contemporary", sloppy, or just plain odd. Nowadays, as long as I can understand what follks mean, I consider it a victory in communication. But at work, if some bozo brings me a tech document with misplaced parentheses or one misspelled word, I will give them a hard time about it.

Like bob, I bought my P15 on credit and made 36 payments. Otherwise, I bought mine in '85 all shiny... I drove it daily, and over 30 years turned it into this:

I'm not an HVAC guy, & I haven't seen that exact heater, but a traditional gas burner will have an air "regulator" door for the combustion inlet, that you adjust manually depending on your air pressure (height above sea level changes this.) My old heater had 3 burners and had one air valve for each. Once you change the jets you have to re-balance the air so the flames are blue and hot. Back in 1974 I got to purge & light the giant 3-conveyor high Pepperidge Farms cake oven. There were like a dozen gas valves at each level & each had an air control at the gas pipe with a short handle and a lock screw. That plant was pretty much state of the art in those days & I had the run of it on the night crew of mechanics & mfg engineers. It was my practical introduction to manufacturing engineering. (EDIT...OH hell! I typed all that & forgot this. Contamination in the gas and gas line can cause backfires. Also, If this heater has a blower for combustion air that's one thing. If the blower is just to purge the heater before lighting that's another. It should stop before the ignition. BTW, The purge routine at Pepperidge Farm involved a 20 HP blower plus flashing lights and a siren. )

Exactly: it's to make you visible while parked along a road at night; and in several states it's quite illegal to drive with your parking lights on.

Will the box get rubber bushings at the mounting bolts? For that matter, does your car even have rubber body mounts? BTW, I like the look too.

I'd love to see a video of that bad boy in action.

OK, I want that last one but without the cannon.

It always hurts to lose a pet. It's the same as losing any family member. Red looked like great dog, 'Dodger.

You said, "it would not make them money." My point was that everything they do makes them money because they manipulate the government. No matter which was insured--car or driver--they'd still be sure to make money, and Joe Public would still be the loser.

You're forgetting that the insurance industry practically runs the country, ever since the laws that made insurance mandatory.

Oh you will pay a good fine here, to get re-registered and/or to be caught driving un-registered & It's all electronic. They give you paper, but it's a joke. I can print a better insurance card than the one they give out. At inspections, they plug your car right into the DMV computer network. Big brother has your number...They don't bother to take the plates because fake plates are too easy to make/fake/buy/steal.

A lapse is no problem here until registration time. Then they want to see insurance. But my Plymouth is on a "non-op" registration. It stays in the system, but you don't pay any fees until you want to drive it. Then you just get insurance & renew the registration. I was busted for bluedots in 1986 & they've been in the closet ever since. In Calif you must be an LEO or emergency vehicle to have blue lights visible from outside the vehicle.

Um....no thanks. ;-) I was just curious about under what conditions your state allows them. Are they considered legitimate historical accessories or some such?

That policy is lapsed as I haven't needed insurance on this car in a while. But I did go through this at the time, and there were restrictions on cashing in on the stated value. For one thing, if the value of the car on the open market goes down, they can reduce the payout.

Huh! I never heard of that one. They're strictly verbotten here.

In California I was easily able to get antique car insurance with ordinary plates, no photos, and no inspection. The insurer did issue me a "stated value" policy without an appraisal. The agent looked at the car, said "That's nice." Took two photos and that was it. Calif plates are now white & my 1947 car should have a "black plate," but has a "blue plate" issued in the early 70's when it was originally restored. You can get a "red plate" for horseless carriages made before 1922 or certain other cars up to '65. You can get a white "historical vehicle" plate for cars made after '22 but over 25 years old. There are some restrictions.

This is strange, but my car was the same way. One door check bumper was still installed (driver's) and one was loose in the bottom of the door (passenger side.) The little retainer pin had just worn through I suppose, or the door had been removed & not reattached there. I didn't find the pin but maybe it fell out a weep hole.

$180 / ton? Interestingly, that's actually cheaper than the chicken manure, which is about $200 / ton. So we know where the long-term business goals should actually lie.