Old machines talking about chry flathead 6

[greg g]

https://youtu.be/85ztYz5Rc6A?si=oXcvqvlu9ccBvJRh

 

https://youtu.be/nWHSw9J86jE?si=YoBEs5b3LG0AYxuA

 

LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS about the Coolant distribution Tube, and about infrequent and low operating temperature conditions  in the 2nd link.  Some valuable wisdom learned over many years of experience  and many trips to training sessions.  Run them often, run them hot, run them so they work.  parade speed runs to the ice cream store once a week are not doing them any favors.

Edited January 21 by greg g

[DJK]

45 years of turning wrenches and building many engines, I have never heard of not cleaning a used camshaft due to the solvent removing soaked in oil. Guess I was lucky. As far as the coolant system rust, on my 52 the coolant overflow tube is open to atmosphere which allows O2 to be drawn into the system. I fabricated an overflow container to prevent this.

[Adam H P15 D30]

I have heard of the camshaft thing but not very often, mostly from a generation or 2 older than me.

[Sam Buchanan]

Do new cams have "soaked in oil"? Just curious....... 

[greg g]

Did you hear the part where Dodge Training indicated replacement of the water dist tube every 2 years?  So maybe waiting 50 to 70 years to service is where the trouble starts about removing them... But back then most folks ran water then added alcohol in the fall so no rust preventative in the mix.  When my father was a teen, he and his friends built  ICE BOATS.  Thing air boats on skis.  A couple used small aircraft

ft air-cooled engines, but his was Model T powered.  He said he used kerosene in the radiator.

Edited January 23 by greg g

[Tom Skinner]

I like what I heard and saw, Old Timer sharing his knowledge, what could be better?

Tom

[Eneto-55]

Thanks for posting the link. I will watch the rest of those videos later, but I couldn't stand to listen to the whole thing in one sitting - the guy doing the interview drove me nuts, with his comments and questions that either revealed a poor general knowledge, or else he was just trying to ask the questions that a total novice would ask.  Maybe that's his target audience, so I shouldn't "complain", I guess.

[Sam Buchanan]

1 hour ago, Eneto-55 said:

Thanks for posting the link. I will watch the rest of those videos later, but I couldn't stand to listen to the whole thing in one sitting - the guy doing the interview drove me nuts, with his comments and questions that either revealed a poor general knowledge, or else he was just trying to ask the questions that a total novice would ask.  Maybe that's his target audience, so I shouldn't "complain", I guess.

 

I agree, I felt the urge to yell at the interviewer "Just shut up....let the old guy talk!". Diarrhea of the mouth seems to be a common affliction of YouTube creators....but guess they have this media figured out, lots of money being put in the pockets of those who have a "YouTube personality".......because we keep watching. It's hard to eat just one potato chip.  

 

It is interesting and valuable to hear the knowledge base in the first person from those who began their careers in the heyday of our old cars....a lot of information that was common back then has to be dug up now with considerable research. So the vids are informative even if the presentation is a bit aggravating to some of us. Thanks for the link!

 

P.S. But I'm still pondering the oil-soaked cam tip.....maybe that was the way it was done before high tech assembly lubes.

[Los_Control]

I think the cam tip, may be part of the fun of old men swapping lies on the front porch. .... It sounds good.

In reality new cams were not soaked in barrels of oil before packaged and sold? .... I would assume the mechanic may have used some assembly lube or possibly just engine oil on the surfaces when it was installed .... I think a used cam should be fine if cleaned and then had clean oil or lube applied when installed.

 

I was getting a bit un interested when he was removing the distribution tube ..... I was bouncing up and down in my chair yelling!!!  CHECK OUT @48Dodger video!!!!  🤣

 

I did learn something there, I feel his approach should have been as a last resort to drill and tap the block. .... Certainly is a fool proof way to get it out though.

Very possible with his years of experience, and that block did have a unusual amount of sand in it .... Maybe it was the best way .... I would have at least tried to pull it though.

 

Always good to watch and listen to how others have done these jobs. .... I would watch more of them.

[Eneto-55]

I wouldn't tend to think that regular steel would "soak up oil".  Castings, yes. They are porous enough that it's often hard to get them clean enough for paint to stick well. (Like my transmission case.  After I scrapped all of the old grease & dirt cake off of it, I cleaned it with a wire brush and gasoline, then coated it with aluminum paint..  The grease color came back through. The bell housing was just as covered in grease and dirt, and I took that through the entire process of soaking and then bead blasted it before cad plating it. No sign of anything coming back through.)

 

But you could always put the cam in a pan of oil, and heat it up a bit in an oven.  At least you'd know that you got all of the grit off of it that way.