davehummell

When I went to Caterpillar engine school the instructor told us to always hold the liners down just as a precaution those o ring liner seals on 3406's were soaked in motor oil and then you put them on the liner and get the liner in place right away before the seal swelled up I don't think I soaked the o rings for the 1693 engines but that was a long time ago and my memory is not that good any more. I cut a lot of blocks for shimming the liners for liner projection height.

When Fetterman got elected I figured what we just need another democrat, but he has surprised me with the way he thinks I bet he isn't a favorite member of his party he does look like a hoodlum in some of his photos

I bought one of those clear top stoves and later on I replaced it with a Viking gas range I like the gas stove better I have a collection of Griswold cast iron frying pans I cook with about every day I use a number five to cook my eggs every morning

I think all the weird drugs that get shipped in and what they do to people's minds have a definite impact on how society acts so I don't see any problem blasting the drug boats anyway posable. The welfare situation is out of hand anymore with the attitude with some people have a bunch of kids and set on your ass and get paid.

While her death was a tragedy her actions were inflammatory in bringing on the end result. Don't these people have anything better to fill their life with do they work? I never had time to think about protesting I was old enough to sign up for the draft but never thought to protest I was working a steady job

Back in the dark ages I remember paying $5.00 for a Cummins oil pan gasket for my 220

On my B I did upgrade the truck to help the ride and steering with my injured back and shoulder on my 31 Model A coup I added led tail and turn signal lights for safety and upgraded the steel brake drums to cast drums and modified the stock engine a bit to keep up to traffic on the road. My 32 Ford pickup has disc front brakes upgraded suspension plus a 9 inch Ford rear 302 and a C-4 trans it stops pretty good and it also will keep up with traffic also led turn and taillights

When I installed the newer engine in my B I bought the dry type air cleaner that was a copy of the original oil bath I ordered it from Watts

A good friend's dad had a ford model jeep he restored. When I was young, I used to go camping with the neighbors and they had an old flatfender jeep two of my friends have flatfenders they still use them another neighbor has one stored in his barn for way over thirty years. When I was taking auto repair in tech school I rebuilt an engine from an old flatfender jeep did an 8 N Ford tractor engine too.

I have a new style five gallon plastic gas can and it is the biggest pain to try using I have some older ones that are probably 20 years old, and they work so much easier just a simple spout and a separate vent. Last year I bought a cheap battery powered pump and it real helps at my age putting fuel in my Kubota loader backhoe the fuel filler cap is on top of the hood area and lifting five gallons of diesel up over the steering wheel isn't getting any easier

Many years ago my uncle and I was restoring an old hit and miss engine and the cylinder was rusted really bad so I clamped it onto the carriage of my American lathe and with a boring bar I made I bored the cylinder out and we used a heavy threaded rod and a couple of plates I turned and we pulled the liner in place it would of went easier if we froze the liner I didn't want to move the engine block until I bored the new liner to size for the cast iron piston it turned into a long day time we got done. My one worker did two cycle engine liner replacements I used my freezer and oven on those jobs. I did liner job on an old air cooled Gallaway hit and miss engine we stood it up on my bridgeport and bored it the liner was about 10 or so inches long I was a little tense doing the boring on that job

We used dry ice when needed when I was still at Cleveland brothers many years later I was restoring my Velocette Thruxton motorcycle and I bought a ruff cast cylinder head and I got all the machining done and I went to a guy I knew, and he dipped the valve seats in nitrogen and we stuck them in the aluminum head worked quite well

When I transferred the title over into my name and purchased the antique tag it was an easy process I have Hagerty insurance on the Mack and my 31 model A and my 32 ford hotrod pickup the state quit asking for photos but Hagerty wants the photos of the vehicles in their garage every spring I haul mulch in on the Mack and use it to haul round bales for my goats.

Back when I was still working I noticed most hydraulic fittings brand name ones made in China my friend runs a car repair business and he claim's the parts are spotty for holding up and most rotors you can't cut anymore they are too thin. When I was building my 32 hotrod I went up to Cleveland Bros to get a can of cat cement while I was there, I visited with a guy I used to work with, and he said they changed the formula some time ago and it wasn't as good as it used to be I wanted it for glueing the valve cover gaskets on the ford 302 engine it worked but not as good and it was quite expensive

Back in the early 70's I worked on some International trucks and it was real interesting trying to get the right parts owing to how their system was set up I had better luck ordering parts for Cat equipment. later on, I had really good parts guys to help me get parts for the trucks I worked on I really depended on the guys a Cooks for about 20 plus years plus they were a Mack parts dealer which helped me with the Macks I worked on.