Are you an old time mechanic?

[HCannon]

Thanks everyone for the information about the v8-60. I learned a lot today. There just wasnt very many around here. Also, I was just a kid in the 50's and that was a long time ago. The biggest thing I rember about the two I saw was how quite they ran. If you took the fan off they wouldnt have made any noise.

 

[DGamelin]

Does anyone remember if the ford 427 tunnel port side oiler engine had a hemispheric head on it? When I was just a kid a friend had a SK class race boat with one in it. I remember the intake was part of the head valve cover, covered part of the intake.

 

[B.G. Smith]

Anyone remember the under dash gasoline operated heaters? Also the under the passenger seat heaters? And the Chrysler built cars that had engine oik circulating through the torque converter/fluid coupling. I think GM had the same thing because I put a remanufactured engine in a Buick that had standard transmission and failed to remove the plug from the crankshaft on the old engine and install in the new one, had oil everwhere when I started it up. bg

 

[Joe G.]

I learned to drive on a '42 Chrysler Royal with Fluid Drive. I remember the underseat heaters but don't remember what car they were in.

 

[LMcCary]

Was the blue flame 6 in the early 50's chevy pickup truck. I think the 53 corvette had the blue flame engine in it with three carbs put on it to spice it up.



Blue Flame was a Corvette engine. 1953? with inserted rods. The H. D. truck engine was a 261. The 261 cam was similar to the Blue Flame. With an older set of long ratio rockers, the 235 would launch past a stock 4bbl 289 mustang, if the cheva had a rolling start. The change was so torqy, it would knock out the mains in about 40,000 miles.

 

[LMcCary]

under dash gasoline operated heaters



Mostly an add on device. Outlawed by the DOT in over the road trucks.

 

[Mhannink]

ok so i have not read nearly all of them but i think you old timers would be happy to hear that there are some of us youngens that do know most all of this trivia. im almost 21 but have read about these things for years. oddly enough i had forgotten some of the things but its all coming back now

 

[Dl5treez]

Anybody still remember how to adjust a heat riser?

 

[Joe G.]

Was the blue flame 6 in the early 50's chevy pickup truck. I think the 53 corvette had the blue flame engine in it with three carbs put on it to spice it up.



Blue Flame was a Corvette engine. 1953? with inserted rods. The H. D. truck engine was a 261. The 261 cam was similar to the Blue Flame. With an older set of long ratio rockers, the 235 would launch past a stock 4bbl 289 mustang, if the cheva had a rolling start. The change was so torqy, it would knock out the mains in about 40,000 miles.

The later 216 engines used in pickup trucks (not sure what year was the first) had insert rod bearings with the dipper lube system.

 

[Joe G.]

Here is a question about vacuum wipers.



Normally they wiped well at idle and low RPM and got slower if you mashed on the gas. What was wrong if the opposite happened? That is, no wipe at idle and wiped ok with lots of throttle.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Clogged air cleaner.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

If you were to go out to the driveway and clean the "oil bath" what were you doing?

 

[Skydiver]

If you were to go out to the driveway and clean the "oil bath" what were you doing?

Cleaning the air filter and recharging.



For the people under 50 years old.

What brand vehicle had 3 pedals. Left, low neutral high, middle reverse, right brake? Describe the brake action. What type of lubrication system in the engine. Where was the gas tank?



One I can't remember why was one tire sometimes jacked up to crank it?

 

[Joe G.]

Clogged air cleaner.

This one happened to my cousin. He had a '39 Chevy. The engine was overhauled and the wiper motor replaced. No wipers at idle but plenty with a lot of throttle. We puzzled about that one for a while before we figured it out. The old vacuum hose was being sucked closed at idle.

 

[DCreed]

what cars had friction shocks?

 

[Joe G.]

Fords built in the '30s.

 

[DValentine]

What is the greatest technological advance that has made the automobile what it is today?

 

[Joe G.]

That question could easily start a good argument. I think it would be the electric starter. That technological advance allowed anyone to drive an automobile.



The assembly line would be another candidate for that.

 

[DodgeWarlock]

Graded roads. :-laf:-laf:-laf



Parts interchangeability! No contest.



A close second would be mass production. But you had to have parts interchangeability to make it work.



Third, would be the electric starter.



Fourth ought to be hydraulic brakes. Without that upgrade, the braking systems were not up to traveling safely regularly at the speeds necessary to make them practical.

 

[DValentine]

There is one answer that I am looking for. You will all agree when it is guessed or I spill the answer.

D