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The hydramatic in there is a 4 speed already. For first series caddy V8s I have never seen an adaptor. You would have to fabricate it.
You know, I used to hate concrete floors, always thought some type of upgrade would be nice. Come to find out, any of those other options have downsides that are not always obvious after exploring options. Concrete is nice, doesn’t burn when welded upon, ect, easy cleans up, ect.
21 window over 100,000 for a non junker. 23 even more. I recently sold a 57 oval sunroof beetle. 58 and later bugs lost their charm as the years rolled on. I spent a huge amount of my life working on air cooled stuff but pre 68 bugs became expensive and I got out to keep my sanity. 67 and older busses when done well can be magnificent whereas 68 and later bay windows are never more than utility vehicles with little appeal to anybody. All busses were junk really but if one has to have junk make it charming old school split window bully, not 70s sage green with orange plaid hideousness.
The 3/8 ratchet with the 12v is pretty neat. Not much power, but useful never the less. MUCH better than an Air Ratchet, to me, but quicker than a regular.
Of course I am serious, it’s a great little tool set. I have yet to work in a place that didn’t have some workplace libations here and there. I knew a guy once in the brakes industry that did his best work after drinking. This is not uncommon and tools should be present for such occasions. Even if you yourself don’t drink having a drink with customers at 5 oh 5 never hurts.
Tpi L98 engines are far superior to carbed ones. This would be counter productive. If you blew up your injected engine you would be best off to repair with Oem tpi parts as the factory intended.
The tools in there are for mixing cocktails, not opening beers, you miss the point of the set. There are tools in this set that cannot be duplicated by other tools in your box, which makes this set essesential in the workplace and a must have for the toolbox in any shop.
I have Milwaukee cordless tools and recommend all of them. And yes I love the 3/8impact I have. I just bought the 12v vacuum and want to buy all the stuff they sell after seeing how good it is.
back in the day, we had vehicle inspections out here. They should still have them. Aside from obvious things we all know about, people drive things with red plastic tarps for tailights, ropes holding down trunklids, all sorts of crap that shouldn’t on the road. Inspections would take the burden off the repair shops and onto the inspection places as is should be.
I had a Datsun 620 truck that had no clutch switch. Myself I never had issues. The kid who borrowed it from me ran into a building however. I don’t recommend bypassing it.
I was hoping that Santa would bring me a nice shiny new bright red US General Tool Box from our Harbor Friends, but it didn’t happen, so I had to settle for Socks and basket of stale chocolate. Oh well, maybe next year. I also wanted a 1/18 scale model of 318 Chrysler engine but no such thing is made, only Hemis and Chevys and stuff, but no Dodge Truck engines…
A good friend of mind told me a customer of his had a buick v6 recently rebuild by a drunken mechanic and the rods went out. When autopsied, the guy obviously had to much hooch before bottom end assembly and put rod caps on backwards. Funnier part about this… he is going to have him re-do it.. LOL. Thats when the CUSTOMER needs to be repaired, and the vehicle thrown away
One time I had car broken into, all kinds of stuff taken. There was a bottle of margarita mix in there half opened and they took that. All the things that could have gone in that bottle had I known it was was to be pilfered. One time I had a radiator stolen off a UPS truck because somebody thought it was a flatscreen TV. I would have payed money to see the dissapointment in their face when they opened it up and figured out it wasn’t something anybody but me would even want. IT came back to me with a hand scribbled address and UPS didn’t want it back al though I basically forced them to send it back to the vendor.
The first car I had was a 1965 Oldsmobile Starfire with a 370hp 425 ci that I put a 1000 CFM carter carburetor on and terrorized the town with. At the same time I had a 67 442 with a 400 ci but it was more low key. First car had a single master cylinder (67 first year for dual) and a brake shoe stuck at about 130 mph. I never did care for single master cylinder systems after that one incident. Neither the car nor I was hurt in any way, although that falls in the young and stupid category being that I was within city limits.