Old husband's tales

bobpo said:
I'd love to see someone duplicate that setup. Would that be cool or what??

Actually this would be a Great Project for some of you"Barners" and there should almost be a Prize for the "FIRST TO POST" kinda thing . :p:p
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I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that someone will do it and post a picture! I want to see the blurr of the fan, so we know it's running.
 
lesbliss said:
When I was in high school several of my friends and my Dad had planned a fishing trio. Got all the gear loaded in Dad's 29 Town Sedan and no start. Lifted the hood to see someone had "borrowed" distributor cap, rotor, coil wire and plug cooper strips. Dad had a spare rotor but no cap or wires. I thought our trip was bust, but dad took a piece of wood, notched it at each end to hold the distributor cap clips, wrapped a piece of bailing wire around it, ran that to the coil and fashioned plug wires from more bailing wire. Car ran fine and it was so much fun to watch the fire show at night that we left it that way for some time.
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It works! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-IJqACbBgs
 
It makes sense now. For some reason when he said cap I was picturing the whole didtributor body. I should have known better.
Thanks,
Jon
 
I think of it that way too.Everything plastic is the cap,and the metal is the body.Not correct,but that 's how it sticks in my mind.Years ago I was sanding the roads for the state when the loader dropped a piece of frozen salt on my engine cover.The sander was Wisconsin powered,with the distributer up against the cover.The cap was split,but I got it through the storm,maybe another 15 or 20 hours.I wrapped some duct tape around it and it just sputtered a little bit.I pulled the cap off later to match it up,and figured I would set the points at the same time.I shorted the solonoid to bump it over a little,and it started up on me.The wires had taken a set,hanging right over the rotor where they should be.The coil wire rested on the rotor,and went around in a little circle with the rotor.Now and then it would pop when the spark decided to jump to the wrong plug wire,but it sat there and ran while everyone around the shop came over to watch it.
 
Back in the '60's a friend had a running chassis. No body but all the running gear was there. As usual he wanted to start it up. It ran well. He decided we should take it for a test ride. There was no gas tank. We put a 2 X 12 board across the frame rails and a milk crate for him to sit on. I stood on the right side with a plastic ketchup squirt bottle keeping the carburetor filled with gas. We would run till it started sputtering then I would squirt more gas in the float bowl. 25-30 squirts later we had made it around the block. :D
 
1955, in the Sierra Nevada moutains in my '30 roadster, minus hood, gas line broke behind ferrule at gas strainer, my co-pilot hung over the windshield and held the gas line in the hole as I alternatd gas valve off and on 'til we arrived at Kings Canyon Steak House. After a great steak dinner, we asked for some string and custom wound a ferrule, tightened the nut, and off for Fresno. I ran it that way all the next week. So remember to carry a ball of string along with your baling wire.
CHIEF, ( my dad ) taught me that trick, bless his soul!
 
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Like I said, that would really be Kool. Well I still feel the same way; :p:p:p:p:p"That is really Kool" :p:p:p:p:p
 
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