Posted on 11/08/2023 7:29:10 AM PST by Red Badger
“it was to a little kid who rode around in family cars till then—”
When I was a little kid my father’s 32 Ford with a flathead V8 was a beast!
well you were fortunate- good for you
Years ago I had a brother going through a rough patch. T-boned in a car wreck his arm was broken so he couldn’t work. And his car was totaled so he needed another ride, as cheap as possible.
A friend of his gave him a car - a 1966 Lincoln Continental - that had been resting in the damp Pacific Northwest woods for over a decade. We dragged it out of the woods and I set to determining whether or not the beast could be rejuvenated.
I did the Marvel Mystery Oil trick down the holes to get the motor unstuck and got it running with not much more than a tune-up kit and a new water pump.
My brother drove the beast for about 18 months while recovering and building up a fresh head of steam. All it ever required was regular infusions of gas - lots of gas!
https://www.youtube.com/@DieselCreek
Matt takes heavy equipment that's been abandoned for 20 years & gets them up & running.
Fun channel!
Vise Grip Down Under...
Great Story!
My husband and I ran a Delta 88 into the ground that way too. LOL!
Some of our old fire trucks had 2 stroke Detroits in them. Every morning we would pull everything out of the equipment bay and wipe up about a 3’x5’ pool of oil. On Saturday we put 3-5 quarts of oil in them.
That was considered normal leakage and consumption.
If you matted the throttle from a stop it would blow a black cloud of smoke that would block out the sun, and you about had to mat it to get it rolling.
Ah, the good old days.
Lubricate. Most misused product...ever. 🤣
We used to recover junked outboards that had sunk in saltwater either at a dock or in the harbor and written off by insurance. We used fresh water, then isopropol alcohol followed by drying then a soak in a 55-gal drum of MMO to free the engine up. 1-3 months to get a new/used outboard engine. Most ocean-working ppl on the island had 3 or more outboards to swap when one had a problem.
Those engines were really on a Magical Mystery Tour! :-)
EVs do exactly the same thing, no?
Yeah, riiiiight....................
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