Technical Car guy? Could you do this crap and sleep at night?

Actually, the is a BEARING KIT for the idler arm assembly; it's often referred to as "the poor mans power steering", for the Tr-Five Chevrolet cars. It is strictly aftermarket, and sold through all the Tri-Five Chevrolet vendors and on E-Bay. It replaces those bushings and rubber grommets, etc, and really tightens up the steering. Look into it; it's much better than the stock pieces; it even comes with COTTER pins. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Ah a buddy gave me new bushings. The car has power steering so I'm gonna go with them. Thanks for the info

 

Actually a little known fact about the inventor of the kotter pin he was originally a teacher in Brooklyn and he taught a bunch of kids called the sweat hogs.

Now the inventor of the carter pin (often mistaken for kotter pin) was also a former president of the United States

 

Truck,,,,LMAO,,,,,I almost started coughing,,I was laughing so hard !

Tommy

 

Sorry! Take a shot of Bourbon, if your Doc approves... Should help.

 

Yeah i peed a little bit on that one lol

 

Looks to me that the cable tie is being used as a butt connector (someone may be taking the name "cable tie" too seriously.) That HAS to be a great power flowing connection. LOL! Gene

 

If it gets you home on a rainy wintery night, so be it.

 

Haha yes absolutely correct mate.
But Americans are a whole different race of people with their own very odd language.
This is a cotter pin in the English or Aussie world:



And this is a clevis pin:

And this is a split pin:

Not to be confused with your wife's, bobby pin.

Kind of the same thing but not recommended for critical areas of holding hot rods together.

 

Starter motor jammed in a Willys Jeep way out in the boonies. Jeep stuck in the mud sort of so could not rock it loose. Had to unbolt from bell housing with a pair of detonator pliers! Took a while!!

 

This thread makes me wonder if there has ever been a "what's the craziest thing you've done to get your car home" kind of thread. I wouldn't even consider this a shade-tree kind of job. It's just shady.

 

Something something about riding mopeds, and fat chicks.

 

I bought an OT SUV and the guy who had it before me rigged the power line to subs just like that at the frame (with some loose electric tape) and had it zipp-tied to the fuel line all the way to the back....with no fuse

 

LOL!!!
Yessir! They're both fun to ride, just don't let your friend's catch you on one!

 

One of my customers buys his daughter a Pinto, around 1979. It ran poorly and I forget what prompted taking off the valve cover. It had a carefully cut and folded piece of bed spread lining the valve cover... to quiet down the noisy as hell valve train. He was able to get his $$ back on the deal.

 

LOL when we were in high school the wife and I were about 60 miles from home and the radiator top tank in the Merc sprung a leak. We were near a park with a public restroom. I was getting water and mrs beaner goes into the bath room. Then she comes out and wants my pocket knife. Back in she goes and returns with a wad of widow putty. We packed it in the leak loosened the radiator cap and drove it home.

 

Was that when you knew you had a keeper?

 

Ok people, I'm jumping on the bandwagon here...……….Here are some pics of people who should never be allowed to even purchase body filler products! This is a pic of my car when I bought it.
Look carefully at the lower rear quarter panel! They put a piece of straight Sheetmetal in and filled it with body filler up to 1" thick-I keep this as a trophy in my shop.
Peeling off the 1/2" thick body filler on the front passenger fender. The good news was that under all this body filler was good Sheetmetal-thank goodness.
I know, lets French in the headlights using 54' Merc headlight rings but wait I can't weld, so...…….
let's body filler it in place...……………..
I hope no one loses their meal after seeing these but I had to share
After 7 hard years of metal work, lead work and some body filler for the minor imperfections, finally got it back and have been adding the chrome etc., you can see more details on my project thread "My 51 Kustom Merc".

 

Body filler glue! That's some good stuff brother it isn't that hard, nor does it take that much longer to do it right.

 

No somewhere between when she just showed up with Donuts and white coveralls on Saturday morning to help me tune for Sunday and when I scooted my Norton out from under her leaving a stoplight (a week later) and when I returned she jumped on and said, "Guess I better hold on better" (that was our first real date) was when I decided that. LOL

We actually pooled our funds and bought that Merc from an old farmer 2 weeks after our first date.

 

Gypsy in the parking lot, "Hey man, I can fix that for you cheap. Then all you have to do is sand it down and get it painted"

 

That's a good woman right there!! I've got one of those too, she'd rather be at the drag races than bath and body lol

 

Everyone knows when you’re laying filler more than an inch thick the first inch has to be fibreglass kitty hair.


Pretty sure I saw one of the bondo monkeys on tv mix a can of filler in a paint shaker and spread it on a roof using a 4’ strip of metal.



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Now that you have opened that door Bob...........
I worked with a guy that was a real tightwad, he bought a P/&t@ real cheap, it ran terrible, found out it had a flat cam.
One hot summer day we're sitting having lunch near the big open roll up door and the guy pulls in, wheels a welder over, pulls the cam cover off, lays a welding blanket over the area and welds up the flat cam lobes then "machines" it with a grinder.
We all gave him the biggest laugh and he says it's ok, I protected it from grinder grit.
This was on a half hour lunch break.

 

Custom grind cams are the best cams lmao!

 

I see this stuff everyday...I do vehicle pre-purchase inspections.

 

But....do you remember Zippy the PinHead?

 

I bet you get some good laughs