Hot Rods Mis-named Automotive Equipment...

Contacts?

 

A tappet is a cam follower or lifter today. A rocker is still a rocker or rocker arm.
Maybe the “dizzy” guys say it’s an up-n-down..

 

Valve cover or rocker cover?

 

Worm drive clamp , a recent thread , just call them what they are . Hose clamp.

 

A motorcycle has "rocker boxes".

 

Rocker covers. They cover the rockers. Yes, it's that obvious.

 

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To add to confusion- So where does a Rocker panel live?
I worked in the electrical field for many years, you could tell the auto blokes from the electronic techs, as they were the only ones to call an automotive capacitor a "condensor". "Condensor" was replaced by "Capacitor" in electronics in the mid '60's, roughly when they started making transistorised equipment and were phasing out (here's another British term-) "valves" (or vacuum tubes if you are anywhere else in the world).

 

Huh?

 

Arkansas Gas Ratchet
Air Breather for Air Cleaner
Single leg differential
One tire fire

 

Sure can . Though for the Holden guys, it was usually not called a hood ornament. Normally referred to as a bonnet budgie.


Cheers,
Harv

 

Possum box— Southern for glove box. Why? I have no idea.....

 

So why isn't GM called GE? and what the hell is a back dash? It's a package tray. How about a front rear end?

 

This one kind of makes me smile. Not really a misnomer or misnamed... just a slight variation. And actually quite fitting.
"Sediment bowl."
But because any particles in the fuel settle to the bottom of the bowl, a lot of the old-timers I've known call it a...
"Settling bowl."
But they don't pronounce it quite like that. More like...
"sed-lin bowl."
Or if you wanna get real country...
"Set-lin bowl."

 

Cause that's where you put the possum you ran over so you can take it home and cook it up for supper.

 

Worked for a guy that called for a chelagle- shi- lay- lee when he wanted about a 4 pound mallet.

 

And what the heck is a "3rd member?" - The last bloke in a very small club? And if he gets angry, does he become a "cross member"?

 

lifters actually...

 

Oh oh, here we go.... I thought I made it plain at the beginning not to bring this up even though you are correct! LOL

 

Well it is Redi Rod isn't it?

 

As I've said before they should be called "Throw Them Outs"!

 

It's a gang thing.

 

I actually did a little digging on this motor/engine controversy a few months ago. Apparently an electric motor is a motor but an engine can be a motor, It has to do with intended function.

 

I'm a dyke, I love women...

 

After the last post, now is as good a time as any to ask..................who knows what a 'beaver panel' is ???

 

Rear pan, tail pan.

 

Well you would know, wouldn't you? You're from here too.
I would say 'rear valence panel, under bumper'. What is this called in the US ???

 

I worked on EH Holdens when doing my panelbeating apprenticeship in the early seventies and you phoned the Holden parts place up and ordered a beaver panel because that was what Holden called them.

 

It seems Holden also called hoods hoods.

 

Haha, funny how that made sense to me.He may have had bavarian or austrian ancestors. A real BFH is called a "Schlegel" here. Like in " Hand me the Schlegel!"

 

More likely Irish or Scottish, but you get the idea.