Recent content by dlsmith

Good looking old IH CO4070B in front of it. Spent a lot of hours working on those back in the 70s. Nice looking 57 Chevy next to it.

I had pretty bad trigger finger about 15 years ago, but after I sold my trucks and don't stress my hands nearly as much, it eventually went away. I can still feel the knot on the tendons of my middle fingers, but it has diminished a lot, so it no longer catches when moving through the first...

I liked this one too.

I don't remember the brand, but I bought a bottle of that solution and used it to refinish a lot of bolts on my Nova when I was restoring it. Makes them look just like factory.

When my son was 3 or 4, my mother took him into town one day. As usual there was a train at the N. Main street crossing, and while waiting, mom heard him say something, but didn't catch it the first time. She asked him what he said and he said "damn trains." She asked him who taught that...

No one has filed a class action suit against them for a couple of hundred million bucks yet. It takes motivation to get change.

There used to be a place a few miles away that sold seconds, end of runs and surplus steel. I bought a lot of tubing, sheet and bar stock from them over the years. Then, a couple of years ago they suddenly closed up and were gone. The message on the answering machine said a company in a town 30...

The shaft that drives the transmission will have to be unbolted from the crankshaft pulley and slid back to get the belts off and on. I believe you'll have to take the battery out and remove the access plate under it to get access to the shaft.

In the ~50 years I've installed new rotors and pads on my vehicles, all I ever did was install them and drive them normally. I always got excellent life out of them. Maybe the new pads are kinda sissies, and need to be pampered for a while.

Where you going to keep it? I don't imagine your wife would let you bring "the equipment" home with you.

Must have been a helluva good party last night.

I'm sure it depends a lot on how well they were maintained, what kind of conditions they were used in, and if they saw a lot of hard use. We had a Marion dragline back in the 60s and 70s with a 3-71 Detroit Diesel for power, and we finally had to overhaul it at ~22,000 hours because it wouldn't...

Power washed the BX and the JD today, before it gets evil hot for the next 5 or 6 days. The deck is next on the schedule to get power washed.

I remember them all but 12. Never haf peashooters, but did have slingshots, bb guns and pellet guns.

In 1981 my 1950 model decided she didn't need me any more, but did take half my money. Never bought another one. Had a few test drives though.