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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / December 2009Amazing Ignorance
i am amazed to see the mechanica ignorance on the other forum. People can't even fix a 2 barrel carb. They can't fix brakes. They can't check a circuit Can't set a choke Don't know what dwell is Don't know anything Then they bitch when they have to hire someone >i am amazed to see the mechanica ignorance on the other forum. >People can't even fix a 2 barrel carb. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Don't know anything >Then they bitch when they have to hire someone I had a garage near me, would give ANYTHING at one time for a mechanic that knew how to assemble an engine , put the distributor in and set the timing.. NO new mechanics had a clue. Carburetors?? ROFL I took a Quadrajet and stuck it on a Ford once, rejetted it and got almost 20mpg, in a POS Ford that would NEVER get over 12. --Shiva-- > i am amazed to see the mechanica ignorance on the other forum. > People can't even fix a 2 barrel carb. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Don't know anything > Then they bitch when they have to hire someone Can't.......or don't want to take the initiative to try. Can't tell you how many times I had to redo something over again the first time a 'new' task was tackled. But that's how I learn, by doing (over and over and over <G>). The shop manuals lay out the steps pretty well......for example, carb adjustments are step-by-step with pictures and diagrams. Read and follow along. The sad thing is a lot of shops don't have experience with 40 to 60 year old cars anymore, so someone hires out the work and it may still not be done right. Paul (time to shut my mouth) Warta >The shop manuals lay out the steps pretty well......for example, carb >adjustments are step-by-step with pictures and diagrams. Read and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Paul (time to shut my mouth) Warta every year here the county library has a book sale of stuff pulled from the shelves and donated they dont want. GEE, a 1960 Motors Auto Repair Manual for $5? SURE.. a 57 truck book? yep. and one year got a 92 that listed the big how to's on my Ford Festiva.. got a nicce collection of Motors manuals now.. --Shiva-- > i am amazed to see the mechanica ignorance on the other forum. > People can't even fix a 2 barrel carb. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Don't know anything > Then they bitch when they have to hire someone That's why joining a club AND LOCAL CHAPTER is so important. I had a head start. My uncle had a 1946 Ford which had a valvehead break off and punch a hole in head and pistion. He lived it the country and loaned me his tools to work on it. I did get it running, but not for long, as the head came off another valve on the other bank and ruined the piston head on the that side. School was starting and no one could figure out how this happened, so the junkman towed it away and gave me about as much as the head and piston had cost - $10. Great summer. It's a half-century later and no one has come up with an answer yet! Karl Haas So.. What classes did you take at school? Obviously not metallurgy or mechanical diagnostics' <lol> 50 years and no answer.... (And people get PO'd when their answer on a forum isn't responded to 5 minutes later <g>) Jeff > That's why joining a club AND LOCAL CHAPTER is so important. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Karl Haas > So.. What classes did you take at school? > Obviously not metallurgy or mechanical diagnostics' <lol> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > - Show quoted text - No answwer: As there is no crossover between the two bankss, nothing could pass theough. There is some connection via the valley where the cam shaft form the center of the floor, aaand if a large chunk of something got caught ther between the cam profile and valce stem end and was think enought so the the valve head was push hard against the cylinder head, the valvehead might be popped off. The floating piece would nthen have to floatb over the a valve for the other side and repeat the trick. This is possible, but highly unlilkely. In addition, I woyld probably have spotted it at sometime when I was working in the area. Don't seem right! Stil confused. What did I take in school? Space and time! It never ends! Now there's a guy with a 'tired' R1 Avanti that wants a 'used running' R2 engine on the cheap so he can put it in to increase the value of his Avanti. > It never ends! > Now there's a guy with a 'tired' R1 Avanti that wants a 'used running' > R2 engine on the cheap so he can put it in to increase the value of > his Avanti. So goes the slide down the banister into the abyss. One has to wonder on how some survive the rigors of everyday life... JT (Tryin' to avoid trouble) He's not from FL is he? > It never ends! > Now there's a guy with a 'tired' R1 Avanti that wants a 'used running' > R2 engine on the cheap so he can put it in to increase the value of > his Avanti. And it keeps on going and going.... A man with one eye is a king among the blind. >i am amazed to see the mechanica ignorance on the other forum. > People can't even fix a 2 barrel carb. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Don't know anything > Then they bitch when they have to hire someone |
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