I don't know if it's an Okie thing because I saw some serious rig-ups in Alabama.. Hell I used a cable clamp on the clutch cable of my Chevy Luv truck for years.. It broke while out in traffic one day and I used a vice grip pliers to afro-engineer it to get it home.. A country boy can survive JD
Ya gotta work with what ya got and this is a great example of a logical mind adapting to circumstances, however I prefer using 2 vice grips 180 degrees apart.
Had a ‘53 Packard straight eight with three on a tree. Clutch spring was gone. Had to make sure I didn’t push the clutch all the way to the floorboard and leave enough room to put my toe under it to raise and engage transmit.
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I don't know if it's an Okie thing because I saw some serious rig-ups in Alabama.. Hell I used a cable clamp on the clutch cable of my Chevy Luv truck for years.. It broke while out in traffic one day and I used a vice grip pliers to afro-engineer it to get it home..
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JD
I had to do the vise-grip trick on the clutch cable of a 1976 Honda Gold Wing. Not the most fun day of my life, but I made it home.
DeleteYa gotta work with what ya got and this is a great example of a logical mind adapting to circumstances, however I prefer using 2 vice grips 180 degrees apart.
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And Alfie Wise dead at 82. Didn't have that one on the card.
ReplyDeleteThe weakest part of the car is the nut that holds on the steering wheel...
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Should have traded the silver chain for a beaner-wheel made from steel chain.
ReplyDeleteWay, way back, 1953 Chevy with column shift. Shifter was vice grips and putting it into 1st was challenging. Hey, I just drove; I didn’t own it.
ReplyDeleteHad a ‘53 Packard straight eight with three on a tree. Clutch spring was gone. Had to make sure I didn’t push the clutch all the way to the floorboard and leave enough room to put my toe under it to raise and engage transmit.
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