Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018149
02/23/16 05:15 PM
02/23/16 05:15 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,422 Pittsburgh PA
Eric
top fuel
|
top fuel
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,422
Pittsburgh PA
|
I have done half of what has been mentioned so far..lol
Never move your trailer with the car inside and not strapped down...ask me what happens then and how I know.
5.53 @ 125 1/8th on the launch control..more left in her!
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: Eric]
#2018156
02/23/16 05:28 PM
02/23/16 05:28 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,193 PA.
pittsburghracer
"Little"John
|
"Little"John
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,193
PA.
|
If and when you are using a socket and breaker bar to turn the engine over to set your valves in the car, remove socket and breaker bar from harmonic balancer bolt BEFORE starting car after the job is finished. Don't ask me how I know.
Last edited by pittsburghracer; 02/23/16 05:29 PM.
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
Livin and lovin life one day at a time
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018161
02/23/16 05:39 PM
02/23/16 05:39 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 13,380 Marion, South Carolina [><]
an8sec70cuda
I Live Here
|
I Live Here
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 13,380
Marion, South Carolina [><]
|
After making a jet change, remember to hook the fuel lines back up before trying to start the car. DAMHIK
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018174
02/23/16 06:06 PM
02/23/16 06:06 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,502 SOUTH JERSEY
HEMIFRED
OP
master
|
OP
master
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,502
SOUTH JERSEY
|
Before going to the staging lanes be sure to disconnect the battery charger DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW
home of the Sox and Martin Hemi Duster
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: pittsburghracer]
#2018180
02/23/16 06:16 PM
02/23/16 06:16 PM
|
crabman173
Unregistered
|
crabman173
Unregistered
|
If and when you are using a socket and breaker bar to turn the engine over to set your valves in the car, remove socket and breaker bar from harmonic balancer bolt BEFORE starting car after the job is finished. Don't ask me how I know. I know how to install a sky light in my shop from that same experience---The noise alone will be something I never forget
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018184
02/23/16 06:19 PM
02/23/16 06:19 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505 TN
SCATPACK 1
pro stock
|
pro stock
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505
TN
|
When you have a new motor on the engine stand and have an oil filter on so you can prime the oil to see how the rockers are oiling, BE SURE you have an oil pressure sending unit or have blocked the plug at the back of the block. Oil is really hard to get off a 14 foot garage ceiling and the walls. OH and it would help to look up once in a while when you are priming with a drill to see if anything else is happening, like all of the oil going up on the ceiling. ASK ME HOW I KNOW.. stupid happens.
Old Geezer Racing
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: SCATPACK 1]
#2018195
02/23/16 06:25 PM
02/23/16 06:25 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505 TN
SCATPACK 1
pro stock
|
pro stock
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505
TN
|
IF you have your car loaded on the trailer, always strap it down even if you are only going 1 block back to the shop. It is not enough just to have it in park with the emergency brake on. AND don't pop the clutch on the toter like you are cutting a light. You will not like the ticket you get for blocking traffic with your race car sitting in the middle of a very busy intersection. Oh yeah, I did that too... JUST ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
Old Geezer Racing
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: SCATPACK 1]
#2018218
02/23/16 06:51 PM
02/23/16 06:51 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505 TN
SCATPACK 1
pro stock
|
pro stock
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505
TN
|
IF you have a nice garage with a parts cleaner installed. Make sure the parts cleaner is not located beside the vice that you will use to grind metal parts. A Parts cleaner fire does not start immediately, It has to burn slowly thru the filter first and THEN it will burn your garage down after you walk back outside to install the part you just ground down. Don't ask me how I know that one either. WOW I have done some dumb stuff.
Old Geezer Racing
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: SCATPACK 1]
#2018223
02/23/16 06:56 PM
02/23/16 06:56 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505 TN
SCATPACK 1
pro stock
|
pro stock
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,505
TN
|
Dang it Fred Apparently I like starting fires. IF you are welding muffler hangers to the bottom of the car, be sure the back seat is out and you can remove the black tar stuff that MOPAR used for seam sealer on 72 models before you start welding. It will catch fire and then the seat and then the rest of the interior all before you can get the water hose back on and pulled to the garage. DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
Old Geezer Racing
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: SCATPACK 1]
#2018229
02/23/16 07:06 PM
02/23/16 07:06 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 4,243 Charlotte, North Carolina
sgcuda
master
|
master
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 4,243
Charlotte, North Carolina
|
Dang it Fred Apparently I like starting fires. IF you are welding muffler hangers to the bottom of the car, be sure the back seat is out and you can remove the black tar stuff that MOPAR used for seam sealer on 72 models before you start welding. It will catch fire and then the seat and then the rest of the interior all before you can get the water hose back on and pulled to the garage. DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW. Evidently, they used the same stuff in 70. I was using a torch to notch the frame rails for inboard spring hangers. I wonder if your back seat looked like mine.
[image][/image]
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018235
02/23/16 07:14 PM
02/23/16 07:14 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,422 Pittsburgh PA
Eric
top fuel
|
top fuel
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,422
Pittsburgh PA
|
Before going to the staging lanes be sure to disconnect the battery charger DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW Oh I dragged mine down the driveway more than once when I had an open trailer that fit in my old garage. It was just so easy to pull the whole trailer in car and all and hook up the charger...
5.53 @ 125 1/8th on the launch control..more left in her!
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: v cummins]
#2018285
02/23/16 08:45 PM
02/23/16 08:45 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 2,408 Ambridge, Pa.
rickraw
top fuel
|
top fuel
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 2,408
Ambridge, Pa.
|
X2 on the pins. Also never trust a fart, I think everyone knows.
Last edited by rickraw; 02/23/16 08:46 PM.
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: CTD5.9]
#2018293
02/23/16 08:53 PM
02/23/16 08:53 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,209 New York
polyspheric
master
|
master
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,209
New York
|
Related: It's 1966. Hood is up, adding a quart of oil to a 1962 Polara 500 convertible (stock engine: 361" 4 bbl. = 305 hp) using a pointed plunger with the curved spout piercing the top of the metal can. As the pour spout reaches the valve cover breather hole, the base of the can touches the battery positive terminal. The spark ignites the oil vapor inside the can, which propels the can first at the underside of the hood, it bounces off, then shoots away across the parking lot, leaving 3 people (me, the owner, and the station attendant) and the car sprayed with hot oil. Generic photo, not the actual car.
Boffin Emeritus
|
|
|
Re: it's time for [b]DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW[/b]
[Re: HEMIFRED]
#2018335
02/23/16 09:23 PM
02/23/16 09:23 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,201 Park Forest, IL
slantzilla
Too Many Posts
|
Too Many Posts
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,201
Park Forest, IL
|
A '79 Power Wagon will roll over the top of your spare tire and winch on your open trailer and smash the tailgate on you truck. It will not easily move back either.
DAMHIK.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
|
|
|
|
|