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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: Fussy Fussy |
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I read on another post about painting the clutch and wondered what fussy things other people do. I ma sure that somethings just gives us a better feeling inside but are not critical. Are they ?
My age means that I was brought up in the "old school".
My mentor insisted that oil was applied to the valve stems when grinding in the valves, he could not bear to think of the unlubricated contact between the two parts.
Brake grease was always applied to the points where the shoes touched the backplate. The threads on adjusters would be thoroughly cleaned and lubricated and hub back plates and the inside face of the road wheels would be cleaned of any rust and a smear of high temp grease applied.
Wheel studs would be wire brushed and a nut run down them backwards to clean the threads, certainly never any lubricant on the wheel studs or nuts.
If the rocker cover came off then it would be shine like new on the inside before being replaced. |
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clan chieftain
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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That takes me back and brings back memories to when I served my apprenticeship with Royal Mail as a mechanic in the early sixties. Good grounding it was though.It is standard practice though to oil the valve stems and oil the bores when fitting pistons. I can remember one dodge being that if a big end rattled a pice of toilet paper was cut and fitted behind the shells and it did stop it rattling until it went through the market.I can also remember being told that reversing a castle nut and running it down the thread acted like a die. Old dodges die hard.
PS..The toilet paper in question was Izal and boy was that sore on your a..e _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hi 71. I lived only a few miles form the IZAL factory.
It is a product that Captain Kirk and Mr Spock would have found useful, as it dealt with Klingons very well. |
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clan chieftain
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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_________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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old gto
Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 172 Location: Orlando, Florida
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Fussy things?
I spent WEEKS replacing the rotted wood in the 1931 Chevy with square tube steel. After hours and hours of grinding, cutting, and welding, I noticed that when the passenger door was closed, the body lines were just a little crooked.
I originally planned to pinstripe the body lines as an accent, but now it would show up that it`s not exactly straight.
No problem, I`ll just eliminate the pin stripes, and nobody will notice it.
Then the wife wanders out to the garage. She notices it right away, and tells me....
"That looks terrible. I`m not riding around in that car looking like THAT! ESPECIALLY on my side of the car! Fix it."
I try to tell her what all is involved to fix it. She says, "Well, you have a grinder, and a saw."
So I spent 2 more weekends cutting, grinding, and re-welding, just to move the cowl a quarter of an inch.
All said and done, I`m glad it`s fixed. But I would have left it if she hadn`t seen it!
_________________ "The only thing I`m sure of.....is that I`m not sure of anything!" |
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have a thing for "slotted screws"
The slots must be in the same line as each other
Very often especially Jaguar and others have slotted screws in cups on interior wooden door trims. So go and check them now!! _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
We do these things not to escape life but to prevent life escaping us |
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47p2
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Greeney in France wrote: | I have a thing for "slotted screws"
The slots must be in the same line as each other |
I'm with you on that one Greeney _________________ ROVER
One of Britain's Fine Cars |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22472 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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47p2 wrote: | Greeney in France wrote: | I have a thing for "slotted screws"
The slots must be in the same line as each other |
I'm with you on that one Greeney |
If I was doing a nut n bolt job, rather than just fettling stuff like I normally do, I'd have a bit of a thing for correct fasteners .. ie no posidrive or other inappropriate screw heads, same for wiring, no nasty crimp-on connectors - apart from the fact they're not as resilient as proper soldered ones, they also don't look too hot under a 'classic' bonnet. Saying that I've used them for 'make do' jobs, so I can't talk really, I'm just talking about 'in an ideal world....'
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clan chieftain
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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I am the same with slotted screw heads having to be in line. I go into a lot of garages with my work and I hate to see a BMW or a Jag or and car for that matter with a self tapper holding on the number plates........poor standards _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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buzzy bee
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I used to be like that with Screwe heads, but I tend to stop when they are tight now, unless I am going into wood with steel screwes, as I had a spate of shearing screwes off.
Pozidrive doesn't bother me either too much now, in it's place of course, like on a nut and bolt job, definateley not!
One thing that does get me, is having Flat washers upside down, I have been known to remove nuts my Friends have helped me in doing up, to turn the washers the right way around! The rounded side has to be facing out, Flat downwards!
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Dirty Habit
Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 398 Location: West Midlands, UK
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Greeney in France wrote: | I have a thing for "slotted screws"
The slots must be in the same line as each other
Very often especially Jaguar and others have slotted screws in cups on interior wooden door trims. So go and check them now!! |
I bet all your banknotes are the same way around in your wallet......mine are, when I have any _________________ 1964 International Harvester |
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | I bet all your banknotes are the same way around in your wallet......mine are, when I have any |
Are you sure you dont know me
I was accused of being "anal" when my friend saw my barn workshop wall with everything in its place, at least until he worked with me for a day
I will add I am ok with posidrive in their places but things on display have to be right even bolt flats I would line up if they were on a bumper for instance.
My wife just said dont forget to tell them about your fence posts!!
around my garden 4000sq metres every post is 2m apart _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
We do these things not to escape life but to prevent life escaping us |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4124 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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I don't like to see stuff "over" restored, i.e. engine bay with chrome plated brackets and over polished alloys that would never have been there originally.
I do look for even door gaps on restored cars, imho is a pretty good indicator as to how well a resto job has been done.
As you might expect I'm quite fussy about electrical stuff, really don't like to see the DIY coloured insulated crimps when originally un-insulated one’s would have been fitted, also when the wrong coloured cables or wrong tracer are used . Soldered cable joints are a no in my book; very few electrical joints were ever soldered in vehicles and properly done crimps are more reliable than soldered joints.
Interestingly cross head screws are more common in my 57 MGA than slot head I guess crosshead screws were standard in post war cars to speed up production ? |
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Uncle Joe Guest
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure that I should say this, but the pickets on my fence when I made it were exactly 62.5mm apart. In my defence, I do have a good reaon for that though! |
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Dirty Habit
Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 398 Location: West Midlands, UK
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Uncle Joe wrote: | I'm not sure that I should say this, but the pickets on my fence when I made it were exactly 62.5mm apart. In my defence, I do have a good reaon for that though! |
Which is???? _________________ 1964 International Harvester |
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