YOU GOT AH COBLER IN B.F. COUNTY??????
Remember when?
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Ha!! Hell, no.
65sporty
Old Man with a Hat
All the center post hoists I have seen have a second smaller post that had the lock and kept the hoist from rotating a lot. It would move some though
My rubber mallet did more duty as a wheel chock than a wheel cover installation aid... oddly, now my hand hurts when I pound them on without the mallet
.I will up the ante, and ask you to remember when parking on that metal pad would have lined your C body perfectly. It seems like they install them short when they use them now.
Agreed, all except that first one... That same shop had 4 pedestals and tracks on the floor for doing alignments with a magnetic bubble vial head and a optical sight for setting toe to the trust angle of the rear.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I do remember "Little Louey's" (That's what we affectionately called him) Metropolitan barely fitting onto the swing arms.
I remember the first time I did my first alignment using one of those gizmos. I did it on the 57' Ford I owned at the time. What a disaster that turned out to be. LOL
Remember also the fancy brake machines with a drum lathe on one end a shoe grinder on the other. The grinder had arc settings so that shoes could be arced to perfectly fit the drum when the brakes were applied. I don't suppose wrenchers of today even know about shoe arcing. A four wheel brake job with fitted shoes stopped every bit as well as modern disc brakes. Unfortunately the arc didn't last long so you learned how to drive using your clutch and gearbox to minimize brake use. I remember playing a "how little can I use the brake" game in traffic. In fact I still do in the mountains, saves the rotors from warping and burning in hot spots. I wonder if a "smart car" will be smart enough to do that?
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
This is all we needed back then.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Wtf...?????????
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
Your old timey bead-breaker was an ergonomic disaster, grandpa.
Millennial men are significantly weaker than their fathers, study shows
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
All they get now is Repetitive Thumb Syndrome and then they're given Disability for life.
Could break down a wheel, mount any tire, and balance it in 1/4 the time it takes to setup those computerized monstrosities.
And use the extra time saved to stud two snow tires by hand...
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
In the snow...
Studding tires, that was one of my jobs!
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Of course it was.
When the guy mounting my first set of custom wheels screwed one up, I learned how to mount tires by hand with a tire iron. In fact, if you look at your bumper jack, the bottom is slightly curved so you can use it to break the tire bead. I did that a lot. I still have my JC Whitney wheel balancer.
I hadn't done any since most tire shops are used to mounting all sorts of wheels... But I did mount a spare tire for my trailer last fall...
I hadn't done any since most tire shops are used to mounting all sorts of wheels... But I did mount a spare tire for my trailer last fall...
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
How you learned to break down a tire was with two screwdrivers on your Schwinn.
That's true and the reasoning I used.... If I could do a bike tire, car tires were just a little bigger. LOL Although I never had a Schwinn when I was a kid. I had my brother's hand me down bikes.
I do have a 1980 Schwinn Continental that I picked up a couple years ago. One of the last of the Chicago built bikes. 26" frame too.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
How many inner tubes did you accidentally cut?
Never did.... My friends did though and I always changed their tires because I could do it without ruining the tubes.How many inner tubes did you accidentally cut?
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