I found this on the lasalle appreciation site.
New to me, never heard of blinker fluid.
Anybody know info?
Fluid
$18.95
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Thats an old one. Its a bit like when I was younger working on construction sites we would send 'Newbies' to the stores for a 'Left handed hammer'
Good
I lost count of my blinks
Fill it up right under the 710 cap.
also often overlooked is the service on your muffler bearings.
Folks that a legit service requirement as changing the air on the tires every 3000 miles. ;)
Its a whole website. http://kalecoauto.com/
My favorite products are the lowering kit and cross drilled brake lines.
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The engine oil bypass kit looks pretty good too. Like it says why would you want to run nice clean oil through a dirty engine?
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I like the 'Car to tank kit' I'd buy one of those ;D
I didn't check but is the flux capacitor still out of stock? I suppose with the Back to the Future future now in the past there is even more demand for time travel?
They unfortunately don't sell glass bending hammers, for refabricating hard-to-find windshields out of flat glass.
Ahh.. Ken beat me to it. Right when I read this I was going to suggest to everyone that you should all check your muffler bearings. The new offshore inferior parts do not last as long as the originals did. But I think that this job requires a left handed screw driver... no?
And we in the airline industry years ago used to send our 'newbies' for a bucket of prop wash! LOL
Hello all,
How many of you have seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kAeN5knZMQ
I think one of the CLC's members is still trying to perfect it :) :) :)
Christopher Winter
That man needs a prize for keeping a straight face, I couldn't ;D
I am still trying to locate the spiel regarding Lucas Electrics and Smoke.
It is about how Smoke is travelling through the wiring in Electrics by Lucas, and when there is a fault, it is always found by the "escaping" smoke.
Bruce. >:D
Quote from: The Tassie Devil(le) on November 09, 2015, 06:25:48 AM
I am still trying to locate the spiel regarding Lucas Electrics and Smoke.
It is about how Smoke is travelling through the wiring in Electrics by Lucas, and when there is a fault, it is always found by the "escaping" smoke.
Bruce. >:D
Here you go: http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm
I haven't looked at the site yet, but maybe I can finally find the wire stretcher and the Corvair radiator cap that I have been hunting for all these years.
Quote from: bullet bob on November 09, 2015, 08:19:57 AM
Here you go: http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm
Alas, this isn't the spiel I was referring to.
The one I remember, but cannot recall, was the full description of the way Lucas use Smoke to operate the system. And described the way that faults could show themselves.
Thankfully, GM and especially Cadillac, and all other USA Manufacturers declined to use anything associated with Lucas.
Bruce. >:D
Just imagine if Lucas had been making digital dashboards in the '80s!
This is supposedly the Lucas fuse replacement chart
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Quote from: David Greenburg on November 09, 2015, 07:52:42 PM
Just imagine if Lucas had been making digital dashboards in the '80s!
They did I believe in the Lagonda? A disaster for restores now.
For its lighting systems, Lucas' nickname could be "Prince of Darkness".
When I worked in a garage as a young guy in the '50s, the older mechanics would tease newbies and sometimes even customers who asked what was wrong with their car by saying "the Johnson Bar is broken" or "the Finnegan Pin is bent". Later in life I learned that while the Finnegan Pin was a non-existant "thing-a-ma-jig", there really is an obscure tool called a Johnson Bar, apparently a kind of pry bar used to extract screws.
Hello Jay,
Ask any stevedore or longshoreman what a Johnson bar is and they will probably tell you about the blisters they received from using one. In the shipping and freight world, a Johnson bar was a long (usually wood) pole with a short, offset tab or lip at the bottom end. The bottom of the bar also had a pivot or fulcrum. Thus configured, the bar provided alot of leverage to maneuver shipping crates, pallets, etc. that weighed hundreds of pounds. Back in the day, a man and his Johnson (bar) could move mountains!
Christopher Winter
Chris,
Thanks for the enlightenment. Now, if someone could only come up with a real Finnegan Pin.
Quote from: savemy67 on November 11, 2015, 09:33:10 AM
Ask any stevedore or longshoreman what a Johnson bar is and they will probably tell you about the blisters they received from using one. In the shipping and freight world, a Johnson bar was a long (usually wood) pole with a short, offset tab or lip at the bottom end. The bottom of the bar also had a pivot or fulcrum. Thus configured, the bar provided alot of leverage to maneuver shipping crates, pallets, etc. that weighed hundreds of pounds. Back in the day, a man and his Johnson (bar) could move mountains! Christopher Winter
In the Boat Yard, we called those things Red Neds, as they were painted red. A great lever
Bruce. >:D
another boatyard tool was the "bung picker". As a kid we would laugh and laugh at this. Apparently it was a pointed hook thingie tool that would pick the bungs out of the wood on the boats (kind of foggy on the explanation as we always were laughing when the guy at the boat yard would mention the tool.)
Hello Ken,
A bung is typically a stopper for a hole. In the boatyard, a bung is usually a stopper for a drain, and one would have to pull the bung to let out the water. I can appreciate the laughter.
Christopher Winter
Im going to guess the reason you would be removing bungs in a boat yard would have to do with ballast tanks?
The only bungs in a boat yard worth thinking about removing is those in the hull to let the bilge water out, and the one in the barrel to let the rum out.
Bruce. >:D
I used to work in an auto parts store back in the '80s.
We kept the turn signal fluid next to the oscillating Johnson rods & muffler bearings.
:o