[AT] Shop lifts

[charliehill]

John that was obvious to me looking at it.  The kid was a hippy type, the 
car was ragged and dirty.  I suspect the engine had been pulled at some 
point and either some of the flange bolts on the bell housing were left out 
or left loose.  It looked like it just turned loose and dropped on the 
ground.  I wasn't kicking Corvairs.  Ralph Nader did a good enough job of 
that and he and I seldom, if ever, see eye to eye.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dunlap" <jsdunlap at roadkill.org>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Shop lifts


>I used to race Corvairs, that was just poor maintenance, or the idiot
> didn't know how to use a wrench...
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Don, I've told this story here before I think but I like to tell it so 
>> here
>> it is again. In the early 70's I was following a rather ragged Corvair
>> through a campus street at NC State U. That particular street had a 
>> couple
>> of severe speed bumps, even at a slow speed. When the Corvair went over 
>> one
>> of them at no more than maybe 5 mph it suddenly stopped in it's tracks. 
>> The
>> driver got out to see what was wrong. From my point of view behind him I
>> could have told him rather quickly. The whole engine fell out of the car
>> and was sitting next to the speed bump.
>>
>> I sure would like to have a lift too. I need to put brake pads on the 
>> front
>> of my truck now and I sure hate to do it sitting on a bucket with the 
>> truck
>> on a jack but it's either that or let some shop rip me off.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Shop lifts
>>
>>
>>>A lift is on my wish list but may never happen. A friend in Kentucky
>>> has one that we used to replace the transmission in a Corvair van. The
>>> use of a 55 gallon drum under the lift made engine removal and
>>> replacement easy. No more laying down to reach under the car to then
>>> standing up then laying down, rinse and repeat.
>>>
>>> Last spring I used another friends lift to replace the clutch in the
>>> pickup. Everything was done standing up.
>>>
>>> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/April%2009/images/lift.jpg
>>> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/April%2009/images/grease.jpg
>>>
>>> --
>>> Don Bowen KI6DIU
>>> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>>>
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