I'll bet we all know people who will tell us their cars will go 120- 150 mph because its written on the speedometer Surely they wouldn't make a speedometer that couldn't be pegged!

Neighbor guy, a certified auto mechanic, spent an hour trying to convince me that there is a new auto transmission out that doubles your horsepower... Needless to say this guy dosen't work on any of my cars

If you will notice, the definition represents items which obtain their power from "outside". The steam motor (does that sound correct?), the electric motor, the water motor all have the energy converted on the outside and put into the machine which creates motion. An internal combustion engine extracts the energy from the fuel "inside" the machine.

We had some nut work at our gas station years ago when gas stations pumped your gas and fixed your car. This guy had one of those Hi-Po 318s. You know, the ones with "solid pistons, no rings". Right after he told us that he pulled the grease caps off his front wheel hubs, squirted some oil in there, replaced the caps and announced that he had just lubed his car.

He worked there for 4 days.

tom

A few years back,we needed an injector for an M11 we were working on,the #2 injector was out.We did not have one in stock,so we told our parts man to call Cummins and get one sent to us ASAP so we could get this unit back on the road.(For those of you unfamilliar,they are all identical)He calls and gets the part delievered.We went to the parts guy after Cummins had left already,and told him that we specifically ordered an injector for #2,and this one is for # 5. He immediately jumped on the phone and called back to Cummins yelling and screaming that he ordered an injector for #2 and they sent the wrong one,and now the truck is still down.He still gets pissy when we bring that one up!!

This young fellow came into my shop one day and was piling it high and deep describing what all his brothers car had in the motor , trans , rear , etc.
This goes on about 10-15 minutes and then He says "When you punch that mother from a dead start ,It'll jerk the taste outta yer mouth!!"
Thats been 15-20 years ago and I still get a laugh when I think of it.

Quaker State, Pennzoil, Amsoil, PartsMaster and others all sell motor oil. Perhaps we should be putting it in our washing machines?

BTW, Kendall sells both motor oil and engine oil. The difference is the motor oil comes in quarts and the engine oil comes in gallons.

tom

Them guys, out there in the woods that call a nut a tap. or a wire a line, and by the way what is a CD? is it money or noise? Sometimes I wander, then again I just don't know.

A couple years ago I worked with this ok which at that time was about 50+ old
he would come out with all this stories and if you challenge him he would get cross. He's name was Barny so we call him Bull**** Barny. The one day he told us that the one supplier in town which at that time was the local supplier of the
minnie, That he is so good with minnies that this supplier is sending all there new
shipments to his house for P.D.S. (Pre delivering service)
On another occation he told us how good a Harley Davidson is, He was fishing
when he pulled this Harley out the bottom of the river full of mud, so he took some water and clean the mud off and when he kicked, the Harley fired up.So
one day on the open road riding with this Harley the one plug wire came loose
and touch his leg and that the electric current a Harley build up was so high
that it melted the gold out of his tooth

I was at a christmas party last nite an my friend told me of a guy he knows that has over 200 32 fords. I have never known him to exagerate or lie an he loves his fords.

I walked into a part store in 1979 and ordered a fan belt for my camaro. I answered his questions 1969, V8, 302 cid...... When he asked me why I had a ford engine in my chevy, I loudly asked for a counter man that had a brain. The manager laughed and got me my belt.

BTW, once upon a time, just about everybody with a hot rod did the bill on the dash trick. I was too poor for the $100 bill, I only had 1 $10 bill get away. It was a '66 Olds 442.

The old, old, really old Walker Muffler catalog actually had a bearing section. Today we know them as the short adaptors for easily connecting different size pipes with out having to heat and expand. Go to any parts store where the clamps ar and you will see many pieces once called bearings.

The 3/4 race cam is an actual grind for the flat head ford engines. (not motors)

Okay -- here's my crap story that I still regret. In 1963, I buy a 1954 Corvette outta the back pages of HRM. It's a real beauty with a 1957 265-in (yellow truck block) engine and a 3-speed. The guy who pieced it together in Lima, Ohio, worked for the local Chevy dealer and scavenged a wrecked 1956 Vette from a junkyard to get all the frame mounting brackets -- it's really a sweet professional job.
I drive it for a year or two through the Ohio seasons and get the itch for a four-speed. One of the BIG NAME, RESPECTED shop owners in Toledo posts a classified ad for a used B/W T-10 4-speed. I go over to his shop in the 1954 Corvette and talk to him -- he says it's a bolt-in to the '54, but it's not guaranteed past the curb, because I could screw it up and come back to him. That was the typical guarantee back in the 1960s, and he's a big name in Toledo, so I buy it and go home with the 4-speed.

So the install goes nicely, except the transmission doesn't fit. The mount puts the transmission an inch or more high, and the whole drive train is outta whack. I go to the local Chevy dealer and explain to the parts guru what I'm trying to accomplish. He says, "Yeah -- the 1957-up 4-speed doesn't fit into the stock 1956 3-speed or the 1955-back cross-member -- it takes an adapter we get locally from ...".
...you guessed it -- the big name I bought the 4-speed from -- the guy who swore it'd fit.
I took the 4-speed out and sold it (with the standard guarantee except I added "Second gear just doesn't sound right".
A year or two later I found more reliable shops and mechanics who all agreed that "Dick" -- that was his actual first name, not a description -- "would rather make one big sale than enjoy years of repeat business".
His speed shop closed some years back and his name has been long forgotten by everyone but me. I'm over-half Irish and we Irish can keep a grudge over a whole bunch of years.

i have a neighbor with a honda civic he just installed "high performance cat back exhaust on a stock engine there is a 1200 dollar paint job on this stock pile of **** i just hat an all flash no dash car especially a damn ricer

My Uncle used to do that in his Road Runner with a 20 dollar bill. But his rules were, "When i punch it, if you can grab the bill by the time I hit 60mph...". He never lost. 4 seconds is pretty fast when you are trying to grab a bill flying around the dash.