JLarson
Senior Member
Yeah they're just odd lol. I've taken roll scotchbrite and a flat file to a few and put bearings and seals from the local bearing house in em before with a good ol manual grease packing and off they went.
This was so much fun I got to do it againToday I fired up the hyster forklift to set up my bucket for some big torch and hammer partying.
As I spotted it on top of the other bucket, I noticed that it really sounded like ass warmed over. Lots of bad rattling sounds coming from under my seat as it were.
The parts guy concurred that it was a bad sound. I grabbed a piece of pipe for a stethoscope but it was hardly needed. The bearings were out on the alternator. Once I took the belt off it was all rattly and bad.
It is a 4 banger chev like a Cavalier engine. It started coming out OK then the stud spun and the wire was way too tight to fight. I lopped it off and went to a real parts house, a auto parts with a machine shop and guys who know what they are doing.
The young guy looked up 1989 Cavalier at my suggestion but the picture was not quite right. The older fella holds it up and says "1991 pickup truck".
Bingo!
I got some #8 wire and connectors to extend it to a sane place to bolt on the wire, as it is tucked under the intake when installed.
That took all the fight out of it. I got it back together and tested good to go.
Yeah........I'm not buying that one. You're rationalizing.I very purposefully do not return my shopping carts. I shop at Publix here in FL. They are more expensive than Walmart or Winn Dixie. I knowingly pay more money for the friendly faces and clean store. I leave my cart in the parking lot because it creates work for low paying positions that young people (high school kids) and old folks (should be retired but need income) can fill.
:shrug: It is the reason I do what I do. One may or may not agree with my motive.Yeah........I'm not buying that one. You're rationalizing.
If a cart is having a issue-when I get to the checkout stand I mention to the cashier that it's pullingI don't fix shopping carts, I just steal another when a wheel seizes up. /s
I remembered a thing from years ago. I was accompanying wife to a quilt show, and these guys were jump starting a '64 Ford with a Cherokee, unsuccessfully.
I told her I would be right in, and she just nodded. She knew who she was married to by now.
I walked over and they said we are charging the Ford battery back up for another go. I nodded, and offered to look at it. I had a rubber handled Kershaw pocket knife in my pocket.
I pulled a plug wire, stuck the knife blade in it and held it near a good ground. "crank it over" I said. No spark.
It was a 352 with the convenient front distributor. I used the Kershaw in my hand to flip the clips off the cap, pulled the cap. " crank it over"
Rotor spun, so that helps.
I pulled the rotor and looked down in there, and lo and behold, somebody had dropped a screw when changing out a condenser. It had grounded the plate.
Using the same kershaw knife, I fiddled the screw out of there up the inside of the distributor, over the edge and into the palm of my hand. I put the rotor back, the cap back, and said "start it".
It roared to life. I said "stick out your hand" dropped the screw in it, and just walked away. Elapsed time maybe 2 minutes.
That's why I park on the high side of the lot and far away from others.I leave mine in the nearest cart corral. I don't appreciate random carts that may roll into the side of my vehicle during a breeze and cause damage. I expect others to voluntarily do the same. Its never their vehicle that gets damaged