I'll bet you could change out the spark pugs in that vehicle using only an adjustable wrench.
My first vehicle, 1967 Ford van, 3 on the tree and a 170 cuin engine that would blow the socks off of an elderly frail snail!
Yes, I have used one quite a bit too. Sure was glad when I could use one with a motor.Seen one, Used one & was Taught How to use it, by my Grandmother (Not the 1 in the Pic, lol)
Cool, that thing could do your toe nails at the same time.Our "riding mower" when I was a kid was something like this. But the sulky tongue wasn't that long.
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Yeah...I remember Dad not being happy when I figured out that part...Yes!
They had a little lever with three notches - forward, neutral and reverse.
If you hit it straight from reverse to forward some of them could do a wheelie.
I envy those family farms. They're so blessed to have them and hard work to keep them.Funeral for a friend's dad last week...94 year old man who farmed his whole life.
Was reminded yet again of how much value there is in small farm towns...with large families and immeasurable history.
My dad bought an 8 hp garden tractor/mower. Once when I was maybe 16, I thought it would be fun to do a wheelie so I pulled it to the top of the driveway, which had a slope to it, then with it in first gear, held the clutch down and let it roll backward down the driveway, maybe a 20 foot run. Then popped the clutch. I was laying on my back, the tractor was standing on end with the back tires clawing at the ground but not quite catching. Could have come over on top of me. If only I had a friend filming it. Could have been a huge hit on You Tube about 30 years later.Yes!
They had a little lever with three notches - forward, neutral and reverse.
If you hit it straight from reverse to forward some of them could do a wheelie.
Love that image. Its my avitar on www.standardshift.com (UserID is ClutchFork). My second car was a '63 Chevy Biscayne inline six with 3-on-the-tree and a non-syncronized 1st gear. After that one I got a stripped F100 inline six with 3-on-the-tree. When the linkage gets old and worn we would call it find-em-or-grind-em.
If ya’ can’t find ‘em, grind ‘em!Love that image. Its my avitar on www.standardshift.com (UserID is ClutchFork). My second car was a '63 Chevy Biscayne inline six with 3-on-the-tree and a non-syncronized 1st gear. After that one I got a stripped F100 inline six with 3-on-the-tree. When the linkage gets old and worn we would call it find-em-or-grind-em.
J C Whitney, seems they had everything for every model. Looking through their catalog was almost as fun as scavenging parts from the junk yard.Talk about grinding...
My first car was a '39 Chevy Master Deluxe with only 39,000 miles on it. It had 3 in the tree with a vacuum assist on the shifter. This shifted so easy in the summer, it felt like the shift lever wasn't even connected to anything. But then in my first winter with it I had problems. It still shifted but it was very slow. You would take off in first gear and then put the lever up into second and let the clutch out but it was so slow it wasn't done shifting yet. So a couple seconds later it would try to cram it into second with the clutch already engaged. This makes for some very unpleasant noises and jerks. I learned to be very tentative with the clutch. I had to keep trying a little until I felt it was in the next gear and then let it out all the way. This was not much fun on very cold days.
Not too long down the road I had found and ordered a conversion kit at JCWhitney and disconnected the vacuum assist.