Re: Broke Down 2.0
Posted: Nov 12th, 2012, 6:01 pm
Fixer 166 wrote:F'N FICM
Fixer 166 wrote:F'N FICM
HoboJo wrote:My dad and I where out in his '48 willy's jeep. By some truly odd fluke a stone got tossed into the glass float bowl, smashing it and leaving us stuck.
Having considered and rejected a few plans it occured to me that the wheel hub covers looked to be a very similiar size... A perfect fit! That was over 20 years ago and while the old willies doesn't get out very often anymore that wheel hub cover is still in place
Graham Adder wrote:I had a 78 Dodge many years ago.
It had a 360 V8.
Drank like a fish and mean like a badger.
Used to backfire up through the carb now and then.
Went to start it one day and sure enough it backfired like a cannon.
BOOM!
Smoke started to billow under the hood and I knew I had a fire.
I continued to crank it over and it started up.
I shoved my foot to the floor and revved the hell out of that tank, sucking all the fumes and flames back into the carb and extinguishing the fire before it burned too much.
No wiring got toasted...just the black liner under the hood.
Sure freaked a lot of people out in that parking lot.
Sure freaked me out that in my panic, I actually did the right thing.
xjeepguy wrote:I had a Power Wagon from about the same era and it did the same thing
Built Ram Tough baby lol .
I also had to start it with a screw driver under the hood on most days , usually when it was stalled in the mud or it was pissin rain .
Graham Adder wrote:A screw driver and a hammer were the starter requirements on many a day.
Spark a flyin'...lol...
Graham Adder wrote:I had it geared low and my 360 was juiced up a bit.
If I popped it in 4low I could play with the clutch and get it to hop off the ground about a foot. All four tires off the ground roughly 12 to 14 inches high.
I have a pic of that somewhere.
Used to freak some of my buddies out to see that.
I was (still am) hard on gear.
xjeepguy wrote:Nothing better then 4x4ing in the middle of the night and stalling and jamming that screw driver in the general area of the starter , sparks flying every where and usually with a hint of gasoline fumes around the engine
Graham Adder wrote:
I had it geared low and my 360 was juiced up a bit.
If I popped it in 4low I could play with the clutch and get it to hop off the ground about a foot. All four tires off the ground roughly 12 to 14 inches high.