Source for repop axle tags?

[ArdWrknTrk]

Than the flake of rust in my first post?
or yesterday?

I wish I could afford parts, and be working to fix the old battle-ax!

Cold-ish this morning. 🙄
My hands don't like it much.

[Gary Lewis]

Yesterday's pic of the rusty tag.

I, too, wish you had the money to fix your truck.  

[ArdWrknTrk]

Eh....
I'm resigned to being a wage slave.

It's a challenge in the winter, with utilities through the roof and consuming enough calories to stay warm through the night.

But I make do!  🙂

[salans7]

Looks good Jim! Glad it made it to you safe and that it cleaned up semi-well aside from the pinhole.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Now I just have to deal with the fragmentation grenade!  

[salans7]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

Now I just have to deal with the fragmentation grenade!  

Hopefully you can get it all sorted out soon!

I'm partially curious whether you can swap internals from a semi-float to a full-float since my full-float is open and the semi-float has an LS. But in reality, I really like the Detroit True-Trac in my Ranger, so will likely just go that route. I really just need to find a new home for this semi-float that I'll never use.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Have you tried Marketplace?

[salans7]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

Have you tried Marketplace?

Yep, been sitting on there for two years now. Price is less than what a junkyard charges for an axle. Nobody wants a semi-float. Can't blame them, I don't either. haha.

[ArdWrknTrk]

My diff did NOT look like this!  🤯    🤣


https://youtu.be/mMtf8zFYEpk?si=WEyfxWKEpZP7t_CJ

This channel is always good for a chuckle (even a hearty laugh, sometimes)

Scary though.
Remember, we share the roads with these idiots.  😠

***Don't be this guy. Check your axle vent periodically, and change gear lube a couple of times each decade. ***

[Gary Lewis]

That diff looked like what I imagined Jeff's father's engine looked like internally, although black rather than brown.

Janey and I bought an early 60's Plymouth Valiant in the early 70's.  And I changed the fluids as I always do on a new-to-us vehicle.  The engine oil came out the blackest, thickest, goo I'd ever seen, and when I put in the 30W I used on everything back then there was a cloud behind it every time I lifted the throttle as the valve guides were bad.  And even idling or going down the road there was a hint of a cloud.

But early 60's vehicles had a "road draft tube" and not "positive crankcase ventilation", meaning they dumped their fumes outside rather than burning them.  So I went to the salvage and found the PCV setup for a later Slant 6 and installed it on our Valiant.  No more cloud!

But the oil sure turned black quickly.  In fact in the several years we owned it I never did get it cleaned up internally.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I had a 64 Dart with a slant 6 & 3-on-the-tree for a while in HS.

I know all about road draft..

There was practically no detergent package in oils back when it was built.

[Gary Lewis]

Yep, so when they got dirty, which was easy, it was hard to clean them up.

Recently Janey said that was the car she wishes we had kept.  I think it was so ugly it was cute.

[salans7]

Gary Lewis wrote

Yep, so when they got dirty, which was easy, it was hard to clean them up.

Recently Janey said that was the car she wishes we had kept.  I think it was so ugly it was cute.

Depends on the flavor: Two Door, Sedan, Wagon, Convertible?

[Gary Lewis]

This one but white:

[BigBrother-84]

Gary Lewis wrote

This one but white:

I suppose that Late 50’s early 60’s drivers were dreaming about flying cars.
The «wing design» of tailfins and the taillights rocket look design effort tried to imitate somehow space rockets.

I agree with Janey, I like this look.
Not sure I find it beautiful, but it has something.
Nostalgia about a design we’ll never see again?

[salans7]

BigBrother-84 wrote

Nostalgia about a design we’ll never see again?

Bingo. It's usually always the nostalgia. I don't really want my F150 back because I know it's a lesser truck than my F350, but I would like to have it for the memories and to say I still have it.

That's why I now have three trucks that I'll never get rid of.

[Gary Lewis]

Beautiful is a '69 Charger.  Pretty is a '69 Super Bee, which is a Charger from the door forward.  An early 60's Valiant is nostalgic, which is being kind.  Funky might be more accurate.

[mat in tn]

my first car was a 66 barracuda. the fishbowl rear glass model. that is one I wish I had now.

[Gary Lewis]

A Bacaruda?  

[BigBrother-84]

Gary Lewis wrote

Pretty is a '69 Super Bee

LOOOOOOOL!!!


Gary, you already mentioned the «Super Bee» in some posts in the forum.

You know, I’m very far from a car guy, don’t know a lot about models, performance, etc.

My first car was a used ‘72 Super Bee…TLE.
So until now I thought you were talking about such bulb car, hahahaha!

But I know just enough about cars to remember that the VW Super Beetle came in the early 70’s (71, in fact).
So I was wondering, «why Gary is talking about his ’69 Super Beetle and what does it have to see with a Charger?».

A little Google, and bang!
Not quite the same type of cars!