The column problem is infamous on Saginaw columns. There are 4 bolts down at the base of tilt columns that work loose and make the column all loose and wobbly like that. It’s disconcerting when driving, but the column never completely falls off.
1) Buy a cheap drone to practice. There are loads and most of them are pretty good.
David, I know you take a lot of ribbing around here for your love of barely-functioning off-road vehicles (I know I enjoy invoking your name now and then!), but articles like this? Thank you for them. I don’t do as much work under the hood as I’d like to, and I know I’d likely have made the same mistake your friend…
I’m perfectly happy never visiting Reddit, so having Jalops curate it and add epic David Tracy rebuilds is all I need.
Fake. There were no cell phones back then. How could someone possibly have taken a video.
As just some random guy at a desk slacking off at work... this is interesting AF.
The best wood for it would be mesquite or cherry depending on what seasoning you’re using.
Laziness in the design department doesn’t count.
The good:
I am SOOOOO excited to watch you wrench this one into shape. Just remember, the more frustration for you, the better reading for us, so remember that at 3 am when you are covered in oil and rust.
Whatever issues it may have, though, I’m going to solve it.
I have not, there are other places that have. But given that this is my business it would be difficult for me to write that without “plugging” myself. My goal with these posts is to educate people how to do it based on my experience as a professional. If a side effect of that is that people want to use me to help…
BUX = Built-Up Export [Ex Wiki (CKD): cars assembled in the country of origin and exported whole to the destination market are known as BUX (for built-up export)].
Cooter was Mongomery Scott’s great-great-great-great-great-... Grandfather.
Nope! Country & Western. Seems like this mis-identification is getting worse...
Punk.
Of course not. It’s a car.