[diesel_mercedes] The Beautiful Desert

 



Oh, yeah ~ I often think of Muldoon .

I just got back from tooling to Death Valley in my 1959 VW Beetle .

Sadly the Junk Yard engine I was tricked into buying as ' rebuilt' failed in the middle of the Panamint Valley necessitating another $1,000.00 vacation expense plus of course when the engine blew, it really blew and crated the case making it impossible to ever ever repair, i'm home safe and sound but " Elixir " now needs yet another engine .

I learned quite a bit from " Poor Richard's Rabbit Book, I owned  a 1982 Rabbit Convertible in the 1990's .

Nice photo ! thanx for sharing it .

I briefly watched those various T.V. shows and it's obvious they're all full of crap from the jump .

BTW : the two hammer trick works very well .

Pickle forks often ruin the rubber dust boots on parts that are still good .

Yes, they make chatter gun pickle fork attachments, I don't like chatter guns much .

-Nate
                      Max   wrote :

I never heard of him. But nowdays its much easier to learn stuff. Best two books I ever had in my whole life(except of course the bible) were "The VW and Subaru Idiots Manual", I learned everything from them. Loved the stories of Wilbur Kleenex and the Muldoon guy out in the New Mexico or Arizona desert somewheres. Now there is youtube,  and some of those guys are pretty good, and of course digital cameras to take pictures to remind you of what it looked like before you took it apart. We did not have those, I know Nate remembers the old days.  Heading back home after 4 weeks of tripping around the south land. Max

 

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:32 AM, 'Atwood,Warren' Warren.Atwood@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


You won't watch Edd China on WD anymore:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8IB15T1LYiY

 

 

From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups. com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@ yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:01 AM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] off topic, a little bit

 

 

Well, we had the wrong pickle fork. They gave us the one for a tie rod but when we compared they looked exactly the same and it was not working for the ball joint. I bet there is a impact tool with a pickle type head to hammer them loose. Max

 

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:53 PM, corvallis@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups. com> wrote:

 

On Wheeler Dealers Edd China would put a heavy hammer against one side of the 'joint' and hit the other side with another hammer.

I've always used a pickle fork and not had a problem. Bill in Oregon

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