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Re: OT: What is your greatest mechanical achievement?


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Posted by Paul Janke on May 17, 2009 at 15:12:07 from (216.166.168.54):

In Reply to: OT: What is your greatest mechanical achievement? posted by RBnSC on May 17, 2009 at 05:05:52:

I'm not sure which act of insanity would best qualify. Shortly after high school I put a 1953 Buick 322 CID V8 in a 1948 Ford pickup. The Buick had been an automatic with an enclosed driveline, so I used the Ford flywheel bolted to the Buick flexplate and the Ford clutch and 4 speed unsynchronized transmission. I bought no adapters. I don't know why it worked, but did work very well. I later put in a 1957 Lincoln rear end after I forgot about the load in the back during a quick takeoff.
About two years later I put a Shaver HD10 post driver on the back of a 1968 Ford Bronco which had been rolled and totaled. I later set that up so I could drive it while walking behind it. While it required two men our fastest time driving posts was 180 per hour. Later as a one man operation I once did 105 posts per hour.
Sometime around this time I built a 120 volt generator using an 8 Hp Briggs & Stratton and a Chrysler alternator where the voltage did not fluctuate with changing engine speed. I called it my current bush.
I designed and built a dump hoist under the box of an early 50's IH pickup box trailer. I put live remote hydraulics on my 1978 Subaru Brat to run it. I later designed and built a hoist under the box of an '88 Ford pickup. Both of those hoists left the box at their original height on the frame. Since then I have less chance and opportunity for such things, but did get a patent for a tool used in well drilling. PS Don't invent something for use by only a very few people. Come up with something everybody wants.


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