Put a 283 Chev V8 in my 1936 Chev pickup in the summer of 1967, when I was 18. I hadn't put any assembly lube in the engine when I put it back together, so it would hardly turn over (I had washed all the part with gasoline, so they were pretty dry). Luckily, the neighbor walked me through fixing that.
Bigger problem was the PowerGlide transmission. I had not installed the kick-down rod from the carburetor to the transmission, thinking it was just there to kick the tranny down into low when you punched the gas, and figured I could handle that manually. Found out later (when the transmission quit working) that it also controlled the oil pressure in the transmission, and wasn't optional. Oops. . .
And speaking of automatics, did you know that if you cruise around the WSU campus all of a spring afternoon in low gear in your '59 Ford Galaxie with Ford-o-matic (to take maximum advantage of the excellent dual exhaust sound), you'll burn up reverse?
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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