Whats some of the best number 8 jobs you have seen
frytime,
Jul 12, 5:47pm
only kiwis ae
trader_84,
Jul 12, 5:54pm
Rodney So'oialo . the best No 8. Go CANES!
v8_mopar,
Jul 12, 6:03pm
4-5 years back a tm member (i forget who) said there old man did a big end job in the middle of nowhere using a leather belt as bearings and it got them the 300 odd k's home just fine
trader_84,
Jul 12, 6:18pm
In the Chathams during the late 80's/early 90's I think (its been awhile) operating a motor grader . and apart from no brakes, half a cab and different tires all round - big assed hyd leaks. This old guy taught me something . first up - any machine operators reading this! You know what 1310 smells like aye . well guess what . we made our own that day (cause we never had any on the Island) we mixed engine oil (1330) and diesoline . gawd you would not believe it! - the same consistency and smell even as proper 1310. Worked too :)) Lol!
v8_mopar,
Jul 12, 6:32pm
Think that low beams a bit low lol
#6 I used kero once in a cherrypicker and it work but was going down slowly all the time. I dont recommend kero
Funny how foreigners think of our solutions as remarkable or incredible.hell! we just think.'that's what ya do don't ya!'
drog,
Jul 13, 6:41am
Evaporative cooling.
gorgie14b,
Jul 13, 6:56am
I was driving the other night, and I saw a strange light coming the other way towards me. Kept moving about, swaying left and right ish. When the vehicle came close enough for my lights to illuminate it properly, it was a car, and it had no headlights or taillights. The driver was wearing one of those torch lights you strap on your head, and was happily driving into town at 50K plus per hour, with the light going wherever he looked! Genius at work!
trader_84,
Jul 13, 7:36am
Fark! Where do you live! On the coast, lol! He probably was only using the car because he couldn't catch his horse, lol!
gorgie14b,
Jul 13, 7:42am
Nah - this was in Napier, on quite a busy road at about 9.30 pm at night
nala2,
Jul 13, 7:51am
Blew a frost plug on a 1957 Dodge straight 6 at 2am. The plug was opposite the oil filler pipe so we jammed a flagon screw top in the old hole and wedged a hammer handle between it and the oil filler pipe. Must have had bugger all pressure in the system as it only dripped and lasted several weeks before I fixed it.
bleetbleet,
Jul 13, 7:58am
they weren't towing it to saftey,they were trying to crash start it!lol
skin1235,
Jul 13, 10:29am
yep. on a 36 dipper crank chev, no oil pumps on those old girls, the big end had a scoop that dipped into a trough rail that was fed by the oil returning from above, those scoops feed the big end and galleyed through the crank to the mains then still had enough to push up and feed the overheads, but on long downhill slopes they didn't fill the back trough fast enough Was actually a piece of stirrup leather, well heavier than a common belt, and well oiled after years of use, and yes it lasted quite a while before he had time to pull the sump and replace it
skin1235,
Jul 13, 10:44am
many years ago I was in the army ( terry's - weekend cowboys with real guns wahoo), cos I was the oldest and had an HT I was delegated as driver way ta 'ell down tekapo, out in some dry riverbed the dude in the front truck dropped his RL to the belly, about 1/2 an hr before me and another truck arrived, he spent that 1/2 hr effectively ripping the clutch plates clean off the clutch body, by the time we got there it didn't even crunch as you put it into gear without using the clutch Sat arvo about 4.30, and the Burnham mechs said leave it there we'll come down on Tuesday to get it 3 hrs later a shovel to get under it, a 12inch creasent to drop the box and a ring spanner to drop the clutch cover, wrapped that clutch body in some cockies fence wire and put it back in, the pedal would move far enough to release at first but soon reformed it so it worked A little more shovel work and we drove that thing out of there, those townie soldiers didn't have a clue about getting out of the soft stuff Pumped the tyres back up and when we got back to camp was given a bollocking, then after the mechs were informed they insisted it be driven back to Burham, and as punishment I was elected to drive it hoime The clutch by that time had welded itself to the wire, and the flywheel, so no clutch at all, fully locked, don't know how far it is from tekapo to burnham but theres a few gear changes on the way almost got a court martial for that, they had to gas the centre out of the clutch then reach through and gas the crank bolts off the flywheel, which wasn't that bad, the court martial threat was for leaving the truck parked at the yard gate, the next morning the vehicle sarg climbed in to move it, and was still screaming as he drove into the back of his own car
trader_84,
Jul 13, 2:06pm
Haha! RL's!! Thats going back a bit! I did 21 years and I'll tell you what - todays boys would not go digging for 3 hours to get a vehicle out and especially from doing it all from off their own chuff. I still have heaps of mates in there and they have all said that todays young guy that is coming through are pretty average . faceless and lost almost. I bet the old timers said the same about us in the lates 70's. Gawd.
trader_84,
Jul 13, 2:07pm
Who were you with . grunts!
lookoutas,
Jul 13, 2:45pm
More like 'trying to pinch it'
skin1235,
Sep 8, 9:01pm
14th intake charlie co, yep grunts, medic and sigs in the field but as per norm with grunts then, if you were big enough and fit enough, you carried the largest they could find and did it as fast as poss, smg and 2 cases were more familiar than a med pack and the radio, even if I carried them all at the same time
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