The Dark Wob

paulplom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:19 am

PhilA wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:53 pm Oh boy.

Let's play "one of these things is not the same".

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....mucking funkies.

Phil

I give up. I can't tell the difference.

Look carefully at the words going up the middle of the rods.
The three on the left are all the same, including the cast-in square, the right-hand one is all numbers. It's backwards to the rest.

Ring a ring a roses
A lotta blown hoses
I smash you
I smash you
We all break down
Found my ring pliers.
The rings should be in this order, this way up.
Not all of them were. I'll clean that lot up and get it ready for them to go back in.

Phil

Remembering compression rings have a right way up is something I often have to think twice about as I don't do that job very often.

Hooli wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:34 am Remembering compression rings have a right way up is something I often have to think twice about as I don't do that job very often.

As a bodyshop/garage they should be on top of remembering these things, because doing this kind of work isn't a one-off...

Indeed so, I seem to do it about once a decade currently. I'd hope they do it a lot more often.

When I did the Thunderbird engine I did find the ring set wasn't the easiest to work out what went where and which way up but I think that was probably just cheap rings from Rockauto.

panhard65 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:07 pm When I did the Thunderbird engine I did find the ring set wasn't the easiest to work out what went where and which way up but I think that was probably just cheap rings from Rockauto.

Granted, when they don't come with instructions it is a pain, but these guys were apparently proper hotrod builders...

No, Boyd Coddington was a hotrod builder.

paulplom wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:37 pm No, Boyd Coddington was a hotrod builder.

"Apparently", not "were" or "are".

Hahaha