Just the other day I removed the two bolts that hold the master Cyl to the
frame bracket on my 55 2nd pickup. One bolt came right out the other
wouldn't move no matter how hard I tried. I got it out by cutting the head
off with a 3" cutoff wheel in my die grinder. Murphy law is at work on every
bolt of this truck. If one comes out easy you know you are in trouble. At
least a 45 year old truck has a reason to give me problems. Some parts of my
newer cars are just as bad after 10 years. Maybe not as good as the old
truck.
----- Original Message -----
From: Durwood B. Darbin <dhckdkcsk@hotmail.com>
To: <Hudson29@aol.com>; <old-chevy-truck@onelist.com>;
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Howdoyagetthe Front Hood Medalion Off?
> My experiences with subject front hood thing.
>
> Open the hood and spray every screw and anything that looks like a screw
> with the penetrating oil of your choice. Obtain a set of the funny screw
> drivers that fit the screws and commence to strip them out. Dig deep in
> your seldomly used vocabulary of four letter words and apply more of them
> than the amount of penetrating oil used. Obtain a pair of vice grips and
> twist out the screws while recalling even more of those lost words.
> Hopefully you won't twist off any screw heads. Add three hours and Hey
> your'e done! For each twisted off head add two hours.
>
> Hope that this helps.
>
> Durwood
> 51 5 window 1/2 ton
>
>
> >From: Hudson29@aol.com
> >Reply-To: Hudson29@aol.com
> >To: old-chevy-truck@onelist.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net
> >Subject: [oletrucks] Howdoyagetthe Front Hood Medalion Off?
> >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:53:48 EDT
> >
> > One of the neat toys that came in the treasure trove from Jim Carter
> >was
> >a set of stickers to dress up the front name plate/medallion on the old
'51
> >Chevy. The truck needs a motor, brakes and a laundry list of other items,
> >but
> >I'm fairly bustin' to install those silly stickers. After all, they do
> >improve the curbside performance!
> > I would like to remove the plate (nondestructively, come on you
guys!)
> >to
> >install the stickers on the bench and then reinstall the plate with this
> >neat
> >rubber gasket that I picked up at Golden State some months ago.
> > A quick look up under the hood failed to disclose a simple way to
get
> >this medallion off. The fixings are hidden behind the hood latch plate
> >assembly. Does this need to be removed to get at the fixings? What sort
of
> >fixings hold the name plate? Blindly groping behind the latch plate with
my
> >fingers, they felt almost like sheetmetal nuts of perhaps even those
awful
> >single use push on retainers. Chevy wouldn't have done that to us would
> >they?
> >
> >Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
> >1951 Chevrolet 3600 Pickup Project, See it at:
> >The Poor Man's Advanced Design Tech Tips Page
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~conntest47/
> >Fullerton, California USA
> >AEROMARK - Need Rubber Stamps or Signs? See:
> >http://www.aeromark.net
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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