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GordoSD

04-17-2007 16:31:52

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Yesterday I set all the tappet gaps on the SMTA.
Fired right up to warm the engine.
Used a pipe wrench to turn the crank for getting pistons to TDC. Also spun it and did compression ceheck, 115 all cylinders.Painted the cover while it was off.Let cover dry overnight. This morning I installed perfect new looking cover. Checked all the wires, fuel and cranked it. Moved about a 1/4 turn anstopped. Three four tries, ditto. So out comes the charger. Four hours later I tried to start it again, this time standing by the starter. Same result but I could see the fan blade jam to a halt. Not good. I wonder did I take out the rod I was using for a gauge? SOmething is jamming the engine.Rod found.
OK where's that pipe wrench I used. I'll try turning it by hand.Looked all over for it. You guessed it. There it was on the crank pulley. Removed wrench, removed battery charger, removed my head from my a_ _. SMTA fired on first revolution.

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BF8690

04-18-2007 13:16:05

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

I had one of those moments. I was fixing my wifes brakes when we were dating. I was reaching under her car for a wrench I dropped when the car fell off of the jack. It trapped my head between the drive way and the under side of the front bumper. I didn't get hurt but it sure wasn't pleasurable waiting for someone to come out of the house to jack the car up so I could pull my head out. The worst part was that I was at my in-laws place and her dad jackked up the car for me.

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Easy1

04-17-2007 22:27:32

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

My brother and I were working in a small tool shop. Another guy worked there was quite a drinker. He was working on an old lathe that used a 1 in chuck key - with a handle about 2 feet long. He forgot he had it in the chuck, and put it in reverse too. The chuck key went right past my brothers head and thru a glass window. My brother just looked around and walked out for the day.

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dave guest

04-17-2007 19:31:29

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

Fourth of July I was shootin' off cracker and stuff, also playing with flare gun. I thought how much further that flare would go in shotgun, same size 12 ga. I popped that sucker off and flare didn't make it out of the barrel. I figured dud but noticed a little red spot about half way up. Got redder and redder and big! I dropped it and did the 50 yard dash in record time. Went back and found favorite shotgun lookin' like old pilgrim blunderbuss. What would piece of that barrel do to my punkin' head? God protects drunks and fools.

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georgeky

04-17-2007 20:38:36

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to dave guest, 04-17-2007 19:31:29

I tried something like that in 1994. On July 4th we were shooting those light duty fireworks which is all you can get legally in Ky. The neighbor had gone to Tennessee and got some good ones, well being me and trying to keep up with the Jones's I got my steel post driver loaded it with black powder tamped in a little news paper put in one of those cheap devices and ignited it with a firecracker installed in a hole I drilled in the bottom of the driver. When it went off it sounded like a dud. The projectile only went 20 to 25 feet in the air. This didn't suit me so I doubled the powder and wadding and went again. This time it was like a land mine going off. It turned the driver into shrapnel and shook the ground leaving a crater 8 inches deep and 3 feet around. The next morning I found chunks of steel stuck in trees and the siding on my house. We were lucky nobody was hurt or killed. I have not played with this stuff since.

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Roger Mills

04-18-2007 07:05:48

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to georgeky, 04-17-2007 20:38:36

Can relate to all. At 9 I found some 12ga shot shells that my dad had. Also 4th of July. They slip right in a 3/4" pipe. Used a BB gun while my bro held pipe. Good news is we lived through it. Had just finished overhaul on my JDA-forgot to ground mag-turning tight engine with wrench to get to TDC--wrench went through metal shop roof.

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georgeky

04-18-2007 08:08:12

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to Roger Mills, 04-18-2007 07:05:48

When I was a kid a friend put a 12 gauge in a vise and hit it with a nail and hammer it like to killed him. The shell came out of the vise backwards and hit him right on the forehead. He had the worst looking place on his head you ever saw for a long time.

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Wild Bill

04-17-2007 19:20:46

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Re: Darwin Award- warning long reply in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

Mine almost killed me:

I am not a stranger to heavy equipment, I'v been around it literally all my life. I like to think that I have a good head on my shoulders. One day though, while I was trying to move an old dead van with my H, all my sense left me.

I tried once with the 3 point draw bar down low to drag it along. When that did not work, I thought..."well I'll just raise it up a little to take some wieght off the ground." So up goes the front of the van with the three point. I throttled up and let out the clutch. The next thing I know the nose of the H is shooting staight up to the sky, and the wieght of the van is shoving the draw bar straight to the ground. I believe God stepped in and pushed the clutch that day...I honestly don't remember doing it.

Just when the tractor was nearly verticle and inches from going over on me, my foot was on the clutch and the front wheels slammed back on the ground.

I knew better than to try to pull that heavy piece of crap from a point above the axle. I'm just glad my angel was on my shoulder to save me.

If that is your worst mistake, your going to make out like a bandit!

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old timer in Ohio

04-17-2007 18:26:00

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

Na I'm first. About 62 yrs ago,I was standing in a pasture that NEVER had any livestock in it. I was with my buddies.We were swimmig in the creek I was dripping-wet,I thought I would test my urinary accuracy.While laying a steady stream
along that (I thought inactive) barbed wire fence
I expierenced the most shocking time in my short life and while my buddies all stood there laughing I thought I would sing soprano for the rest of my life Bob God Bless

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Bus Driver

04-17-2007 18:11:21

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

Did you ever static time the ignition on a Model A Ford? There is one crucial thing that must not be forgotten as part of the process.

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City-Boy McCoy

04-17-2007 18:02:36

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

I am glad to know I am not alone. It took a lot of courage and self-confidience for you to reveal this. Thank you for making me feel better for some of the clumsy things I have done over the years. mike

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JayWalt

04-17-2007 18:01:01

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

be thankful the wrech didnt fly off and get lodged in the radiator or something.

Glad you found it before you decided to do something drastic!!

We got like 20 pipe wrecnhes around here, so If I did that, I'd have gotten another before i'd see it on the pulley, haha Having too many tools can have its downfalls

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IH2444

04-17-2007 17:52:55

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

I won't tell ya how I know if you leave a breaker bar on the front crank nut it can destroy your radiator....

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ChadS

04-17-2007 18:29:20

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to IH2444, 04-17-2007 17:52:55

Or how a Hand cranker JD A can pitch a 9/16 wrench at your head quicker than you can blink. I was working on my 43 A at the time, the carb was plugged up, but ran,, left the wrench up on the governor housing, went up to adjust the carb, took a step back, scratched my head,,, thinking whats wrong with this thing,, and all of a sudden,, WHAP!!!! wrench hit my hand while I was scratching my head. i heard a clink before it hit. Glad it did not pitch the pipe wrench at ya!! Good to hear another Farmall is up and running!

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John S-B

04-17-2007 17:34:08

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

You lived so you're only eligible for an honorable mention.

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Tom Windsor

04-17-2007 17:05:10

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Re: Darwin Award in reply to GordoSD, 04-17-2007 16:31:52

"i thought" I was the only resident of the world you have just described! :-)

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