|
Poot--thanks for posting the pic----no idea what that could have been used for--- The rod runs close to the hot manifold---maybe somebody ran a wire for something through the donut to keep it from burning on the manifold--- Maybe somebody else has seen this setup before--- We should start a "strange and unusual attachment/fix" forum to post and save some of these little treasures that we find?? Yesterday, I replaced rear hubs on a 49 8N---on one side the axle was "shimmed" with thin metal sheets to make the old "wallowed out" hub useable for a bit longer (that I had heard about before). What was real wierd, the frugal owner had welded or brazed pieces of metal onto the axle splines and then ground them out/down to fit the worn out hub. A new one costs about $55. This had to take a lot of time, as this axle was scribe fit to the old hub. I was able to file out the unwanted metal and after a few hours of working on it had removed all welding/brazing down to the original axle, and the new hub on---go figure---Tim
| 
