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Hey I found my old Raleigh! I wonder if someone like Lorien Lorien could resurrect this thing.......

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Nathan the Machinist said:
Also, with the labor shortage. There's just not enough people to do work and the people doing it are often staggeringly incompetent.

Good luck getting a Ford powerstroke worked on. It's hard (and expensive) enough keeping a Ford running under ideal conditions...
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I loved my '69 Ford P/U that I had when I was a kid. It had a beefed up 390 in it. I got clocked one time at 157mph.
 
Hard Knocks said:
Hey I found my old Raleigh! I wonder if someone like Lorien Lorien could resurrect this thing.......

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The quarters spent at a car wash would be more than its worth, except sentimental value, of course.
Assuming the rims are true...tires, tubes, brake shoes and a metric shitload of elbow grease should get it rolling. Not at its best, but rolling good enough to ride. If it were mine I'd strip it down to the frame to clean and repack everything, lol
 
Hard Knocks said:
Hey I found my old Raleigh! I wonder if someone like Lorien Lorien could resurrect this thing.......

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Damn Dave, that's cool! Those are the biggest damn wheel reflectors I think I have ever seen. I'll tell ya', if you don't restore it, that frame would be great for mounting a chain grinder on. Mount it to the wall via the stem, cut the chainstays off, mount the grinder via the seat post. Swings out of the way, flat against the wall when not needed.
 
000Robert said:
I have one friend that's still alive that was in my truck that night, Chip.
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157 in a p/u is hard to believe, so I should add some of the story. Even the sheriff's deputy didn't believe his radar gun and said that he smacked it against his door a couple of times. But one of my friends took too many pills and thought he was having a heart attack. I was taking him to the hospital in Lancaster, Tx.
The engine and drivetrain was built by an auto salvage and junk dealers son. His parents and mine were good friends. Yes, the engine was beefed up and had headers and a big Holley double-pumper, but the secret was in the gears that he put in the standard transmission. It was a 3 on the column. It had a granny first gear. The second gear was good enough that I could get up to around 90mph. And the third gear I could go fast enough to lift the truck off the street. The truck could have run much faster, but it would start floating above 157mph. At 157mph my accelerator petal was only about halfway to the floorboard.

Edit: Ok, maybe the foot pedal was a little more than halfway to the floorboard, but I had plenty of pedal left.
 
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Lorien said:
could? Sure. Should, hmm.
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sickpuppy1 said:
The quarters spent at a car wash would be more than its worth, except sentimental value, of course.
Assuming the rims are true...tires, tubes, brake shoes and a metric shitload of elbow grease should get it rolling. Not at its best, but rolling good enough to ride. If it were mine I'd strip it down to the frame to clean and repack everything, lol
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I'll probably never do it, but it is pretty sentimental. I won it in a St. Jude's bikeathon in like 1980 or '82. Then I rode it to a win again the next year instead of the old banana seat model with ape hanger handlebars from the year before. Man I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I won that thing ha

Grenock said:
Damn Dave, that's cool! Those are the biggest damn wheel reflectors I think I have ever seen. I'll tell ya', if you don't restore it, that frame would be great for mounting a chain grinder on. Mount it to the wall via the stem, cut the chainstays off, mount the grinder via the seat post. Swings out of the way, flat against the wall when not needed.
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That would actually fit right in with the rest of my shop. Seems like we cannibalize everything!
 
000Robert said:
157 in a p/u is hard to believe, so I should add some of the story. Even the sheriff's deputy didn't believe his radar gun and said that he smacked it against his door a couple of times. But one of my friends took too many pills and thought he was having a heart attack. I was taking him to the hospital in Lancaster, Tx.
The engine and drivetrain was built by an auto salvage and junk dealers son. His parents and mine were good friends. Yes, the engine was beefed up and had headers and a big Holley double-pumper, but the secret was in the gears that he put in the standard transmission. It was a 3 on the column. It had a granny first gear. The second gear was good enough that I could get up to around 90mph. And the third gear I could go fast enough to lift the truck off the street. The truck could have run much faster, but it would start floating above 157mph. At 157mph my accelerator petal was only about halfway to the floorboard.
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I can see it now!
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000Robert said:
157 in a p/u is hard to believe, so I should add some of the story. Even the sheriff's deputy didn't believe his radar gun and said that he smacked it against his door a couple of times. But one of my friends took too many pills and thought he was having a heart attack. I was taking him to the hospital in Lancaster, Tx.
The engine and drivetrain was built by an auto salvage and junk dealers son. His parents and mine were good friends. Yes, the engine was beefed up and had headers and a big Holley double-pumper, but the secret was in the gears that he put in the standard transmission. It was a 3 on the column. It had a granny first gear. The second gear was good enough that I could get up to around 90mph. And the third gear I could go fast enough to lift the truck off the street. The truck could have run much faster, but it would start floating above 157mph. At 157mph my accelerator petal was only about halfway to the floorboard.
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157 km/h possible.
157 mph impossible.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I honestly feel the general level of competency is declining across the population. People just don't seem to know how to do stuff anymore.
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Agreed, which seems strange with how you can basically find videos online to fix/do anything these days.

Recently my home subwoofer started popping and cracking. It's 20+ years old so not too big a deal if I had to get a new one. But googled it and found a video of someone with the same problem, which turned out to be a bad capacitor. Took mine apart and same issue...swollen cap.

Before (can see it swelled to the point of breaking the glue):

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After (since they were 20+ years old, replaced both), and we're rocking again!

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jlauffer said:
Agreed, which seems strange with how you can basically find videos online to fix/do anything these days.

Recently my home subwoofer started popping and cracking. It's 20+ years old so not too big a deal if I had to get a new one. But googled it and found a video of someone with the same problem, which turned out to be a bad capacitor. Took mine apart and same issue...swollen cap.

Before (can see it swelled to the point of breaking the glue):

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After (since they were 20+ years old, replaced both), and we're rocking again!

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I love that sort of thing. Bad capacitors are so simple yet when I fix stuff like that Jo thinks I'm so smart and says "you're amazing". I love it.

I keep old electronics around to farm stuff like that since radio shack doesn't carry electronic hardware like capacitors much anymore
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I love that sort of thing. Bad capacitors are so simple yet when I fix stuff like that Jo thinks I'm so smart and says "you're amazing". I love it.

I keep old electronics around to farm stuff like that since radio shack doesn't carry electronic hardware like capacitors much anymore
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I think that you can fix Flux Capacitors and that you are amazing too. I love it!
 
Hard Knocks said:
I'll probably never do it, but it is pretty sentimental. I won it in a St. Jude's bikeathon in like 1980 or '82. Then I rode it to a win again the next year instead of the old banana seat model with ape hanger handlebars from the year before. Man I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I won that thing ha



That would actually fit right in with the rest of my shop. Seems like we cannibalize everything!
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it actually wouldn't take much. I'd start with a bucket of warm water, some dish soap and a big sponge.
 
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