It's Hard to Expect the Unexpected

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 01, 2015 - 11:20 pm:

I and a couple friends have been planning to visit an old customer of ours for some time and finally nailed down a day to visit him and get there in my '19 Touring car since our friend is a Model T fan and it was a beautiful day too.
He lives 8-9 miles away so no biggie.
We were about a mile away when we smelled antifreeze.........not a good thing.......so I pulled over expecting a blown head gasket but, luckily I guess, it was only the rear freeze plug which had come out.
Regardless the car required a ride home so my Hagerty Roadside Assistance got it's first (and I hope last) test and, yup, they're covering the ride home....... :-)
When I checked out the engine later I found the errant freeze plug lying on the shelf!
Not corroded or anything, just OUT.
I am sure glad it didn't happen SUNDAY when we were riding around in the sticks!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 12:08 am:

Fixing this will cost you a nickel. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 02:18 am:

LOL........while I have the one that popped out I'm thinking of doing exactly that!....... :-O


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By R. S. Cruickshank on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 05:40 am:

The way things are changing with our money not going as far as it used to, I wonder of the nickel will fit!!! We hear that they are planning on doing away with some of our currency; what will we do if it gets down to the nickel??


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 06:37 am:

R.S, you're supposed to use old 1913-'38 buffalo nickels anyway :-)

(..and they won't fit straight away, you've got to cup them with a ball pen hammer in a properly sized socket, then file the edges until they fit right in the holes in the block - and install them with some gasket cement, flattening the cups with the ball pen hammer again to make them spread and get stuck in the holes.)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 06:46 am:

The metal in the nickel is probably worth more than a nickel now so I have a pickle jar full of them :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 07:04 am:

Actually, they're worth less than face--About three and a half cents for the post war nickel. You're better off if you spend them. :-)

http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1946-2007-Jefferson-Nickel-Value.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jeff Rhoads on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 07:15 am:

I used a nickel for a freeze plug in my '22 touring so when I tell people I've really sunk some money into that engine, I can prove it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 07:30 am:

These are the ones I used in my 1915.




They cost less than the new brass ones.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Thursday, July 02, 2015 - 05:59 pm:

Steve.......when I met you at the Iola Old Car Show a couple years ago I didn't HEAR you squeak when you walked........ LOL ....... :-O


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