I just feel that a person has to strike a balance between restoration and
preservation. To do a proper restore job, one must keep preservation in mind
as well so when I think of my truck and where it will be in another 50
years, certain items that were stock just dont lend themselves to
practicality when all things are considered. Adding weld nuts where sheet
metal screws pierced and warbled the skin of the firewall, stainless steel
brake lines with Cat 5 fluid, a 12 volt system disguised to look like 6
volts, etc.. etc.. make the truck worth more than being a hardhead and
sticking with things that have proven over the years to be a bad idea.
Clutch head screws lasted how long? Where are they now? Our ancestors may
have been geniuses in most aspects of the AD, but they werent perfect. By
ensuring that fittings and misc hardware are state of the art, we are
ensuring our restore jobs will be preserved for just that much longer.
If it would make the buyer of my truck (someday) feel better, I will include
a bag of clutchhead screws (a complete set) for posterity. I got tons of
them.. all stripped out or rusted beyond belief.
To answer your question in short.. it wont be! ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "JULIE HUBER" <JHUBER@ALLTEL.NET>
To: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
Cc: "oltrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
> how will it be original?
> Greg in Fla
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deve Krehbiel <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
>
>
> >I had a problem with clutchheads on the WHOLE truck.. While
disassembling,
> >they pretty much all either stripped or broke. I have no respect for the
> >clutchhead concept and will not use them at all when reassembling. Even
my
> >clutchhead screwdrivers are all stripped and broken after using them on
one
> >truck!
> >
> >Deve Krehbiel
> >Hesston, Kansas
> >1950 3100 * 1949 3600 * 1948 4400
> >www.speedprint.com/Deves50/index.html
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "tcape" <tcape@weblnk.net>
> >To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:54 PM
> >Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
> >
> >
> >> I had a major problem with the clutchhead screws when I started trying
to
> >> take off the weatherstripping around my driver's side door. (The '47
AD
> >has
> >> the weatherstripping held in place by a metal strip....held on with
about
> >20
> >> clutchhead screws!) Finally resorted to holding an old screwdriver
> >against
> >> the screw heads and pounding on the screwdriver with a hammer. As
NMJim
> >> says, this jars the screws loose. I then used a small pair of
vice-grips
> >to
> >> turn the screws and take them out.
> >> Tom Caperton
> >> 47-2nd 3100....in Whiteville, NC
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: New Mexico Jim <ADvent@thuntek.net>
> >> Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:28 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] clutchhead sizes?
> >>
> >>
> >> > I used a pneumatic chisel at a 45º angle and just using enough
pressure
> >to
> >> keep
> >> > the chisel at the head of the clutch head and blipped it a few times
> and
> >> the
> >> > vibrations vibrated the rust and crud loose enough to remove without
> >> twisting the
> >> > head off or rounding out the clutch head hole. Works pretty good. I
did
>
> >it
> >> this
> >> > way on the trans cover on the floor board of my '50 ½ ton.
> >> >
> >> > Pastorjon994@cs.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Don,
> >> > > I did get a clutchhead bit to work on those. I twisted several
> >> screws
> >> > > off so be careful. If I could only remember which one that I used.
I
> >> think I
> >> > > have a 1/8, 3/32, 3/16, 1/4 and 5/16.
> >> > >
> >> > > Jon Callahan
> >> > > '50 3100
> >> > > Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
> >> > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
> >1959
> >> >
> >> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
1959
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> >
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> >
>
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