Spare parts that worth having at home?

[Grady]

Just get a spare car, then no spare parts needed!

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

For me, it has been front hubs. I keep at least one loaded set with me. I also carry a spare CV, couple coil packs. Consumables are a given, always have them on hand.

I do have a spare TOB, transmission, engine. You know, the basics.

I'm still keeping an eye out for an engine.

Originally Posted by Grady

Just get a spare car, then no spare parts needed!

My dad used to do that. He was a wise man. Also it was a fleet of beetles, so it was like Legos.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I'm still keeping an eye out for an engine.

I may not end up using this short block. If I don't you can have it. That is a 50/50 though I won't really know till latter in the year.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I may not end up using this short block. If I don't you can have it. That is a 50/50 though I won't really know till latter in the year.

Sweet! I won't hold you to it.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I'm still keeping an eye out for an engine.

My dad used to do that. He was a wise man. Also it was a fleet of beetles, so it was like Legos.

For years my dad had three identical Ford Ranger trucks. They were all rotted out old wrecks. Whichever one he could get to start on any given day was the one that got the plates put on it.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Nope.. It just quietly goes ahgaha - ahgaha , like they used to do - whoops, wait one ....... the rubber diaphragm just disintegrated after the third ahgaha - I reckon it's time to toss it ......

I laughed yesterday because nothing but a mechanical fuel pump makes the goofy sound of a mechanical fuel pump. Still hear it in my head.

[Ultramaroon]

That's part of the fun of meeting each other in person. I can picture you in your basement picking up an old fuel pump and playing with it.


"Yup. Still works. ... Awww."

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Grady

Just get a spare car, then no spare parts needed!

That reminds me of a back-in-the- Army days. In Germany, as the Battalion Motor Officer (one of my many duties), I was responsible for maintaining over 40 M113 APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers). Since the PLL (Prescribed Load List) (inventory of spare parts) was a joke, we sacrificed one APC to be cannibalized for spare parts. Then when the PLL was replenished we would just stick the part that was removed into the cannibalized track.



(this story is not to be confused with the time we "traded" $90 worth of scotch for a complete M-60 tank, crate engine)

[Sapphireho]

Oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid, and washed fluid.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

For years my dad had three identical Ford Ranger trucks. They were all rotted out old wrecks. Whichever one he could get to start on any given day was the one that got the plates put on it.

I got the picture.

"Well, this one started and ran for a while".

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid, and washed fluid.

So, you save the water after you wash your cars?

Good, gray water is still good to water plants -

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I got the picture.

"Well, this one started and ran for a while".

None were that nice.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

So, you save the water after you wash your cars?

Good, gray water is still good to water plants -

Spell change.

Can't water plants with my car washing grey water. My well water is so hard I have to run it thru a water softener, otherwise my cars would be one big hard water spot.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

For years my dad had three identical Ford Ranger trucks. They were all rotted out old wrecks. Whichever one he could get to start on any given day was the one that got the plates put on it.

There's been stories circulating on and off for years, ford only really had 5 key variations for much of the 80-90's and many ranger owners would come out of a store to find a similar truck to take home only to realize after all the wrong presets and their favorite mix tape wasn't there, that it wasn't their truck!

So your dad only had one key?