Fred's Page

Hello One and All,

Oh boy, again! I have procrastinated on getting this page together. Then found out today is the very last day to turn it in, or I will be flailed and skinned alive. I must do better!!!

Burning Man was a hoot, as usual. I was glad to see Dr. Mega Volt back putting on his electrical show, after being gone for 5 years. The motor home went there and back w/out any real trouble and was much more convenient than how I have stayed out there in the past. It cost $76 for regular gas from Auburn to Fernley, NV. Lynda and I dispensed 4 boxes of apples as the “Apple People”. Had a lot of fun.

I did get the torque tube and drive shaft taken off the rear end of the ’32. The metal is nice and bright and appears to be in good shape. Pulled the brake drums and axles key ways look good, but these axles will be too long, so will keep them for Lynda’s ’46.

Yesterday was the swap meet at Consumnes River college. Lynda & I struggled out of bed at 3:00AM and were there at 4:45AM to set up our tables and help out if needed. David and Judy Fibush had gotten there much earlier and couldn’t see anyone from the club until they saw us. The vultures with flashlights were there, searching through everything before it got put out on the tables for sale. I’ll bet a physiologist could have a field day on us car nuts. Can you imagine supposedly sane people getting up at that time of the morning to wander around in the dark & cold, hoping to find in someone else’s cast off’s, some article to haul home and most likely never use. I’m starting to think my former wife might have been right in her assessment of me.

Wonder what else she might be right about? Scary thought! Hey what’s up with these swap meets starting so early? By the time the chill is out of your bones it’s time to go home. The sane people don’t get there until 8:00AM anyway. The vultures are too tight to spend what you want for your treasures. There’s something screwy going on.

In my desperation to find something to fill this page I went through my file of info. that has accumulated over the years. A few years ago I did a piece on the oil filtration of the Ford flat head engine for R.G.# 156 (Auburn-Grass Valley) club that Lynda & I, and also Bill Toensing belong to. What the article is about is how the Ford filtration was more of a gimmick than really cleaning the oil, and the way I got complete filtration on everything except the rear main bearings on my race engine. I think I will do that article as a 2 part series for the next 2 issues of the Clutch Chatter. Stay right side up.