Another 'old fart' here with all the 40 year old antique equipment. Timing light, dwell meter, ignition wrenches and a remote starter button to get the points on the high lobe of the dist cam so you could set the gap. GM was easier since all you had to do was raise the little metal door on the dist cap and you could set them with an allen wrench while the engine was running. Ahhhhhhhhh...the good 'ole days!!

 

MDS is something completely different....MDS shuts off 4 of the cylinders under light loads for fuel economy.

 

Ah hell, talking about mechanics who can't find their *** with both hands...

I have an attachment to LT1 powered Chevrolet Caprices. To this day, more than twelve years after GM stopped putting them in cars, many mechanics are completely stupified by the Optispark distributor in my car...

 

LOL, time for an "old farts" thread. I posted this pic a while back in another thread, but I have all my other old stuff too. Side by side pics with new equipment in the old fart thread would be great too.

 

Add me to the list of people with timing guns, havent used it in 6 years since i sold my old 89 f150. That thing was reliable, you could count on it breaking down once a week!

In the tool box I used to keep, gallon of water, 2 quarts brake fluid, 5 quarts oil and filter, 1 gallon antifreeze, 6-d mag light, cig-lighter compressor, tube of rags floor jack, 4-way wrench and about 200 lbs of random sockets/wrenches!

Just about everything I needed to take the truck apart and put it back together! Lol

Oh and a 5 gallon gas can wedged under the box.

 

Damn 76! didnt even know you "old farts" could even turn on a computer! Lol

Im just kinding im 22!

 

I was going to sell this, but I'm thinking of keeping it as it will work with my 1991 GTI: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifie...php?id=1166160

 

I got one - I have a full set of PennCraft Tools: wrenches, sockets, ratchets, breaker bar and a few others - all still in perfect shape. Now who remembers those???

 

I have a pile of old rusty heavy Ford script wrenches and oil cans.... and even a cardboard quart of sunoco sae 30 motor oil on the shelf.... I'm only 33 but I've lived in the same house all my life... I inherited some stuff thats been here over 100 years. I found all kinds of treasures when the barn came down to put the garage up...

 

I remember them but never had any myself. When I was a kid a guy down the street had what must have been every PennCraft tool ever made. He had a roll-away chest that was chock full and three walls covered in pegboard with silhouettes showing where every tool went. He kept the garage immaculate, but not even his kids ever saw him doing anything in the garage except cleaning it. He didn't use his tools and wouldn't let his family use them, either. He was one odd duck.