Re: [Amc-list] Steering box changes, early 60s to later

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Kelly Hardie wrote:

> You just reminded me of a favorite passage in Zen and the Art of
> Motorcycle Maintenance, when Phaedrus cuts up an aluminum beer can for
> shim stock to secure the handlebars on his buddy's BMW, and Phaedrus'
> phriend phreaks out  cause he sees the material for what it IS (an old
> Coors can) rather than for what it DOES...

...which neatly sums up the difference between people who make
things, and people who don't.


>
> Kelly
>
> Tom Jennings wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Did/does someone not make shims? I'd swear I'd seen them somewhere.
>>> I had a buddy who made his for a Ford F-250 gear swap. He used thin steel stock wrapped around the stud and cranked it down tight. It never wore out in the several years I knew of it being setup that way.
>>>
>>
>> In fact, the more I think of it, .010 shim stock carefully
>> wrapped without wrinkling, cut for zero overlap on the final
>> turn, then trimmed, would probably be 100% safe and wouldn't
>> change torque. There would be some "air space" but since it's
>> a taper that would compress out just fine. It'd be disposable
>> basically. Somewhat kludgey but a safe, reliable and repeatable
>> kludge.
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